1 year ago: Summit County officials consider historic $11 million investment in roads

If grant funding does not come through, Summit County commissioners are prepared to invest almost $11 million into road reconstruction in Summit County in 2025. Summit County finance director David Reynolds told the commissioners at a Nov. 26, 2024, work session that it would be the largest one-year investment in roads the county has ever made. The draft 2025 road and bridge budget estimated expenditures totaling $18.6 million, including $10.8 million in road construction projects, with the remainder designated for payroll, equipment leases and other expenses.

— From the Nov. 27, 2024, Summit Daily News

5 years ago: Summit County ski areas reduce capacity as COVID numbers rise locally

Ski area capacity will be further reduced as a result of Summit County’s move to level red on the state’s COVID-19 dial. The county’s latest public health order, which was issued Nov. 20, 2020, requires Summit County ski areas — including Arapahoe Basin Ski Area, Breckenridge Ski Resort, Copper Mountain Resort and Keystone Resort — to work with the local public health agency to further reduce their daily capacities, which already were reduced in each ski area’s existing COVID-19 operating plan. The capacities were set by public health officials, Nov. 24 and took effect Nov. 25.

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

10 years ago: Summit County rescuers respond to three avalanches in one weekend

Summit County rescuers were able to evacuate a man partially buried from an avalanche on Nov. 22, 2015 — one of three reported slides over the weekend. The rescue was the first of the 2015-16 winter season in Summit County. Summit County Rescue Group received a call from dispatch, when a man said he had injured himself skiing in the backcountry. The man was partially buried on Bald Mountain’s steeper, more avalanche-prone east side, he was flown to St. Anthony Summit Medical Center and treated that evening. The rescue group responded to two additional avalanches over the weekend, with no additional injuries reported. 

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

15 years ago: Dillon bank robbed — the second Summit County robbery in a month

The Alpine Bank in Dillon was robbed Nov. 22, 2010, afternoon by a lone male, but officials are not sure if he is the same man who robbed the US Bank in Frisco earlier in the same month. The suspect entered Alpine Bank at approximately 2:45 p.m. and handed a note to a bank teller demanding money and indicated he had a weapon. The suspect was given $2,000 and fled the bank on foot. Officials are unsure whether the suspect entered a vehicle upon leaving the bank. (The Dillon suspect was eventually arrested, pled guilty and sentenced to 10 years in prison.)

— From the Nov. 23, 2010, Summit Daily News

30 years ago: Holiday travelers stranded at Summit High School as I-70 shuts down

About 225 holiday travelers ended the weekend on an unexpected note, sleeping on cots at Summit High School. They were victims of a lengthy Interstate 70 closure on Nov. 26, 1995. I-70 was closed eastbound from Silverthorne to the Eisenhower Tunnel from 4 p.m. to about midnight, east and westbound over Vail Pass from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m., and briefly westbound from Silverthorne to the Eisenhower Tunnel. Snow fell and melted on an unseasonable warm road before it froze on the road in a sheet of ice. In Summit County, hundreds of vehicles that couldn’t make the icy climb east to the Eisenhower Tunnel were simply abandoned. Most of the people at the high school left by 1 a.m. when the road reopened.

— From the Nov. 28, 1995, Summit Daily News

125 years ago: Lake County declines to pay up after Summit County officials try to collect debt

For 12 or 15 years, the clerks and treasurers of Summit County have been carrying a line item as an asset: Due from Lake County, $3,000. In 1900, for the first time, the county commissioners of Summit County made an earnest endeavor to collect the amount , due from Lake County for court expenses incurred in trying criminal cases brought to Breckenridge for trial from Leadville in 1882, 1883 and 1884. Former Summit County boards had not tried to collect from Lake County, and Lake County officials have since stated that the statute of limitations for collecting the debt has passed and will not pay. In the Summit County Journal’s report, it was suggested that the last two letters of “asset” be blotted out in the ledger item.

— From the Dec. 1, 1900, Summit County Journal