By Chris Freud Battle Mountain girls cross-country is the five-time defending regional champion, undisputed queens of the Western Slope. The question now is what are the Huskies defending? Realignment shuffles the deck periodically, but the changes in cross-country present a brave new world. With CHSAA adjusting numbers in all sports to even out th
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By Chris Freud This could be one heck of a year.Soccer is always exciting in Eagle County — we always have teams in the chase, and great rivalries. But 2016? Whoa, doctor.Yes, wrong kind of football.Battle Mountain, Eagle Valley and Vail Mountain went a combined 43-9-1 — and two of those losses were the Huskies […]
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By scott miller EAGLE COUNTY — The Colorado Department of Transportation will close Interstate 70 through Glenwood Canyon from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday. The closure is necessary for continued rockfall safety work using a helicopter at mile point 124.2, just west of the Hanging Lake Tunnel.During these operations, the eastbound clos
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By scott miller VAIL — Pete Seibert laughed when he said this, but he meant it, too: “Finally, they bought a real mountain!”Seibert, the son and namesake of one of Vail’s founders, was among a few hundred people who turned out Tuesday for a Vail community picnic at the Donovan Pavilion. Talking with friends, Seibert […]
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By scott miller VAIL — Pete Seibert laughed when he said this, but he meant it, too: “Finally, they bought a real mountain!”Seibert, the son and namesake of one of Vail’s founders, was among a few hundred people who turned out Tuesday for a Vail community picnic at the Donovan Pavilion. Talking with friends, Seibert […]
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By scott miller AVON — The town of Avon and Eagle River Fire Protection District will host a groundbreaking ceremony for a new joint public safety facility Thursday at 10 a.m. The new facility is at the intersection of Nottingham Road and Swift Gulch Road in Avon.The facility, which will house Avon’s police department and […]
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By Ross Leonhart At the Vail International Dance Festival you’ll find anything from ballet to ballroom dancing, but this year, the audience was treated to a bit more from the tap dancing genre thanks to Dorrance Dance. Led by Michelle Dorrance, founder and artistic director, this American art form takes on many new shapes and […]
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By John LaConte On the Hill is brought to you by The Steadman Clinic and the Steadman Philippon Research Institute. VIDEO: Vail Daily On the Hill correspondent Taylor Seaton rides his bike on Lee’s Way Down and reminisces about growing up in Avon with no mountain biking trails. … Source:: Vail Daily Feed
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By Randy Wyrick GYPSUM — For Jen and Patrick Mackeage, life really is what happens as they were making other plans.Jen is a third-grade teacher and therefore a planner. Despite their best planning efforts, Kieran James Mackeage was born last Friday beside the westbound lane of Interstate 70 at mile marker 131.“Is that going to […]
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By Kevin Fixler Vail Resorts, Inc., has swallowed the big kahuna in Whistler Blackcomb — the British Columbia ski area that’s the largest resort in North America — but what that might mean for Summit County’s resorts is still hard to foresee.The Broomfield-based resort conglomerate and the holdings company for the Canadian ski area
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