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5 days ago | 
vaildaily.com | SCOTT MILLER
A brand-new survey seems to show support for financially supporting programs for older county residents, but it’s too soon to tell what that support means. The Eagle County Board of Commissioners on May 27 heard a presentation from Bill Ray of WR Communications.
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6 days ago | 
vaildaily.com | SCOTT MILLER
While new cases of measles are being reported in Colorado, none have been reported in Eagle County yet. That was the opening portion of Tuesday’s report to the Eagle County Board of Commissioners, which met as the Eagle County Board of Health. Responding to a question from Commissioner Matt Scherr, Eagle County Deputy Public Health Director Rebecca Larson said there haven’t been any measles cases locally, but noted a “handful” of reported cases in Colorado.
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1 week ago | 
vaildaily.com | SCOTT MILLER
For the past 14 years, whenever there’s been a gathering of local veterans, Pat Hammon has been front and center. Eagle County’s longtime veterans service officer has served admirably, but now she’s looking forward to retirement. On Tuesday, the Eagle County Board of Commissioners appointed Jason Martell to fill the role Hammon recently vacated. He has big shoes to fill.
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1 week ago | 
vaildaily.com | SCOTT MILLER
Graduation Day for Red Canyon High School and World Academy is more than a celebration of academic achievement. It’s also a celebration of the power of alternative education and dedication. That power brought former school principal Troy Dudley back to the podium for a few brief remarks. Dudley spent 20 years at Red Canyon.
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1 week ago | 
vaildaily.com | SCOTT MILLER
Area firefighters were busy over Memorial Day weekend after multiple fires sparked in Eagle County. Saturday’s Ute Creek fire near Wolcott began in a compost pit near the county landfill, according to Eagle County Sheriff James van Beek. Van Beek said the roughly half-acre fire sparked when several mixed materials caught fire, most likely through . Once the material caught fire, it was difficult to contain, and continued to smolder into Tuesday.
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1 week ago | 
vaildaily.com | SCOTT MILLER
August Wittenberg’s business depends on imported merchandise. He wonders what tariffs will do to his next orders. Paul Hields is wondering when he can update his business’s website from “limited stock available.”Wittenberg is the chief operating officer of SayNoMore! Promotions of Eagle. The company specializes in promotional materials for companies, everything from custom shirts to laptop sleeves to backpack coolers and more.
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1 week ago | 
vaildaily.com | SCOTT MILLER
The next leg of the Eagle Valley Trail will kick off this year, but finishing the entire project remains complicated and expensive. Eagle County Commissioner Jeanne McQueeney’s eyebrows raised May 20 when she saw a consent agenda item for a trail-related contract. But that momentary excitement was quickly tempered by the amount of the contract — a relatively modest $870,000 contract with HDR Engineering for construction management and engineering for phase one of a portion of trail construction.
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1 week ago | 
vaildaily.com | SCOTT MILLER
Those of us in landlocked areas may not know what a “slack tide” is, but that’s how Mark Gordon describes the current real estate market. Gordon, one of the owners of Vail’s Christiania Realty, is also the current chair of the Vail Board of Realtors. Regarding the local market’s current state, Gordon said there’s a kind of balance in the never-ending push-pull between buyers and sellers, with neither group holding sway.
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1 week ago | 
noovo.info | SCOTT MILLER
Josh Flood est assis tranquillement devant les portes d'entrée de l'école communautaire Walkerton District Community School, où un mémorial de plus en plus imposant se dresse à l'extérieur. Lundi, cette école ne sera plus la même, dit Flood, après le décès de quatre de ses camarades et d'un de ses professeurs préférés.
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1 week ago | 
vaildaily.com | SCOTT MILLER
Disaster response always starts locally. But when a disaster overwhelms the local response, help has come from state and, more importantly, federal sources. That seems to be changing. In a Tuesday report to the Eagle County Board of Commissioners, Eagle County Senior Policy Analyst Laura Hartman detailed changes in public assistance funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Hartman noted that agency hasn’t yet released funding from the Emergency Management Performance Grant pool.
