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9.2K Shares The crowd looks on at the Icelantic’s 2012 Winter on the Rocks concert. (Denver Post file) Denver Arts and Venues has asked the Colorado health department to allow up to 2,500 people to attend concerts at Red Rocks Amphitheatre this spring, with the possibility of larger crowds over the summer. The request comes as the state reportedly is considering relaxing its COVID-19 rules for all event venues. If the request is approved, concerts and other events at Red Rocks could ope...

With an increased incident rate seen in the county from the past week, the county could be facing a move back to more restrictions.

With more than two weeks under the new Level Blue restrictions in Moffat County, some local business owners are starting to see the light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel, and are excited to move closer to a sense of normalcy. The move to Level Blue on Feb. 5 means that restaurants can open up at 50% capacity, or 175 people, with a calculator allowing that number to jump up to 225 people. The 50% capacity also applies to non-critical manufacturing, offices, gyms, retail, among others. Addition...

WOODLAND PARK • In its first regular meeting since his death, the City Council on Thursday honored the late Mayor Val Carr as a hardworking public servant who made a deep impact on the bedroom community a half-hour’s drive west from Colorado Springs. Carr, who stepped into his role as mayor last April, died Tuesday after a two-month battle with COVID-19. His death was a shock to the community, which just six months before bore the loss of former Mayor Neil Levy, who died in August of compl...

Teller County moving to Level Blue on state COVID-19 dial Colorado Department of Health and Public Environment and last updated 2021-02-17 23:56:40-05 TELLER COUNTY — The Teller County Board of Health announced Wednesday that it has informed the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) that Teller County will be moving to Level Blue on the state’s COVID-19 Dial on Thursday, Feb. 18. “Teller County residents should be applauded for their efforts to reduce the s...

Chelsea Self / Post Independent The rate of new coronavirus disease cases in Garfield County continues to decline, following state and national trends of late, but there is some concern that the number of people seeking testing has also dropped off. As of Tuesday, the number of new COVID-19 cases per day over the past two weeks had dropped to less than nine. The latest seven-day total was 34 cases, and the county’s test positivity rate has dropped to 2.2%. Both of those measures, and a test-t...

Colorado State University Pueblo has announced that it will host an in-person commencement ceremony this May. "We are hopeful as we plan for an in-person commencement ceremony, especially because we worked so hard to bring this tradition back to our campus in 2019,” said Timothy Mottet, president of CSU Pueblo, in a news release. “Our Commencement team is keeping safety as a priority in the planning, by including our local public health experts in the conversation. "We also remain fle...

During a February 9 press conference, Governor Jared Polis politely but firmly rejected Denvers request to prioritize members of its homeless population for vaccination against COVID-19. But Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, speaking at his own press conference today, February 11, refused to take no for an answer. Instead, he continued to stress the need for getting members of the citys unhoused population inoculated as soon as possible, and revealed that if the federal government agrees to directl...

El Paso County’s COVID-19 incidence rate isn’t dropping as quickly as it was, public health officials say, warning that this could slow the move toward looser restrictions.

JB Pharmacy, 915 W. Northern Ave., got its first 200 doses of COVID vaccine this week after Owner Jeanette Burns ordered the vaccine four times before finally getting them. “When they initially approached us about doing vaccines, at that time there was only the Pfizer vaccine, and so most of your pharmacies didn’t jump on the band wagon because we didn’t have the freezer. Then they came out with the Moderna vaccine,” Burns said. Because JB Pharmacy gives vaccines to people on Medicaid, ...