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Estes Valley Voice Podcast

Daily releases of the latest Estes Park news, commentary, interesting interviews, and stories for Estes Valley Voice readers and listeners.Produced by Brett Wilson for the Estes Valley Voice

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4:50

Author says goodbye to science, hello to fiction writing

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2025/04/25

Story by Elisabeth Sherwin It’s not often that someone can say they’ve had two successful careers – in opposite fields – in one lifetime. Linnea Tanner, 75, started off her career as a chemist. She earned both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in chemistry from the University of Colorado, Bouder, and worked for many years as a regulator. “I was on the regulatory side,” she said in a recent interview. “I worked with scientific groups to provide documentation for clinical trials (for med...

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6:14

Stanley Chocolate Factory gets green light on liquor...

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2025/04/24

Story by Barb Boyer Buck Visions of carousel horses, BBQ, and making chocolate bars swirled through Town Hall Tuesday night while John Cullen, doing business as JWC Elevations, LLC, was granted both the legal right to build an indoor carousel at the Stanley Chocolate Factory downtown and a liquor license. There was also a surprise announcement: Wes Moore, owner and chef of the popular WesTex BBQ food truck in Estes Park, will open a barbecue restaurant within the chocolate factory complex tha...

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7:30

Mayor's Message: Boards in motion

Estes Valley Voice Podcast ·

2025/04/16

by Mayor Gary Hall Thanks to all of you who will vote in the three upcoming special district board elections on May 6. And thanks to those of you who choose to run for the different boards in town. Without abundant civic participation, Estes Park would not benefit from the breadth of opinion and depth of wisdom that is needed for good progress. We need you now for several other board and commission positions: the Planning Commission, the Housing Authority, the Board of Adjustment, and the Tra...

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5:12

Richard "Dick" Aaron Life

Estes Valley Voice Podcast ·

2025/04/11

March 10, 1940 – March 20, 2025 On March 20, 2025, Richard “Dick” Aaron Life, Captain, United States Navy, died peacefully while resting at age 85. He was with family during his final moments. He died naturally from a cardiac arrest. Born on March 10, 1940, in Parkersburg, W.Va. to Richard Edward Life and Frances Marie Roush. He grew up in both Athens, Ohio and Parkersburg with his younger brother, Ed, and his sister, Sue. He was an Eagle Scout who achieved the highest Order of the Arro...

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5:19

Joint Town and County meeting to address Trustee...

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2025/04/10

Story by Suzy Blackhurst A brewing rift between Board members of Visit Estes Park, most of whom have worked together for several years, and Kirby Hazelton, who was appointed to the Board just a year ago this week, came to a head this past week. The most recent skirmish began on April 1 when Hazelton, an Estes Park Town Trustee and the Town Board’s liaison to the special marketing district, wrote to the Larimer County Commissioners and asked them to meet with Town Trustees to discuss the possi...

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3:19

Trustee Hazelton calls for VEP review

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2025/04/08

Story by Estes Valley Voice In a letter dated April 1, 2025 to Larimer County Commissioners, Estes Park Town Trustee Kirby Hazelton asked for a joint meeting between the commissioners and the town board to discuss operations of the Visit Estes Park Board of Directors. In her letter, made public in the meeting packet for the April 8 Estes Park Town Board meeting, Hazelton said the VEP Board had not been “acting with good policy governance.” Criticizing the VEP Board, Hazelton stated, “I believ...

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7:21

Mayor's Message - Living in a Virtual World

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2025/04/04

By Mayor Gary Hall “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” was the movie that made Robert Redford a superstar. He got his acting start at the Historic Elitch’s Garden Theatre in Denver. He’s given back so much to the industry that made him famous with the Sundance Film Festival. The festival’s move to Boulder is a great boon for Colorado – and for Estes Park – artistically and culturally, as well as financially. Motion pictures were an early widespread type of virtual reality. Movies are communi...

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5:38

Meet local author Aimie Runyan at two local events...

Estes Valley Voice Podcast ·

2025/04/01

By Elisabeth Sherwin Estes Park is home to several species of unusual animals, from gigantic moose to snowshoe hares. Now add another rarity to the mix – a best-selling author. You will be able to meet best-selling author and Estes Park resident Aimie Runyan at two events this week: Tuesday, April 1 at 5:30 p.m. at Macdonald Book Shop and Friday, April 4 at 6 p.m. at the Estes Valley Library. Both events are free and open to the public. Runyan has just released her latest novel, “The Wanderin...

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6:00

Visit Estes Park board decides to not move forward in...

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2025/03/31

Story by Suzy Blackhurst Finding the right person to lead Visit Estes Park, the local marketing district charged with promoting tourism to the area, appears to be a harder task than the organization’s board of directors anticipated. Two candidates, Candace Carr Strauss and Cindy Mackin, made presentations before a search committee in late January. Since then, Carr Strauss withdrew, and Mackin, who currently is the organization’s community engagement director, has not yet been interviewed by t...

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5:27

With Sundance Film Fest in Boulder, film institute...

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2025/03/29

Story by Suzy Blackhurst Twenty months after John Cullen, owner of The Stanley Hotel, and Donald Zuckerman, head of Colorado’s Film Commission, first suggested to the head of the Sundance Film Festival and Jeff Kraft, deputy director of the state’s Office of Economic Development that the Stanley Hotel would be the perfect location for institutes associated with the festival that could expand to Boulder, the concept has come to fruition. They were among a small group of individuals who had gat...

