by Alpine Bank | Nov 12, 2021 | Community
Higher education took Stacia Whitehead away from her hometown of Steamboat Springs to Denver and Seattle, but only temporarily. The lure of the easy access to all things outdoors, and the network of supportive family and friends in this idyllic northwestern Colorado...
by Alpine Bank | Nov 12, 2021 | Community
Misty Tucson. The name sounds like someone you’d meet in Hollywood. And to be fair, Misty and her fellow stylists at Urban Grace Studio do have a certain star quality. Urban Grace is a Durango-based hair salon that brings on-trend style to La Plata County. Owner Misty...
by Alpine Bank | Nov 12, 2021 | Community
Sally Jo Ocasio has always loved to seek out vintage, and to choose reused. As the owner of The Vintage Vault, a secondhand store with a lovingly curated collection, she came by her fondness for thrifting first by necessity and now by preference. She explains how it...
by Alpine Bank | Nov 12, 2021 | Community
There’s the mom-and-pop shop. And then, there’s the ripple effect when the kids, and the kids’ kids, get involved in the family business. That’s the case for The Egg in the Yampa Valley, family-owned and -operated since 2003. The story starts in northern Colorado in...
by Alpine Bank | Nov 12, 2021 | Community
Ohana is a Hawaiian word that refers to a person’s extended family in the broadest sense: it can include friends, visitors and other social groups. Luke Dudley grew up in Steamboat and his wife Emily moved to the mountain town in 2004. The couple lived on Maui...