Starting Friday, fully vaccinated people in Pitkin County will no longer have to wear facemasks or practice social distancing in indoor or outdoor settings.
People walk along Main St. in downtown Aspen in the city’s designated outdoor mask zones on Tuesday, April 27, 2021. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
Whether local, state or federal, the facemask announcements came flying at a fast and furious pace at the end of this week.
First, on Thursday came news from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control that fully vaccinated Americans could chuck the ubiquitous facemask, both outdoors and indoors, that everyone’s gotten used to wearing during the last year, and deep-six the social distancing. Some exceptions apply – most notably public travel – but the announcement felt like a long time coming.
When It’s Italia closed its doors on March 17, 2020, owner Betsy del Fierro was concerned for the 24-year-old family business in Half Moon Bay. Now, after more than a
VOORHEES On opening night a couple decided to try a new steakhouse whose intriguing name, Library II, made it sound like a place to research a term paper rather than dine.
Tom and Colleen Petruzzi discovered great steak on that first visit as well as seafood, a grand salad bar and a huge wrap-around bar. They also discovered books wall-to-wall wooden shelves of them in the dark wooden dining room and bar area, hanging lamps giving off a warm yet dimly lit atmosphere.
That fine culinary experience more than 40 years ago led the couple to become weekly and sometimes twice-weekly diners at Library II. The restaurant was initially called The Rafters in 1947 and then Saddle and Spur is at the same spot on Route 73 on the border of Camden and Burlington counties.
VOORHEES On opening night a couple decided to try a new steakhouse whose intriguing name, Library II, made it sound like a place to research a term paper rather than dine.
Tom and Colleen Petruzzi discovered on that first visit great steak and seafood, a grand salad bar and a huge wrap-around bar. But they also discovered books wall-to-wall wooden shelves of them in the dark wooden dining room and bar area, hanging lamps giving off a warm yet dimly lit atmosphere.
That fine culinary experience more than 40 years ago led the couple to become weekly and sometimes twice-weekly diners at Library II. The restaurant was initially called The Rafters in 1947 and then Saddle and Spur is at the same spot on Route 73 on the border of Camden and Burlington counties.