Pitkin County Judge Erin Fernandez-Ely is retiring in October, after 21 years and thousands of misdemeanor cases. She made an impact on just as many people’s lives.
David Bull of the Aspen School District’s facilities department swabs his mouth while self-administering a COVID-19 test outside of Aspen Middle School on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. This is Bull’s third test and the previous results were negative. He explained he takes the tests because he has a wife and son at home, as well as wanting to make sure he’s keeping the elderly employees he works with safe. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
Aspen School District will not mandate vaccines for students and does not plan on implementing quarantines but is still evaluating mask policies for the 2021-22 school year, Superintendent David Baugh confirmed this week.
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Jazz Aspen Snowmass will release singe-day passes for the JAS June Experience on Friday, following its announcement of COVID-19 protocols earlier this week, which allowed producers to add capacity.
Passes go on-sale at 9 a.m. Friday and include performances at Belly Up Aspen, Wheeler Opera House and the Hotel Jerome.
A pass for June 25 ($150) includes Betty Lavette at the Wheeler, The Motet at Belly Up and Dumpstaphunk, George Porter, Jr. and Jon Cleary at the Hotel Jerome.
The pass for June 26 ($125) includes Ulysses Owen Jr. at the Wheeler; Dumpstaphunk, George Porter Jr. and Jon Cleary at Belly Up, and Sammy Miller & the Congregation at the Jerome.
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Jazz Aspen Snowmass will require that all attendees at the JAS June Experience and JAS Café concerts be either fully vaccinated against the novel coronavirus or provide proof of a current negative test, the nonprofit announced Tuesday.
Following recent recommendations by Pitkin County and mirroring the policy adopted by Belly Up Aspen, Jazz Aspen will devote at least 80% of venue capacity to fully vaccinated concert-goers and 20% to those with negative tests.
“This policy is intended to provide the safest possible environment and most normal concert experience possible for artists, audiences and staff,” reads the announcement.
As a result of the new policy, which will note require masks or distancing, capacity will be significantly increased for both the June Experience (June 24-27) and the JAS Café series (June 18-Aug. 15). Ticket updates are expected to follow soon.
Eagle County, which has the largest Latino population among the three counties making up the Roaring Fork Valley and surrounding environs, 60% of white people have received one dose, compared with 15% of Latinos, who make up 29.6% of Eagle’s population. A racial equity gap in vaccination appears less pronounced in Pitkin and Garfield counties; however, those counties have higher proportions of residents who did not report their race upon being vaccinated, which can skew results. Yet the disparity remains clear.