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Back in May 1979, a 43-year-old former visual arts professor from the University of Utah in Salt Lake spent an extended period of time visiting Colorado to participate in the second annual Denver International Film Festival. The festival ran from 4 May through 17 May, and for the first week of the event he likely crashed in Boulder with his in-laws. Then, according to newspaper reports, he met a gentleman fron Estes Park named ****** * **** at a party held on 10 May. Without access to the police reports, I don't know where the party was held, so I don't know where they met. The gentleman from Estes Park, named ****** * ****, was renting or housesitting a house out at ********* *******, near the YMCA, so either the party took place in Estes Park (which makes you wonder where the 43-year-old former visual arts professor heard about it - supposedly he had a vehicle of his own), or it took place in Boulder (which makes you wonder how the Estes Park renter heard about it), or it...

Nothing like misreading a very expensive room. Of all the places we could have overpaid to go to waste money attempting to attract tourists who don't want to come here, I could think of Toronto, Canada and Nuuk, Greenland as the absolute top of the list. If there was a $10,000 trip to the Isle of Man to attempt to attract their seven wealthy retirees to consider spending a day at the Wool Market, Estes Park would have their flights booked before you could say the words "Fake Dark Sky". This is what your lodging taxes are going towards, Estes. We are going to be a Dark Sky destination because VEP wants it. Next year we will be a Revolutionary War battlefield and re-enactment site because VEP wants it. https://www.paxnews.com/news/tourism-board/colorado-tourism-showcases-destination-updates-to

No surprise. Innocent victims are often victimized in Estes post-fact, because when everything is mandatorily sunny then nothing can be sad, and loose ends must be cut off or forgotten.

Estes Park would never make the Top Ten list of Smartest Communities in Colorado, and it might be a struggle for us to crack the top five towns intelligence-wise in Larimer County. Much of our local government is run like a rural public high-school Model UN club, with the cheerleaders and jocks providing cover for the lone scolarship winner to the nearby community college. Who runs the housing authority in town? One person. Who runs the hospital board? One person. Who runs the school? One person. Who runs the museum? One person. Who runs the library? One person. Who runs the media? WTFK? Patti aspires to it, but can't distinguish shit from Shinola. Who runs the planning commision? One person. Who runs the Chamber, VEP, every service organization? One person. Sure, there are however many warm bodies necessary to fill the seats that make up the board, but one person on that board calls the shots, and if someone attempts to challenge that authority, they are quick...

And if she was running the Crosier Mountain trail pre-sunrise with a head lamp, this is problematic re mountain lion attack.

Is not their Flat Stanley pedophilia, although that is problematic, it is the fact that they claim to have a staff of twelve, yet churn out an average of one "news" story (usually on the Stanley, although occasionally it is a poem about snow) per week. They conducted a poll that had a response rate of one in sixty residents, and drew charts and graphs based on the results. Oh, and they referred to the Estes Park News as the "shopper", while the former hospital spokesmodel Wendy Rigby referred to the EVVice effort as a "blog". So we've got that going for us, the circular firing squad that is Estes Park internecine warfare.

As the most recent vote demonstrates, the board of trustees as currently constituted is out of alignment with the wishes of the majority of the population of Estes Park within town limits. The trustees will argue this point, as they do everything with my name attached, but at a minimum, two to three of the six should have some sympathy with the voters as regards responsible development. Facing the dais from the public speaking podium, there would be no acknowledgement of this truth from the three trustees currently seated to the right of the mayor, and perhaps one, maybe occasionally two depending on the particulars, who can read the writing on the wall to the left of the mayor. So the four to five who definitely march to their own minority opinion drum, you either have to be spectacular in other areas of governance and engaging with people you disagree with on a regular basis (still have yet to hear from you besides attacking me), or you may need to start rethinking how the wind bl...

One hour before close of polls: For everyone who worked so hard, it just wasn't possible with the town board using our meetings to campaign against us, and the fake newly-minted EVUN group of white supremacists Jim Crow-era voter suppression tactics. Yes-40% No-60%, reversed and smaller margin on 300

Emails to the town board through my regular account are now blocked from public view. So much for transparency. But what the hell do you readers care? It's just free news to you that you can edify yourself with as you sit on your couches eating Fritos, doing nothing except allowing your democracy to circle down the drain while the front line fighters get mowed down on your behalf. Hi all - Two things that I would be interested in the town media exploring when they get the time: 1) Those of you who have ever driven on our nation's interstate highway system may be familiar with the occasional annoying practice of some truck drivers occupying both lanes of the interstate (passing lane and driving lane) on the two-lane sections and not passing each other, just driving side by side for miles and miles and miles (generally well below the posted speed limit for normal driving conditions) without allowing anyone behind them to pass. I'm sure this is illegal, but without enf...

Our three geriatric Board members just voted not to extend the board meeting past 10 o'clock. This may be the first time in the history of the town board (since it first met in 1917) that the trustees waved the white flag and said there were too tired to perform their duties. Cory Booker just stood up and spoke for 25 straight hours on the Senate floor, but Trustee Lead Ass Nervous Laugh (aka Trustee Drone On and On) can't be up past his bedtime? It is sad that the mayor feels compelled to talk mindlessly about every topic that comes up for discussion, it is sad that Trustee Drone On and On uses Liaison Time to tell people to spend more time looking at particular items in the Consent Agenda to recognize how great the town is, but it is especially sad when they can't bring themselves to finish a board meeting they themselves contribute most to making run beyond three hours. What message did this vote send to town staff and stakeholders, beyond "We are petulant and l...

