SUMMIT COUNTY - Vail Resorts saw modest improvements in its on-mountain financial performance for the second quarter of the 2010 fiscal year, ending Jan. 31, 2010. The on-mountain bottom line improved by 3.6 percent, relative to last year's early season - comprising November, December and January.
Lodging, however, suffered a net-revenue decline of 6 percent, largely because of declines at Keystone, which have been hit the hardest by the economic downturn.
The company's lodging and mountain segments improved their bottom lines by a combined 2 percent over last year's second-quarter performance.
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With over 150 guests in attendance, our fundraiser was a success. We were able to add approximately $6,000 to our building fund for our 2010 Build. Thank you to all the individuals who donated their time, money or silent auction items to the evening. It's our great volunteers that made the evening.

With this topic receiving considerable media attention lately, Our Future Summit is organizing a community roundtable on transportation Thursday at the Summit County Community and Senior Center to stimulate a lively public discussion on traffic, transit and trucks.
State Sen. Dan Gibbs, in sponsoring several policy initiatives during the 2010 session of the state Legislature designed to relieve bottlenecks on Interstate 70 during peak travel in the High Country, is meeting some resistance.
Summit County's free public transportation system faces challenges in maintaining the level of service that visitors and locals alike have grown to appreciate....

KEYSTONE - A Zamboni slipped through the cracks at the Keystone Lake Tuesday night.
Crews were smoothing the surface of the popular skating spot around 6 p.m., when the machine fell part-way through the ice. Workers successfully extricated the Zamboni from the lake the same night and closed the ice to skating.
No one was injured during the incident, and the Zamboni "fired right back up" once it was retrieved, according to Keystone spokesperson Ryan Whaley.
Skating is now done for the season, since temperatures will likely be too warm by the...

DENVER - Lawyers for the state of Wyoming and the Colorado Mining Association argued before the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday that a 2001 federal rule banning construction of new roads on National Forest land violates the law.
The Roadless Rule, initiated under President Clinton's presidency, banned road construction and reconstruction on certain areas of National Forest lands. It affects at least 40 million acres of federal land nationwide.
The appeals court did not indicate when it would decide the case, which was filed by Wyoming to challenge the rule.
Wyoming and the Colorado Mining...

Highway workers are using a helicopter today to drop equipment on a mountainside in efforts to dislodge a boulder that's threatening Interstate 70 through Glenwood Canyon.
The helicopter dropped off drilling equipment and a generator late this morning so a crew can drill, and then blast, a 20-foot wide slab of rock that threatens the highway below.
Mindy Crane, a spokeswoman with the Colorado Department of Transportation, said the crew hopes to have the rock cleared sometime early this afternoon. If the rock blast goes well, workers should be able to start...