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By Chris Freud COLORADO SPRINGS — Both Battle Mountain and Eagle Valley cross-country made some serious waves at Friday’s Cheyenne Mountain Stampede down in Colorado Springs.In the event better-known as pre-state, the Huskies girls finished second, while the boys were sixth out of a field of 20-plus teams, while Eagle Valley freshman Joslin

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By Chris Freud COLORADO SPRINGS — Both Battle Mountain and Eagle Valley cross-country made some serious waves at Friday’s Cheyenne Mountain Stampede down in Colorado Springs.In the event better-known as pre-state, the Huskies girls finished second, while the boys were sixth out of a field of 20-plus teams, while Eagle Valley freshman Joslin

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By Chris Freud EDWARDS — Have a night, kid.In the course of about 6 minutes of football action, Battle Mountain’s Cal Masler had a jaw-dropping punt return, setting up a Huskies’ touchdown, fumbled a punt, which could have cost his team the game, and promptly redeemed himself with a 45-yard fumble return to the house […]

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By Elise Reuter SUMMIT COUNTY — Lake Hill, the largest workforce housing project in Summit County to date, is moving forward. The county will once again seek public input as it takes steps toward a final master plan. Summit County planning director Don Reimer said they anticipated finishing the master plan in late September or […]

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By John LaConte BOND — The theory goes, if more people use the river, more people care about the river.Eagle County’s Open Space office has been a firm believer in that adage for a while now, and on Thursday, they got a chance to demonstrate the idea to Sen. Michael Bennet, who is currently on […]

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By John LaConte BOND — The theory goes, if more people use the river, then more people care about the river. Eagle County’s Open Space Program has been a firm believer in that adage for a while now, and on Thursday, it got a chance to demonstrate the idea to Sen. Michael Bennet, who is […]

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By Edward Stoner VAIL — After four months of remodeling, Vail Valley Medical Center’s new intensive care unit opened to patients last week.The completion of this project is a milestone in the hospital’s Master Facility Plan, which began in August 2015 with the goal of making Eagle County a center of medical excellence in the […

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By Randy Wyrick VAIL — Bill Smith loved to go fast, but took his time getting to heaven.The Vail icon was a founding member of The Game Creek Club, Camp Robbers, successfully drove race cars, became the nation’s youngest Ford dealer, and had fun at the speed of life. He was 89.It was always time […]

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By Krista Driscoll VAIL — “Mushrooms: Keys to the Kingdom Fungi,” an educational exhibit exploring the lives and environmental roles of fungi, is on display at the Betty Ford Alpine Gardens Education Center through Friday, Sept. 30. ExhibitThe display, which was put together by a California company called Exhibit Envoy, focuses on the ecology

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By Krista Driscoll IIt was sometime in 1995, and Judy Alexander, Betsy Bradley and a few other women were loitering in one spot or another lamenting the lack of a true live music hangout in Vail, a place where local musicians could meet and collaborate and where live music fans could get their fix.Motivated by […]

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