1 year ago: Liquor stores report drop in sales after measure allows wine sales in grocery stores

It’s been just over a year since Proposition 125, which allows Colorado grocery stores to sell wine, went into effect. The impacts of the voter-approved measure have locally-owned liquor stores in Colorado’s mountain towns begging legislators for a lifeline. Stores on the Western Slope have reported taking substantial financial hits now that the market has shifted. Central Park Liquors part-owner Greg Neely said his Steamboat Springs store, next to a City Market, took such a financial hit that it had to lay off 11 employees in the last year, cutting staff from 33 to 22, he said. Documents obtained by the Summit Daily show Copper Wine & Spirits in Glenwood Springs saw a decline of $137,396 year over year in wine sales alone.

— From the April 19, 2024, edition of the Summit Daily News

5 years ago: Students will not return to the classroom for the rest of 2019-20 school year

Summit School District officials announced April 17, 2020, that in-person instruction will not resume until the fall semester, meaning remote learning will continue through the end of the 2019-20 school year. In a news release, district officials said they have been closely collaborating with the county’s public health department regarding how to move forward with the school year amid the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting social distancing measures and shutdown. District Superintendent Kerry Buhler said in a statement that for health reasons, the district has decided to extend what it’s termed a “dismissal” through the remainder of the school year.

— From the April 19, 2020, edition of the Summit Daily News

10 years ago: Frisco marijuana dispensary scraps construction near Holiday Inn

Jerry Olson with Medical Marijuana of the Rockies will permanently shutter the oldest dispensary in Summit County. The dispensary owner, who opened shop in Frisco shortly after the state gave medical centers the go-ahead in July 2009, quietly announced through an ad in the April 15, 2015, Summit Daily News that he is closing and must liquidate his inventory. His lease was set to be terminated on April 28. Olson ran the ad almost two months after he and nearly a dozen partners were named in a federal racketeering lawsuit. New Vision Hotels, owner of the Frisco Holiday Inn, partnered with the Washington, D.C.-based lobbying organization Safe Streets Alliance to file a lawsuit on Feb. 19, 2015, that called for the end of the marijuana business in Colorado. Olson estimated he had lost more than $150,000 since the suit was filed. 

— From the April 17, 2015, edition of the Summit Daily News

15 years ago: Former Dillon resident, inventor of smoke detector, dies in Denver

Duane D. Pearsall, inventor of the battery-powered home smoke detector, died in Denver April 11. He was 88. He and his wife, Marge, were married more than 65 years, and they lived seven years in Dillon — until 2007. He could often be seen sailing his trimaran “Tri-Umph” on the Dillon Reservoir. In the winter he loved to figure skate at Keystone and learned to ski at age 53. Marge and Duane regularly attended the Dillon Community Church. Pearsall is best known for his role in the invention of battery-powered smoke detectors.

— From the April 16, 2010, edition of the Summit Daily News

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30 years ago: Builders association vows to stop affordable housing rules

A county proposal to link affordable housing with development has raised the ire of developers and Realtors throughout Summit County. Builders are saying the plan is unfair taxation of one group and will cause people to stop building in unincorporated Summit County. The Summit County Builders Association announced April 12, 1995, it will become more involved in developing solutions to the housing problem to deter the county from passing plans such as the linkage program. The proposed linkage regulations would require that one of every eight new housing units constructed be set aside as affordable.

— From the April 15, 1995, edition of the Summit Daily News

110 years ago: Teamster held in jail after being accused of crippling ore-hauling horse

P. H. Chisholm, the ore hauler of Kokomo, had Jack Doyle arrested April 16, 1900, for criminally crippling one of his fine draft horses. Doyle has held on a $250 bond after a preliminary hearing with Justice Webster. Being unable to secure funds, Doyle languishes in the new county jail, where he will probably be fed at the county’s expense till court sits on the third Monday of June. While the new jail seems to be a pleasant place to “camp,” the luxury seems an expensive one on the people of the county. The roll now shows four regular boarders.

— From the April 21, 1900, edition of the Summit County Journal