Estes Valley Voice Podcast

David Hernandez

Estes Valley Voice released its 2025 Annual Report:

– Over 1,110 original stories published

– Coverage of local elections and community forums

– Free promotion for nonprofit organizations

– News remains free and accessible to the public

Pixel the Snowman Snowglobe winners announced:

– Winners: Marty Miranda and Becka Gatchel

– More than 125 community members participated

News Briefs:

– Information meeting for Town Board candi...

David Hernadez

• The Estes Valley Fire Protection District has extended Interim Fire Chief Warren Jones’ contract through the end of 2026. This decision is intended to provide the District with stability and allow time to carefully select a permanent fire chief.
• Estes Valley Voice is involved in a legal process seeking greater transparency regarding attorney billing records from the local hospital district. A judge will review the ...

David Hernandez

Weekly News Summary – Estes Valley

• Featured interview with Ericka Santana, a Latina business owner in Estes Park, sharing her story, challenges, and advice for entrepreneurs in the community.

• Historic Park Theater begins a new chapter under the management of Whimsadoodle, Inc., with plans to revitalize the space through expanded cultural programming and events.

• Experts warn that recent strong winds are increasing ...

David Hernandez

Estes Park news recap podcast in Spanish (8 de Deciembre)

The Estes Valley Voice provides a Spanish-language recap of our top news stories each week with David Hernandez.

Please let us know if you, your business, or organization would like to become a sponsor of this work.

Let us know how we’re doing. Do you have ideas for stories about stories we need to be covering? We want to hear from you.

Our Spanish language podcas...

David Hernandez

Estes Park news recap podcast in Spanish (8 de Deciembre)

The Estes Valley Voice provides a Spanish-language recap of our top news stories each week with David Hernandez.

Please let us know if you, your business, or organization would like to become a sponsor of this work.

Let us know how we’re doing. Do you have ideas for stories about stories we need to be covering? We want to hear from you.

Our Spanish language podcas...

David Hernandez

Estes Park news recap podcast in Spanish (17 de Noviembre)

The Estes Valley Voice provides a Spanish-language recap of our top news stories each week with David Hernandez.

Please let us know if you, your business, or organization would like to become a sponsor of this work.

Let us know how we’re doing. Do you have ideas for stories about stories we need to be covering? We want to hear from you.

Our Spanish language podca...

David Hernandez

Estes Park news recap podcast in Spanish (17 de Noviembre)

The Estes Valley Voice provides a Spanish-language recap of our top news stories each week with David Hernandez.

Please let us know if you, your business, or organization would like to become a sponsor of this work.

Let us know how we’re doing. Do you have ideas for stories about stories we need to be covering? We want to hear from you.

Our Spanish language podca...

David Hernandez

Estes Park news recap podcast in Spanish (17 de Noviembre)

The Estes Valley Voice provides a Spanish-language recap of our top news stories each week with David Hernandez.

Please let us know if you, your business, or organization would like to become a sponsor of this work.

Let us know how we’re doing. Do you have ideas for stories about stories we need to be covering? We want to hear from you.

Our Spanish language podca...

David Hernandez

The Estes Valley Voice provides a Spanish-language recap of our top news stories each week with David Hernandez.

Please let us know if you, your business, or organization would like to become a sponsor of this work.

Let us know how we’re doing. Do you have ideas for stories about stories we need to be covering? We want to hear from you.

Our Spanish language podcasts are accessible on Buzzsprout, Spotify, and Apple, the ...

David Hernandez

The Estes Valley Voice provides a Spanish-language recap of our top news stories each week with David Hernandez.

Please let us know if you, your business, or organization would like to become a sponsor of this work.

Let us know how we’re doing. Do you have ideas for stories about stories we need to be covering? We want to hear from you.

Our Spanish language podcasts are accessible on Buzzsprout, Spotify, and Apple, the ...

David Hernandez

Estes Park news recap podcast in Spanish (27 de Octubre)

Each week, David Hernandez provides a Spanish language recap of the Estes Valley Voice for members of our community.  Let us know how we’re doing? Do you have ideas for stories about stories we nee to be covering? We want to hear from you.

Our Spanish language podcasts are accessible on Buzzsprout, Spotify, and Apple, the same channels as our English-language pod...

Story by Elisabeth Sherwin

The garden is a metaphor for many things in Prof. Camille Dungy’s life.

In 2013, it represented the beginning of a guerrilla war with her Homeowners Association.

Spoiler: She won.

When she and her family moved from Oakland, Calif., to Fort Collins in 2013, they moved into an established, traditional suburban neighborhood with well-maintained grass lawns.

Not good.

Dungy wanted a prairie garden to attract butter...

The Estes Valley Voice wants to help bridge the gap and lower the height of the silos between the English and Spanish-speaking communities in the Estes Valley by making the news we publish accessible to non-native English speakers whose first language is Spanish. According to data from the 2023 American Community Survey and the U.S. Census Bureau, it is estimated that 12% of the residents of the Estes Valley speak Spanish at home.

T...

Story by Elisabeth Sherwin

Glen Haven resident Sibyl Gardner is a self-confessed writer. She writes everything from screenplays to novels, memoirs to essays. 

In a recent talk at the Estes Valley Library, Gardner described her three decades in TV, working in New York and Hollywood, on projects as diverse as MTV music video production in the 1980s to screenwriting for “Law and Order” and “Nashville” in the 2000s. 

She moved to Los Ange...

The skies over Estes Park have been filled with smoke, and the air quality has been poor due to several fires on Colorado’s western slope, including the Lee, Elk, and Twelve Fires west and south of Steamboat Springs, and the Windy Gap Fire near Granby, involving some 75,000 acres.

Particulates in the air can cause eye, nose, and throat irritation, and those with asthma and other respiratory conditions are especially susceptible to t...