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By scott miller EAGLE COUNTY — After a slow-ish start to the year, the county’s real estate market seems to have rebounded. But more sales are generating dollar volume roughly equivalent to numbers recorded in 2015.According to the most recent data from Land Title Guarantee Co., transactions were fairly strong, compared to 2015, but dollar

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By John LaConte VAIL ­— El Chupacabra is hungry.The local rafting duo is going for the win in the GoPro Mountain Games R2 downriver sprint this weekend, which happens to be the weekend before the six-man (R6) national championships in Salida.To get the win, the El Chupacabra team will have to take down last year’s […]

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By scott miller VAIL — The Vail Town Council will consider first reading of an ordinance that would allow the operation of electric assisted bicycles on designated recreation paths in Vail on a trial basis during its Tuesday meeting. Ordinance No. 9 is listed as action item 6.1 on the meeting agenda which begins at […]

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By scott miller VAIL — An open house is planned from 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Town of Vail Municipal Building to discuss proposed water quality projects and potential landscape improvements for the East Vail I-70 interchange. The town has received a grant from the Colorado Department of Transportation for this project, as […]

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By scott miller VAIL — Aside from the underpass project between the main and west Vail Interstate 70 interchanges, the Colorado Department of Transportation has a couple of other projects in the area.On Tuesday and Wednesday, work on a new truck chain-up station will close the right shoulder on eastbound I-70 between the main and […]

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By Randy Wyrick EDWARDS — Battle Mountain is a speech and debate school. Everyone else is just trying to keep up.A Battle Mountain speech and debater has qualified for the nationals three straight years. This year’s four-person contingent — Luke McKeever and Brooke Weller in duo interpretation, Hailea Stone in original oratory, and Sam Li

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By scott miller EAGLE COUNTY — Real estate stories are usually about residential areas — that’s where most of us live. But most of us work in commercial areas. That market is facing a few mild headwinds.According to a recent report from NAI Mountain Commercial, vacancies are ticking up in Vail, Avon and Beaver Creek. […]

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By scott miller VAIL — Local residents Jan Strauch and his wife, Deborah Worley, are the founders of Charless Grilling Systems LLC, a locally owned company that is bringing to market a new outdoor barbecue grill with patented vertical-grilling technology. The inventors claims the grill totally eliminates flare-ups common in most other competitive

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By Pam Boyd EAGLE — Ten years ago, devastated by the loss of their husband, father and brother, Jody Hern’s family decided to organize a golf tournament in his honor with the proceeds earmarked for a scholarship fund at Eagle Valley High School.A decade has passed, but Hern’s legacy of character, heart and leadership lives […]

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By John LaConte EAGLE — The first USA Cycling sanctioned races to happen here in a while took place this weekend, representing another advancement in the area’s biking capacity.The Eagle Outside Festival’s Firebird race on Hardscrabble Mountain doubled as Colorado’s state championship cross-country race on Sunday. Top honors wen

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