The Summit High School class of 2020 celebrated their graduation in the form of a motorcade procession down Main Street in Breckenridge on Thursday, May 21, 2020. The class of 2021 will get to celebrate in a more traditional fashion, with many planning graduation parties over the coming weeks.
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Since Summit County moved into level green on the county’s COVID-19 dial last week, largely removing social distancing requirements and capacity restrictions, more high school graduates can gather to celebrate their achievements.
While still remaining cautious of the coronavirus, Summit County families have a bit more freedom to hold normal graduation parties this year. Though, some are still getting creative.
Dr. Gretchen Norton administers the COVID-19 vaccine to Summit High School girls basketball coach Kayle Walker-Burns on Feb. 13 at the bus depot in Frisco.
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Summit County reported 19 new cases of COVID-19 over the week, according to the county’s coronavirus webpage the lowest number of new cases since the week of Sept. 6, when three new cases were reported.
The total number of cases among residents stands at 3,690. No new hospitalizations among residents were reported over the week, keeping the total at 136 since March 5, 2020.
, the county was reporting 64.6 new cases per 100,000 residents as of 4 p.m. Friday. That number is down 9.6 cases per 100,000 residents from last week.
The Village at Wintergreen brought nearly 200 affordable housing units to Keystone when it first opened, the largest workforce housing project recently completed by the county. There is a workforce housing shortage in Summit County, and local leaders are currently brainstorming ways to solve what they re calling a crisis.
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Summit County Commissioner Tamara Pogue has described the area’s housing issue as a crisis in multiple instances.
“This is a crisis,” Pogue said April 29. “This is not something we have ever seen in Summit County, and while I admire the work that Summit County government has done in the 367 units that we’ve built in the past five years, that kind of thinking is not necessarily going to get us to a solution.”
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Dillon is pushing ahead with plans to introduce a new paid parking model for individuals hoping to leave their cars in town-owned lots overnight, a move intended to help to address issues in the lots and provide a revenue stream to fund infrastructure projects in the future.
Dillon Town Council held a conversation on the topic during a regular work session meeting with staff Tuesday, May 4, and voiced a desire to move forward with some kind of permitting system in the town’s overnight parking lots.
“We’ve been talking about parking issues regularly for decades,” council member Brad Bailey said. “We will continue to talk about parking for decades as we continue to grow, and I think we all can be in some agreement that baby steps are kind of how we do this until we build a parking garage at some point. … To me, the overnight parking issue is a good place to start because it just affects the volume of cars that stay in
Last year, The Peak School defied typical graduation standards to provide its students with a mountaintop graduation ceremony. The experience was so invaluable to its seniors that the school decided to do it again. The.