1 year ago: Frisco plans to open a terrain park accessed by tow rope

The Frisco Adventure Park has plans to install a tow rope in the 2023-24 season, which will provide skiers and riders access to a terrain park with rails and jumps. Frisco has operated a winter tubing and beginner ski hill at the adventure park for several years. Over the past few years, the town has set up a couple rails and small jumps when the tubing hill closes in the spring for skiers and riders who want to hike up to the features. The tow rope is planned to be located to the north of the existing magic carpet and could open by February this year, depending on snow conditions, Anicito said.

— From the Nov. 29, 2023, edition of the Summit Daily News

5 years ago: Richard Squire, founder of Breckenridge Brewery, dies at 78

Longtime Breckenridge local Richard Squire died of lung cancer Nov. 17 at age 78. Richard moved to Breckenridge in 1988 after a career in women’s fashion sales in New York and Dallas. He became interested in the brewpub scene and enjoyed experimenting with brewing beer, which is how Breckenridge Brewery was born in 1990. Richard sold Breckenridge Brewery to Anheuser-Busch in 2016 but remained the property owner under Breckenridge Brewery Real Estate.

— From the Nov. 28, 2019, edition of the Summit Daily News

10 years ago: Lake Dillon fire chief announces retirement in mid-2015

Lake Dillon fire chief Dave Parmley has announced his plans to retire by mid-year in 2015 after 36 years in the Summit County fire service, according to a Nov. 28, 2014 article in the Summit Daily News. Parmley made his announcement early to provide the Lake Dillon Fire Protection District board with adequate lead time for seeking his replacement and to establish a timetable that will allow for transition to the new chief. Parmley’s career in the fire service began in 1979 as a volunteer firefighter with Keystone Resort’s own private fire department. Having been asked to be involved with the initial formation of the Snake River Fire Protection District in 1981, he served as the district’s only fire chief for 24 years before continuing in that position with the inclusion into the Lake Dillon Fire Protection District in 2005.

— From the Nov. 28, 2014, edition of the Summit Daily News

15 years ago: Summit clinic will stop seeing new patients until the new year

The Summit Community Care Clinic, which charges for services on an income-based sliding scale, has seen demand for its services increase 12% over the third quarter of 2009. That, combined with a 9.5% loss of operating revenue over the last year due to the recession, has led to the decision to stop accepting new patients as they work to recruit and train new workers. It is the first time the clinic has stopped seeing new patients since its inception in 1993.

— From the Nov. 24, 2009, edition of the Summit Daily News

30 years ago: Summit High School graduate directs controversial Madonna video

Controversy and Madonna go together like Summit County and snow, and her latest video is no different. This project, however, is the brainchild of director Michael Haussman, a 1982 Summit High School graduate. An hour-long documentary on the making of the video for “Take a Bow,” a release from her new “Bedtime Stories” album, was be shown on MTV Nov. 30, 1994. Haussman will watch it from his parents’ home in Frisco. The video is a love story in which Madonna falls for a matador. Haussman explained. While Madonna approached Haussman about directing a video, the idea of using a bullfighting theme and a matador as Madonna’s love interest was his. The use of a bull ring and depiction of bullfighting scenes brought the ire of animal rights activists.

— From the Nov. 29, 1994, edition of the Summit Daily News

125 years ago: Thanksgiving festivities vary across Summit County

There were plenty of festive activities to engage in across Summit County on Nov. 30, 1899. The ladies of St. Mary’s church reported a successful Thanksgiving ball in Breckenridge — the hall was crowded, Louage’s orchestra delighted the attendants and a sumptuous dinner was served, the women expect to have raised a large sum from the proceeds. While not well attended, the Breckenridge Gun Club’s turkey shoot proved to be an interesting contest, with Oscar Broberg bagging two turkeys and three others getting one each. The Thanksgiving exercises at the Frisco schoolhouse saw children performing readings, songs and a closing performance of “Red Riding Hood.”

— From the Dec. 2, 1899, edition of the Summit County Journal