Editor’s note: Each year, graduating high school seniors in Eagle County can apply for a scholarship from the VFW Post in Minturn by writing an essay on patriotism. The Vail Daily is running a sampling.
Vail’s annual Fourth of July celebration, Vail America Days, returns this summer with a parade and an evening fireworks display, weather permitting. The town is accepting applications from nonprofit organizations and businesses, as well as children’s.
The late Colorado Gov. Richard Lamm once ominously warned that the state’s treasured fourteeners were at risk of being loved to death by growing numbers of waffle-stomping hikers. Now it is the state’s mountain towns.
The year 2022 has come and gone. It was a year full of excitement, and always a little drama, in our little corner of the world. As the photographer for the Vail Daily, what I.
The surprise about Vail Mountain’s 60th anniversary isn’t that so many people have been involved, but that so many have stayed. The resort, and the town, have had good and bad years, but through it.