1 year ago: Pair of mules ‘mastermind’ a breakout from their corral in Frisco

Restless in the off season between summer wagon rides and winter sleigh rides, 14 mules from the Frisco Adventure Park staged a “bray”-kout Sept. 19, 2024, and cruised around town for two hours before being caught. Two mules in particular, sisters Dolly and Jolene, led the great escape, according to Sierra Madrigal, the mule manager for Two Below Zero. Dolly and Jolene were “pretty much able to disassemble the pen” at the Adventure Park by lifting up on a panel, Madrigal said. Usually this time of year, the mules will be put out to pasture, but Two Below Zero recently lost its pasture lease and has not been able to find a new pasture, leaving the mules to remain in their pen through the fall, she said.

— From the Sept. 21-22, 2024, Summit Daily News

5 years ago: Frisco Council sets an end date for pedestrian promenade on Main Street

Frisco Town Council decided to officially set an end date of Oct. 5, 2020, for the Main Street Promenade. The experiment is coming to an end after almost four months of allowing shops and restaurants to spread their businesses onto Main Street. The promenade opened June 12 as part of the town’s economic relief efforts to help keep local businesses afloat during ongoing COVID-19 restrictions. Frisco Town Council members discussed the promenade’s eventual end during a regular meeting Sept. 22. (The pedestrian-only Main Street policy returned in 2021.)

— From the Sept. 25, 2020, Summit Daily News

10 years ago: Putrid perpetrator leaves ‘stink bombs’ at Copper Mountain tavern

The staff of Tucker’s Tavern at Copper Mountain found a smelly surprise on their patio on Sept. 17, 2015. Surveillance cameras captured footage of an unidentified man throwing a plastic bottle filled with a foul smelling liquid onto the porch. An older, white male, who has been caught on camera, is the sole suspect so far. This is the sixth reported instance of a similar looking man throwing “stink bombs” onto the patio of the tavern. It all started back in March of 2012, when the owner found a putrid substance poured over the floor and front door. Later on, they found a jar containing a frozen mixture of the liquid taped underneath a bar chair.

— From the Sept. 24, 2015, Summit Daily News

15 years ago: Final owner of the Old Dillon Inn dies from injuries sustained in crash

Robert “Buddy” Nicholson, long-time owner of Silverthorne’s Old Dillon Inn restaurant and bar, died Sept. 18, 2010, from injuries sustained in a Sept. 2 motorcycle accident on Ute Pass Road. He was airlifted to St. Anthony Central in Denver via Flight For Life after suffering significant traumatic injuries. Nicholson was best known as the owner-partner of the Old Dillon Inn restaurant and bar in Silverthorne, which closed in 2007. Born in 1947, he moved to Summit County in 1970, eventually working with a few additional partners to buy the Old Dillon Inn with in 1973.

— From the Sept. 22, 2010, Summit Daily News

30 years ago: Copper Mountain adds another 300 acres of skiable terrain

Copper Mountain Resort officials announced the addition of 300 acres of skiable terrain on Sept. 25, 1995. Coupled with the previously announced 600-acre Copper Bowl expansion, the mountain will have 900 acres of new, lift-accessed terrain for the 1995-96 season. The terrain stretches the mountain below Jacque’s Peak west of the Far West ski run and includes rolling, gladed terrain and steep, open sections that blend with the mountain’s front face just above the Timberline express quad.  

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

125 years ago: Breckenridge officials prepare to pipe in water to address water shortages

Breckenridge officials are moving forward on a proposal to lay just over a mile of wooden pipe from Saw-Mill Gulch to the town’s reservoir in order to increase inflow at the reservoir bring the town “beyond the possibility of a shortage of that indispensable compound of oxygen and hydrogen,” in the words of the Summit County Journal. Several town meetings between mayor and council have been focused on the project and a final survey is now being made, with levels run and grade-stakes set, so the town can be ready to take bids for the needed work at the start of October.

— From the Sept. 29, 1900, Summit County Journal