A new family medical practice has opened in Breckenridge, offering newborn through geriatric care. The practice, Your Family Medical Home, is the office of Dr. Steven E. Ryan, who provides physical and mental health care.
After practicing for more than 20 years in Colorado Springs, Ryan moved to Breckenridge in 2018 to join High Country Healthcare for two years. He opened his new practice in January and started with telehealth before seeing patients in person after receiving both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
“I’d always wanted to have a solo practice,” Ryan said. “That was just my vision of how family practice should be.”
Frisco locals might have noticed a new store on Main Street reminiscent of Dillon’s Everything Colorado and Copper Mountain’s Copper Mountain Mercantile. Members of the Johnston family, who own Everything Colorado and Copper Mountain Mercantile, opened the new store, Frisco Trading Post, in November.
The three stores are owned by sisters Ariel and Alison Johnston and their father, Graeme Johnston. Ariel Johnston wrote in an email that the family calls the three shops “sister stores” as they carry similar products and have similar themes but are not exactly the same.
“We do carry some of the same items, especially the locally made items, in all of the stores, but the products do vary quite a bit, as well,” Johnston wrote.
Sales tax revenue continues to gauge some of the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on various business sectors across the county. In November, there was a mix of increases and decreases in sales tax revenue with Silverthorne, Breckenridge and Frisco showing fairly modest growth in year-over-year revenue, while Dillon and Summit County saw a decline.
Effects on certain business sectors vary from town to town as well. While all restaurants were ordered to close to in-person dining on Nov. 22, Frisco’s restaurant category was slightly up for sales tax revenue for the month, while Breckenridge’s restaurant and bar sector took a sharp downturn.
Light snow will develop Sunday afternoon or evening, Hiris said, and will continue off and on in coming days.
“From (Sunday) afternoon through about Tuesday or so, we’re going to have another few rounds of this very light snowfall accumulation,” Hiris said. “It looks like maybe three separate rounds. … Each of those could produce about an inch or two of snow.”
Hiris said a round of light snow would occur Sunday afternoon and evening, along with similar storms Monday and Tuesday. Each of the three bouts of snowfall are expected to start in the late morning or early afternoon. Hiris said there won’t be much wind.
Summit County officials will allow five-star certified restaurants to leave alcohol on tables until 10 p.m., but the 9:30 p.m. last call for the sale of alcohol remains in place.
At a Summit County Board of Health meeting Thursday, Jan. 21, commissioners decided to make the change to the 5 Star Business Certification Program. The change will go into effect Saturday, Jan. 23.
The board also decided to require that five-star restaurants collect contact information only from one person per household in a reservation. Previously, those restaurants were required to collect the information of every person on the reservation.
The changes apply only to restaurants that are five-star certified. Restaurants that are not in the program still will be held to a 9:30 p.m. last call on the consumption and sale of alcohol. The board hopes the changes will provide more incentive for businesses to remain in the program.