1 year ago: Summit girls rugby wins 17th-consecutive state title after challenging season 

The Summit High School girls ruby team faced a series of unforeseen challenges that threatened the team’s pursuit of a 17th-consecutive state title. Early on in the season, junior Teagan Barth broke a bone in her foot while senior Olivia Lyman broke her ankle in the team’s homecoming match on Sept. 25, 2024.  Still, the team adapted to the loss of several players, and came into the Colorado Interscholastic Rugby Association’s state rugby tournament on Oct. 26 ready to defend their title. The team posted a 26-5 victory over Monarch High School in the championship match to earn their latest state title.

— From the Oct. 28, 2024, Summit Daily News

5 years ago: Summit High School temporarily suspends in-person learning after 9 COVID quarantines

Summit School District is temporarily suspended in-person learning at Summit High School due to several groups being quarantined in recent days. Students returned to online-only learning at the high school Oct. 27, 2020, as they made their way back from fall break. Officials said they intended to bring students and teachers back into the building beginning Nov. 9. A total of 15 quarantines have been announced since the district began listing them Oct. 14. As of Oct. 27, Summit High School had nine of those quarantines, followed by Summit Middle School (two), Upper Blue Elementary School (two), Frisco Elementary School (one) and Silverthorne Elementary School (one). Five new quarantines were reported at the high school over the previous weekend, all as a result of positive COVID-19 cases.

— From the Oct. 27, 2020, Summit Daily News

10 years ago: Loveland Ski Area and Arapahoe Basin kick off the 2015-16 season together

Shortly after Loveland Ski Area announced it would open for the ski and snowboard season on Oct. 29, 2015, Arapahoe Basin Ski Area representatives sent word they would also start operations on the same day. Snowmaking cranked up at both resorts the week before as temperatures dropped and a layer of fresh snow dusted Summit County. Both resorts announced a 9 a.m. opening, with A-Basin’s Black Mountain Express lift providing access to the intermediate High Noon trail and Loveland’s Lift 1 giving access to the Catwalk, Mambo and Home Run trails to form one run just longer than a mile. Both resorts also offered a few terrain park features to kick off the season.

— From the Oct. 29, 2015, Summit Daily News

15 years ago: Body of missing Breckenridge raft guide recovered from Arkansas River

The body of Kimberly Appelson, a first-year raft guide who had been missing since she was ejected from a raft on July 11, 2010, was recovered on Oct. 27 after an intensive multi-agency effort. Appleson’s body was recovered at Frog Rock rapid, where it had been trapped in a 10-by-10-foot underwater cavern. Divers were able to enter the cavern after a cofferdam was built on Oct. 26, which diverted most of the river’s flow away from the rapid and allowed them to safely enter an opening below a boulder in the center of the river, about 6 feet below the surface of the water.

— From the Oct. 28, 2010, Summit Daily News

30 years ago: Breckenridge Town Council agrees to new cable television agreement

Breckenridge Town Council voted Oct. 24, 1995, to approve a cable television franchise agreement with Classic Cable, a Texas firm, after a lengthy negotiation process. The town’s previous cable provider, Breckenridge Cable, will sell its current system to Classic, which plans to completely rebuild the system within two construction seasons. One of the sticking points was discontinuing antenna service, which had given residents the option of a basic TV lineup, including the Denver networks and a few other channels. Classic was not intending to offer this service, which it does not offer in other towns, but agreed to grandfather in existing customers who already had the service.

— From the Oct. 26, 1995, Summit Daily News

125 years ago: Well-known Breckenridge barber dies suddenly at Denver Hotel

William “Stagg” Stegnor, a well-known Breckenridge barber who was about 30 years old, died in Breckenridge’s Denver Hotel where he resided, on Oct. 31, 1900. Originally hailing from Prussia, Stegnor first arrived in the United States at the age of 14, arriving in Philadelphia before making his way to Breckenridge at the age of 20, where he had lived for the past 10 years. He had felt ill on Oct. 28 and remained in bed on Oct. 29 and 30. He came to the bar room at the hotel around 4 a.m. on the 31st before taking a fainting spell around 6 a.m. His friends helped to lay him on a mattress in the rear of the billiard room, where he died. Dr. Scott attributed his death to “fatty heart.”

— From the Nov. 3, 1900, Summit County Journal