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Gov. Jared Polis’ recent announcement to start inoculating day care workers, teachers and others on the front lines of education is welcome news to the Aspen School District, but the vaccination supply chain poses a “huge stumbling block” to administer shots in a timely manner, according to Superintendent David Baugh. Polis said Friday teachers would start receiving vaccinations Feb. 8 with the state reserving about one third of its supply for “all student-facing staff” in Colorado. At Monday’s Board of Education meeting, however, Baugh cautioned the rate at which Pitkin County is...

A board member’s apology to teachers, a survey critical of school district leadership, and a faculty dispirited by the pandemic provided for a sobering discussion of Aspen School District’s state of affairs during a virtual meeting held Monday. “Some of this stuff is really hard to hear,” said Superintendent David Baugh, adding “this is a time of high tension, high stress.” Baugh’s comments came after a presentation of Aspen Education Association results from a survey conducted Jan. 12 to 17. Survey results from the AEA, the representative arm of district teachers, showed 52.4% ...

A week after standing behind the widely used Curative COVID-19 tests, Pitkin County and Aspen Valley Hospital are discontinuing the use of them as of Friday. Aspen School District stopped using Curative for asymptomatic testing on Thursday at 3:30 p.m., according to David Baugh, superintendent of schools. The announcement comes after the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment on Thursday morning released new guidance on the administration of Curative tests for community-based testing. Based on direction from the Food and Drug Administration, CDPHE is concerned about Curative sa...

This week has seen restaurants open to indoor dining and public schools closed to in-person learning, but that scenario won’t last much longer. The board of health’s decision Monday to put Pitkin County under Red level restrictions confines restaurants in Aspen, Redstone, Snowmass Village and other locales to outdoor dining and takeout meals only, starting Sunday. Yet the Aspen School District isn’t bound to the same color-code restrictions that businesses follow. The district instead makes its operating decisions based on consultations with county health officials and virus trends amo...

Sen. Michael Bennet speaks with local officials and community members at the Colorado Outdoor Recreation and Economy Act event hosted at the Fales Ranch south of Carbondale in September. Three days removed from Wednesday’s storming of the U.S. Capitol by Trump extremists, Sen. Michael Bennet heard updates Friday from mountain town leaders on the latest challenges brought on by the pandemic. A panel of 12 speakers, including Aspen Skiing Co. CEO Mike Kaplan, also heard first-hand from the second-term senator about this week’s attempted coup in Washington, D.C. Reconvening hours after the v...