Vail Daily photographer Chris Dillmann took thousands of photos in 2023. Each December, it’s a challenge to whittle down all those snaps into a concise photo essay that tells the story of a year in.
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A Vail Town Council member thinks it’s time to talk about Vail America Days and what it could be. There were fewer people in town this year based on frontage road parking numbers. There was.
If you can’t find something fun to do this holiday weekend, you aren’t trying. From a July 1 drone show in Gypsum to a revived Vail America Days parade July 4 to plenty of music.
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VAIL The Fourth of July fell on a Sunday this year, and in Vail, that meant both the Independence Day exhibitions and the regular Sunday farmers market were combined into one enormous party.
Crowds spanned from Vail Village to Lionshead, enjoying pocket patriotism displays throughout.
Visiting from Texas, U.S. Military veteran Chuck Utzman and his wife, Jan, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in Vail on Sunday, walking the village and posing for pictures with the stilt-wearing Uncle Sam and Betsy Ross characters.
Utzman, who claimed a birthday of May 15, 1929, on his first military registration card so he could go to Japan with the U.S. Army in 1947, went on to fight in both the Vietnam War and the Korean War, as well. He took part in a winter training in Camp Hale in the 1950s, and returned to Eagle County a little more than a decade later to try out the skiing at Vail.