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The OUR Center’s annual meal is a casualty of COVID, but food will be distributed from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday. HOPE will hold an evening meal at 5:30 p.m. at Faithpoint Church.

State quarantine rules have been the price students, parents, and teachers paid to hold school in person. Now, as a growing number of school districts move to fully remote learning many superintendents are pointing to widespread quarantines and associated staffing shortages as key factors.

Risk-limiting audit and reconciliation are complete and two of three Canvass Board members certified the results. The third board member requested procedure documents and accounting logs, according to the county Elections Division.

A daily crime report in Longmont.

The task force will meet for the first time Wednesday. Gov. Jared Polis said it will work with parents, educators, school board members and public health officials to look at protocols and “examples of what works.”

If the state remains on its current trajectory, total deaths are expected to reach 6,600 by the end of December, state epidemiologist Rachel Herlihy said at a news briefing on Tuesday.

After a bit of snow, we stay cool and dry for the next week (but not so much for the mountains).

The feasibility study that led to the recommendation for solar installations provides a footprint for Longmont as it moves to provide cleaner, energy sources in the future, according to a staff report to city council.

Mayor Brian Bagley is pushing an ordinance that would bar Longmont's two hospitals from providing COVID-related care to residents in counties that are not complying with state health orders.

"Every business in the state of Colorado needs to follow our laws and, whether you agree with it or not, in red counties, not having indoor dining is the law of Colorado. Any type of business that violates a health order, whether it's hepatitis, salmonella or COVID ... could lose their license to operate."