Morrie Shepard News Today

Rod Slifer was not a statue-in-the-town plaza kind of guy. In fact, he cringed at the plaza being named after him at all. Or the ski run. Or a book being written about him. Or...

In the summer of 1960, Rod Slifer quit his sales job at an office supply store in Denver and joined a friend riding three-speed klunker bikes to Union Station. There, according to the new book,...

In the summer of 1960, Rod Slifer quit his sales job at an office supply store in Denver and joined a friend riding three-speed klunker bikes to Union Station. There, according to the new book,...

30 years ago Nov. 5, 1993 The Vail Trail addressed letters to the editor it had received regarding real estate advertising in the paper. Those letters were “alleging complicity in the selling of this valley,”...

The surprise about Vail Mountain’s 60th anniversary isn’t that so many people have been involved, but that so many have stayed. The resort, and the town, have had good and bad years, but through it...

Forty years ago this week, the Westin in Vail opened. After multiple personalities and name changes, it’s now called the Grand Hyatt Vail, but it is still the only hotel in town with its very...