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The Bravo! Vail Music Festival has announced its 37th festival season featuring more than 80 concerts across the Vail Valley. Taking place from June 20 to Aug. 1, the six-week festival presents four internationally acclaimed...

Lavelle Montez Smith, age 88, of Holton, IN, and the son of the late Eddie and Jessie (Morton) Smith, was born on December 16, 1934, in Louisville, Kentucky. He obtained

Editor’s note: We received so many submissions for our Vail Daily “Tell Us Your Love Story” contest that we decided to share some more stories online. Read over these stories and get inspired by love...

Canadian Brass with Kantorei Get into the holiday spirit with live music at the Vilar Performing Arts Center in Beaver Creek with the Canadian Brass on Friday. This lively brass quintet is sure to dazzle...

The Vail Interfaith Chapel was unique when it was built. But it’s going to be expensive to ensure the facility can serve the community for decades to come.

Christmas is here and if you are looking for a place to worship on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, there are plenty of congregations that will welcome you to join in the celebrations of the…

The Vail Daily is running Q&A’s with the 10 candidates running for four seats on the Vail Town Council. The questionnaires will run in the order that the candidates appear on the ballot. The town…

Special to the Daily Many hands make light work. Vi Brown has two very busy hands that continue to have a huge impact on how the Vail community was built. She and her late husband, Byron, moved to Vail in 1964 from Denver and never stopped moving. Those few dozen people who were already in Vail remember the Browns arriving with young son Mike in tow to West Vail, where only about five homes were built. Byron had gotten a job working for a Denver-based real estate company selling lots in Vail. �...

Special to the Daily Raising money for good causes comes with a good bit of waiting, nervousness and moments of exhilaration. The campaign for the Vail Interfaith Chapel recently had one of those exhilarating moments. The committee running the chapel’s current $10 million fundraising campaign announced this week that longtime residents Betsy and George Wiegers had given a $1 million gift to the campaign. “This is huge. This one donation is 10% of our goal,” said Rev. Tim Wilbanks, who is ...

Melissa Brielle Photography Pastor Tim Wilbanks, President of the Vail Religious Foundation, on Monday announced the members of the volunteer advisory committee that will steer fundraising efforts related to the Vail Interfaith Chapel’s $10 million 50th Anniversary Capital Campaign. “This volunteer committee supports restoring and maintaining our beloved Chapel, and values it as one of Vail’s cultural and historic centers,” Wilbanks said. “We are so grateful for their support, not on...