![]() Vail Daily archive/Vail Trail 50 years ago Mike Grazier and Roger Evans perform synchronized backflips en route to winning the aerial competition at the 1973 Chevrolet-Skiing Magazine Rocky Mountain Regional Freestyle Championships. “Caplan didn’t say exactly why he and other town officials are sitting on the drawing, but said he is concerned about the public reaction to the proposal, and worried that it might be hard for some people to swallow.” “A request by the Vail Trail this week to see it was turned down by Town Manager Richard Caplan,” the Trail reported. Then, about two weeks ago, the long-awaited sketch arrived.”īut the drawing wasn’t being shared with the community, the Trail reported. The date when town officials expected to receive the drawings from Oldenburg passed, and the officials were beginning to worry a little. “Oldenburg visited Vail to scout locations and gather ideas for his sculpture and told town officials he would send a proposal. “Oldenburg, a well-known artist whose abstract sculptures have been built in public places in cities in the United States and Europe, was commissioned in 1981 to submit a design for a sculpture to be erected in LionsHead,” the Trail reported. “Vail again led resorts nationwide, posting more than 1.5 million skier visits last season.” 40 years agoĪ drawing given to the town of Vail by renowned sculptor Claes Oldenburg was being kept under wraps, the Vail Trail reported. “In the record 1991-92 season, Colorado posted 10.4 million skier-day visits,” the Trail reported. In February, 2.2 million skiers visited ski areas across the state, and total skier visits were at 7.1 million. “Unlike other regions of the country, Colorado continued to get steady, almost daily doses of snow to powder up the slopes for our skiers instead of huge dumps making travel impossible,” Mosgrove said. The Trail quoted Harry Mosgrove, president of Copper Mountain and chairman of Colorado Ski Country USA, the state’s ski trade association, who said February was a bonanza snow month for skiers and the Colorado economy. “From November 1992 to February 1993, state skier visits have increased 7.7% from last season,” the Trail reported. “Beaver Creek’s skier totals jumped 19.3 percent, to 314,000 skiers.” 30 years agoĪ good snow year made Colorado an attractive destination for skiers heading into the final months of the season, with April bookings at Vail and Beaver Creek up 40% over the previous season, a trend which was reflected around the state, the Vail Trail reported. 31, a 9.5 percent increase over 2002’s total,” the Vail Daily reported. This move led to a significant reduction of employees at the local facility of the newspaper in Jasper, Alabama.On Vail Mountain, “736,000 skiers were logged through Jan. After that edition, the printing of future editions of The Daily Mountain Eagle will occur "off-site" at The Daily Corinthian facility in Corinth, Mississippi, which is also owned by the Paxton Media Group. The last edition of The Daily Mountain Eagle to be printed in the local pressroom in Jasper, Alabama was published on Friday September 16. James Phillips, a native of Walker County, Alabama and a 20 year news veteran, was named publisher of the Daily Mountain Eagle in April 2016. Prior to March 2016, the Twitter handle "Dailymtneagle" operated as an anonymous impostor site, but the operator shut it down, reportedly to avoid being outed. Anthony was told “Man, you’re going to need an eagle to deliver newspapers in those mountains.” According to another former editor Skip Tucker, the name derived from a joke the mule driver who delivered its first press-that "only an eagle could deliver the news." In 1960, after a merger of The Walker County Times, The Jasper Advertiser, and The Mountain Eagle, the newspaper was renamed as the Daily Mountain Eagle and changed to daily publication. in 1872 to start a newspaper in Jasper, former editor Michael D. Anthony bought a press in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The Daily Mountain Eagle was initially founded in 1872 under the name Mountain Eagle, and published weekly. Daily Newspaper based in Jasper, Alabama Daily Mountain Eagle Typeĭaily newspaper (Print publications Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
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