Health Board: Order to cancel non-conference fall sports stands

The Jefferson County Health Board declined to vote publicly on upholding or rescinding an order, issued by the previous health officer, that calls for canceling participation in non-conference games by the county’s two high schools’ athletic teams this fall due to the pandemic. 

The denial followed a request by Whitehall High School Superintendent Hannah Nieskens at the Sept. 22 Health Board meeting.

“Do it. Vote in public,” said Nieskens, who had attended the meeting via Zoom.