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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...