What’s up with rowdy barflies in this mountain town?
This April was the rowdiest month of ski season at watering holes in our mountain town of Frisco – and by far the rowdiest month in the past two seasons. Frisco police went on 53 bar checks in April alone. That’s an average of 1.8 calls every day, 49 more than April 2023 and 14 more than […]
UPDATE Fatal I-70 fire sparked when SUV hit parked tanker from behind
UPDATE 7:00PM A fatal tanker fire on I-70 near Morrison this morning was likely sparked when an SUV hit the tanker from behind. The tanker was pulled over on the shoulder, Colorado State Patrol confirms via Twitter. The collision ruptured the tanker, which spilled fuel into a nearby culvert. The two vehicles and culvert burst […]
Sports betting pumps millions into Glenwood Canyon power plant
Colorado state Sen. Dylan Roberts, D-Frisco, is a big fan of sports betting. Roberts says sports betting generated millions in tax revenue for rehab on the Shoshone Power Plant in Glenwood Canyon. His colleagues just approved nearly $50 million for 10 water projects statewide. This November state lawmakers will put another sports betting question on […]
Lessons and action to tackle housing in Summit County
Here are the lessons learned from the defunded Lease to Locals experiment. Summit County is trying to learn from its recently defunded Lease to Locals program, where the county paid property owners to rent long-term instead of short-term. “This led us to soul searching and identifying the risks and the opportunities and what a program […]
Why you won’t see condos on a $4 million piece of land in Summit County
The owners of Red Tail Ranch off Highway 9 are keeping it just the way it is, for at least another two decades. On May 14, owners Bill and Laurie Bolthouse petitioned the county to re-approve zoning that limits development on 488 acres at Red Tail Ranch, between north Breckenridge and Farmer’s Korner. The county agreed. […]
In The Classroom: Meet Dillon Valley’s singing, dancing YouTube teacher
Today we are IN THE CLASSROOM at Dillon Valley Elementary, where dual-language third graders are learning more than just two languages. The language of song and dance is part of the curriculum in Nelly Quijano’s class. “I love dancing, singing, and I create songs for them,” she tells Krystal 93. “Math, science, whatever. That is a great […]
Summer is here with Breck trail and MTB series openers
Get your running shoes on – the Summit Trail Running series is back! Wednesday, May 14 is the Scrap Yard Scramble on Tenderfoot Mountain in Dillon. It’s opening event of the five-race summer trail running series with short and long courses for runners of any age. The following Wednesday, May 22 is the Frisco Roundup […]
How late will A-Basin stay open?
Arapahoe Basin confirms we’ll have yet another season with nine months of skiing and riding. Chairlifts at A-Basin are spinning daily through June 1 at least. After that, they’re making the call weekly, depending on coverage and conditions. For the past two seasons A-Basin has closed the first week of June. The longest season in […]
Unions are fading. Unless you’re a Colorado ski patroller or cannabis grower.
Ski patrollers and marijuana growers are the new face of labor unions in Colorado. The Denver Post reports union membership in all sectors, nationwide, fell to its lowest point ever recently. But just this winter, ski patrollers at Keystone and Eldora adopted unions (although the latter is being contested). Last year it was Loveland patrollers […]
CDOT schedules avy bombing for the back road to Aspen
Independence Pass is one of the most famous roads in Colorado, connecting Twin Lakes to Aspen at a peak elevation of 12,095 feet. On Tuesday, May 14, CDOT is blasting it into summertime. Using a helictoper, crews with CDOT and the Colorado Avalanche Information Center will huck avalanche bombs at the snow lingering high on […]