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The makeup of those users is now coming to light, thanks to a new study released by the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC). “We wanted to be ready for this potential increase in new backcountry users, but we also wanted to know if that’s the group we should be focused on,” said Greene. The Colorado Avalanche Information Center posts daily, regional avalanche and backcountry weather forecasts on its website through May 31.

Polis: Doctors in hospital COVID units will be first to get Pfizer vaccine.

In a virtual panel discussion Wednesday, local officials said financial boosts, support systems needed to help those already squeezed before COVID arrived.

SROs this week began delivering meals to locations around town to make sure students who can’t get to one of the district’s 17 distribution sites can still receive the sack breakfasts and lunches. 

“Front Range Community College Student Show: Produced in Isolation,” the fourth annual juried student show from Front Range’s Boulder County Campus in Longmont, is on display until Jan. 3 at the Firehouse Art Center. An opening reception will be Friday.

A daily crime report in Longmont.

The budget for next year, which includes pay raises and bonuses for employees, is up $53 million from the 2020 adopted budget of $439.9 million, according to a news release.

During Wednesday’s school board meeting, Superintendent Don Haddad outlined a series of upcoming meetings in which he plans to gather information and data to help decide if it will be safe for students to return to schools in January.  He said he hopes to be able to send information about the district’s reopening plans to parents around Dec. 21, and to teachers and staff in January.

Fire crews were called at 6 p.m. Tuesday to the sugar mill. When they arrived, personnel found an approximately 25-by-50-feet outdoor debris pit to the south of the mill’s storage area engulfed in flames, according to a news release. While battling that fire, crews discovered a second fire burning inside the main building. 

The five-day rolling average of COVID-19 cases is headed in downward trend, while the case rates by age groups also are declining, except for those 75 years of age or older, Jeff Zayach, Boulder County Public Health executive director, said in the first of planned weekly virtual updates on COVID-19 activity in the county.