While Estes Park Health (EPH) will remain engaged with information and activities of the Estes Park Health Foundation, there will no longer be an official liaison from the board of directors to the organization. Instead, CEO Vern Carda will represent the board’s interests to the ancillary organization. The announcement of the decision was just one […]
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The cuteness has worn off; ground squirrels: GO AWAY!
Depending on their viewpoint, last April area residents either smiled and chuckled or groaned in disgust when relatively small tannish critters stood on hind legs, looked around and darted across streets and open spaces. Now that August is upon us and those rodents have burrowed close to building foundations or noshed on carefully tended flowers […]
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Police chief sworn in, public hearing on new electric rates and $50K childcare grant among topics at last night’s town board meeting
Estes Park’s new police chief, Ian Stewart was sworn in Tuesday night during the regularly scheduled Town Board meeting. Assistant Municipal Court Judge Bartlett administered the Oath of Office. Stewart served as the Estes Park Interim Police Chief beginning in December 2023 after the resignation of David Hayes who held the role for a year. […]
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Estes Valley fire chief resigns three months into role
After less than four months on the job, Estes Valley Fire Protection District Chief Rick Lasky stepped down last week. He handed his resignation letter to two members of the fire district board last Wednesday afternoon and the public announcement was made in a press release at 2:25 p.m. Thursday. The resignation was effective Friday […]
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The benefits of EV on environment takes center stage in Estes
Route Zero, a clean energy advocacy organization, held a news conference on the south shore of Lake Estes Tuesday at noon to mark the finalization of the federal clean car standards by the Environmental Protection Agency earlier this spring. The multi-pollutant emissions standards set increased protective guidelines to reduce air pollutant emissions from light-duty and […]
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Boulder named one of the six finalists in wooing the Sundance Film Festival
Boulder, Colorado was one of the six cities named yesterday by the Sundance Institute as finalists to potentially be named as the host location for the Sundance Film Festival beginning in 2027. In an exchange of emails with the Estes Valley Voice yesterday afternoon, Tammy Rosen, the Chief Communications Officer at Sundance Institute, said “We […]
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EP Housing Authority moves forward to purchase Fall River Village for $35M
The acquisition would provide the community with 90 new workforce housing units
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Making new friends
“OK kids, it’s time to go.” And so, after an obligatory scuffle about who would co-pilot, my siblings and I piled into the car and settled in for the 60-mile trip to see the pediatrician for our annual back-to-school physicals and immunizations. I was a seventh grader the last time I saw that doctor in […]
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First construction relief grants to be issued soon
The tabulations have been completed and once the special checks are in hand in the next week, Estes Chamber of Commerce President Colleen DePasquale has her pen primed and is ready to fill in the blanks. According to DePasquale, 63 businesses will share $200,000 provided for Direct Impact Grants that the Town of Estes Park […]
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Library hosts bubble bath at Stanley Park
Children in Estes Park were treated to some good clean fun, courtesy of the Estes Valley Library which hosted a foam party at Stanley Park Tuesday morning. A foam party is something like a pool party, without the pool. Foam on the Range, operated by Ann Lincoln Entertainment of Denver, provided mounds of soft, white […]