GROUNDHOG DAY

The Baldpate Inn sold at absolute auction earlier this month for $1.3 million.  The build-up to the sale was impressive by northern Colorado newspaper standards, with the Estes Park, Loveland, Fort Collins, Boulder, and Denver newspapers not just reprinting the Concierge Auction press release, but assigning a reporter in each case to write a distinct feature story.

 So it is with some confusion that, after hitting the alarm clock this morning, I found this on my Google news feed:


 4900 S. Highway 7 is the Baldpate Inn.  What happened, and why are we going through this exercise again?

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