Top 5 most-read stories last week: Oil trucker charged, Mind Springs Health faces allegations and Bob Dylan comes to Dillon

Summit County Commissioner Tamara Pogue has worked to fill in gaps in psychological well being care remaining by Brain Springs, the local group mental wellness middle.
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Tales in this list been given the most webpage sights on SummitDaily.com in the previous 7 days.

1. Oil truck driver who crashed in Silverthorne charged with reckless driving, endangerment

Not long ago, personnel from various Summit County entities labored for several hours to clear up oil that spilled following a semitractor-trailer misplaced handle on an off ramp in Silverthorne, and the driver is now going through expenses of reckless endangerment and reckless driving, according to Silverthorne Law enforcement Main John Minor.

The driver, determined as 44-calendar year-previous Antonio Ramos Lopez Jr. of Wyoming, reportedly missing management of the trailer’s brakes when descending from Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial Tunnels.



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2. Bob Dylan to conduct at Dillon Amphitheater on July 3 Tickets went on sale Friday

Bob Dylan’s vocation has lasted the better part of 50 a long time — bringing songs this kind of as “Blowin’ in the Wind,” “The Periods They Are a-Changin’,” “Like a Rolling Stone” and more — to audiences around the earth. Summit County friends will hear his new music live this July at the Dillon Amphitheater for his Tough And Rowdy Techniques Tour.



Dylan is scheduled to perform at 8 p.m. Sunday, July 3, at the amphitheater, 201 W. Lodgepole St. in Dillon. Doorways open up at 6:30 p.m.

— Jefferson Geiger

3. Hundreds of Colorado sufferers set in peril owing to risky prescribing of psych medication

The weighty reliance on benzodiazepines at Intellect Springs has been alarmingly typical in Colorado, with state experiences figuring out hundreds of individuals as at probable lethal possibility because of unsafe prescribing techniques, an investigation by The Gazette has discovered. Recognised as “benzos,” the anti-stress medicines involve trade names like Klonopin, Valium, Xanax, Ativan and other people, and they are soaring in popularity.

Even as state officials are seeking to rein in the use of benzodiazepines, prescriptions for the medication approximately doubled more than the past two decades all through a time when the COVID-19 pandemic battered psyches, mentioned Dr. Robert Valuck, executive director of the Colorado Consortium for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention, housed at the University of Colorado Anschutz Healthcare Campus.

— The Gazette

4. Short-phrase rentals, inflation and increasing interest prices all had an effects on Summit County’s genuine estate current market in the to start with quarter of 2022

When authentic estate brokers are gauging how strong Summit County’s market will execute that 12 months, they commonly will not base their predictions on the initial quarter of the 12 months. Numerous agents issue to the all of the qualities that are nonetheless staying employed by owners for the ski season as rationale for why there aren’t as lots of transactions this quarter as opposed to other quarters.

In the summertime months and drop months — the fast paced seasons for many brokers — there could be a few hundred transactions in just a 30-working day timespan. But Land Title Assure Co.’s studies for January, February and March demonstrate a whole lot fewer than that. In January, the county racked up 124 transactions, in February there have been 107 transactions and in March, there had been 165 transactions.

— Jenna deJong

5. Nearby leaders respond to the the conclusions of an unparalleled tri-agency audit of Head Springs

“I do disagree with the characterization that we will need Thoughts Springs,” mentioned Summit County Commissioner Tamara Pogue. “I assume what we want is care that is responsive to shoppers requires. I feel there’s a assortment of different approaches that could deliver us there.”

Summit County Sheriff Jaime FitzSimons said the identical.

“This is six yrs afterwards,” FitzSimons stated, referring to when Summit County started out breaking absent from Mind Springs. “What are we performing? Wash, rinse, repeat — nothing’s transformed, and we have acquired very little new. So if they fall short on these action strategies, then what? Are we definitely likely to go after them?”

Equally Pogue and FitzSimons reported they were being grateful for the audit on Brain Springs conducted by Rocky Mountain Wellbeing Programs. Pogue mentioned their findings emphasize the concerns she’s read from community users about their practical experience with Mind Springs. But with these new corrective action strategies now in put, she expressed issue for how long it would consider to take care of some of the issues.

— Jenna deJong