GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado - City Council on Thursday appointed a new nine-member city Tourism Promotion Board to oversee marketing efforts directed at bringing more visitors to Glenwood Springs.
The new city board was established in July to replace the former tourism board that operated under the auspices of the Glenwood Springs Chamber Resort Association (GSCRA).
Because the chamber holds the contract to carry out marketing efforts using the city's 2.5 percent accommodations tax funds, City Council wanted to create an autonomous board with more representation from citizens not tied to tourism businesses.
The city received 19 official...

"Pretty sure I'm floating."
I had that very day edited an article that began with those words, spoken by my writer friend Whitney just as her car lifted up in the streets of Chattanooga, engine cutting out as floodwater poured in around her feet. She had then drifted away down the street.
The cloudburst here hit as I drove home, rain hammering so hard my wipers couldn't clear the windshield, the wind madly whipping trees on 8th Street, leafy branches down in wet clumps. Then hail pounded so loudly I...

"Animals have a spiritual purpose. To help them is an opportunity for a lost and selfish human heart to be redeemed. It is how we treat the humblest among us that surely determines the fate of our souls."

- Dean Koontz

"So, what's new with you?" a friend inquired recently as he stared at the television, gobbling up the usual bleak news of the day on CNN or FOX, or one of those annoying stations.
Sensing that he could care less about what was new with me, I decided...

EAGLE COUNTY, Colorado - Fish are creatures of the water.
But once a year, they go airborne.
In the early morning hours this week, trout rained from the sky, dropping into alpine lakes in the Vail backcountry.
This is the strange journey of the fish you catch in the Holy Cross Wilderness and the Flat Tops.

'Like riding a rapid'
Most pilots avoid flying into dead-end canyons.
"That's stuff I taught people for years to stay the heck out of," pilot Steve Waters said.
Sitting in the plush lobby of...

CARBONDALE, Colorado - The ancient "Pink Bridge" in Satank, just west of here, appears at long last to be getting a needed facelift.
"It's in the budget," said county manager Ed Green, referring to the county's share of the roughly $800,000 it will cost to fix the historic bridge spanning the Roaring Fork River.
The Board of County Commissioners on Sept. 7 will be asked to approve a contract, worth up to $539,520, with Gould Construction. The contract is "for the rehabilitation and preservation of the Satank Bridge," as stated in a...

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado - Drew Halsch gave football a try his freshman year and didn't stick with it. His return to the gridiron as a senior couldn't have gone any better.
Rushing for 179 yards and two touchdowns on 26 carries, Halsch helped Glenwood Springs to a 35-7 win over visiting Basalt in Friday's football season opener.
The senior running back isn't quite sure why he gave up football in the first place.
"My sophomore and junior year, I don't really know, exactly, the reason why. I just didn't play," he said....