‘The Night Witches’ finally gets a Park City sendoff

Jennifer Wesselhoff Park City Chamber/Bureau president and CEO. The metaphorical dust has settled but the heady buzz lingers as Parkites digest Sundance Film Festival 2023, the first in-person Sundance in three years. What a show! The Sundance Institute team and volunteers, city staff, and service staff at venues all over town worked themselves to exhaustion putting together an event for the ages. We salute them all.

The Winter Olympics in 2002 opened on Feb. 8 and ended on Feb. 24. But the Games organizers held the exclusive right to use certain terrain at Park City Mountain and Deer Valley Resort, which were both competition venues, for a period that stretched weeks longer than the 17 days of the Olympics.

Above Shoe Tree Park, just east of the Poison Creek Trail, an electrical box clings to a solitary pole in the middle of the creek. The box is empty, the meter long since removed, and there are no wires leading from the pole. What you see is the last visible reminder of a little community known as Easy Street.

Artique, the artist co-op boutique in Kamas, will get a little rustic when it introduces the hand-crafted bags and journals created by Aleshia Cornelius during its Friday Friday Artist Opening celebration on Feb. 3. Cornelius, owner of the Humble Canyon, a leatherwork shop, is looking forward to her debut at...

On a snowy Saturday in Aspen, Colorado, Park City freeskier Colby Stevenson added another X Games gold medal in slopestyle to his collection. Stevenson put together two stellar runs and held on for first place, beating fellow American Mac Forehand and Norway’s Ferdinand Dahl for the gold medal. It’s Stevenson’s third X Games gold medal, and his second in slopestyle. His other gold medal was in knuckle huck, in which he came in third this year.

Olympian Nick Page dug his shovel into the deep snow, tossing a blade full over the shoulder of his buddy Cole McDonald. It was yet another big powder day at Deer Valley Resort. As skiers whisked their way up the Red Cloud lift, they were a bit confused looking down on the team of athletes below, literally removing snow from a powder-packed ski run.

Park City moguls skier Nick Page remembers what it was like competing under the lights on Champion, a run he likely skied hundreds if not thousands of times growing up, at Deer Valley Resort for the first time at the World Cup level, like it was yesterday. It was back...

More than 30 adaptive athletes will compete Feb. 1-3 during the 34th annual Huntsman Cup at Park City Mountain. The race, which includes giant slalom races on the first two days and two-run slaloms on the last day, is hosted by the National Ability Center, also known as the NAC, a local nonprofit that empowers individuals of all abilities by building self-esteem, confidence and lifetime skills through sport, recreation and educational programs, according to its website discovernac.org.

The Park City Police Department responded to a wide range of cases during the Sundance Film Festival, but the reports seemed to be more general in nature rather than stemming from large crowds and the unique complexion of the festival, which returned as an in-person event for the first time in three years.

Children Advocacy Day on the Hill at the state capitol was on Friday, Jan. 27 and the Park City community was well represented. Local parents, children, staff and board members from PC Tots, Early Childhood Alliance, Voices for Utah Children and the Park City Community Foundation were present. City Councilwoman and mother Becca Gerber was one of the featured speakers.

City Hall intends to further research several radical transportation ideas to reduce or better manage traffic in the community, including an aerial route along the S.R. 248 entryway. Officials provided limited information about the possibilities in an update drafted in anticipation of a Park City Council meeting scheduled on Thursday,...

Heavy snow this winter is making it hard for deer to find enough to eat in parts of Summit and Rich counties and causing elk searching for food to wander down the mountains to the mouth of Parleys Canyon, including a herd that delayed traffic on Interstate 80 in Salt Lake City.

Summit County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested two people for felony retail theft stemming from an incident at an Outlets Park City business last week. Polo Ralph Lauren Factory Store employees reported a man and woman stole multiple items and left without paying, according to a report from the Sheriff’s Office. Deputies located the suspect vehicle, unoccupied, near another business in the Kimball Junction area.