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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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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Salida School Board approved new director district boundaries for R-32-J.
Salida School District director districts may change slightly with the adoption of a resolution to revise those districts based on demographic information from a recent population survey.
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Shavano Academic Booster Club announced its November students of the month for Salida School District R-32-J.
In her last weekly update of 2020, Buena Vista School District Superintendent Lisa Yates said the district has no confirmed positive cases in the school community as of Monday morning.
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Despite opening during a pandemic, Colorado Mountain College Salida had a great semester.
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Shavano Academic Booster Club announced its December students of the month for Salida School District R-32-J.
Salida High School graduate Taryn Ceglowski was recently named to the Fall Dean’s List at University of Sioux Falls.
Registration is underway for spring classes at Colorado Mountain College.
The Salida School District audit for the 2019-2020 school year performed by Clifton Larson Allen was reported to be a clean audit by auditor Allison Slife.
Sangre de Cristo Electric Association will award one four-year scholarship at $2,000 per year to a graduating high school senior only and 13 $2,000 one-time scholarships in 2021.
Salida High School is receiving a $50,000 grant from the state of Colorado, which will allow the school to expand its concurrent enrollment program.
The Greater Arkansas River Nature Association (GARNA) is hosting programs to supplement homeschooling in Salida in December.
Salida Middle School eighth-graders enjoy a sweet treat as a reward for not missing any classes, either in-person or remote, and turning in all assignments for the first quarter.
Salida School Superintendent David Blackburn announced the suspension of district programming for Monday and Tuesday at all Salida Schools.
Shavano Academic Booster Club announced its October students of the month for Salida School District R-32-J.
Longfellow Elementary students will remain in distance learning today, but are scheduled to resume in-person learning Monday.
Salida Sunrise Rotary will accept applications Nov. 9 through Dec. 1 for winter/spring semester 2021 scholarships.
Fifteen people spoke in the public comment period during the Buena Vista school board meeting on the subject of adding Career Technical Education courses to the curriculum.
All Salida School District campuses will return to in-person programming today.
Salida High School officials recently announced the honor roll and honor roll of distinction for the first quarter.
Salida School District Transportation manager Evalyn Parks announced Tuesday the addition of a new bus route for district students effective Monday morning.
Buena Vista High School Principal Jon Ail announced Thursday that homecoming events scheduled to take place this weekend would be rescheduled to mid-November in light of a number of students being quarantined due to potential contact with a presumed positive COVID-19 case.
Shavano Academic Booster Club announced its September students of the month for Salida School District R-32-J.
Cotopaxi authors, Joni Franks and Nancy Oswald contributed to “Prompts for Young Writers,” a free ebook for teachers and parents created by Colorado Authors League.
Editor’s note: This is a letter sent out by Salida School District to families Sunday afternoon.
In-person programming for Longfellow and the Early Childhood Center is set to resume Tuesday.
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Horizons Exploratory Academy students headed out to Mission: Wolf, a wolf sanctuary in Westcliffe, recently for volunteer work and to learn about wolves and the sustainable environment they live in.
Students from from Keri Weis’s second grade class listen as tour guide Steve Chapman of Salida Walking Tours tells tales about Salida’s past. Longfellow Elementary School second-graders study Salida’s history as part of their social studies curriculum.
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Salida School Board unanimously elected Joel McBride as board president to fill the spot left by resigning school board member Jennifer Visitacion.
Salida School board will elect a new board president to fill the position left by the resignation of Jennifer Visitacion.
Salida School District reported a decrease in enrollments of more than 80 students.
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Salida School District moved to remote learning Tuesday after two positive COVID-19 cases prompted the action. One student and one staff member have tested positive in the school district.
