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Jack Reed, 13, receives his first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine by Dr. David Wahl on Thursday at Vail Health Hospital in Vail. The Pfizer vaccine was approved for children 12-15-years-old, with Thursday being the first day the kids were able to receive a shot. Chris Dillmann/cdillmann@vaildaily.com For months now, Eagle County Emergency Management Director Birch Barron has asserted that nobody will be happier than he is when the county can finally lift its COVID-19 public health restrictions. Barron plans to celebrate in less than a week. He won’t be the only person at the party.

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA From left, Walt McDaniel, 98, Ed Williams, 91, Jerry Hedrick, 85, and Dan Dougherty, 95, are part of a recumbent trike club at Paradise Valley Estates. (Robinson Kuntz/Daily Republic) Have recumbent trike, will travel: Paradise Valley residents average more than 12 miles a week PARADISE VALLEY — Dan Dougherty rode a bicycle with the Paradise Valley Pedalers until a few years ago. Now he’s one of a handful of people who meet six mornings a week to ride their recumbent tricycles around the Paradise Valley Estates campus. The average age of the riders is 92. Walt...

Special to the Daily Melisa Rewold-Thuon, assistant superintendent for Eagle County Schools, remembers spending her birthday at the emergency school board meeting. “It’s a birthday I will always remember,” she said of March 13, 2020. . It would close 17 schools and switch to remote learning for three weeks starting Tuesday, just three days later. The news that kids would be learning from home because of the rapidly-evolving pandemic, exactly one week after Eagle County’s first confirmed coronavirus infection, reverberated throughout the county’s households and businesses. “I was h...

Chris Dillmann A proposed agreement reached by Eagle County Schools and its teachers’ union aimed to strike a balance between one-time bonuses and pay increases for staff and hiring additional employees. But the measure was voted down by the district’s board Wednesday night. The two-part agreement was reached by a negotiations team including district administrators, principals and teachers. The first part focused on what to do with $1.7 million of unspent funding from a variety of budget line items that saw expenditures decline or money go unspent this school year, in large part because o...

WHITEMARSH >> Plymouth Whitemarsh won its first 13 games of the season by an average of 27.9 points. Junior Kaitlyn Flanagan suffered a hamstring injury before the final three games of the regular season, which were wins by three and five points sandwiched around a three-point loss. After two full weeks of rest, Flanagan returned to the court Wednesday night for the second round of the District 1-6A playoffs. Her stats weren’t flashy – no points, three assists, one rebound and one block – but the point guard’s presence on the floor helped the No. 2 Colonials return to form...