In 3-2 vote, Avon Town Council favors appeal of judge s order to hold recall election vaildaily.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from vaildaily.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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A plastic shopping bag is surrounded by a circle of liquid somewhere in Athmar Park. Dec. 3, 2019. Has anyone on this Zoom call actually touched one of these bags? asked Councilor Amy Phillips at an Avon Town Council meeting last month. I did, said Councilor Russell Andrade. My first impression was that it definitely felt like a disposable, one-use bag.
Avon banned plastic bags in 2018 from all retailers, with the purpose to protect the public health, safety and welfare from pollution-related to plastic bags. Many Colorado mountain towns have adopted similar laws to keep them out of rivers, trees, landfills and recycling centers the bags jam up machinery.
A little over a year after announcing it could no longer sustain the current Advanced Life Support (ALS) service line (EMS), Memorial Regional Health and its partners Craig Fire/Rescue, city of Craig and Moffat County are progressing in a plan to solve a serious funding issue regarding the critical community service.
During the Feb. 24 MRH Board of Trustees meeting, an update regarding the future EMS district stated that the EMS partnership is still in the process of establishing service area boundary lines and has settled on a name for the district: Moffat County Health Services District.
Much still needs to be worked through with the district though, the updated said.
Saying Walmart has found a loophole, Avon looks to tighten regs on plastic bags vaildaily.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from vaildaily.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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The Chaffee County Commissioners will be the next elected body to consider joining Avon and Eagle County in hiring an attorney to examine the Tennessee Pass railroad reactivation. for the commissioners’ Tuesday meeting contains an action item in which the body will “consider jointly retaining the law firm Kaplan Kirsch & Rockwell LLP to represent the county related to the proposed activation of freight service on the Tennessee Pass rail line and matters related to potential uses of the Union Pacific rail line through Tennessee Pass.”
In January, Eagle County and the town of Avon agreed to hire Kaplan Kirsch & Rockwell as news of the possible reactivation of the rail line, which runs though both Chaffee County and Eagle County, was breaking.