1 year ago: County considers expanded e-bike use on recpath for people with mobility challenges

Summit County could expand the types of electric bikes allowed, under certain circumstances, on its 55-mile recpath under new rules currently being considered by county officials. During a Summit Board of County Commissioners work session, officials with the Open Space and Trails Department presented a number of revisions to recpath guidelines aimed at giving more options to those with mobility challenges in addition to making existing rules clearer. Revisions include allowing motorized wheelchairs as well as Class 2 and 3 e-bikes for those who have mobility challenges. 

— From the June 16, 2024, edition of Summit Daily News

5 years ago: Dillon resident identified as man who drowned in Dillon Reservoir

On June 13, 2020, 66-year-old Paul Kresge of Dillon fell into the water after gusts of wind and large waves caused his sailboat to broach. Kresge had been taking part in the Dillon Yacht Club’s Peak 1 Regatta earlier in the day. He was the captain of the boat and was in the back steering when the boat broached, and he fell into the water. There was another person on the boat handling the sails. The storm caused “multiple boats to capsize,” according to the Sheriff’s Office, but Kresge’s craft remained upright. The other crew member was able to drop the sails and get the boat into the Snake River Inlet, where he was rescued and towed to the Dillon Marina. Kresge’s body was successfully located about 180 feet under the surface at around 3:30 p.m. June 14 using an underwater remote operating vehicle.

— From the June 16, 2020, edition of Summit Daily News

10 years ago: Kaiser Permanente announces Frisco location for new medical offices

Colorado’s largest nonprofit health plan intends to open its first medical offices in Summit County and the mountain region this January. Kaiser Permanente Colorado announced its new location in Frisco on June 11, 2015. The offices will be in the Basecamp retail center at 226 Lusher Court, across a parking lot from Whole Foods Market and Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant, next to the Summit Stage Frisco transfer center and near the intersection of Interstate 70 and Highway 9. Construction has begun on the new facility, which Kaiser Permanente plans to open to its members Jan. 2, 2016, said Brent Bowman, executive director of the nonprofit’s mountain Colorado service area. (On June 13, 2019, Kaiser representatives announced they would be closing operations at the location at the end of the year.)

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

15 years ago: Frisco aims to divert 60% of waste from landfill during BBQ Challenge

The meat may be red, but the mood is decidedly green as the town of Frisco kicks off the 17th annual Colorado BBQ Challenge. The event will be “zero waste” for the first time ever in 2010, with event organizers aiming to divert 60% of the waste generated by the event to recycling and composting facilities instead of the landfill. Each of the 95 barbecue teams and scores of other vendors will serve their fare in compostable or recyclable containers and scores of “waste warriors” will be on hand all weekend to help ensure discarded materials end up in the correct waste stream.

— From the June 18, 2010, edition of Summit Daily News

30 years ago: Fire guts condominium in Wildernest, damages two others

Fire gutted one condominium and damaged two others during a three-alarm blaze in Wildernest June 14, 1995. No one was injured in the 7:30 a.m. fire. The damaged units are on the top floor of the three-story Silver Queen West. Building B condominiums off Ryan Gulch Road. About 40 volunteer firefighters from throughout the county quenched the flames in half an hour. Vincent Bokumewicz, who lives in C building, was just leaving for work when he saw flames coming from the building. Bokuniewicz said he knocked on some doors, helping to evacuate about 10 people, and then simply continued on to work.

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

110 years ago: Body of missing Summit County miner found amid melting snow

The body of Harmon Fulton, a Swandyke miner and Civil War veteran, has been found. Coroner Arbogast was dispatched on June 17, 1900, and deemed that an inquest was not needed. Fulton was last seen leaving Montezuma for the Whale Mine Oct. 22, 1899. After he failed to arrive at his destination a search party was arranged, but he was never found. With the snow being off sufficiently, Carl Fulton (one of his sons) arranged another search party last week and the body was found 3.5 miles above Montezuma in a fair state of preservation. Burial took place June 19 at the Masonic Cemetery. Fulton was born in Ohio in 1840 and was with Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden in the preliminary surveys of this area of Colorado. He settled in Summit County as early as 1858, left in 1861 to fight for the North in the Civil War and returned to settle in Gilpin County before settling in Swandyke four years ago. He is survived by his wife and 10 grown children.

— From the June 23, 1900, edition of the Summit County Journal