by Mr. Leadville | Nov 20, 2020 | Leadville News
The U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree, a 55-foot-tall Engelmann spruce, was cut Nov. 5 on national forest land near Montrose and is being trucked across the country to Washington, D.C., where it will be set up and decorated as the nation’s Christmas tree. I saw the Capitol...
by Mr. Leadville | Nov 20, 2020 | Leadville News
Asthma-inducing poor air quality is most often associated with industry- and car-heavy Front Range cities. Or in a dry summer like 2020, smaller towns suffocating in wildfire smoke. Hours of driving away from Colorado’s biggest cities, though, the San Luis Valley has...
by Mr. Leadville | Nov 20, 2020 | Leadville News
Students wearing masks head to Hodgkins Leadership Academy in Westminster in August. | Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post As more Colorado school districts move some or all of their students to online learning, state public health officials issued a new report that stresses...
by Mr. Leadville | Nov 20, 2020 | Leadville News
DENVER — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis outlined a plan Friday to organize hospitals’ response to the coronavirus. But he shied away from issuing a statewide stay-at-home order as cases have surged to their highest levels since the pandemic began. Polis said during a news...
by Mr. Leadville | Nov 20, 2020 | Leadville News
Snow will be the big weather story in the Colorado high country for the second weekend in a row. An area of low pressure will race from the West Coast into the central Rockies late Friday night. Snow will gradually develop in the mountains overnight Friday and persist...
by Mr. Leadville | Nov 20, 2020 | Leadville News
As technology companies sent workers home in the early days of the coronavirus outbreak, they also were among the best equipped to keep staff since employees didn’t need to be at the office to sit in front of a computer. And as it turned out, such companies not only...