1 year ago: Silverthorne Town Council approves financing plan for recreation center

Some Silverthorne Town Council members showed hesitancy toward the town’s plan to finance its upcoming recreation center expansion after learning the ultimate price tag the town will pay for it. Despite indecisiveness among council members, they moved to approve the town to utilize the maximum loan financing terms for the 23,000-square-foot expansion in a 5-1 vote. 

— From the July 2, 2024, edition of the Summit Daily News

5 years ago: Summit County to close bars at direction of the governor

Less than two weeks after Colorado bars opened at 25% capacity, Gov. Jared Polis has closed them once again. At a June 30, 2020, news conference Polis announced bars and nightclubs, which were allowed to open at 25% capacity on June 18, will have to close in response to rising case numbers of the novel coronavirus in Colorado and nearby states like Texas and Arizona.

— From the July 1, 2020, edition of the Summit Daily News

10 years ago: Flight for Life pilot Patrick Mahany dies in Frisco crash; two others injured

The pilot of a Flight for Life helicopter did not survive a crash involving three other vehicles on July 3, 2015, next to Frisco’s St. Anthony Summit Medical Center. Two other people were inside the aircraft at the time of the crash. The pilot, 64-year-old Patrick Mahany, was declared dead at the scene. Shortly after taking off, the helicopter crashed in a nearby parking lot, colliding with an RV, a pickup truck and a camper, sparking a large fire.

— From the July 4, 2015, edition of the Summit Daily News

15 years ago: Summit School District staff move out ahead of planned admin building remodel

Summit School District’s central staff are in the process of leaving their offices in preparation for a major remodel of the administration building. The $966,000 project was paid for the final phase of funds from a three-year building and maintenance mill levy approved by voters in 2007. The renovations include relocating food-service freezers to the high school, converting warehouse space into office space, upgrading the sprinkler system, roof work and upgrades to the security and safety systems.

— From the June 29, 2010, edition of the Summit Daily News

30 years ago: Peña dedicates new truck speed safety system on Summit County side of I-70

U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Federico Peña dedicated a new truck speed warning system on westbound Interstate 70 at the Eisenhower Tunnel on June 30, 1995. The system is the first of its kind and is designed to weigh trucks in motion. A computer will figure the safe downhill speed for each truck based on its weight, and the speed will be instantly posted on electronic signs as each truck starts its descent. The Colorado Department of Transportation selected the westbound lane as the best site for the new system because the runaway truck ramps there are reportedly the most used in the state. CDOT officials say there have been 208 incidents involving runaway trucks on the westbound descent from the tunnel from 1986, when the runaway ramps were built, to 1995.

— From the June 30, 1995, edition of the Summit Daily News

125 years ago: Summit County commissioners look into funding road to town of Swandyke

Every member of the Summit County Board of Commissioners took a team and drove to the mining town of Swandyke on July 5, 1900, with the purpose of building in improved road from Breckenridge into the now-promising city. The board reported that the town is on the verge of a boom, and its business interests should be looked at by this end of the county. Currently Swandyke relies on a road from Jefferson, in Park County, which is where it receives daily mail service, though Breckenridge is nearer and would avoid a mountain pass if a passable wagon road was made to town. The commissioners have agreed to head the road proposition with a liberal appropriation, provided that the citizens of Swandyke will work to raise a private fund to assist in the process.

— From the July 7, 1900, edition of The Summit County Journal