Summit County Democrats, as part of a 44-member vacancy committee, selected Nina Waters, a current commissioner for the Lower Blue River District, to fill the seat of former county commissioner Josh Blanchard, who resigned Sept..
The Summit County Democratic Party vacancy committee will meet Wednesday to fill the District 3 Summit Board of County Commissioners seat following the resignation of Josh Blanchard. Candidates will compete for the seat at the.
At the same time as the Great Depression was a severe and long-lasting drought in the Dust Bowl region of the Great Plains that launched the formation of conservation districts in the 1930s. Today, Summit.
The United States Postal Service is still struggling to fully staff the Silverthorne and Dillon post offices, leading to more mail delays for residents. While residents say they sympathize with the pressure the few workers.
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Since a state board denied Peak Materials’ application for a gravel mining permit at the Hillyard property in April, neighbors have been left with many questions about what the property’s future might hold.
Jonathan Knopf, president of Friends of the Lower Blue River and a neighbor to the property, said he and other neighbors have expressed interest in purchasing the property from Peak Materials both before and after the permit was denied.
“They know what we’d like to accomplish,” Knopf said. “We more or less need to see what they do.”
Initially, a group of neighbors made a counteroffer to Julie Hillyard when she was selling the property an initiative led by neighbor Ken Brown, Knopf said.