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Officers shut down part of Colorado Highway 9 and Exit 205 of Interstate 70 on Friday as they drew guns and aimed them at a vehicle that reportedly belongs to a wanted felon. Police suspected the individual was armed and inside the vehicle, according to Silverthorne Police Department spokesperson Kim Jardim.

UPDATE 2:25 PM: A report from Summit Daily stated that the case involved a person with an arrest warrant. It was determined they were not at the scene. UPDATE 12:00 PM: This road has since reopened. More details about the reason behind the closure will likely emerge in upcoming hours and days. According to the Colorado Department of Transportation, police activity has shut down Colorado 9 in both directions at...

Summit County locals Jonathan Cernanec and Ryan Kryak found a way to turn a college drinking game funded by two stimulus checks into a business with over 1,000 products sold. Cernanec and Kryak, now official entrepreneurs, call their garage their “warehouse,” their living room their “assembly room,” and their home in Dillon Valley their “office.”

Thunderstorms are possible again today with widespread moderate to heavy rainfall expected over the weekend. Flash Flooding will be possible over area burn scars. Salida and Buena Vista can expect a high of 76. Look for a low of 56. The San Luis Valley will reach a high of 70....

Officers shut down part of Colorado Highway 9 and Exit 205 of Interstate 70 on Friday as they drew guns and aimed them at a vehicle that reportedly belongs to a wanted felon. Police suspected the individual was armed and inside the vehicle, according to Silverthorne Police Department spokesperson Kim Jardim.

Mike and Anna Dudick, co-owners of Breckenridge Grand Vacations, donated $1 million dollars to the construction of the Sol Center at Alta Verde. Brianne Snow, the executive director of the Family & Intercultural Resource Center, was beaming with gratitude as she held on to the end of the 3-foot-long check.

There’s no reason to run to the emergency room, pay ER prices and potentially expose yourself to viruses in the waiting room when you visit the urgent care at Vail-Summit Orthopaedics & Neurosurgery. Located in the Medical Office Building next to St. Anthony Summit Hospital in Frisco, this urgent care is the go-to facility for locals and vistors when it comes to sprains, strains or breaks.

The Blue River Horse Center in Silverthorne is hosting its first-ever charity golf tournament at Raven Golf Club at Three Peaks on Monday, July 18. All proceeds of the event will go to help the local nonprofit which provides equine-based programs to empower children and adults to achieve their life goals.

This week in history as reported by The Summit County Journal the week of June 24, 1922. High-grade silver ore, 8 feet of it, was recently opened up on the Fredonia mine by misters Peabody and Wheeler, who, together with a number of Denver men, have been working the property for several months. The ore is mostly of a silver chloride nature, and also carries some ruby silver. Specimens have been on display in various places in town during the past 10 days and are subject of much comment.

Summit County’s COVID-19 incidence rate has increased. According to the county’s website, the county’s cumulative seven-day incidence rate is 222 cases per 100,000 people, up from 190 cases last week. From Wednesday, June 15, to Wednesday, June 22, the county totaled 85 new cases. In the past...

The first-ever Colorado Historic Opera Houses Circuit, which connects five mountain opera houses, launched on June 23, 2022. This new cultural heritage travel offering invites visitors to experience Colorado’s Silver Rush past and the enduring importance of arts and culture in today’s remote mountain towns, all within elegant buildings. Colorado Historic Opera Houses Circuit encourages visitors to “step away from their screens and reconnect with the energy of live shows.”

It’s no secret that Summit County has quickly become a year-round destination, but if you’re looking for the epicenter of summer activities, the Town of Dillon has worked hard to create a recreational and dining atmosphere that’s unlike anything else you’ll find in the area. Your...

It took only a few hours for a jury to find a Leadville man guilty of first-degree murder for killing one of his own family members.

A 29-year-old Leadville man faces life in prison after a Lake County jury found him guilty of murdering his uncle in 2020. Jurors convicted Eric C. Gurule on Wednesday of first-degree murder in the death of his uncle and former boss, Randy Flores, 55, according to the Fifth Judicial District Attorney's Office.

The Colorado Historic Opera Houses Circuit is a new cultural offering that connects five mountain opera houses in Central City, Telluride, Leadville, Aspen and Ouray. Connecting the venues on its website, the circuit, which launched June 23, provides a calendar of events happening at each one, as well as a map of where all the houses are in relation to each other. All of the structures are on the National Register of Historic Places, so if you're looking for historic buildings that still have their original character, you'll find them on this tour. Built between 1878 and 1913, the now-reopened opera houses, which have been closed since the onset of COVID, give visitors the opportunities to enjoy live shows in the same place they were seen over a century ago, as well as music and film festivals, building tours and rentals.

With the prediction of monsoonal rains this weekend and the history of Glenwood Canyon mudslides closing Interstate 70, it’s possible that there may again be hordes of traffic flowing through Silverthorne and Dillon this summer. Due to the Grizzly Creek Fire that happened in Glenwood Canyon in August of...

Silverthorne will have its first series of Pride Month events this weekend to celebrate LGBTQ members of the community as part of the county’s two-day celebration. Starting on Thursday, local volunteers and artists began painting the new Pride Month-themed mural that will be on the bike path along the Blue River. Like the river directly next to it, the mural’s two winding rainbow features twist down the bike path with the Progress Pride Flag — the common six-color rainbow flag with an incorporated chevron to represent minorities, trans people, and those living and killed by AIDS — capping the ends. Local artist Andy Moran, who painted the murals in Frisco last year, began arriving to work on the mural at 8 a.m. each day to work on it. On Saturday, visitors are invited to lay their handprints leading to the mural, adding a community connection to the piece, he said.