Silverthorne signs off on $2 million for hottest 11 acres in town
UPDATE 11.14.2024 @ 7 a.m. Town of Silverthorne last night approved its part of a $2 million land purchase at the Lowe Ranch property, where some locals say open space is welcome and others fear it will become housing. Silverthorne will split the cost with Summit County and promises to protect all 11 acres as […]
Summit, Leadville hospitals back in network for Peak Health in 2025
Peak Health Alliance is back for 2025 and promising some of the cheapest healthcare rates in the High Country. The not-for-profit insurance advocate is working with Denver Health for a second year. This week they announced low-cost premium and deductible plans for nine rural counties, including Summit, Lake, Park and Grand. In-network again for 2025 […]
Teen vaping is fading in Colorado. So what’s working?
Teen vaping has gone from crisis to calm in recent years. The latest Healthy Kids Colorado Survey shows less than 8 percent of Summit High School students vape today. In 2017 it was more than 40 percent. Statewide vaping fell from 27 to 9 percent. Local health advocates say anti-vaping campaigns are working, and so […]
Flash your high beams, save Bambi this November
November is the deadliest month of the year for Bambi crossing the road. Colorado State Patrol reports most of Colorado’s animal-vehicle collisions happen in the High Country – more than 240 last year – and the majority happen on remote, rural routes with elevated speed limits, like Highway 9 from Breckenridge to Alma. Why now? […]
What Colorado’s November snowstorm means for drought and snowpack
For once the mountains let the rest of Colorado play in the snow. Snowfall was widespread and deep this first storm of winter: Snowpack for most of the state is much higher than average today. Just one slice of the state did not get hammered with snow – the northern mountains, including Steamboat, and west […]
CDOT enforces rare 18-hour trailer closure on I-70 mountain corridor, other routes
The November snowstorm continues, and CDOT is trying to keep it from becoming a snowpocalypse. Starting today CDOT is enforcing a rare trailer closure on the I-70 mountain corridor and several other highways. No commercial or private trailers are allowed on nearly 60 miles of I-70 between Silverthorne and Golden. The closure starts at 4 […]
Opening Day 2024: This November is already snowier than all of last November
Winter is here with a vengeance. In just seven days this month, Summit County has recorded more snow than all of November last year: 11.5 inches and counting at the official record-keeping weather station in Dillon. Copper Mountain is swimming in it with 47 inches already. Last year Copper had 44 inches total in November. […]
Music At The Summit: Like fried chicken, you’ll be coming back for more Eminence Ensemble
Eminence Ensemble, the eclectic sextet born in Summit and now rocking the state, is our featured band on Krystal 93 this week for Music At The Summit. “I love a good fried chicken sandwich,” the band says before launching into a live version of “So Many Days,” recorded in 2022 at Shakedown Bar in Vail. […]
Former Summit High student arrested 120 miles away for fake bomb threat
A former Summit High School student is in local jail for calling in a fake bomb threat yesterday morning. Manuel Humberto Carreon Mendez is in custody for felony menacing, false reporting and inciting destruction, plus three other felony and misdemeanor charges. Authorities traced the threatening call to his phone in Adams County, over 120 miles […]
‘Brightest show on earth’ comes to Red Rocks this holiday season
Red Rocks is glowing with a million twinkling lights this holiday. (And no, it’s not whatever that old hippie just gave you!) For the first time ever, the regional Christmas in Color drive-through light show is coming to the Morrison venue, giving you “the brightest show on earth” while visions of Sting dance through your […]