Van carrying youth hockey team collides with snowplow on I-70, killing 1, injuring 8
One person was killed and eight others were injured this morning on snowy I-70, when a Sprinter van transporting a youth hockey team from California smashed into a CDOT plow truck near Loveland Ski Area. Colorado State Patrol reports the fatal wreck happened just before 9 a.m. The driver of the van died on scene. One victim was rushed by ambulance to […]
Leadville couple keeps it in the family with Tennessee Pass Nordic sale
Tennessee Pass Nordic Center at Ski Cooper outside of Leadville has new(ish) owners. The Denver Post reports the founders, Ty and Roxanne Hall, recently formed a partnership group with five other local couples. This partnership purchased the Nordic center late last year. After three decades of growing their center – purchased in 1993 for $5,000 – the Halls initially meant to retire but found it hard to let go. What better way to remain involved AND enjoy a taste […]
Sneaky river ramp below Green Mountain Reservoir ID’d for rehab, protection
Summit County is poised to revive and protect a river put-in just below Green Mountain Reservoir. It is known as Green Mountain Camp. It has been there since 1938, when the eponymous “camp” housed work crews building Green Mountain Dam. For decades the put-in has been open to the public and operated by the U.S. […]
Dillon Reservoir came close to breaking a 45-year-old freeze record
Lake Dillon in the heart of Summit County froze completely on Monday, Jan. 26, close to – but not quite – the latest freeze date ever. That record still belongs to Jan. 31, 1981, when Summit weathered a warm, dry winter that is eerily similar to this one. According to the National Weather Service station in Dillon – the […]
Third batch of variable speed signs debuts on I-70 mountain corridor
Going live this week are variable speed signs on I-70 west of Vail in Dowd Junction. CDOT installed the signs last year and spent several months testing them. Officials say they have already been highly effective in Glenwood Canyon and along the Mountain Express Lanes between Denver and Georgetown. In Dowd Junction 18 of these signs will […]
Films On Air: ‘Hamnet’ thrives on the small, quiet moments we forget in Shakespeare
“Hamnet,” the latest film from Oscar-winning director Chloe Zhao, is filled with heart-wrenching scenes, some of them quiet and ponderous, some so loud and painful you wish they would stop, but none of them are as powerful as one beautifully fleeting moment involving a hawk and wishes blown into the sky. Even thinking of it now makes […]
Coldest day of winter caps a snowy weekend that overdelivered for most of Summit
Summit County slipped into subzero cold this morning with temperatures in the negative teens after a weekend storm brought more snow than expected, but only for some. The Krystalized Weather Station in Dillon bottomed out at negative 14 Fahrenheit today, the coldest day since Dec. 29 when we reported negative 2 degrees. Coldest of the cold in Summit today was negative 20s […]
Silverthorne’s new town manager leaves behind a lawsuit in Missouri
The newly hired town manager in Silverthorne, Greg Camp, is leaving behind a civil lawsuit at his former job in Missouri. A Missouri newspaper, the Jefferson County Leader, reports a resident is suing the city of Festus, where Camp served as town administrator since 2017. The resident, Jesse Cordova, claims Camp and other city officials met illegally while reviewing construction of a new data center. […]
Parents upset Summit Cove is on list of possible schools to shut down
Parents at Summit Cove Elementary are urging Summit School District to pump the brakes on a plan that might close their school, and up to one more, as the district combats rising costs and shrinking enrollment. A group known as the Cove Coalition on Monday sent the district a letter. In it the coalition calls out the district for a “dearth of public engagement” […]
CDOT: Deadly traffic crashes got worse in Colorado last year
For the first time in several years more people were killed on Colorado roads. Colorado State Patrol today released new crash data from 2025, showing 698 traffic fatalities across the state. Roughly one in five were pedestrians. About one in four were on a motorcycle or bicycle. In total nine more people were killed than in 2024. “While the increase […]