New for the latter part of the season is "Peak One Relaxed Start" ski and ride lessons, which will take place at the Frisco Adventure Park.
The Relaxed Start sessions offer a simple, convenient way to try skiing and rid

The Forest Service plans to burn some machine-built piles today on Forest Service land northwest of Interstate 70 between Silverthorne and Frisco. Smoke and flames will likely be visible into the evening hours from these towns and fro

An avalanche safety level 1 course is slated for Feb. 20-22 for approximately $250 in Summit County.
The course certifies its participants under American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education (AIARE) standards.
The classr

Currently, Silverthorne's riverfront mixed use zone doesn't allow sale of hot tubs and related equipment.
Come Wednesday, that will likely change as the Silverthorne Town Council reviews the second and final reading of a

VAIL - The only way to describe the sight of a guy flying over a 60-foot jump with nothing more than his toes connected to his skis is "super-human."
We've all seen big-air skiing and snowboarding competitions

Cats
Oreo - 7-year-old domestic short-hair, white-and-black female
Joe Joe - 3-year-old domestic long-hair, gray-and-white male
Pumpkin - 6-month-old domestic short-hair, orange-and-white tabby male
Cinnamon ̵

Dillon Town Council members will have a public hearing and vote tonight on a tax incremental financing district, discuss the Yacht Club Condominiums case and consider resolutions that would set the town up for election day on April 3.

It took seven months, but the historic Ruth House, which was damaged by arson and robbery last June, has been restored with some of its original artifacts.
To celebrate, the Town of Frisco is planning a ribbon-cutting ceremony, foll

A wastewater treatment plant is a town operation that consumes more energy than just about any other single governmental department, but in Silverthorne, that energy consumption is being addressed - constantly.
One way Blue Ri

Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world's only daily column that's not sure how we ended up on the pet page. But we like it. Yep, we like dogs just fine, and even if we don't have any of our own, we have a c

After dabbling in the mortgage business for a few years, longtime local Terry Power is back to working as a certified public accountant full-time.
Power moved to Summit County in 1988, bought a small CPA practice in Silverthorne, an

This is a down snow season just about everywhere in North America, but one analyst still has Vail Resorts on his "buy" list.
Vail Resorts' stock closed at $44.35 per share Friday. That price was closer to the stock&

Bob Follett was a history major in college, so when he started moving up the rungs of the corporate ladder in the publishing world, he needed to know more about the accounting game.
So Follett studied. He was asked to conduct seminar

When Alton Scales, vice president of Colorado Mountain College in Dillon and Breckenridge, describes the selection process for faculty of the year, he makes it clear that it's much more than a popularity contest.
"We consider i

A new emergency medical dispatch system at the Summit County Communications Center is strengthening the 911 process for dispatchers, callers and emergency responders.
The new software, called ProQA, gives operators a series of unifo

For winter sports enthusiasts, this year's snowpack has proven less than ideal. Summit County's first few inches of backcountry snow, typically the first of many quick-falling layers, were instead beaten down by too many d

With the Donnybrook over 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. looming, here are some thoughts about what "liberalism" gets right. As the presidential and congressional contests heat up, conservatives might pay attention to them; good re

It was George Washington who first inveighed against the evils of party politics in his 1796 farewell address. Admired though he was, no one listened, and here we are today with two major, polar-opposite parties whose adherents tend t

A week free of avalanche accidents was also largely free of changing backcountry conditions in the Vail and Summit County zone.
There weren't many avalanche observations posted to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center's informat

DENVER (AP) - Three of four Republican candidates for president are in Colorado, trying to pin down support in Tuesday's precinct caucuses.

Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich all plan Colorado stops on Monday. Only