Estes Park News

Scattered showers, and even the slight possibility of snow showers, are in the Estes Park forecast over the next couple of days.

A young attendee checks out the rides at the May 18 Estes Park Safety Expo at the Stanley Fairgrounds.

The Town of Estes Park is gearing up for the USA Pro Challenge 2013 cycling race, which will bring the world's top cyclists through Estes Park on Aug.

Clear skies are over the iconic Mt. Meeker and Longs Peak from a perspective south of the peaks along Hwy.

Estes Park Mayor Bill Pinkham and the Board of Trustees will proclaim May 22 Volunteer Recognition Day in Estes Park.

A bull moose slurps up lunch in a lond along the Fern Lake Trail on Monday. The biggest relative of the deer are still relatively rare on the east side of the Continental Divide, but are becoming less so as they establish themselves.

Estes Park Senior Center summer buffet breakfasts have been a popular community activity and fund-raiser for Estes Park Senior Citizens Center Inc.

JOSHUA POLSON/jpolson@greeleytribune.com Scott Chartier lassos a saddle as he talks to a group of students during the Centennial Village's History Festival on Thursday afternoon at Centennial Village.

The Upper Thompson Sanitation District will hold a series of work study sessions beginning May 20, to evaluate the district's current and future rate structure needed for current and future operations.

7:00 p.m. In the 200 block of East 29th Street, a 40-year-old Loveland man on suspicion of DUI.

Stephany Salazar and Ashley Nail, both from Greeley, remove cones from a work zone at the intersection of highways 34 and 36 on Wednesday.

Editor's note: Part four in a series. The Estes Park Trail-Gazette is interviewing town leaders regarding priority issues impacting the town's future.

Middle school students play Israeli dodgeball, or Gaga, on Wednesday in a Gaga pit created by students at the school.

Bond Park is about to reopen with a new look. At 3 p.m. on Thursday, May 23, the public is invited to join Estes Park Mayor Bill Pinkham, Town Trustees, staff and contractors for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the completion of this phase of the Bond Park redevelopment project.

An interviewer in 2004 asked Yogi Berra to explain jazz. The famous baseball player and speaker is quoted in "All About Jazz," by Steve Chalke, as saying: "I can't, but I will.

Judy Edwards says she has been quilting "since birth," so it was natural for her to open a quilt shop in Loveland.

Awards await honorees at the Staff Recognition and reception for the school district on May 8. Teachers and staff of the Park R-3 school district are winding down the school year.

Seventy percent of residents of Estes Park indicated that they felt Open Space was an "important" or "very important" issue in the town's 2011 citizens' survey.

Alpine Hotshot fire captain Mark Mendonca looks at the burnt remains of a bridge along the Cub Lake Trails on Monday.

Pictured back row, left to right are Ethan Hill, Alexander Henderson, Spencer Mechem and Jelssy Flores Rodriguez.