1. Oil truck driver who crashed in Silverthorne charged with reckless driving, endangerment:
Recently, workers from various Summit County entities worked for hours to clean up oil that spilled after a semitractor-trailer lost control on an off ramp in Silverthorne, and the driver is now facing charges of reckless endangerment and reckless driving, according to Silverthorne Police Chief John Minor.
The driver, identified as 44-year-old Antonio Ramos Lopez Jr. of Wyoming, reportedly lost control of the trailer’s brakes while descending from Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial Tunnels.
— Eliza Noe
2. Bob Dylan to perform at Dillon Amphitheater on July 3; Tickets went on sale Friday:
Bob Dylan’s career has lasted the better part of 50 years — bringing songs such as “Blowin’ in the Wind,” “The Times They Are a-Changin’,” “Like a Rolling Stone” and more — to audiences around the world. Summit County guests will hear his music live this July at the Dillon Amphitheater for his Rough And Rowdy Ways Tour.
Dylan is scheduled to perform at 8 p.m. Sunday, July 3, at the amphitheater, 201 W. Lodgepole St. in Dillon. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
— Jefferson Geiger
3. Thousands of Colorado patients put in peril due to risky prescribing of psych medicine:
The heavy reliance on benzodiazepines at Mind Springs has been alarmingly common in Colorado, with state reports identifying thousands of patients as at potential lethal risk because of unsafe prescribing practices, an investigation by The Gazette has found. Known as “benzos,” the anti-anxiety drugs include trade names like Klonopin, Valium, Xanax, Ativan and others, and they are soaring in popularity.
Even as state officials are seeking to rein in the use of benzodiazepines, prescriptions for the drugs nearly doubled over the past two years during a time when the COVID-19 pandemic battered psyches, said Dr. Robert Valuck, executive director of the Colorado Consortium for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention, housed at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
— The Gazette
4. Short-term rentals, inflation and rising interest rates all had an impact on Summit County’s real estate market in the first quarter of 2022:
When real estate agents are gauging how strong Summit County’s market will perform that year, they typically won’t base their predictions on the first quarter of the year. Many agents point to the all of the properties that are still being used by owners for the ski season as reason for why there aren’t as many transactions this quarter compared to other quarters.
In the summer months and fall months — the busy seasons for many agents — there could be a few hundred transactions within a 30-day timespan. But Land Title Guarantee Co.’s reports for January, February and March show a lot fewer than that. In January, the county racked up 124 transactions, in February there were 107 transactions and in March, there were 165 transactions.
— Jenna deJong