Author: DAVID O. WILLIAMS Special to the Gazette
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What does a major Vail ski village reboot look like in 2025?
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save VAIL • It wasn’t long after Rob Katz first took the helm of Vail Resorts in 2006 that the CEO started talking about Ever Vail, an innovative, green-built ski village he envisioned as Vail’s fifth ski…
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Mental health in the mountains: Eagle County opens western Colorado’s first psychiatric beds
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save EDWARDS • Dr. Paige Baker-Braxton is a clinical psychologist who moved to Eagle County three and a half years ago after living in downtown Chicago for about eight years, where she was a trauma therapist. “I’ve worked with some really marginalized, sick populations — veterans,…
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Boon or burden: Ski industry experts say multi-resort passes pose challenges for towns, skiers
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VAIL • Sadly, Mary Bono will always be synonymous with the dangers of skiing. Her globally famous former husband, Sonny, died in a ski accident at Lake Tahoe’s Heavenly ski area in 1998. Mary and her two young children were skiing with Sonny that day but lost him on the mountain, leading to a frantic…
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Moffat Tunnel wastewater spill highlights rail safety issues for state, local leaders
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As Colorado lawmakers this month prepare to do something that Congress has been incapable of for more than a year — debate meaningful rail-safety legislation — Union Pacific, state regulators and officials in Grand County are debating tough questions about a massive wastewater spill last summer into the Fraser River near the state-owned Moffat Tunnel. In December,…
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Colorado Pacific pledges passenger trains, trails to revive rail traffic on Tennessee Pass Line
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save TENNESSEE PASS — A railroad and agricultural company in southeastern Colorado is sweetening the pot in its bid to take over Union Pacific’s inactive Tennessee Pass Line, offering passenger trains and recreational trails to entice mountain communities along the route. Colorado Pacific Railroad, a subsidiary…
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Colorado Pacific pledges passenger trains, trails to revive rail traffic on Tennessee Pass Line
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save TENNESSEE PASS — A railroad and agricultural company in southeastern Colorado is sweetening the pot in its bid to take over Union Pacific’s inactive Tennessee Pass Line, offering passenger trains and recreational trails to entice…
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Mexican businessman who contracted COVID-19 in Colorado now fighting for his life
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Mexican businessman who owns a home in Vail confirmed Tuesday that another prominent Mexican businessman contracted the COVID-19 virus in Vail and is now in critical condition in a hospital in Mexico. “I don’t…