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Tom Clyde looks back as the one-year anniversary of the coronavirus pandemic upending life in Summit County approaches.

| Updated: 5:47 p.m. If you try calling attorney Bruce Baird about one of his many lawsuits over the past few years, odds are good you’ll catch him at his vacation home in Costa Rica. Utah residents might recognize Baird’s name from more recent cases, like his successful push to get the contentious Olympia Hills development approved in Salt Lake County. Or his failed attempt to pressure Utah County into letting a client build a swanky lodge atop Bridal Veil Falls. Or when he intimidated th...

Utah Film Studios housed a detailed set of the Dutton Ranchs workers for three seasons while crews filmed the Paramount TV hit series "Yellowstone" in Park City and the surrounding areas. The production left Utah in August because Montana offered more lucrative tax rebates. A new bill drawn up by state Sen. Ron Winterton would increase those incentives to $10 million, which he says would draw more productions to Utah. Park Record file photo For the past decade Utah’s film incentive program ha...

Park Record file photo Welcome to High Valley Transit. Next stop: Heber? Last week was a notable one for public transit in Summit County, as the newly expanded Snyderville Basin Public Transit District convened for the first time and (almost) selected “High Valley Transit” as its new name, one of a number of administrative tasks on its agenda as it sets out to meet a July 1 deadline to take over operations in the Basin from Park City Transit. The district will need to hold a public hearing ...

Park City Councilor Tim Henney, in the green coat, stands next to the pharmacist for a soon-to-open cannabis pharmacy and the official in charge of the state cannabis program on Wednesday morning. Officials say the pharmacy plans to open in February. Tanzi Propst/Park Record The dignitaries on hand to enjoy the croissants, coffee and breakfast burritos at a ribbon cutting ceremony for Park City’s cannabis pharmacy Wednesday included the head of the state’s medical cannabis program, a Park C...

Published January 27, 2021 at 6:40 PM MST Listen • 4:52 / Utah will soon have half of its 14 medical cannabis pharmacies open. This story and more in Wednesday evenings news brief. Wednesday evening, January 27, 2021 State Utah Sees More Than 2,000 New COVID-19 Cases The Utah Department of Health reported 2,009 new cases of COVID-19 Wednesday. New cases have generally been falling in recent weeks and the average percent of tests coming back positive is around 18....

Park Record file photo Construction is nearly complete on the planned cannabis pharmacy in Park City, a spokesperson said, the basement suite “sheetrocked and taped” and ready for what he hopes will be an early February opening. The pharmacy is set to open in the Emporium shopping center at 1351 Kearns Blvd., a low-slung strip of shops that also includes a dry cleaner. It will serve patients who have been prescribed cannabis by a certified medical professional and will not sell the drug fo...

Summit County has created a new transit district to operate the county’s bus lines, a “huge step” in the county’s split from Park City Transit. The county has contracted with an outside firm to operate the bus lines starting in July. Officials hope the district is the first step to a broader regional system. Park Record file photo for the Summit County Council in 2020 may impact the way people move around the Wasatch Back for decades to come, though officials hope transit riders won’...

Credit Utah House Representative, Tim Quinn In his last year serving in the Utah Legislature, Rep. Tim Quinn of District 54 encountered two major unexpected developments—on a global scale, the Covid-19 pandemic; and on the Wasatch Back, Hideout’s controversial annexation into Summit County.    Quinn said the pandemic was hard on everybody. He said he’s not going to bash the state government for its response to it. “There are some places—Park City being one of them, or Salt Lake City...

SALT LAKE CITY — A winter storm system is bringing cold temperatures to northern Utah valleys and snow to the mountains Tuesday. According to Cache County police dispatchers, U.S. Highway 89 through Logan Canyon was closed in both directions just after 2:30 p.m. due to whiteout conditions but was reopened around 4:30 p.m. Traction laws went into effect just before noon for state Routes 190 and 210 through Big Cottonwood and Little Cottonwood canyons, meaning that traction devices such as tire...