Alexander Cramer
ReporterAlexander joined KPCW in 2021 after two years reporting on Summit County for The Park Record. While there, he won many awards for covering issues ranging from school curriculum to East Side legacy agriculture operations to land-use disputes. He arrived in Utah by way of Madison, Wisconsin, and western Massachusetts, with stints living in other areas across the country and world. When not attending a public meeting or trying to figure out what a PID is, Alexander enjoys skiing, reading and watching the Celtics.
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The Memorial Day snowstorm and cold snap brought traffic accidents to the Wasatch Back, muddying local trails and requiring local gardeners to find cover for their plants.
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The Park City Police Department determined no crime had been committed when Summit County Council candidate Michael Franchek brought a gun to a sidewalk outside Park City High School this week.
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A group of people, many apparently Realtors, attended the Summit County Council meeting to oppose the council’s plan to temporarily stop licensing nightly rentals.
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The man accused of supplying the drugs that two Park City teens used in fatal overdoses in 2016 remains in the Salt Lake County jail. Colin Shapard faces six separate felony charges related to allegedly shipping drugs to Park City over the past year.
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The Snyderville Basin Planning Commission, anticipating an application for a large medical office building at Kimball Junction, has appointed one of its members to the Tech Center design review board.
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The school year hasn’t ended yet in Park City, but next year’s class sizes have already become a talking point in the school board race.
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Summit County is acquiring land to build a road connecting Bitner Ranch Road to the Silver Creek neighborhood. It recently spent nearly $4 million for 40 acres in the middle of the proposed road route. The county says the 37 acres the road would not cut through could be subdivided or used as a wetland mitigation bank.
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The Kamas City Council is holding a public input session Tuesday about its proposal to annex land west of the city. The city has discussed making the land available for commercial development.
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The South Summit Fire District has changed all three of its fire commissioners in the last two months.
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The state has started issuing weekly lawn watering guidelines once again. Last week, those called for one watering in Summit and Wasatch counties, but with a freeze coming this week, the official recommendation is to hold off entirely.