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Photo by Jason Connolly / Jason Connolly Photography As the delta variant makes its way through communities across the nation and state of Colorado, officials are urgently encouraging individuals to get vaccinated and that everyone, including vaccinated individuals, should now be wearing a mask in public indoor spaces. Among those spreading the new message is Summit County Public Health Director Amy Wineland. During a Summit County Board of Health meeting on Friday, July 30, Wineland gave an up...

A line of cars parked along Colorado Highway 9 near the Quandary Peak Trailhead outside of Blue River is pictured Tuesday, July 20. Parking along county roads near the trailhead has presented public safety concerns, and local officials are in the midst of ironing out details to help mitigate the issue. When Summit County officials met last week to discuss some of the measures that will be implemented at the Quandary Peak Trailhead, concerns about how visitors, and especially locals, would acces...

Photo by Tripp Fay / Tripp Fay Photography Fourth Street Crossing is slowly but surely coming together with the parking garage open and the Bluebird Market and Indigo Hotel expected to open this fall. As Fourth Street Crossing is bringing the town of Silverthorne’s dream of a downtown area to life, the town also expects more development of the areas surrounding the project on Adams Avenue. The town owns some of the surrounding land and will look into moving its public works campus to make roo...

Photo by Jason Connolly / Jason Connolly Photography Vaccines began rolling out to Summit County residents in late December, and since then, officials and health experts have encouraged the public to roll up their sleeves. The vaccines have been touted as being highly effective at preventing severe illness and hospitalizations, and about 76% of the county’s population is fully vaccinated. But how many vaccinated individuals have still tested positive for COVID-19 — known as breakthrough cas...

Photo by Jason Connolly / Jason Connolly Photography Summit County’s lack of workforce housing is an issue that cannot be solved overnight, and one that will take multiple partners and solutions to fix. Local leaders and business owners continue to identify potential short- and long-term strategies, and one of those is turning hotel spaces into long-term rentals. This isn’t a new concept in the region. In nearby Eagle County, a hotel was converted into an apartment complex in 2018. Called T...

And you can discern that. look at the work they did with stone and general flynn, you know, pressuring the justice department to work on the sentences for those two and the charges on those two and the fact that attorney general barr acted as what, almost additional counsel for the president, if not his press secretary when the mueller investigation report came out. weve heard the white house doing this with other issues, reports of mr. meadows pressuring the justice department on the election l...

The days are getting warmer, vaccines are readily available and communities across the state are reopening with looser restrictions. As life returns to this new normal, community leaders and members alike will begin to dig...

Local Facebook group One Man’s Junk Summit County started out as a way to buy and sell items with other Summit County residents but has turned into one of the most well-known public forums in...

Summit Stage buses are now operating at 100% passenger capacity, according to a news release from the Summit County government. Passengers will still be required to wear masks at all times inside buses and transit...

Summit County reported 10 new cases of COVID-19 over the week, according to the county’s coronavirus webpage — the lowest number of new cases since the week of Sept. 6, when three new cases were...