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🌱 How state budget cuts could hit Keystone’s Wintergreen Ridge housing

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In today's newsletter:

  • How state budget cuts could hit Keystone’s Wintergreen Ridge housing
  • Remember when Keystone-area cell service barely worked at all?

Today's riddle: What did the inventor of the knock-knock joke win? 🤔 (Answer below!)


Weather forecast:

  • Friday: Snow, 1-3"; windy, colder, with a high of 33 and low of 12 degrees. ⛄️ Brr!
  • Saturday: Not as cold, temps: high: 40, low: 20.
  • Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high of 52 and low of 26 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Budget cuts will make building affordable homes in Colorado's mountains even harder, housing advocates say (summitdaily.com) — State budget cuts to Colorado’s voter-approved Proposition 123 could jeopardize funding streams that helped build Keystone’s 47-unit Wintergreen Ridge affordable housing complex and similar projects statewide. Housing advocates warn that redirecting $130 million away from the program will stall or shrink future workforce and low-income housing in Keystone and other High Country communities already facing multimillion-dollar home prices.
   

• This week in history: Quandary Peak solutions sought, county named modern ghost town and more (summitdaily.com) — Cell service frustrations between Keystone and Summit Cove once left many Summit Cove homeowners relying on signal boosters, even after a Verizon tower went live in 2016. This historical roundup also revisits Quandary Peak crowding solutions, past housing code changes, and early railroad and avalanche challenges around Summit County.
   


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🗞 Nearby News

Frisco

  • Local freestyle skier earns national podium spot (reformer.com)
  • CDOT to ditch interstate exit roundabout in Colorado mountain redesign project (9news.com)
  • Summit School District invites community to answer survey regarding future of county school facilities (summitdaily.com)

Breckenridge

  • Closing Time at Breckenridge, CO: One Last Weekend to Send It (snowbrains.com)
  • Breckenridge Police Department asks public for help identifying burglary suspects (summitdaily.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: The NO-BELL prize (Thank you Gina M. for sending it in!)
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Stay in the loop with what's happening in Keystone

Never miss out on local news and events that matter to you.

Stay in the loop with what's happening in Keystone

Never miss out on local news and events that matter to you.