By Chris Freud This week, the fly-fishing around Vail remains very good. Cooler weather has dropped water temperatures and local trout are feeding well. The best wading options are on the Eagle River from Edwards down to Eagle while float fishermen are enjoying a solid hopper bite on many miles of the Colorado River between […]
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By Chris Freud “The new phone books are here! The new phone books are here!”That’s how I feel on the first day of preps, but I don’t run around like Steve Martin in “The Jerk.”High school sports are like your favorite novel, but with a few extra chapters after the book has supposedly ended. For […]
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By John LaConte EAGLE COUNTY — The last time the World Fly Fishing Championships visited the U.S., our home team took dead last, and vowed to never let that happen again.The year was 1997, the venue was Jackson Hole. According to the lore that come out of the event, a French angler told an American […]
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By Ross Leonhart AVON — Walking Mountains Science Center is celebrating its five-year anniversary this month of the Science Center’s grand opening in Avon.Since the LEED Platinum Certified facility opened, the variety and quantity of natural science programs has increased. In 2010, the year before the Avon campus opened, Walking Mountains s
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By Pam Boyd EAGLE — In less than one month’s time, the town of Eagle should have a few million dollars on hand to finance its Eagle Riverfront Park plan.Eagle will offer a tax-exempt municipal bond issue, backed by a 0.5 percent sales tax recently approved by Eagle voters, exclusively to Eagle property owners and […]
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By Randy Wyrick DENVER — On July 17, 2007, Frisco resident Brenda Culhane went to see neurologist Dr. Gary Weiss at his medical practice on Bighorn Road in Vail. She complained of upper extremity weakness, and Weiss recommended an MRI, an EEG and an EMG of her brain and upper extremities. The next month, Weiss […]
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By Randy Wyrick EDWARDS — Charlie Linville wasn’t really looking for peace, but he found it at 22,000 feet, roped to the world’s tallest mountain.He was about to become the first military amputee to summit Mount Everest.Millions of small painful steps led him to this huge step:• After joining the Marines after high school,• After
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By John LaConte EAGLE COUNTY — The popular Ullr Fest fall neighborhood party in Miller Ranch will not take place this year, organizers confirmed this week.That means the only local fundraiser for the Colorado Avalanche Information Center will be Friday’s Weston and Tobe season launch party at Agave. When longtime Ullr Fest supporter Mason D
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By Ross Leonhart “Location, location, location” is frequently the mantra when searching for the perfect piece of real estate, but sometimes “views, views, views,” trump that. Oftentimes, people seek out slopeside home sites. They want ski-in/ski-out or a location that’s within a short walking distance to the lifts on Vail Mountain. Bu
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