Laura Keathley, a multi-needs special education teacher at Avery-Parsons Elementary School, has always loved watching her students progress and finding ways of reaching to the specific education needs of each child. Now, at the end of her 22nd year at the school, she prepares for retirement. “It’s been 22 years of just laughing,” she says. “We don’t take ourselves too seriously. That joy of really getting to know these kids for who they are has just been amazing.”

The Trident Theatre Company hosted a night of one-act plays May 21 directed and performed by students of the 2022 advanced theater class.

Buena Vista High School celebrates its 50th annual Creative Arts Fair showcasing the students’ work in paintings, drawings, metal, wood, ceramics and more from 4-7:30 p.m., Tuesday, May 17 and Wednesday, May 18.

About 50% of all Americans say they feel sleepy, three to seven days per week.

After submitting an audition video recording in 2019, the Buena Vista High School concert band was accepted to perform live at Disneyland. After a long delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, that trip finally took flight March 17-22.

BVHS students who recently participated in the CSU-Pueblo Festival of Winds Honor Band included, front row from left, Keyden Schneiter, trumpet; Danielle Neufeld, clarinet; Peytn Wakefield and Audrey McFadden, clarinet; second row Marti Bott, BVHS Band director; Caleb Collier, horn; Andrew C…

The First Ascent Youth Leadership program is now accepting applications for its free multi-day course based out of Colorado Mountain College’s campus in Leadville.

For only the second time in the history of Boys and Girls Clubs of Chaffee County, a member was chosen twice to represent Chaffee County as Youth of the Year.

The inaugural 2022 Rocky Mountain Early Childhood Conference Excellence award ceremony in Denver March 12 and chose a winner for seven categories, including a nominee from Buena Vista – Roberta Rodriguez, director and teacher at Busy Bees Preschool, for Family Companion.

Four area youth have earned a trip of a lifetime this summer – they will participate in the 2022 National Rural Electric Association Youth Tour in Washington, D.C.in June, sponsored by SDCEA.

The Buena Vista High School Trident Theatre Company brings magic and musical comedy to the BVHS Flex Commons in “Disney’s Descendants: The Musical.”

The Buena Vista school district announced early Wednesday it will conduct a district-wide incident response drill sometime next week.

The Greater Arkansas River Nature Association is planning to award one or more, $500 minimum, scholarship(s) in the spring of 2022 to those planning to start post high school education in the fall of 2022.

Nominations have been filed for numerous categories in the 2022 Rocky Mountain Early Childhood Conference Excellence Awards. Under the category of Family Companion Award, three finalists have been selected including Buena Vista’s Roberta Rodriguez.

Times Best of BV reader favorite Sorelle Delicatessen will be lending support to local students by donating 10 percent of proceeds Thursday, Feb. 24, to Avery-Parsons Elementary School.

Buena Vista High School is surveying local businesses to link up more students with work and internship opportunities. Two programs, a longer-standing work experience program and a newer internship program, will be featured at a job fair hosted by the school in March.

As a part of Youth Appreciation Week, the Buena Vista Optimist Club joined the school district in expressing appreciation and support of the positive contributions that our youth have made to their school and community since the start of the school year. The awards were presented Feb. 3..

The board of education for the Buena Vista school district held a special meeting on Feb. 1 to pass a resolution on facilities development toward the district’s goals of expanding preschool and elementary space and relocating Chaffee County High School.

The board of education for Buena Vista School District will hold a special meeting on at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 1 at the district’s administrative building at 113 North Court Street.

The Buena Vista board of education convened on Jan. 24 at their Court Street school district administration building. The board received updates from the school’s head of human resources, Jenny Swango, and unanimously voted to enter into a contract to sell the McGinnis Gym and administration building to local preservationists.

The Central Colorado Humanists is pleased to announce its sponsorship of several scholarships to be awarded in the spring of 2022.

The Shining Mountains Montessori School will begin accepting applications for enrollment Friday, Jan. 21. Located in the historic chapel at 343 U.S. 24 South, lead teacher and school director Lisa Lamb said the school should open to students in April or May.

The stated purpose of the Jan. 10 Buena Vista school district board of education’s work session was to discuss and gather feedback on all the district’s recent property sales decisions. However, most of the hour-long work session ended up being devoted to discussing the presently uncertain future of Chaffee County High School.

Numerous musical students have earned Colorado all-state honors.

This weekend, Buena Vista High School hosts a concert performed by the Collegiate Peaks Select Honor Jazz Band.

The U.S. Forest Service is seeking nominations for the Secure Rural Schools Resource Advisory Committee for the Greater Rocky Mountain region.

One of Buena Vista’s longest running food assistance programs is seeking additional volunteers and funding support. The Backpack food program serves between 60 and 75 youth every week and has been in operation for over a decade.