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STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — New cases of COVID-19 in Routt County declined this week, but counties that are home to destination ski resorts continue to have much higher case incidence than Colorado as a whole. The previous seven days saw 109 new cases, down from a record 170 new cases the week prior. While cases are decreasing, health officials said Wednesday during the weekly Routt County Board of Health meeting that it is too early to call it a trend, and test positivity remains above 8% locally. “Are we moving in the right direction? Maybe,” Routt County epidemiologist Nicole Harty said. “...

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — The Routt County Board of Commissioners passed a new public health order Monday, hoping to stave off more COVID-19 cases that could require even harsher restrictions locally. The new order, which will be in effect until March 1 unless commissioners change it before then, requires restaurants to take additional mitigation measures, lowers capacity limits in offices and limits any social gatherings to just one residence. It also includes language that requires short-term rentals to be limited to people from just one residence, potentially affecting reservations currently o...

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — The Routt County Board of Health will wait to sign off on the 5-Star certification program’s application to state health officials until the county has had two sustained weeks within the metrics for level orange on the state’s dial framework. In order to receive state approval, the application needs to have a letter of support from the local public health authority as well as other community members. The letter from the board is the last piece of the application. While businesses can currently apply to start the certification process, the county is not eligible for t...

Routt, plus several other counties, say state’s COVID restrictions are inconsistent, frustrating and confounding In a letter to the governor, the counties ask for their restaurants to be allowed to open at 25% capacity starting Friday   A Summit County service industry worker holds a sign Monday, Nov. 23, while protesting the prohibition of in-person dining at restaurants. STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — Routt and several other counties in Colorado are sending a letter to Gov. Jared Polis pleading for restaurants in the counties to be allowed to open to 25% capacity and for the state’s dial framew...

12/17/2020 The 2020-21 NBA regular season is set to begin Dec. 23, but it’s going to be a very different season than normal thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. And that has effects on national coverage from ESPN as well. ESPN and ABC will combine to televise 49 games in the first half of the season, including five games on Christmas Day, but those games are going to be presented a little differently than normal; while around half of them will feature on-site production trucks (and mostly on-site announcers), the other half will be done under the “enhanced world feed” (EWF) model, where ESP...