Estes Park Trail-Gazette

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Today is Sunday, Sept. 20, the 263rd day of 2026. There are 102 days left in the year. Today in history: On Sept. 20, 1967, the Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth 2 was christened by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II in Clydebank, Scotland. Also on this date: In 1519, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his crew set out from Spain on five ships to find a western passage to the Spice Islands.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Your Daily Horoscope for Sunday, September 20, 2026 Universal Day Score:-264 Helena’s proprietary day scores give the odds for a day for everyone. Higher scores = more opportunity. Lower scores = more risk. Range = +2500 to –2500. BIRTHDAY STAR: Actor Aldis Hodge was born in Onslow County, North Carolina, on today’s date in 1986.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Dear Eric: I am 71 and have a “boyfriend” who is 79. We have been a couple for more than 10 years however during that time we only saw one another on average once a week for various reasons, such as he is an hour away, we are at different stages in life and we both like our space. It was a fun relationship with lots of drinking and some drugging, kind of like being in my 20s again.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Larimer County Department of Health and Environment routinely inspects restaurants and food services throughout the county. The system uses the following ratings, based on points assessed for each violation. • Pass: The establishment meets fundamental food safety standards, although it could have some violations. • Reinspection required: Food safety violations were found, and the establishment has a higher level of risk with violations.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Fairfax in Marin County, California, is perhaps the hippest — or you might say “hippiest” — little town in the entire San Francisco Bay Area. This charming, woodsy enclave, set in the upper reaches of the Ross Valley just northwest of San Anselmo, is the gateway to the pristine watershed lands of Mount Tamalpais and the coastal parklands of West Marin.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As I got out of the car and stepped into the San Juan National Forest on my first mushroom foray, I was giddy with excitement. I was also a little puzzled — what exactly was I doing here? Not literally speaking, of course. I had signed up to join about a dozen other women who were attending the Telluride Mushroom Festival for this escapade.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Luisa Yanez, Miami Herald In Indian Creek Village, money can buy you a $100 million mansion, a sprawling waterfront compound and a front-row seat to one of the most exclusive enclaves in South Florida. But you still have to follow the rules created when the village first incorporated in 1939. Welcome to Billionaire Bunker, where some of the world’s richest people live by a surprisingly detailed set of rules.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A conservative dark-money group based in Ohio has dropped $2.2 million on a Colorado measure that, if passed by voters, would significantly tighten requirements for mail ballots. The Coalition for American Prosperity and Growth is the only donor to the Colorado Voter Trust Initiative, a state-level spending political action committee that is backing Amendment 84 in the Nov. 3 election.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... St. Mary’s Glacier is gone. And it may never return to its glory days as an iconic snowfield above 10,000 feet in Clear Creek County, where it drew year-round skiers and graced postcards mailed home by thousands of tourists who visited Colorado’s mountains.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Today is Saturday, Sept. 19, the 262nd day of 2026. There are 103 days left in the year. Today in history: On Sept. 19, 2008, struggling to stave off financial catastrophe, the administration of President George W. Bush laid out a radical bailout plan calling for a takeover of a half-trillion dollars or more in worthless mortgages and other bad debt held by tottering institutions. Relieved investors sent stocks soaring on Wall Street and around the globe.