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| Here's what I'm especially thankful for this fourth week of November 2009: more... |
| There's plenty to celebrate here in the Village. Just look around to enjoy those gorgeous yellow leaves shimmering against the blue sky/snowy peak backdrop. | |
| The plaza was buzzing, the restaurant near the top of the six-pack was full of diners and in-between, people were enjoying the mountain playground. Amazing what a speedy lift that has an actual destination can do for a mountain resort's summer... | |
| With the national economic maelstrom continuing to whirl — albeit with the faintest signs of a possible recovery on a distant horizon — we salute both the Town's decision to dip into the Marketing Reserve to boost funding for continuing... | |
| With the future of Base Village and The Related Companies becoming ever more tenuous and troublesome, our town executives and elected representatives are working overtime to keep all of us in the dark concerning the true magnitude of the problem and... | |
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Ishmael Beah draws on the oral tradition of his native Sierra Leone, the West African nation he fled after being drafted as a child soldier. He chronicles his arduous journey in “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier.” |
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| So that's that. | |
| When you participate in the Rotary Youth Exchange you don't just receive a life-changing experience, but you start a whole new life. A life full of new friends, new family and a new culture. | |
| Sure, Judge Sotomayor is grabbing all the press attention lately, but around these parts, one of the most important nominations President Obama will make is who will lead the Forest Service. | |
| The ground beneath Base Village is quaking and as I suggested in my last column so are the boots of our elected representatives and town staff | |
| Dick Cheney is scared. Of all the officials inside the Bush Administration, he knows where the skeletons are hidden. Why do you think he had a man-sized safe in his office? The Dark Lord realizes that the crimes of the Bush Administration are about to... | |
| Darfur? Screwed. Congo? Bad, really bad, and getting worse. Tibet? Nothing good to say about it. Burma? Makes Tibet look like paradise. The glaciers are melting. The fish are disappearing. Lets go see a movie. | |
| Why is this cold? Why is this squishy? Is this even real science? asked a young scientist up to her arms in the Semi-Professional Scientists colored fake snow at a Town of Snowmass Village free concert last summer. We told her Yes, you are doing... | |
| Hit: The Snowmass Village Town Councils decision to help the rodeo with its infrastructure needs, thereby assuring that this popular summer attraction will return. We also like the idea of providing some pre- and post-rodeo events in order to generate... | |
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Expensive deer food. Those are the cynical words that went through my mind a few weeks back. I had just read Johnny Boyds column suggesting that maybe it is time for Snowmass Village residents to grow their own vegetables. |
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| For years, the real estate in Snowmass Village has been a major source of wealth for all those lucky enough to afford it. Reaping obscene profits has been the name of the game in the upper valley since the mid-1980s. All this profit has been made on the... | |

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