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People walk past the 35-foot tall, 65-foot diameter “Epicenter” sculpture as they enter the new Weidner Field Friday night, April 23, 2021. The $4.5 million sculpture at the entrance to the soccer stadium was reveal to an invited crowd during a tour of the new facility. The Switchbacks play their first match at the stadium Saturday in a preseason game against Orange County. (The Gazette, Christian Murdock)
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The numbers released by the CDPHE on April 7, however, reflect 626 active and 3,787 resolved outbreaks, adding up to to 4,413 a leap of 127 outbreaks, and more than a 69 percent increase in a week, to the highest weekly total since January 27, as the state was working through the remnants of a holiday surge.
Given the overall rise, it s no surprise that several major outbreak categories saw increases this week. Fresh outbreaks at twelve K-12 schools had been included on March 31; fifteen popped up on April 7. Twelve outbreaks at health-care facilities were announced on March 31 and again on April 7, but nine of the latest are at facilities that cater to vulnerable seniors, as opposed to six a week earlier. There are eight more outbreaks at retailers, led by the giant Costco complex in Westminster seen at the top of this post.
Yes, Connecticut-style pizza is a thing. Griffin Swartzell
Itâs long been noted that, for a variety of reasons, the Springsâ dining trends have lagged behind other major citiesâ. Perhaps the closest example, the
Indyâs food writing team has pointed out the substantially different vibe we get when a Denver restaurant concept expands to the Springs, Ã la Jax Fish House & Oyster Bar, Ambli and, most recently, Birdcall. Prior to that, when Atomic Cowboy and Dos Santos Taqueria opened on South Tejon Street in 2018, food editor Matthew Schniper coined the term âDenverizationâ to describe the emerging trend.
But in retrospect, this invites a few questions: Why should the Springs food scene follow Denverâs? Isnât the whole reason folks come here instead of the Mile High City the fact that, expensive as the Springs has gotten, itâs still way more affordable than Denver? These spots generally arenât cheap