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7:15

Call it workforce, attainable and low-income, but not...

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2025/03/21

Story by Barb Boyer Buck “I want everybody to ban the words affordable housing. It’s not affordable housing,” said Eric Blackhurst, president of the Estes Park Housing Authority board, at their monthly meeting on March 19. “We deal with low-income housing, we deal with workforce housing, and we deal with attainable housing.” Blackhurst said that since the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has specific requirements about what the term affordable housing means, that term needs to...

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12:10

A way forward toward preservation and keeping public...

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2025/03/13

Commentary by Dan Denning “Most Americans would agree that spending money and preserving our Parks is something the government should spend money on. But not indiscriminately, and not without more supervision and accountability.” Here’s a thought that is both obvious and controversial: A good deal of the public reaction to the staffing changes in our National Park System is really political anger at Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Supporting federal workers has become a popular way to object to t...

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10:48

Shouldering the shoulder season in a small mountain town

Estes Valley Voice Podcast ·

2025/03/11

The Estes Edit by Patti Brown Last week we celebrated the community’s women, and this week, figuratively, we will wake the dead. Over the past week Estes Park began waking up from its annual post-holiday winter hibernation. The season between New Year’s and March is often referred to as the shoulder season, a time when businesses see a contraction in the number of tourists to the Estes Valley. Many restaurants and lodges use January and February to take a siesta of sorts, closing for days or ...

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7:22

One Hundred Women Who Care raises more than $12K for...

Estes Valley Voice Podcast ·

2025/03/07

Story by Audrey Brice Although some checks still need to be counted, One Hundred Women Who Care – Estes Park has already collected more than $12,000 for the Estes Park Salud Family Health Center – the largest amount the philanthropy group has raised to date. The clinic, a Federally Qualified Health Center, needs to raise $1 million to offset a projected operating shortfall. If the clinic cannot meet its goal, it may not be able to continue operating past May. Jennifer Morse, vice president of...

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7:40

Bill Brown: Town Trustee

Estes Valley Voice Podcast ·

2025/03/05

By Barb Boyer Buck “I’ll explain to you my interest in annexation,” said Town of Estes Park Trustee Bill Brown. “I’m sure you’ve seen a map of the Estes Valley and we’ve got a pretty odd collection of what’s in town and what’s in the county.” Annexation is one of the issues that inspired Brown to run for Town Board. He is serving his first term after being elected last year. Brown believes developing policies to promote further annexation would set the stage for a better, more cohesive commun...

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4:27

RMNP denies MSNBC report that Rocky will not open...

Estes Valley Voice Podcast ·

2025/03/05

Story by Patti Brown The local rumor mill went wild Monday night after broadcaster Rachel Maddow reported on her cable news show that Rocky Mountain National Park would not be open this summer due to staff cuts. According to Kyle Patterson, management specialist and public affairs officer for RMNP, the Park has not announced any closures of RMNP and information shared by MSNBC was inaccurate. The NPS has not provided any details about how many full-time, seasonal, and probationary staff membe...

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9:02

Hundreds turned out in support of RMNP workers who...

Estes Valley Voice Podcast ·

2025/03/03

Story by Barb Boyer Buck & Patti Brown More than 500 people flanked both sides of the road for more than a mile Saturday morning near the entrance to the Beaver Meadows Visitors Center in Rocky Mountain National Park to show their support for Park employees whose jobs have been cut or are at risk. While the exact number of RMNP full-time and seasonal employees affected is not known because the National Park service will not provide that information despite media inquiries at both the loca...

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6:42

Arts community seeks green light for performing arts...

Estes Valley Voice Podcast ·

2025/02/26

Story by Suzy Blackhurst Establishing a permanent home for Encore! — an Estes Park performing arts center — has been an aspiration for arts aficionados in the Estes Park area for decades. The latest attempt to receive the support of the Town for the most recent plan will be considered by the Trustees during its study session Tuesday evening. On tap for discussion is whether results from a fall 2024 interest survey, along with subsequent information provided by the group promoting the arts fac...

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7:19

Kirby Hazelton: Town Trustee

Estes Valley Voice Podcast ·

2025/02/19

Story by Barb Boyer Buck This is the third in a series the Estes Valley Voice is publishing on the individuals who serve as Estes Park Town Trustees. The first featured Mark Igel. The second featured Frank Lancaster. “It’s the hardest job I’ve ever had, and every day I feel like I’m not good at it,” said Town of Estes Park Trustee Kirby Hazelton about working in local government. Elected in 2022 after living and working in Estes Park for more than a decade, Hazelton is serving her first term ...

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7:48

Mayor's Message: Rocky relationship

Estes Valley Voice Podcast ·

2025/02/19

By Mayor Gary Hall A healthy Rocky is critical for a healthy Estes My wife Linda and I love RMNP and the other forests that surround our mountain cradle. When we moved up here in 2003, we already had some experience on the mountains. In these 21 years, we’ve spent a lot of time in the Park. We recharge our batteries there. We feed our souls in the Park. So, we have great respect for those who keep the Park open and in great shape. The fires and floods have wrought great damage, and we’re like...

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