Plans cleared for new ski village in Vail
Colorado Sun
Good morning, Colorado.
My stupid, beloved Braves were eliminated last night, ending my baseball interests a month early for yet another season. So now my nighttime October entertainment turns to scary season.
My girlfriend and I are planning to watch a different scary movie every night this month, and have already knocked out modern classics “Cabin in the Woods” and “The Babadook.” Any other suggestions are welcome, with her only caveat being “nothing too weird.” I disagree, though. The weirder the better.
What’s not weird? Our daily dose of news.
THE NEWS
OUTDOORS
Vail Resorts, town and developer plan new ski village after settling legal battle over housing parcel
The Town of Vail and Vail Resorts this week announced a partnership to develop a fourth base village at the Vail ski area where the ski area operator a decade ago planned to build its own luxury village. The deal includes workforce housing and the ski area company agreeing to drop its appeal of the town’s 2022 condemnation and eminent domain acquisition of a 23-acre property in East Vail where Vail Resorts planned housing for 165 employees. Jason Blevins has more.
WATER
Lower Arkansas River water districts, Aurora prepare for talks over city’s controversial $80M farm water purchase
Lower Arkansas Valley water districts and Aurora plan to open talks later this year aimed at providing aid to the region to offset the impact of a controversial, large-scale water purchase by Aurora that will periodically dry up thousands of acres of farmland. Jerd Smith has more.
ARTS
Long-running Colorado art show featuring adults with intellectual disabilities returns Friday
On Friday, the Gunnison Arts Center will hold an opening reception for the Six Points Art Show, an annual, monthlong exhibition to showcase the work of Six Points clients with intellectual disabilities. Parker Yamasaki has more on the history of the art show.
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What’s Happening
Oct. 3-9
Yellow Barn Film Festival. Last year we visited a big yellow barn on the side of Foothills Highway, north of Boulder and south of Lyons, while the sister-owners of the barn planned the property’s first film festival, appropriately titled the Yellow Barn Film Festival.
On Sunday, the yellow barn folks are hosting their second film festival, making this an annual event that you can still experience in its early years. This year’s lineup mirrors last year’s in its themes and throughlines. Expect a lot of films about Indigeneity, land stewardship and agriculture. And Lily Gladstone. There will be more Lily Gladstone.
The one-day program begins at 10 a.m. with a series of documentary shorts followed by a Q&A. After that, there will be two feature film screenings, one of “The Unknown Country,” a 2022 drama starring Gladstone, and the other of “Common Ground,” a documentary that digs into America’s broken food system. A series of narrative shorts and a cocktail mixer round out the day’s events.
Tickets to individual film blocks are only $12 — cheaper than a night at the Arc or the Alamo Drafthouse, or buy a full day pass for $35.
$35 full festival pass; 10 a.m.-8 p.m., Oct. 6; 9417 N. Foothills Highway, Longmont
See you tomorrow.
— Kevin & the whole staff of The Sun
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