Summit Fire cuts the ribbon on new S’thorne station in time for wildfire season
Silverthorne locals asked and Summit Fire & EMS answered with a fire station to call their own. On June 4 fire officials ring the bell – their version of cutting the ribbon – on the $9.5 million station with room for a fulltime crew, fire engines and custom facilities, like a wash bay for hazmat […]
Frisco’s youngest locals help freshen up the town’s oldest nature trail
A local school project will soon be on display at Willow Preserve Nature Trail in north Frisco. Frisco Historic Park worked with students at Frisco Elementary School to design and install new signage on the trail, which is the oldest interpretative trail in town. Students researched the plants and animals found along the trail, and […]
Wildernest wreck leads to foot chase before dawn
One person fled the scene of a car crash in lower Wildernest this morning just before dawn. Summit County Sheriff’s Office confirms the unidentified person led deputies on a brief foot chase before he was caught and taken to the hospital, along with one other victim in the wreck. Their injuries are unknown. No other […]
Minka makes her first drug bust, and the ‘jury duty scam’
Minka, the new K9 at Summit County Sheriff’s Office, made her first drug bust recently. On May 21 deputies stopped a woman for speeding on Highway 9 near Tigers Road north of Breckenridge. Minka was called to the scene and sniffed out the fentanyl pills stashed inside the woman’s car. The suspect was arrested and […]
Breck’s vacation rentals are hemorrhaging cash. They have been since August.
The biggest cash cow in Breckenridge, vacation rentals, lost nearly $3.5 million over spring break during the industry’s longest slide since licensing. The latest town tax receipts show Breck vacation rentals were losing money every month since August of last year, in part because of new regulations meant to limit rentals, but also because of […]
Onetime Vail CEO Rob Katz is back after a bumpy tenure for Kirsten Lynch
Rob Katz is back for a second term as CEO at Vail Resorts, making the 58-year-old corporate veteran the first two-time head executive since the company went public. Vail today announced sitting CEO Kirsten Lynch is resigning after more than three years as chief executive and 14 years with the company. She also steps down […]
19 local projects win nearly $500K in wildfire grant funding this summer
A whole lot of local homes are about to get safer with $492,806 in wildfire mitigation grant funding, and all of it is coming from the county. Summit County Wildfire Council reviewed a record-setting 30 applications and awarded money to 19 projects, including three at local deed-restricted neighborhoods. One project, the Elk Run cistern project […]
Homeowner reports large lightning strike before Summit Cove power outage
More than 1,200 homes in Summit Cove are without power today. The power outage began just after 11 a.m. Around the same time a nearby homeowner reported seeing a large lightning strike. Xcel Energy has not confirmed if lightning caused the outage. No fires have been reported nearby. Power should be restored by 4:30 p.m. […]
Lightning and people spark at least 6 weekend fires between Summit, Eagle counties
Firefighters between Summit and Eagle counties were called to six confirmed wildfires in just under 72 hours over the weekend, as thunderstorms battered the high country and Memorial Day visitors filled up campgrounds. It started on Friday when smoke was spotted just south of Summit Cove. Firefighters found and quickly extinguished a small blaze burning […]
Honor a century of local veterans on Memorial Day in Dillon
On Memorial Day Monday the town of Dillon is hosting its annual Memorial Day Ceremony at the town cemetery off U.S. Highway 6. Buried in the cemetery are dozens of local veterans dating back to the late 1800s, including men and women who served in turn-of-the-century cavalry and World War I. For decades now a […]