Non-conference games nixed by health officer

Fall sports in Jefferson County are the next round of activities to be altered or cancelled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. 

Jefferson High School was to have started the season off at home Friday against Florence, a non-conference team. That season opener, along with many other games, were nixed by the Jefferson County Health Officer Joan Van Duynhoven, who has ordered all non-conference games for high school varsity and JV football, volleyball and cross-country be canceled. 

Instead, the Panthers varsity football team will begin its fall season squaring off against the  Whitehall Trojans on Friday, Sept. 4, 7 p.m. in Whitehall — replacing a canceled contest against Huntley Project, from Yellowstone County.