Red Cliff News

Reggae band The Mighty Diamonds are back in Vail Valley, Colorado, playing shows in Colorado and California for the next month.

The Youth Foundation's Book Buddy van, the newest addition to the organization's literacy fleet, will bring the library to kids in Red Cliff and Leadville.

What we knew: Red Cliff regularly exceeds the capacity of its current sewer- and water-treatment facility and has repeatedly been cited by the state of Colorado for discharges into the Eagle River.

Of all the things that come out of Red Cliff, hip hop and R&B usually aren't usually among them.

Eagle resident Ruth Lenz and Frances Fernandez of Red Cliff learn a country dance during the Eagle County seniors cowboy luncheon ENLARGE Eagle resident Ruth Lenz, right, and Frances Fernandez of Red Cliff learn a country dance during the Eagle County seniors cowboy luncheon hosted by 4 Eagle Ranch on Monday near Wolcott, Colorado.

VAIL, Colorado - Eagle resident Bill MacFarlane thinks he lives right next to a network of mountain bike trails that could compare to Fruita or Moab - but nobody knows about it.

County, Red Cliff and State Forest Service officials are working on clearing pine beetles from trees in areas around Red Cliff.

The towns of Eagle and Vail, Colorado tied in Friday's countywide food drive, with each collecting about 2,000 items for local food pantries that have seen a substantial increase in need.

Eagle County led a food drive Friday and will match donations made by the public.

Colorado coal mines are now a greenhouse-gas target for state and federal environmental officials - but not because burning coal is a key source of the climate-changing gases.

Eagle County will take on its towns in a Vail Valley food drive from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday.

Zepparella will play Led Zeppelin songs Friday in the Vail Valley. ENLARGE Zepparella will play Led Zeppelin songs Friday in the Vail Valley.

Did you count all the orange bags you saw along the highways a couple weekends ago? And did you also count all the volunteers wearing their orange vest along the highways? No, it wasn't Halloween ... it was getting Eagle County's roadways green again with the annual Community Pride Highway Clean-Up, put on by the Eagle River Watershed Council.

A pipe bomb was disabled by a bomb squad Tuesday evening in a secluded part of a Vail Valley area that is popular with campers.

Water was the issue that lapped at Mesa County commissioners Monday. They approved funds to improve the wastewater treatment plant in Mack, accepted the completion report for the rebuilt Bruner water system in the Rosevale neighborhood and accepted an easement from Clifton Sanitation for part of the Riverfront Trail east of 32 Road near D Road.

The town of Minturn and the Minturn-Red Cliff Business Association have set Minturn's annual cleanup day for May 16.

At 10:30 a.m., Dawn Stewart-Sheaffer and the rest of her cleanup crew were already admiring their work: A line of orange bags filled with trash intermittently placed along U.S. Highway 6. By noon, hundreds of others had had the same satisfaction.

"City of Life and Death" deals with the sensitive topic of the 1937 rampage in the eastern city now known as Nanjing.

VAIL VALLEY, Colorado - April is an awkward month in Colorado's Vail Valley. Skis are put away after a season gone by too fast, there's no work to be found, and it's still too muddy for some to mountain bike.

Who they talked to: Tom Johnson, county facilities director What happened: About $21 million in stimulus money has already been awarded to Eagle County and officials are hopeful the county will get more.