epgarbage

The Stanley has sold, or found someone to swallow their debt, or something. I have no idea who will actually be in charge of the Stanley from February 2024 forward after yet another breathless, provocative, and completely unintelligible announcement from John Cullen. Regardless of the size and scope of the project, Master Cullen is always talking about running out of breath and having to physically move mountains and somehow surviving a 4-vessel coronary for every undertaking he undertakes (while barely avoiding the undertaker) - I wonder if just preparing to eat a healthy breakfast causes him similar exertion and oh so much drama? Whatever, we common folk can't begin to imagine the complex world of high finance: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://17565969725349410953.googlegroups.com/attach/698388a530a43/Iconic%20Stanley%20Hotel%20to%20sell%20to%20Arizona%20nonprofit%20%E2%80%93%20BizWest.pdf?part=0.1&view=1&vt=ANaJVrGviozE9XrHOQAB0wcaqzvjVtI...

This should be the headline, although when the Trail-Gazette finally publishes something in two weeks, the first draft in the online version will likely read (similar to their ongoing inability to clearly state who won the recent school board election without putting the English language in a headlock): Major Kwanvig in the majority under no longer despite with which to

Jeez we have a bunch of milquetoast pretend journalists in town. The guy who was arrested locally a few clicks back, Keaton M.A. Krell, is the same guy who sexually assaulted a bunch of underage females in Linn County, Kansas, and, brazenly, got away with it. The airtight connection is through his wife or ex-wife or whoever star pupil and non-profit wunderkind Candace Krell is. But even then, c'mon, how many folks named Keaton M.A. Krell are running around diddling little girls? Get some cojones, POR (paper of record) and POR (podcast of record). You did the work (sort of) now publish the findings. Stop hiding behind the town as an excuse to avoid going to press - the PIO and TA aren't going to give you anything because they are scared of their own shadows. For the low IQ crowd and too easily unconvinced: Note how Candace Krell used to give her home address on LinkedIn as Estes Park, Colorado Here's another big whoopsie And this And this And this

Back when the Nature Conservancy was pretending to have to lobby the town board for vendor space in the Estes Park Visitor's Center, one of their selling points was that once they were in place, a real live expert on Rocky Mountain National Park would be available to answer visitor questions. Previously, they contended, or our town administrator contended, all questions related to Rocky Mountain National Park had to be deferred, because the volunteer staff wasn't qualified or authorized to answer them. Everyone who attended this sham hearing knew the town board would unanimously approve the Nature Conservancy becoming the sole vendor in the one place that gets ths highest guaranteed traffic every day of the year, so I hope they had to provide some type of sexual favors to staff, because otherwise this was an empty exercise all around, and the town bent over once again without having any feelings of self-worth to show for it: I entered the Visitor's Center today, and th...

You all know the story of Jonah, and the albatross tradition among whaling vessels can be easily searched on Google using the words "albatross" and "Cape Cod". Some people just have all the bad luck, even when they are completely and adequately equipped to handle this bad luck. Our previous town adminstator was so adept at handling major crises, the weather and the environment joined to dish him up much more chaos and destruction than his share, meaning long-term Estes Park residents now have to walk around permanently crippled emotionally whenever they get back-to-back days of rain, or smell smoke (even cigarette smoke). Whether the hospital will ever recover from all its real or pretend trauma is irrelevant, a simple thunderstorm or a curl of steam sends them into a tizzy of frantic handwringing, dredged up repeatedly during campaign season. It is perhaps enlightening to compare the pretend tempest in a teapot vis a vis the Farmer's Market getting cance...

Indeed, where was any acknowledgement from the mayor that the Kato family departed Estes Park in 1943 not of their own accord? Where was even a hint (or was it a hint by omission, the evasion that it isn't so much what notes the jazz musician plays, but what notes they leave out) that our local government voted unanimously to turn the Kato family, 50% of them U.S. citizens, into pariahs? Or did we avoid admitting any of this because, if circumstances recur in 2023, we would unfailingly do the same again? Let's see, because tensions are rising between the U.S. and China right now, and China may indeed soon invade Taiwan, there will likely be growing advocacy among the hick contingent for the "deportation" of everyone of Chinese descent living within a 10-mile radius once this invasion occurs. Suppose this deportation, God forbid, was actually carried out - After such rampantly ignorant behavior, and the U.S. being what the U.S. is, clinging with every desperate f...

With nine candidates in the race to fill a vacant trustee spot on the town board, how does a 20-minute interview conducted by six members of the community, followed by 30 minutes of intense lobbying between these six individuals for their favorite, qualify as anything remotely close to a democratic process? It is tragic this position came open unexpectedly, and equally tragic the fourth place finisher in the most recent election was not actively courted to fill a vacant spot. But it would be more tragic to have six people out of 6000 determine the destiny of eight individuals, and deem them unqualified. As one of the trustees stated at the most recent town board meeting, the best option is to hold a real vote, either a day-of election or a mail ballot election. Why is a town board so willing to spend $1 million on a whim when it comes to cost overruns on a controversial road construction project, and so unwilling to cough up $5000 to conduct a democratic election to determine...

plus John Meisner, the town board finds itself in a bit of a pickle when it comes to replacing Scott Webermeier's vacant trustee position. No reason to belabor two obvious points, so let's dispense with those pre haste: (1) To avoid this kind of nonsense in the future, every candidate running for town board should be required to fill out the space on the form naming their replacement in case they are elected and unable for whatever reason to complete their term. If this cannot be enforced as a requirement, the League of Women Voters should make it one of the essential forum questions to each candidate, so that voters can distinguish realists from self-absorbed morons. (2) If you file to run and don't win, you should still be prepared to serve (see #1 above, because the overwhelming majority of EP voters insist on falling in love with self-absorbed morons). Why run if you aren't willing to serve? Why should voters waste a vote on you? Don't be a Karen, or you ri...

