The Ridgway School Board approved a contract for its new secondary school principal in a meeting last week, during which limited public comment was allowed.

The board’s new policy of restricting public comments to those submitted nearly 24 hours prior to meetings, as emailed Word documents, meant only five comments were accepted by the board.

But that didn’t stop one parent from attempt ing to use the chat function of the Zoom meeting to voice her displeasure with the board’s hir...