By scott miller BROOMFIELD — Vail Resorts shook up the ski-resort world Monday with an early-morning announcement of its intent to acquire the Whistler Blackcomb ski resort in Canada. The deal is expected to close in the next two to four months. Disclosed terms of the deal — which a Vail Resorts release called a […]
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By scott miller VAIL — The Vail Symposium recently announced the hiring of Kris Sabel as the organization’s executive director. Sabel, who spent 17 years – 15 as executive director — with the Vilar Performing Arts Center, will assume the leadership role with the Vail Symposium Sept. 1. “I feel so fortunate to have been […]
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By scott miller VAIL — The Vail Symposium recently announced the hiring of Kris Sabel as the organization’s executive director. Sabel, who spent 17 years — 15 as executive director — with the Vilar Performing Arts Center, will assume the leadership role with the Vail Symposium on Sept. 1. “I feel so fortunate to have […]
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By Randy Wyrick VAIL — Jackson Kaguri is what heroes look like.Parker Lathrop is what basketball players look like, which can sometimes be the same thing.Kaguri is the founder and director of Uganda’s Nyaka AIDS Orphans Project. Parker’s sister Emma and his mother, Sue Lathrop, launched the local Friends of Nyaka group to help him [&h
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By scott miller What a difference a week makes. The week before last ended with the news that second-quarter growth had limped in at 1.2 percent, less than half of what was expected, and hand-wringing about the American economy ensued. But the government Aug. 5 announced that 255,000 new jobs were created in July, well […]
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By Edward Stoner Male Champions 1. Callan Deline 42:012. Daniel Weiland 44:023. Parker McDonald 44:39 Female Champions 1. Tammy Jacques 45:112. Sylvia Nordskar 49:203. Hannah Hardenbergh 53:47 Male 19 & Under 1. Nolan Herzog 47:482. Cameron Wolfe 49:323. Marcus Gore 49:524. Andrew Rogers 50:515. Timothy Bitsberger Jr 52:546. Avery Smith 56:567.
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By Krista Driscoll EDWARDS — Cordillera’s Sounds of Summer Concert Series continues Wednesday, Aug. 10, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Bearcat Stables with world-renowned square-dance caller Johnny Fisher and the Ranch Hand Band. Admission is free, and the event is open to the public.“This month’s Dirt Dance is going to be an amazing eve
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By Krista Driscoll Editor’s note: This article first appeared in Vail Health magazine. Read about more of Eagle County’s young athletes in the Aug. 16 Vail Daily High Life Health section. it comes as no surprise that Eagle County is home to many up-and-coming athletes. Soccer, skiing, snowboarding, football, golf — the list goes on. [
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By Randy Wyrick EAGLE — The region’s improving economy is boosting the population, and with it the crime rate. However, almost none of it has anything to do with dope.Crime across Colorado’s Fifth Judicial District — Eagle, Summit, Lake and Clear Creek counties — is up 10 percent through the first six months of this […]
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By John LaConte AVON — The aspen leaves that have been painted on West Beaver Creek Boulevard are not meant to be permanent, and neither are the planters sitting there. Like any diet, the East and West Beaver Creek Boulevard road diet has come with some mood swings. The new traffic pattern — which uses […]
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