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Over the past two years, student activities, clubs and experiences have either been altered or put on hold. And this Thursday, Eagle Valley Middle School is hosting an event to connect, or reconnect, students and…
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...
Scanners are already being used by local businesses and in one local school Daily staff report Michelle Sanders, left, and Mitzi Forrester are the partners in Rocky Mountain Safety Solutions. The firm’s temperature-checking stations, center, are able to take temperatures at a distance of up to 6 feet. The device won’t work unless a user is properly wearing a face covering. Special to the Daily Scanning the temperatures of employees and guests during the COVID-19 pandemic is time-consuming and a potential risk to both the taker and the person being checked. A local firm now offers a high-t...