{"id":43805,"date":"2020-03-16T14:22:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T20:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=380591"},"modified":"2020-03-16T14:22:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T20:22:04","slug":"summit-county-expected-to-order-widespread-business-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/local-news\/summit-county-expected-to-order-widespread-business-closures\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit County expected to order widespread business closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/Breck-town-1024x768.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>DILLON \u2014&nbsp;Summit County officials are expected to announce that all businesses in the area will be asked to close moving forward to help stop the spread of COVID-19, according to Breckenridge Mayor Eric Mamula, who addressed the issue during a live stream of an emergency council meeting Monday afternoon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mamula said the public health order is expected to include every municipality in the county and would affect all businesses with the exception of gas stations, grocery stores, pharmacies and banks. Cannabis dispensaries are not exempt from the closures.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe quicker we shut everything down, the quicker this all goes away,\u201d Mamula said.<\/p>\n<p>While no travel restrictions have been announced, council noted that the Summit Stage and Breckenridge Free Ride bus systems would be closed Monday night and mandatory closures for lodging will go into effect Thursday to give guests a chance to leave.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With the closures, Summit County joins a number of other communities around the country making changes in response to the disease \u2014 including statewide closures in California, Illinois, Ohio and more.&nbsp;Breckenridge Town Manager Rock Holman noted that the county\u2019s new restrictions were modeled after similar efforts in Gunnison and Crested Butte.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re assuming the state will be enacting similar guidelines shortly,\u201d Mamula added. \u201cFor the next 14 days, you need to just hang out at home with your family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Taylor Sienkiewicz contributed in reporting this story<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-facebook wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-facebook\"><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/summit-county-expected-to-order-widespread-business-closures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DILLON \u2014&nbsp;Summit County officials are expected to announce that all businesses in the area will be asked to close moving forward to help stop the spread of COVID-19, according to Breckenridge Mayor Eric Mamula, who addressed the issue during a live stream of an emergency council meeting Monday afternoon.&nbsp; Mamula said the public health order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-10 18:00:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}