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Budget impacts due to the ongoing downturn in the natural gas industry are driving Garfield County’s policy directives for 2021, with an eye toward diversifying the county’s economic base. County commissioners recently adopted their “Directives and Action Plan” for the year, giving weight both to the realities of running a county with fewer revenues and looking to some new areas for economic development potential. The county this year made across-the-board budget cuts of 5%, including eliminating 18 jobs through attrition and cutting programs such as the Sheriff’s Office animal cont...

Skiers and riders fill Primo lift as Sunlight Mountain thrives with activity during the 35th annual skier appreciation day. Kyle Mills / Post Independent Lift tickets for Sunlight Mountain’s 36th annual skier appreciation day are going fast, a resort administrator said. With just a week away from the Jan. 8 event, Sunlight Mountain Resort Marketing and Sales Director Troy Hawks said late this week that more than half of the available 1,000 tickets — just $20 a pop— have been sold. The event kicks off at 9 a.m. Jan. 8. “It’s going to be a social-distanced reuniting of local people,�...

Chelsea Self / Post Independent They say Sunny Yeti was born somewhere near Elk Mountain, to an ancient tribe of furry creatures just like himself. Beyond that, no one really knows where the benevolent beast of Sunlight Mountain truly comes from. “It’s a long conversation with the yeti because he only converses in grunts and groans,” Sunlight’s marketing and sales director Troy Hawks said. “But he was watching folks from Ute (Trail) for years. We weren’t really aware of it.” The yeti, in need of some love and affection, would eventually find the courage to come out of his shell....