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The success of a new Whole Foods Market in the Roaring Fork community (pictured here) helped sparked confidence the Frisco community would support a market with larger square footage than originally proposed.

Frisco’s planned Whole Foods Market is expanding

Frisco’s planning commission signed off on a larger version of the Whole Foods Market development project slated for the land near the Summit Stage transfer center. The market will be increased from the originally proposed 25,000 square feet to 32,00 …

Summit Daily/Ben Trollinger
State Rep. Millie Hamner smiles at the signing of Senate Bill 260 and House Bill 1257. Governor John Hickenlooper visited Upper Blue Elementary to sign the bills Friday.

Gov. Hickenlooper signs school bills in Breckenridge

Third-grader Samantha Hessel has big plans for her future — she’d like to become Secretary of State, just like Hillary Clinton. She got her first brush with politics when Gov. John Hickenlooper walked into her classroom at Upper Blue Elementary Schoo …

Summit Daily/ Janice Kurbjun
Heavy metals, such as zinc, are seeping from the Pennsylvania Mine upstream of Montezuma and Keystone, making sections of Peru Creek and the Snake River void of life. This past summer, officials continued working to get into the 20th century gold and silver mine to understand its hydrology and find a low-cost, low-intrusion fix to the contamination.

Cleanup to begin at Summit County’s most toxic mine

Cleanup work at one of Summit County’s most polluted landscapes will begin this month — more than a century after toxic metals were released from the Pennsylvania Mine site. The mine operated from the late 1880s into the early 1930s. It produced mor …

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Terri Vantiger interacts with a student during her culinary class at Summit High School recently. Vantiger is retiring this year after 29 years in the Summit School District.

Creating a culinary legacy at Summit High School

It’s a rare moment when something isn’t happening in Summit High School’s culinary arts section — students coming and going, often with bags full of groceries, sounds of chopping, dicing and frying, and the smells of various dishes being prepared. In …

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Bike mechanics will be the first to say, it is best to replace your chain and shifter cables regularly. It's an inexpensive fix that can really improve performance.

Bike maintenance: do it before it’s too late

The bike shop can be an intimidating place. What questions do I ask? Will I sound like a novice? When should I have a professional look at my bike? It doesn’t need to go to the shop, it works all right if I jiggle the shifter. That clicking sound is …

Mountain Wheels: Mazda’s impressive 6 takes on the Europeans

I will make a pretty bold statement and say that the all-new Mazda6 gave me nearly the same driving pleasure as the high-end European sedans it aims for – notably, a BMW 335i I sampled at approximately the same time. With looks, handling and ride – …

Chamber musicians play the music of Piazzola, Brahms

Summit Music and Arts will close its 2012-13 series on Sunday with “Matinee in the Mountains,” an afternoon of chamber music. The program will feature solo pieces by Astor Piazzola for each player with piano and Johannes Brahms’ Piano Quartet in G mi …

NEPAL - MARCH 01: The first American team makes the ascent of Mount Everest in 1963. Mount Everest, Nepal. (Barry C. Bishop/National Geographic/Getty Images)

An American ascent

America was losing in 1963. We weren’t used to it and we didn’t like it. On May 15, 1963, we bounced back in a big way. As a team of Americans was ascending Mount Everest’s western ridge, U.S. astronaut Gordon Cooper flew over the mountain during the …

Summit Daily Sebastian Foltz
View of the new Woodward Barn construction from the existing swimming pool feature. Both the skate pool and the trampoline features will remain the same.

Woodward at Copper's $500,000 facelift set to launch in mid-June

More than just a new coat of paint, the renovations at Woodward at Copper are what staffers there consider to be revolutionary approaches to extreme sports training. The $500,000 facelift is nearing completion, and Copper Mountain and Woodward mana …