The Trail-Gazette is a nonsense publication, run by clowns. I don't have the time or frankly the ability to generate fake emails. For the still-skeptics and non-believers (and Jody Street's family, if he has any) I am happy to meet at the local library or your favorite coffee shop and open the entire email chain.

To a town and a dynamic you are certainly quite familiar with, that of information and truth being hidden from the public, and only a select few being granted access to critical decision-making data. We still don't know what happened during the aborted CEO search, and likely never will, but when its not your money (meaning when it doesn't come directly from you via door to door shakedown, but rather comes indirectly from you because visitors don't have as much left to spend after VEP extorts their share at the entrance gate), you are a mushroom in every sense of the word, and you and VEP can run things with Jeffrey Epstein-level impunity. Plus you don't live here, which is critical because those of us who live here are automatically disqualified from any input on matters or positions of importance. Our stupidity in thinking living here and having skin in the game should be a requirement for making decisions that impact other residents' lives is outmoded and juven...

to over 100 EP residents and board members: "It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made." Remember to vote for the smashers. You can identify them by their repeated assurances that they aren't smashers.

Because when you get the most votes, you are entitled to re-create these organizations in your own image. And the self-entitled, tone-deaf leaders of these organizations, who think spending two hours every couple of weeks is the same thing as being in charge, have already walked right into their traps. Belle "Ring My" Morris is not only the lifetime president of TAB, she is TAB. What she thinks is what all TAB members (drones, worker bees, borg) think, as part of the collective. If they think otherwise, she let's them know who calls the shots, and how to toe the line or start walkin'.

Just like Estes Park individuals, Estes Park businesses are born and die. Some live a long time. Some are still alive. Some last only a few months, or a few years. But to pretend otherwise, to be casual with assigning dates of operation, is lazy history. Take Copeland Lake Lodge, south of Estes Park on Highway 7, and closer to Allens Park. It was built in 1914, and when it sold in December 1938, it ceased to exist as Copeland Lake Lodge. The new owners renamed it Wild Basin Lodge, and started advertising it as "Wild Basin Lodge, formerly Copeland Lake Lodge" by the summer of 1939 (my guess is, it was primarily a summer operation, as so many smaller lodges were at the time, and some still are). Inertia is a real thing, and I'm sure there were some folks at the time who still accidentally and automatically referred to it as Copeland Lake Lodge well into the 1940s. I still hear media outlets refer to the microblogging app "X" as Twitter, despite the fact t...

i don't know bcuz i stopped watching after bill brown used his liaison report time to demand for ten minutes how the code needed to be changed immediately so john culken and the stanley could turn downtown into disneyland i didn't know we had created a department of give john culken everything his heart desires with bill as chief sucker the public should start asking the mayor at the next mayor's chat (does the mayor have mayor's chats or ever answer questions from citizens in public) if trustee liaison reports should be about liaison reports or about whatever topic or advertisement or lobbying interest pops into a trustees head when it is their turn to speak

Because rare things hold their value more than common things Because this century offers multiple options for finding these rare things more easily, meaning without spending so much money and time/effort in tracking them down as was required in the past Because Estes Park, despite its smaller size and sometimes because of its smaller size, created a lot of rare things This is especially true for short-lived businesses, and Estes Park had thousands of these in the past hundred and fifty years Because when you collect rare things, you often find yourself in the company of other intelligent people who share interesting information on a variety of topics (think Antiques Roadshow) Plus you have an instant admission into places that wouldn't necessarily be open to the general public, like wealthy people's estates and the secret chambers of museums and special collections libraries, plus get to go right to the top and speak to the directors and experts at these institutions, because...

The owners had a private meeting with Sen. Bennet and apparently started crying about how this may be their last year of business because two former employees of RMNP lost their jobs. You can of course see the direct connection. I will do my best in the coming months to eliminate some of their uncertainty by promising not to dine at either of their establishments, so they won't have to wonder whether I will be doing my part to save them from the uncertainty of who, if anyone, will vacation or eat in Estes Park this summer, or whether the Uneed Piepers will have to start selling tumbleweeds online. Cry me an onion. Meanwhile, a number of businesses in Estes Park closed already this winter furreal, and it had nothing to do with the federal government and all to do with local landlords wanting to grow richer than they already are. The real problem might be better examined by looking inward, and shaming landlords who extort their tenants by making outrageous demands and charging e...

Self-entitled, unelected, with influence and destructive impact far beyond their qualifications. I have for years referrred to her as Estes Park's Belle in a china shop, all teenaged testosterone, always looking for things to break. S/he is an immolator, not a nurturer, and that gltchy tic of hers when Belle (Chuck?) speaks in public is strange, which is why she retreats behind the curtain to write things like "frankly, your opinions are putrid and pathetic" while keeping her claws clutched tightly around her only means of self-worth. Does TAB have other candidates for chair, or is Belt our NGO dictator for life?

When it comes to understanding, er, proselytizing downtown paid parking, Trustee Hazelton's legerdemain is leg-en-dairy. Not only does she remember 100% of everything from her high-school level biology correspondence course (I think she was home schooled) related to randomized double blind scientific studies, she also is versed in logic puzzles and, hyperintuitively, what the absence of a letter of support from TAB means, and how it might mean the opposite of what you low-level cretins reflexively thonk it means, and vice versa. Plus she is always correct. So we have that going for us as taxpayers. We have to continue with the paid parking "experiment", sayeth Trustee Ovaltine, because the Loop was the variable last year and the paid parking "trial" (now in its third year) was the constant in reduced sales tax numbers. This year, the Loop will be the constant and paid parking will be the, um, second constant leading to a reduction in downtown business? Oh,...