November 13th, 2008 1:27pm
The Vail Trail published its final issue yesterday after a 43-year run. The primary cause for the venerable weekly magazine's end was, as it has been for so many failing print publications of late, the struggling economy. The Vail Trail was founded in 1965 by George Knox and was then a daily publication (The Trail switched to a weekly format in 2001). It was Vail's original and only newspaper until The Vail Daily was born in 1981. The two publications maintained a vigorous rivalry until 2004 when Swift Communications, The Vail Daily's parent company, purchased The Vail Trail. Don Rogers, editor and associate publisher of The Vail Daily and The Vail Trail, had the following to say in the magazine's final issue.
