SUMMIT COUNTY - Summit County Coroner Joanne Richardson released the identity of Wednesday's avalanche victim as 20-year-old Daniel Michelotti from Spring Grove, Ill.
Michelotti was snowboarding with two friends in the Steep Gullies area, just west of Arapahoe Basin Ski Area, when an avalanche carried him about 1,000 feet and killed him. According to Richardson, suffocation was the cause of death.
It took the two friends about 20-25 minutes to descend the slope and dial 911.
About 37 rescuers from Summit County Rescue Group, Keystone Ski Patrol, A-Basin Ski Patrol and Summit...

GLENWOOD SPRINGS - Interstate 70 through the Glenwood Canyon reopened about 3 p.m. this afternoon.
The Colorado Department of Transportation had been working on getting one traffic lane in each direction open on through the canyon since a rock fall
closed the road early Monday morning.
Crews were able to open the interstate to one lane in each direction with a 14-foot width restriction, and speeds are reduced to 40 mph through the
canyon.
CDOT Maintenance crews began clearing snow in the canyon early Thursday morning and began work to make the...

SUMMIT COUNTY - With swelling student involvement in Summit School District's pre-collegiate program, coordinator Molly Griffith seeks local mentors to guide kids through the college application process.
According to Griffith, mentors will meet with five to eight students each from 2:30-4:30 p.m. on Monday, April 5, April 19 and May 17. A mentor must be a professional with a college education, and throughout the three-month commitment they'd share information about their careers and life experiences.
The district's pre-collegiate program started in December 2009 and it helps first-generation college hopefuls with lots of...

BRECKENRIDGE - The Town of Breckenridge this week terminated an agreement with developer Mercy Housing on the 42-unit Valley Brook affordable housing development after nearly two years.
"The economy - and the economics of the situation itself - was probably the biggest reason," Councilman Eric Mamula said Wednesday, adding that it will save the town money to develop it in "smaller chunks" rather than "one shot."
The development agreement for the estimated $12 million project, financed in part by the town and government grants, began in June 2008.
Mercy Housing Colorado president Jennifer Erixon said...

GLENWOOD CANYON - One lane of Interstate 70 in each direction in Glenwood Canyon should open Thursday after crews do some cleanup, drainage work and final pavement repair, the Colorado Department of Transportation says.
One lane of eastbound and westbound I-70 will reopen by the end of the day Thursday, CDOT spokeswoman Nancy Shanks said late Wednesday night.
State work crews, using a helicopter to ferry drilling equipment and a generator high up on the canyon wall, blasted free a huge boulder perched above the site of Monday's rockslide. Pieces of the...

SUMMIT COUNTY - Summit School District, like all public school systems across Colorado, is beginning the unsavory task of slashing its budget for the 2010-2011 school year, in the wake of flagging state funding.
"We're continuing this very arduous and difficult task of figuring out how to operate next year with less revenue," district superintendent Millie Hamner said.
The past several months have been full of assessing possible budget-reduction scenarios for Summit School District leaders, as the financial outlook from the state shifts almost on a daily basis. On the chopping block...