Estes Park Health is on target in meeting its goals in focusing on revenue growth and expense management, Aysha Douglas, EPH’s chief financial officer told the board of directors during Aug. 27 finance committee and Aug. 28 board meetings. The board of directors of EPH also plans to meet tomorrow, Sept. 10 in executive session […]
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Journeys: Time travels through kitchen experiences
A few weeks ago, I felt like muscle memory took hold as I took each not-too-scrawny, and often-times overly fat, cucumber in hand to scrub off any and all grime. As a youngster growing up on the eastern Colorado prairie spending many summer days in a hot, sweltering kitchen dodging Mom’s scurrying body from sink […]
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Suspect in motor vehicle crash in front of Beaver Meadow Visitor Center at large
Law enforcement officers from Rocky Mountain National Park, Larimer County Sheriff’s Office, and Estes Park Police engaged in a joint operation Sunday evening that involved a vehicle pursuit and a two-vehicle crash in the vicinity of US Highway 36/Spur 66 to the Beaver Meadows Entrance. Jeff Paige, who is building a home on High Drive, […]
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EP Health physician writes a Rx for his retirement: grandkids and outdoor time
Thomas Leigh, an emergency room physician at Estes Park Health, retired last week after practicing medicine for 39 years. His career took him from Colorado to Michigan to Alaska and back to Colorado, a journey that included caring for some 120,000 patients. Leigh completed an undergraduate degree in cellular and developmental biology in 1979 at […]
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Over $400K paid out in police administrative leave and separation agreements in 2023-2024
[Editor’s note: Town Administrator Travis Machalek contacted the Estes Valley Voice after this story was published to clarify that the settlement money for former Caleb Robertson was paid by Colorado Intergovernmental Risk Sharing Agency, the town’s insurance carrier. The cutline on the graphic image was corrected to reflect this clarification.] The Town of Estes Park […]
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Mayor’s Message: Adjusting My Compass
In context as mayor, I’m not talking about our basic philosophical or spiritual beliefs that guide our path through life. I’m talking about our ability to hear various opinions, to gather information from many sources, and to have all of that input change how we think about a topic. It’s not a moral compass, it’s […]
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Upper Thompson lands massive federal loan to build treatment plant
Thursday was a red-letter day for the Upper Thomspon Sanitation District as federal, state, and local officials gathered under a tent at the wastewater treatment plant on Mall Road to celebrate being granted $96 million in a federal Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act loan and another $18 million in Colorado loans for constructing a […]
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Fire departments may lose millions on compromise property tax cuts
DENVER — In a special session of the State Legislature lawmakers passed a bipartisan package of bills that will cut property taxes for all Colorado homeowners for the 2025 tax year. The bills result from negotiations between Gov. Jared Polis, bipartisan state leaders, and conservative backers of Ballot Initiatives 50 and 108. The measures would […]