{"id":800537,"date":"2019-10-20T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T18:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=373200"},"modified":"2019-10-20T12:00:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T18:00:36","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-what-has-happened-to-breckenridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/letter-to-the-editor-what-has-happened-to-breckenridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: What has happened to Breckenridge?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/LettersWebCard-SDN1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>In summer 1976, my car broke down in Summit County.&nbsp; As my son and I sat by the road, a young man stopped to see if he could help. In no time, my car was up and running, I had a job offer and a place to live. Thus began my love affair with the towns of Summit County.<\/p>\n<p>I love all the local activities and shops throughout the towns of Summit. I have seen these sleepy little towns grow and expand into a larger community of skiers, mountain bikers, hikers, fishermen and boat enthusiast. The bad part is watching locals struggle with a higher cost of living and housing for low incomes becoming near to impossible to find.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite shops in Breckenridge are Space Cowboy, Cookie Shop and the Chocolate Factory. I was shocked Space Cowboy was closing its doors. One of the last true Head Shops in Colorado. It\u2019s the one place I can find Greatful Dead items without going online.<\/p>\n<p>These small shops are the true heart of Breckenridge. Space Cowboy and older businesses should be grandfathered in. Stop raising taxes and costs of snow removal. Work with them; keep their doors open. Don\u2019t lose the uniqueness of Breckenridge. Don\u2019t become the \u201ccement village\u201d Vail has become. Our mountain communities are quickly disappearing. I know; I live in one.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Support their rights to remain a part of Breckenridge. Being a Deadhead means more the wearing tye-dye clothing and listening to Jerry and the gang. It\u2019s that sense of community and belonging to the places we cherish and share with everyone in our lives. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Contact your local mayor. Small business is the heart of Breckenridge and its history. How many more bars and restaurants do you need in the mountains?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/letter-to-the-editor-what-has-happened-to-breckenridge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In summer 1976, my car broke down in Summit County.&nbsp; As my son and I sat by the road, a young man stopped to see if he could help. In no time, my car was up and running, I had a job offer and a place to live. Thus began my love affair with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-800537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 09:07:28","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}