Title: Mountain Town NIMBY Verse 1:  I love my mountain town, it's peaceful and serene But now they want to build, a higher density scene I don't want my nature to be compromised I don't want my town to be commercialized Chorus:  I'm a NIMBY, not in my backyard I'm a NIMBY, not in my backyard Verse 2:  I don't want new developments to block my mountain viewI have purchased zoning rights, so maybe I should sue!I don't want the extra noise, the traffic, or the crowd,When there is a public meeting, my opinion will be loud! Chorus:  I'm a NIMBY, not in my backyardI'm a NIMBY, not in my backyard Verse 3:  I'm not against development, but this is the wrong locationI'm fighting for the dream I had while I was here on vacation!I'm standing up for what's right, for what we hold dearWe are the NIMBYs, and we will not disappear! Chorus:  I'm a NIMBY, not in my backyardI'm a NIMBY, not in my backyard Bridge:  What about the elk and what ...

Now that Larimer County doesn't make any information related to age or sex of individuals dying from SARS-CoV-2 infection, the death rate jumped by 3 in one day, from 616 to 619. I certainly would keep information related to age from leaking out into the public. Wouldn't want to learn that 40- or 50-year olds were dying from a virus Larimer County decided is no longer important or relevant. Just keep monitoring that wastewater. Eventually there will be a lot less to test.

So COVID-19 is officially over in Larimer County. All of the dashboard particulars have been dismantled, and the only guide you will have if you want to avoid the latest variant is the strength of your cough and sporadic reports of your neighbors' health at morning coffee. It is great when our government officials declare COVID-19 is over, because those kind of pronouncements weaken the virus' resolve and hurt its self-confidence. SARS-CoV-2 probably won't even bother getting out of bed tomorrow. The final tally was 616 deaths in Larimer County, as death by COVID will now be something outlawed at the county level. How Tom Speedy Gonzales made it through this exercise intact will always be a point of intense discussion. Possibly due to general apathy and lack of qualified replacement individuals at the county level.

An unknown photographer records an undated bustling downtown Estes Park street scene way back when. We can leave it at that, or we can focus on the ever-changing business landscape along Elkhorn Avenue, and the nosiness of Estes Park’s lone newspaper at the time, the “Trail”, to provide additional details. According to the Trail, bare-naked bulbs serving as street lights were strung over Elkhorn beginning in May 1928. This photograph could have been taken no earlier than May 1928. The Trail dutifully reported the arrival (in June 1928) and departure (in October 1931, to another location) of the restaurant sporting the “Pine Cone Inn” sign in the picture, located in the complex just west of the current Wheel Bar (the Josephine Hotel in the photo). The intersection of May 1928 with the closing of J.E. Macdonald’s cash and carry store reported by the Trail in April 1931 provides the initial Venn diagram overlap for when this image was obtained: Sometime between June 1928 and ...

without attribution and without worrying where they came from. They were the product of an amateur photographer who never copyrighted them, and are over 100 years old. The Estes Park Museum has no ability to control the reproduction of or charge for use of images already in the public domain. The negative and converted positive are of downtown Estes Park in the early 1920s at the intersection of Elkhorn and Moraine, looking south towards the Crags Hotel on Prospect Mountain. But again, you don't have to provide this information, or give any credit, or pay any user fees. Just enjoy and send to your friends. Posting on social media is encouraged as well.

Eventually, we will all have had COVID-19 twice and report it half. Check out this link https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00112-2

This is the only local media outlet that will be providing this information. Scan the obituaries for 87-year-old deaths in Estes Park among males, because the obituary won't mention it and the papers won't investigate it. Can you imagine, 20 people in Estes Park have now lost their lives among 3000 reported cases. 20/3000 = just under 1/100 deaths in our community from a piece of nothing virus, easily defeated by a harmless vaccine, a trash virus Debbie Holmes said would kill less people than those people hit by a car at Safeway. I'm anxious to see Debbie's list of all those people hit by cars at Safeway from March 2020 until now. Because the county is keeping a pretty accurate records of deaths in Estes Park from SARS-CoV-2. Update: An 87-year-old gentleman - a pharmacist, no less - dies from unspecified circumstances on January 3. No one dies from COVID in Estes, because it would be an admission that people in Estes die from COVID. So the dead suffer in self-...

Mayor and trustees: Midnight tonight ends an extended water-only fast undertaken to focus attention on the plight of migrants arriving in Denver every day. There are some people I need to thank for keeping tabs on my well-being. Locally, Sybil Barnes called me until I told her it wasn’t necessary, and the Sahms checked on me every day, even after I told them it wasn’t necessary. Former trustees and current library staff members crossed picket lines to see how I was doing, and thank me for taking a stance on a significant issue. Four of the current town board members have a health care background, so obviously recognized this was not an undertaking with zero risk. Our two local media outlets equipped to deal with controversial topics undoubtedly had other motives for getting a status update, but Patti and Jason’s concern appeared quite genuine. One of the local articles covering this included a list of what Denver shelters were requesting as far as donations. This list has gro...