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New COVID-19 restrictions will prohibit indoor dining, personal gatherings
Closing celebration
Adams City Class of 2021 marches BY PHOTOS BY SCOTT TAYLOR
The 380 members of Adams City High School’s class of 2021 braved dark clouds to celebrate their commencement on May 22 at their high school athletic field. Families and friends filled the
A decorated mortar board celebrates an Adams City graduate’s accomplishment May 22.
Adams City Class of 2021 Valedictorian Stephanie Cantellano-Gomez gives her speech May 22 at the school’s athletic field.
Graduating seniors listen to the speeches May 22 at Adams City High School’s athletic field during the 2021 graduation ceremony.
for few gusts that caught parts of the speakers’ podium, most of the wind.
open seats a the back of the field and the west stands to cheer on the graduates. The day’s dark skies and reports of stormy weather didn’t amount to much and the ceremony managed to avoid rain and, except
An Adams City graduate stands for a photograph with Family and friends fill the stands and line up alongside the Principal Paul Sandos after receiving her diploma May 22 track to watch their favorite Adams City Class of 2021 graduat the school’s graduation ceremony. ates line up to get their diplomas May 22 at the school’s athletic field.
By Ellis Arnold
county is required to follow based on the severity of a county’s local virus spread. The dial grew out of the state’s safer-athome order — the policy that came after the statewide stay-at-home order this ter from spring andseveral allowedcommunities numerous typesinof Denver’s northern businesses to reopen. area, including Aurora, Denver, Commerce City state recently switched to color andThe Brighton as well as Denver identifiers — levels blue, yellow and International Airport and the South orange rather than numbered levels — to Adams County Water and Sanitation District. Work on the pipeline avoid confusion. Until Nov. 17, level red is supposed to continue through 2023, meant a stay-at-home order. Now, level with it being brought into service in red — “severe risk” — is the second2024.
Second Creek Pipeline work kicks off
A long line of cars outside the city of Brighton’s rapid testing site at Riverdale Regional Park. The site has had to close early many days in recent weeks due to high demand. Adams County’s 14-day test positivity rate was 15.9 percent, as of Nov. 17, according to Tri-County Health Department. Metro rates Denver’s commuBrighton and Commerce City’s test positivity werenorthern both higher than nities up to the Metro Wastewater 13 percent. Forty-five people in Brighton and 29 in Commerce City have Reclamation District’s Northern died from COVID-19 related health issues. To limit the spread of COVID-19, Treatment Plant in Brighton. “This solution allows us to plan at least 15 counties moved to tighter restrictions that prohibits indoor and for along term growth in each of our personal gatherings.
Wastewater treatment district touts project as aid to Northern metro growth BY SCOTT TAYLOR STAYLOR@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Officials virtually kicked off work on a 17-mile-long pipeline May 20 designed to bring wastewater from
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regions. Growth is not slowing down any time soon and we have to plan for the future, and in ways we’ve never hadPhoto to plan before,” Adams by Belen Ward County Commissioner Chaz Tedesco said during the virtual groundbreaking ceremony. Tedesco spoke
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As Denver metro counties continue to inch closer to local stay-at-home orders via hisColorado’s smartphone while others under system of coronaviruslogged on from around the area. related restrictions, the state announced “This service is essential, not a new levelas of our rulescommunities that prohibits indoor optional, grow,” dining and personal gatherings — Tedesco said. “By providing 17amiles change appliesthat to the majoritytoofthe the of new that pipeline connects newest treatment plant, we’ll be able Denver metro area and many counties in to expand our current water reclaother regions. mation services to our northeastern The state’s COVID-19 dial, which has portions of the metro region. Recbeen in effect since September, is the set lamation will be more efficient and of different levelsresources.” of restrictions that each will use fewer The pipeline will take wastewa-
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