Following backlash from administrators, the Summit School District Board of Education reversed course at its meeting Thursday, May 27, approving new administrator contracts without the proposed at-will language. The change, which would have aligned the.
Dr. Gretchen Norton administers the COVID-19 vaccine to Summit High School girls basketball coach Kayle Walker-Burns on Feb. 13 at the bus depot in Frisco.
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Summit County reported 19 new cases of COVID-19 over the week, according to the county’s coronavirus webpage the lowest number of new cases since the week of Sept. 6, when three new cases were reported.
The total number of cases among residents stands at 3,690. No new hospitalizations among residents were reported over the week, keeping the total at 136 since March 5, 2020.
, the county was reporting 64.6 new cases per 100,000 residents as of 4 p.m. Friday. That number is down 9.6 cases per 100,000 residents from last week.
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Therapy can be a lifeline.
Katherine Eldredge, a student at Summit Middle School, wants to use her experience in the behavioral health system to educate her peers on the resources available to them.
The 13-year-old goes to family and individual therapy to deal with stress, anxiety and her parents’ divorce. Mental health issues have been compounded across the globe because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, and she is on a mission to make sure kids in similar situations don’t fall through the cracks.
Passionate about children’s rights, Eldredge used a recent school assignment to raise awareness about mental health. Because it can be confusing to navigate the field when students don’t know what their options are, she wants to turn her passion into a career.
Three cases at Summit Middle School
Four cases at a teenage social gathering in Breckenridge
Four cases at an adult social gathering in Breckenridge
Two cases at DoubleTree by Hilton hotel in Breckenridge
Two cases at Breckenridge Mountain Information at Breckenridge Ski Resort
Three cases at an adult social gathering in Silverthorne
Two cases on a youth lacrosse team in Silverthorne
Two cases on ski patrol at Keystone Resort
Five cases at an adult social gathering in Copper Mountain
Two cases at Summit Middle School
School data
Two quarantines were issued on Sunday, April 4, at Frisco Elementary because of positive cases.
Summit County reported 51 new cases of COVID-19 over the week, according to the county’s coronavirus webpage.
The total number of cases among residents stands at 3,110. No hospitalizations among residents were reported over the week, keeping the total number since March 5, 2020, at 128.
Also this week, the county reported two additional deaths from the virus, which occurred Feb. 5 and 6. No additional information about the deaths was provided, and the total number of deaths since the pandemic began is unclear.
On the state’s COVID-19 dial, the county has remained within level yellow. According to the state’s dial dashboard
, the county was reporting 158.2 new cases per 100,000 people as of 4 p.m. Friday. That number is down 41.9 cases per 100,000 people from last week and falls within level yellow on the dial.