In first round of drawings for vaccine incentives, five $50,000 scholarships were awarded to youth 12-17 years old, a Thursday press release stated.
Salida School District R-32-J school board voted to rescind the district’s declaration of fiscal exigency at their regular June meeting.
Heart of the Rockies Regional Medical Center Foundation recently announced it is offering two scholarships of $2,500 each for current college students planning to pursue a career in healthcare.
The question of rescinding the Salida School Board’s declaration of fiscal exigency is again on the agenda for the June board meeting.
Central Colorado Humanists recently announced recipients of their $1,000 scholarship.
Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction recently recognized Salidan Abby Groover for academic achievement for the spring 2021 semester by placing her on the dean’s list.
Heart of the Rockies Regional Medical Center Auxiliary awarded its 2021 scholarship to Raley Patch of Salida.
Caleb Richardson of Salida and Riley Truitt of Buena Vista recently were named to the spring semester dean’s list at Grove City College.
Salidan Taryn Ceglowski recently graduated magna cum laude from the University of Sioux Falls in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
The Colorado Mountain College Board of Trustees provided initial review at its May 18 meeting of a long-term lease with the Salida School District for use of its Kesner Building by the CMC Salida campus.
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An end-of-the-school-year tradition will continue Thursday and Friday as Salida’s youth musicians take the stage at Riverside Park for SunFest.
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Lily Lengerich, a 2021 Salida High School graduate, received the $1,000 Anthony M. “Mickey” Marchase Memorial Scholarship.
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by D.J. DeJong
The Board of Education of Salida School District R-32-J announced Tuesday six school board seats will be up for election in the November election.
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It’s the end of an era at Salida High School as Tammy Thompson, principal for the past 13 years, retires and passes the torch.
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Shavano Academic Booster Club announced its May students of the month for Salida School District R-32-J.
Colorado Mountain College will celebrate the accomplishments of its graduates during in-person commencement ceremonies May 7-8.
Salida Sunrise Rotary is offering grants in youth, education and vocational projects; community service; and environmental programs. Grant applications open April 15 through May 15.
Salida School District R-32-J board members voted to approve the lease of the Kesner building to Colorado Mountain College for three years at a rate of $15,000 per month.
Directors discussed whether or not they would allow the Clay Target League, Buena Vista High School Demon’s newest athletic team to letter in their sport during the school board’s meeting.
Salida School District R-32-J board members voted to approve the lease of the Kesner building to Colorado Mountain College for three years at a rate of $15,000 per month.
For the third week in a row, Buena Vista schools reported no cases of COVID-19 in superintendent Lisa Yates’s Monday update.
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Students in the Crest Academy seventh- and eighth-grade classes have been working on a display about Isaac William Haight for several months and set it in place Wednesday at the Salida Museum.
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Salida High School science teacher Heidi Slaymaker, was notified March 11, that she had received a Boettcher Teacher Recognition Award after being nominated by senior Sophie Pressly, a Boettcher Scholarship finalist.
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Salida Middle School sixth-graders learned a life lesson, got some exercise and raised money for a worthy cause Thursday morning as they climbed Tenderfoot Mountain carrying five-gallon containers of water.
The kids at Crest Academy are back in business.
Elena Dunn, a junior at Buena Vista High School, received fifth place in the Colorado Veterans of Foreign Wars annual Voice of Democracy speech contest.
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Shavano Academic Booster Club announced its March students of the month for Salida School District R-32-J.
Proposed changes to the Salida High School graduation requirements was a main topic of conversation at the Salida School Board meeting Tuesday.
A recurring topic of discussion for Buena Vista School District R-31 board members recently has been attending to the growth of the district’s student body and addressing the facility needs that will come with that growth.
Buena Vista School District R-31 has four cases of COVID-19 virus impacting the school community, district superintendent Lisa Yates said in her weekly Monday morning update.
Support Our Salida Schools is granting two $1,000 scholarships to eligible 2021 Salida High School graduates.
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Thirty five years ago, the late Betty Blackwell saw a need for a Christian day care and preschool in the community and Temple Baptist Church established Son Shine.
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Seventh-grade poets at Salida Middle School celebrate the publication of their work in a book of poetry published by Creative Communication, a publisher of student writing. English teacher Jacque Fisher said the company receives thousands of entries, and less than 50 percent of submissions a…
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Alternative educators are used to thinking outside the box to solve problems.
Salida High School graduates Zane Timko and Susan Wadsworth earned spots on the University of Wyoming’s Dean’s Honor Roll for the fall semester.
Salida High School officials recently announced the first semester honor roll and honor roll of distinction.
Thanks to two grants awarded in the past year totaling $100,000 from the VF Foundation, Colorado Mountain College is expanding the range of its sustainability and outdoor leadership offerings to a diverse population.
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Buena Vista School District R-31 staff will begin to receive the COVID-19 vaccine Friday, superintendent Lisa Yates told the district board of directors Monday, with the goal that the staff will go into spring break fully vaccinated.
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Salida School Board will consider a resolution declaring fiscal exigency at Tuesday’s school board meeting.
The Buena Vista School Board continued to discuss the possibility of entering into a ground lease for property near the district administration building that would be used for employee housing and a daycare space.
Shavano Academic Booster Club announced its February students of the month for Salida School District R-32-J.
Colorado Mountain College Trustees unanimously voted recently to increase tuition for 2021-22 by $5 per credit hour, for all categories except non-resident students, who will not see an increase.
Buena Vista Middle and High schools will shift to remote learning through Monday due to the percentage of students who have been identified as having close contacts to positive COVID-19 cases.
Shavano Academic Booster Club announced its January students of the month for Salida School District R-32-J.
Abby Groover was recognized by Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction for Academic Achievement for Fall 2020 with the honor of being placed on the Dean’s List.
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The wait to start high school sports has been extended by a week in Salida.
Salida School District announced Salida High School will in be remote learning mode until Monday
The Buena Vista school district returned from winter break and resumed the school year with “very few confirmed cases,” Superintendent Lisa Yates said in her Monday morning release.
Buena Vistan Benjamin Landry was named to the Fall 2020 Dean’s List at Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina.
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