Whether the Aspen School District’s decision to limit exposure notifications would have an impact on the spread of COVID-19 is “hard to say,” said Josh Vance, an epidemiologist with Pitkin County Public Health.
As Pitkin County goes, so goes the school system with COVID-19 case numbers, anyway. A recent surge in local cases in Pitkin County also made for a relatively proportional bump in case counts among school-aged children and an uptick in teacher and staff cases, according to Pitkin County Public Health’s COVID-19 data dashboards.
Aspen School District is feeling the strain of a staffing drought locally, even three months into the school year, writes Teen Spotlight columnist Brenon Reed.
John Seybold can pretty much guarantee that two robotics teams from Aspen will qualify for the FIRST LEGO League Challenge championship in Littleton this December. That’s because every competitor in this year’s local Mountain region qualifying tournament slated for Saturday at the middle school from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. is a student at Aspen Middle School.
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