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...

SUMMIT COUNTY - A snowboarder died Wednesday afternoon in a backcountry avalanche, mile west of Arapahoe Basin on the south side of Highway 6.
The 20-year-old male was riding with two other male snowboarders in the Steep Gullies area, a popular backcountry spot outside the A-Basin ski boundary.
The three snowboarders triggered the avalanche at about 2:50 p.m. The slide carried the victim an estimated 1,000 feet, almost completely burying his body. It took the two friends 20-25 minutes to reach the victim and make a 911 call.
All three men were from Spring Grove, Ill., and...

FARMER'S KORNER - Huddled in a parka after practice Wednesday, senior defender Hannah Marion was demonstrating the effects of what she hopes will be her team's secret weapon this spring: the cold.
"I don't think they'll know how cold it is up here," Marion said of the Tigers' opponents. "Every practice, we have like four layers of clothes on, and they'll come up thinking that maybe they'll just need an Under Armour or something. They'll be in for a wake-up call with this weather."
With a very young roster and a difficult...

In its season-opening meet, the Summit High track and field team had two individual top-5 finishes and five relay teams among the top-8.
The Tigers finished ninth for both boys and girls Tuesday in a 4A meet at Jeffco Stadium in Lakewood, but SHS head coach Kristy McClain was pleased with her team's performance - especially considering the elements the Tigers have trained in so far this spring.
"I am not unhappy with that because it was our first meet of the season and we did not have our entire team available to compete," McClain said via...

Summit senior Sam Dudick scored three goals, but, in the end, a plethora of penalties did in the Summit High lacrosse team on Wednesday.
The Tigers gave up six goals in man-down situations and lost 12-6 at Golden.
"The kids played with them, but we probably had about 15 penalties," SHS head coach Michael O'Neill said.
O'Neill said most of his team's penalties were unnecessary and ultimately cost the Tigers a chance at their second straight win to start the season.
The weather conditions didn't help much either.
A snowstorm hit Golden right as the teams...