Vail Daily reporter John LaConte has worked in news since 2003 in television, print and multimedia. He has covered more than a dozen local governments in California and Colorado and has also authored sports stories for Decline Magazine and ESPN.
LaConte grew up in Wisconsin but spent much time in the Eagle River Valley with his late grandmother, Chris Frame, who lived in Vail from 1970 to 2003. LaConte now lives in his grandmother’s house with wife, Polina, and their two children.
LaConte is an avid snowboarder and a member of the Rocky Mountain chapter of the Ravinos, an extreme lifestyle club with 50 years of colorful history in Vail. LaConte’s enthusiasm for board sports comes from his father, who was a skateboarder in the 1960s and still owns his original Makaha Red Commander.
The Eagle Town Council will review a proposal for a new incentive program designed to encourage investment in vacant and underutilized commercial properties within the Downtown Development Authority district. The request comes from the Eagle...
30 years ago July 12, 1996 Following news of the Surface Transportation Board’s denial of a request from the Union and Southern Pacific Railroad to abandon the Tennessee Pass line, officials from East West Partners...
A few unexpected twists have popped up in the plan to begin harvesting geothermal energy from the ground beneath Vail, including where exactly that is to occur. The Town Council on Tuesday learned that the...
Earth sustains human life because it’s an ocean planet. The concept is basic, but it’s also elusive enough that astronaut Nicole Stott said she had to journey 300 miles into space to truly appreciate that...
A controversial proposal to redevelop Lionshead’s aging Concert Hall Plaza property is scheduled to come before the Vail Town Council on Tuesday. The resolution to approve a development agreement for the property, scheduled for 6:10...
The town of Vail Police Department made 33 arrests over the July 4 weekend, according to numbers from Vail Police Chief Ryan Kenney. “The majority of the arrests were for minor in possession,” Kenney said. “The...
30 years ago July 5, 1996 The Surface Transportation Board accepted Union and Southern Pacific Railroad’s merger application, but formally denied its request to abandon the Tennessee Pass line, the Vail Trail reported. “Upon rendering...
Vail visitors are always going to seek refuge in Gore Creek when it’s hot, and if there’s no access available, they’ll make their own. That observation has driven a $2.1 million overhaul of Vail Village’s...
The Vail-area women’s hockey community is reeling from the loss of wildland firefighter Emily Barker, an Eagle resident who played defense for the Downvalley Divas, one of several Eagle County women’s teams. The Vail area...
100 years ago July 2, 1926 On the Saturday before Independence Day, the McCoy community put on its annual celebration, attracting several hundred people from Eagle, Routt and Grand counties, the Eagle Valley Enterprise reported....