Author: David O. Williams
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As lodging tax hikes hit ballots, Beaver Creek threatens to incorporate
BEAVER CREEK – Mountain counties across Colorado are jumping on the lodging-tax bandwagon at the polls this November following the passage last session of a bipartisan state bill (HB25-1247), but one ski county has run afoul of one of its largest tax sources over the issue. The Eagle County commissioners last month approved a Nov.…
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27-year-old Coloradan speaks of fight with COVID-19 in ski country
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save On March 10, Steph Littlefield, felt lightheaded, with pressure in her head that made her think one of her recurring earaches was coming on. Still, she went to work in the Avon-based finance office of…
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A Colorado ski town’s struggle with suicide, depression
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save VAIL • In 2011, Amanda Precourt was living the dream in a glamorous Colorado ski town, enjoying an intense outdoor recreation lifestyle, socializing, a patron of Vail’s robust arts scene and the daughter of one…
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There’s Aspen, Vail and ‘skiburbia’: Town managers tell all
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Talk to mountain-town managers across Colorado and many of them will tell you the same thing: “We don’t want to become the next Vail or Aspen.” Unless, of course, they used to manage one of…