When Breckenridge resident Juliane Hurst was laid off from her job at the beginning of the pandemic, she was convinced she would have to return to her home in the Philippines.
“I was stressed because I just got here to America,” she said. “I was thinking of moving back to the Philippines because there’s nothing to do out here.”
Hurst is one of many in Summit County’s local workforce who found themselves strapped for cash and unsure what to do when the pandemic hit. She’s also among the more than 1,700 households that have received financial assistance through the Family & Intercultural Resource Center’s rent and mortgage relief program.
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A census worker gives a presentation to the Logan County complete count committee just days before the coronavirus shut down the state.
Updated Monday, 3/1/2021 at 6:22 p.m.
2020 Census results were supposed to come out in December, as mandated by the Constitution.The Census Bureau recently announced plans to release the first-round of results by April 30. Local and state governments and agencies, businesses, nonprofits and researchers rely on this data to get information, access funds and make big decisions.
Disruptions and accuracy concerns swirled around last year’s count and, for some, those concerns remain. The delay may help the Bureau fix some issues, but will also cause problems for the state’s redistricting plans and tax allocation process, and could affect local efforts like fire recovery.
Colorado saw more rental assistance requests in January than all of 2020 Every single person who needs help counts, a Department of Local Affairs spokesperson said. We want every Coloradan safely and stably housed. Author: Jaleesa Irizarry Updated: 7:02 PM MST February 3, 2021
DENVER Employees in the Housing Division of the Colorado Department of Local Affairs (DOLA) are trying to catch up with the thousands of rental assistance requests the office received in the first month of 2021.
The department oversees two rental assistant programs that help those impacted by the pandemic.
Brett McPherson, the department s spokesperson, sat down with 9NEWS to explain why they are seeing a surge in requests and what they are doing about it.
The Prowers Medical Center Board of Directors discussed several projects during their January 27
th meeting including a construction update on the nuclear medicine camera laboratory and available funding for the new MRI unit.
The completion date for the laboratory should be by the end of March or early April, according to hospital Chief Executive Officer, Karen Bryant. She said some of the construction materials needed by the contractors was delayed, pushing the timeline back slightly. The funding for the MRI, Magnetic Resonance Imaging Unit, will be lower than the $1 million requested from DoLA, the Department of Local Affairs. There was $22.6 million in requests put to the department which had a budget of $13.2 million for funding. Although there isn’t any official notification at this point, the board expects to receive around $700,000, or about 70% of their request. The hospital is using $500,000 from the CARES Act for equipment upgrades including a new ultraviolet disinfecti
Madison in the Sixties – the last week of January.
1963 The UW Protection and Security Department hires its first female investigator, Nancy Marshall, a former member of the Madison Police Department’s Bureau of Crime Prevention. Campus police chief Albert Hamann says Marshall will handle investigations involving women and juveniles.
In 1964, teenage romance turns to trouble, as high school gangs rumble all over town. An Edgewood HS girl entices the Verona boy she’s dating and four of his friends into an ambush at Peppermint Park, the carnival area on the far west side, where they are severely beaten with clubs and rubber hoses by a gang of 16 led by her other boyfriend, from Madison West. Police thwart a rematch rumble, set for a Verona gravel pit, after getting an anonymous tip. Days later, another two-timing teen is the focus as eleven students from East, La Follette, and Monona Grove High Schools battle with fists, clubs, and switchblades in the 2400 block of East W