Hwy 34 opens
March 15, 2010 01:03 PM
On, March 11, around 8:30 p.m., the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) reopened US 34 just east of Estes Park following an eight-day closure for bridge replacement. US 34 has been closed at milepost 66.3...
Ladycats done for the year
March 12, 2010 05:02 PM
The Estes Park Ladycat basketball season ended Friday morning in the consolation round of the state 3A basketball playoffs with a 67-63 loss to St. Mary's. The Ladycats ended the season with a 21-5 record....
Pirates shipwreck Ladycats in Great Eight
March 12, 2010 11:32 AM
Down by as many as 15 at points during the game against Pagosa Springs, the Estes Park Ladycats but fought back in the second half to within two, but could not quite close the gap and lost to Pagosa...
Construction to close Moccasin bypass beginning March 15
March 11, 2010 11:32 PM
Beginning March 15, the Moccasin bypass will be closed to through traffic from Riverside Drive near the Aerial Tramway entrance to the east near the emergency entrance to the Estes Park Medical Center....
District faces up to budget cuts
March 11, 2010 06:47 PM
A preliminary draft of the Park R-3 district budget for 2010-2011 will be presented at next week`s school board meeting, but school superintendent Linda Chapman told the League of Women Voters at a presentation on the budget crisis Wednesday...
Lodgepoles are most vulnerable to beetles
March 11, 2010 06:47 PM
Lodgepole pines are often one of the first types of tree to grow in an area after a major disturbance such as a fire or insect outbreak....
First candidate forum next week
March 11, 2010 06:47 PM
Candidates for the Estes Park Board of Trustees will get their first public forum next week ahead of the April 6 municipal election....
Melodramatically speaking
March 11, 2010 06:47 PM
N othing beats a Great Depression like a good melodrama. Heaven help the poor working girl. If you want to "boo" and "hiss" with the best of them (and who doesn`t, in today`s world) and to take your frustrations...
Island of yearning, island of learning
March 9, 2010 11:02 PM
T he Estes Park Middle School performed their annual Ellis Island simulation on Thursday. The eighth-graders learned about their own ethnicity and how much they have in common with their schoolmates and the people of the rest of the world....
Isolating the love nests
March 9, 2010 10:46 PM
Each year Rocky Mountain National Park officials initiate temporary closures in the Lumpy Ridge and Sheep Mountain areas of the park to protect raptor nesting sites....
Board may extend turbine ban
March 9, 2010 10:46 PM
The Estes Park Board of Trustees was expected to extend the temporary ban on wind turbines in Estes Park last night while the formulation of new regulations continues....
Island of yearning, island of learning Photos by Walt Hester Trail-Gazette
March 9, 2010 10:46 PM
T he Estes Park Middle School performed their annual Ellis Island simulation on Thursday. The eighth-graders learned about their own ethnicity and how much they have in common with their schoolmates and the people of the rest of the world....
Snowpack lagging
March 9, 2010 10:46 PM
While it may feel like it has been a cold winter broken by few warm spells, it has not been an especially snowy one so far....
Two injured in shooting
March 9, 2010 10:46 PM
Two adult males were hit by rifle fire by a juvenile shooting on National Forest Service land near Larimer County Road 47, near the subdivision of Big Elk Meadows Saturday afternoon....
Theatrical film noir -- What`s black and white and red all over? 'The Final Curtain` rises this weekend on Broadway bump-off
March 4, 2010 08:48 PM
S am Spade didn`t mind "a reasonable amount of trouble." Apparently, Estes Park playwright Michael Young doesn`t either, as he follows in the famed, fictional detective`s footsteps....
Revisions to sign code get first look
March 4, 2010 08:48 PM
Sign codes tend to be among the trickier beasts in the corrals of local governments, and the process of revising Estes Park`s took a lurching step forward Thursday morning when the town`s Community Development Committee began wading into the...
Two candidate forums set
March 4, 2010 08:48 PM
On the last day to file to run for a seat on Estes Park Board of Trustees, the field of candidates stands at seven....
March 'Coffee with the Mayor` covers park, economy
March 4, 2010 08:48 PM
Bond Park, parking and economic concerns dominated Mayor Bill Pinkham`s monthly informal sit-down with town residents Wednesday morning at the Estes Park Senior Center....
Sign code revisions up for review
March 2, 2010 11:02 PM
The town`s development committee will take a look tomorrow at proposed revisions to the sign code section of the Estes Park Municipal Code....
Fishman, Elrod join Board of Trustees race
March 2, 2010 11:02 PM
One thing voters will have in the April municipal election is choice. With Paul Fishman and Mark Elrod joining the race, the field of candidates for three seats on the Estes Park Board of Trustees now numbers seven....
