SCOTT MILLER

6 days ago | vaildaily.com | SCOTT MILLER

A campaign to put a seasonal ice sheet on the rodeo arena at the Eagle County Fairgrounds is making progress, one $500 check and cup of lemonade at a time, but the clock is ticking. With Vail’s Dobson Ice Arena closed until November of 2026, the valley’s skating and hockey families are scrambling to replace that ice for the coming season. It looks like a solution has been found at the rodeo arena.

1 week ago | vaildaily.com | SCOTT MILLER

After more than two hours of public comment and a little more than three hours in an increasingly warm meeting room on Wednesday, the Eagle County Board of Commissioners needs more time to ponder the Edwards River Park plan. After a three-hour hearing in May in which county staff and developers laid out changes to the plan that was originally approved in 2021, the commissioners on Wednesday reserved time for public comment on the plan.

1 week ago | vaildaily.com | SCOTT MILLER

La Junta de Comisionados del Condado de Eagle —sin el comisionado Matt Scherr— otorgó el martes la aprobación final para la construcción de West End en Edwards. La aprobación incluye una parte controvertida del plan que contempla la instalación de una línea de alcantarillado a lo largo del espacio abierto de Eagle River Preserve, propiedad del condado.

1 week ago | vaildaily.com | SCOTT MILLER

From wildfires to floods to pandemics, emergencies take many forms, but the responses to those emergencies are similar in many ways. Eagle County Director of Emergency Management Birch Barron this week gave the Eagle County Board of Commissioners a quick course in what goes on at the county’s Emergency Operations Center, and what their role is in emergencies. The center is tucked away in the basement of the county administration building.

1 week ago | vaildaily.com | SCOTT MILLER

The Eagle County Board of Commissioners — without Commissioner Matt Scherr — gave final approval Tuesday to the West End Development in Edwards. The approval includes a disputed part of the plan that will run a sewer line through the county-owned Eagle River Preserve open space.