1 year ago: Breckenridge officials support accessory dwelling units in new Runway Neighborhood

While no official vote occurred at an Aug. 12, 2025, Breckenridge Town Council meeting, much of the council expressed a desire to see the inclusion of accessory dwelling unit-ready infrastructure in what officials have deemed the town’s last major workforce housing neighborhood. Around 27 single-family homes out of the 81 housing units in the first phase of the Runway Neighborhood could have accessory dwelling units. First proposed as a two-phase project with around 148 units, elected officials decided to only commit to the first phase with an approximately $34.6 million town subsidy in lieu of committing to both phases at around $50 million due to economic uncertainty.

— From the Aug. 18, 2025, edition of Summit Daily News

5 years ago: Driver shortages impact school bus routes, leaving some students without a ride

Ahead of the 2021-22 school year, the Summit School District has five full-time drivers, five part-time drivers, one morning-only driver, three substitute drivers and two mechanics. To be fully staffed, the district would need to hire eight additional drivers and two relief drivers. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the district ran 18 routes — it will run only 11 in 2021-22. All elementary school students will have a spot on a bus if they live along one of the routes, but middle and high school students were placed in a lottery.

— From the Aug. 16, 2021, edition of Summit Daily News

10 years ago: Summit County welcomes community supported agriculture program with party

More than 50 people attended an Aug. 18, 2016, pot luck-style grand opening party for the High Country Conservation Center’s community supported agriculture program. Attendees learned about growing food at 9,200 feet and got a taste of locally grown produce in dishes made by the program’s shareholders. The event showcased the new greenhouses at the Frisco Transit Center, which were built in the fall of 2015, quadrupling the program’s growing space. Community supported agriculture is a farm operation that’s supported by community members who purchase a produce share in the spring and receive seasonal vegetables for 16 weeks throughout the summer.

— From the Aug. 22, 2016, edition of Summit Daily News

15 years ago: Two trucks crash at same spot on Interstate 70 within 5 hours of each other

A semitruck traveling eastbound on Interstate 70 between the Frisco and Silverthorne exits rolled as many as five times at approximately 6 p.m. on Aug. 14, 2011. Later that evening, at 10:56 p.m., a Walmart semi truck slid off the interstate at the same location and sat jackknifed next to the first truck, whose boxes were sprawled across the median. Both drivers escaped the wrecks without injury and the interstate was closed for a few hours after the second wreck to handle the wreckage.

— From the Aug. 16, 2011, edition of Summit Daily News

30 years ago: Plans for new Dillon brew pub announced, bringing county’s total to 4

Summit County’s brewery business is fermenting wildly. Plans for a new brewery, this one in Dillon, were announced on Aug. 19, 1996. Tentatively named the Dam Brewery, the restaurant and brewery is expected to open on Anemone Trail in December 1996. The business, planned in the current Tommy C’s Nightclub building, teams Arapahoe Cafe Manager George Blincoe with the Breckenridge Brewery’s former brewmaster Michael Reed. If a planned Silverthorne brewery goes through, the Dillon spot would become Summit County’s fourth brew pub. (According to its website, the Dillon Dam Brewery opened in February 1997.)

— From the Aug. 20, 1996, edition of Summit Daily News

125 years ago: Missing Breckenridge man found after extensive search by town

Lee Thurber went to work at the night shift at the Jumbo Mill on Gibson Hill Aug. 21, 1901. He worked feeding the mill for a few hours, went down for a drink of water, resumed work and went missing shortly after. The mill workers noticed his absence, but assumed he had returned home. His parents missed him at breakfast and at noon went to check at the mill and alert the town. The fire bell was rung for a citizens’ meeting and about 100 volunteers were organized for a search party, which worked until dusk looking for the missing 24-year-old. About that time, Patsy Ryan discovered Thurber lying unconscious on the back porch of his family’s home. He appeared in good health and physical condition, but remained unconscious until Aug. 23. He said everything went blank shortly after his drink and and he can’t remember anything from his absence.

— From the Aug. 24, 1901, edition of Summit County Journal