Plans cleared for new ski village in Vail

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.

Kevin Jeffers

Product Team

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.

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• Man kills mountain lion with a shovel after it approached him, fought his dog at a Cañon City campground. Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s preliminary investigation found the man “was in fear of his life and acted in self defense.”

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.

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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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MORE NEWS

• Amendment J: Removing Colorado’s constitutional prohibition on same-sex marriage. Jennifer Brown explains the ballot measure that would strike a phrase in the Colorado constitution, added by voters in 2006, that recognizes only marriages between a man and a woman.
• The Temperature ☀️ Is Cemex in Lyons on the clock, or not? Plus: Not on My BLM Land, and how language leads to health in SW Colorado.
• Family of teen shot, killed outside Denver’s East High sues DPS for wrongful death. Luis Garcia was 16 when he died last year. The lawsuit blames Denver Public Schools for removing school resources officers in 2020. Melanie Asmar from Chalkbeat has more.

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COLORADO REPORT

• Denver says it has enough motel rooms and tiny homes for people leaving homelessness — for now. The city has sheltered nearly 2,000 people living in encampments, though some returned to the streets.
  — Denverite
• Mountain drivers frustrated with traffic, “nasty” conditions due to leaf-peeping “ding dongs”. “If you park on the side of the road where there is not room to park, I hope you stub your toe really hard,” one TikTok user said.
  — The Know 🔑
• Billionaires dominating Colorado’s election, new reports show. Extremely wealthy individuals — most from outside Colorado — are donating huge sums to persuade voters to approve two 2024 ballot measures: Proposition 131, which would create ranked choice general elections, and Amendment 79, which would enshrine abortion access in the Colorado Constitution.
  — Axios Denver
• Aurora apartments in disputed viral “gang” video targeted for closure by city. “Our primary focus is getting these delinquent property owners to take care of their properties and their tenants,” Aurora spokesman Ryan Luby said.
• — The Aurora Sentinel

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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

• AyA Con. Annual comic convention that blends nerd culture and Indigenous heritage. The festival is open to everyone, and will center Indigenous creators. Stop into a storytelling workshop, watch the futurism fashion show, attend a live comic reading or participate in the cosplay contest. Free; Oct. 4-6; McNichols Civic Center Building, 144 W. Colfax Ave., Denver
• “Nepantla” Curator Talk. Opening reception and curator talk for “Nepantla,” a group exhibition of 36 Chicano/Latino artists exploring the space in between countries and cultures. Tonight, the show’s curator will give a talk starting at 6:30 p.m. Exhibition is on display until Jan. 5. $10; 6-8 p.m., Oct. 3; Museum of Art, Fort Collins, 201 S. College Ave., Fort Collins
• Indigenous Artist Panel. A panel discussion with Indigenous authors authors Robin Kimmerer and Angeline Boulley, photographer Matika Wilbur and poet Kinsale Drake. The artists will discuss the connections between their work and Indigenous traditions, arts and sciences. $50; 6-7:45 p.m., Oct. 8; Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver

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