Coronavirus was a hot topic at last Thursday’s Ridgway School Board meeting with two members of the public voicing concerns.

Ridgway parent John Countryman, who has five children at the school, asked the board to consider the district’s response system in the case of an outbreak of COVID-19, the strain of coronavirus that has become an international concern. He suggested the board gets ahead of trouble with a “proactive plan” starting with defining what would be considered an outbreak and...