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Every semester Buena Vista High School recognizes our outstanding students earning a grade point average of 3.8 or greater.
The 2021 Kent Haruf Memorial Writing Scholarship is open to junior and senior high school students in Chaffee and Fremont counties for excellence in fiction and creative non-fiction writing.
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The Buena Vista school district board of directors shared a meeting Monday evening via a linkage with the town of Buena Vista.
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In her weekly update Monday, Buena Vista school district superintendent Lisa Yates said that the district had a single confirmed case of COVID-19.
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Buena Vista school district superintendent Lisa Yates reported five cases of coronavirus impacting the district Monday.
Central Colorado Humanists announced several $1,000 scholarships will be awarded in spring 2021. The application deadline is March 31.
The graduating seniors in Chaffee, Lake and western Fremont counties are invited to apply for the Alpine Orchestra Scholarship.
The Greater Arkansas River Nature Association is planning to award one or more $500 minimum scholarship(s) this spring for those planning to start post high school education this fall.
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Buena Vista school district 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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Buena Vista school district superintendent Lisa Yates reported three cases of COVID-19 in the district Monday.
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Buena Vista school district schools returned to in-person learning Tuesday after taking a 5-day shift to remote in response to confirmed positive cases of COVID-19.
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Beginning on Thursday, Jan. 28 and extending through Monday, Feb. 1, Buena Vista middle and high schools will shift to remote learning school-wide due to the percentage of students that have been identified as having close contacts to positive COVID-19 cases.
FORT HAYS, Kan. – Meghan Anderson of Buena Vista was named to the fall 2020 Dean’s Honor Roll at Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kan.
Tanner graduates from Wheaton College magna cum laude
CHADRON, Neb. – Chadron State College announced Sage McGinnis of Buena Vista has qualified for the institution’s fall 2020 President’s List.
CHADRON, Neb. – Chadron State College announced Hayden McGinnis of Buena Vista has qualified for the institution’s fall 2020 Dean’s List with at least a 3.5 grade point average on a 4.0 scale.
GREENVILLE, S.C. – Benjamin Landry, a Junior History major from Buena Vista, was among approximately 900 Bob Jones University students named to the Fall 2020 Dean’s List.
ALAMOSA – Michael Romero received a degree from Adams State University in Alamosa during the Spring 2020 virtual commencement ceremony on June 6.
ALAMOSA – Rebecca Carnaghi of Buena Vista received a degree from Adams State University in Alamosa during the Spring 2020 virtual commencement ceremony on June 6.
ALAMOSA – Tracy Lynn Chaney of Hartsel received a degree from Adams State University in Alamosa during the Spring 2020 virtual commencement ceremony on June 6.
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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.
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Buena Vista school district superintendent Lisa Yates said Monday in her weekly update that the district had four confirmed positive cases of COVID-19.
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The Buena Vista school district returned from winter break last week and resumed the school year with “very few confirmed cases,” said superintendent Lisa Yates said in her Monday morning release.
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During winter break, the Buena Vista school district reported three known confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 connected with the schools.
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The Buena Vista school district returned from winter break last week and resumed the school year with “very few confirmed cases,” said superintendent Lisa Yates said in her Monday morning release.
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Have you earned college credits but have no degree? A new scholarship at Colorado Mountain College can help you finish what you started.
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During winter break, the Buena Vista school district reported three known confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 connected with the schools.
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In her last weekly update of 2020, Buena Vista school district superintendent Lisa Yates said that the district has no confirmed positive cases in the school community as of Monday morning.
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The Boys & Girls Clubs of Chaffee County are on a well-deserved break through Jan. 4, but will be prepared for the challenges of providing programming in the winter when they open their doors again next year.
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Six kids at the Boys & Girls Club who lacked a space to do their homework took home desks crafted by a longtime volunteer with the Club.
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The Buena Vista School District Board of Education is seeking input from alumni of Buena Vista High School and Chaffee County High School.
Two new cases were reported at Chaffee County High School, district superintendent Lisa Yates said Monday morning.
What a joy it was to drive through the “Thank You Veterans” line at the elementary school with the students cheering and holding up their posters.
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The Buena Vista school district reported 8 new cases of COVID-19 within the district Monday, however, none of these cases resulted in school-related close contacts, superintendent Lisa Yates said.
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When students at the Buena Vista school district return from Thanksgiving break, they’ll return to in-person learning, said superintendent Lisa Yates in a letter to families Friday.
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Avery-Parsons Elementary Students gathered outside the school Wednesday Afternoon to thank veterans for their service. Complying with social distancing requirements, vets drove through the school’s pickup circle waving flags and honking their horns as students held up signs of gratitude.
Buena Vista school district buildings went into secure mode Tuesday afternoon after being advised by the Buena Vista Police Department of a vehicle pursuit on U.S. Highway 24.
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A classroom at Avery-Parsons Elementary School, as well as a "targeted group of about 20 students" at Buena Vista Middle School were moved into quarantine Friday, according to a text alert to Buena Vista School District families Friday afternoon.
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Conversation continued late into the night at the Nov. 9 meeting of the Buena Vista school board over Career and Technical Education and whether Buena Vista High School’s lack of an extensive program of CTE classes meant the district was doing a disservice to students who were opting out of pursuing a 4-year college degree after high school.
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Every semester Buena Vista High School recognizes our outstanding students earning a grade point average of 3.8 or greater.
Avery-Parsons Elementary School has changed the time for its drive-through, no-contact parade to 1:30-2 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 11.
All Salida School District campuses returned to in-person programming Tuesday.
All schools and classes within the Buena Vista School District system are in-person, said district superintendent Lisa Yates in her weekly update to district families on Nov. 2.
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Buena Vista High School Principal Jon Ail announced Thursday morning 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.
Avery-Parsons Elementary will be turning the concept of a parade on its head to show that gratitude for the service of Buena Vista veterans endures through a pandemic.
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Buena Vista High School’s Trident Theatre Company will present their fall performance this Monday, Nov. 2 and 6, and you can watch it from the comfort of your own home. That’s where the actors will be performing it, too.
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A group of roughly 25 students at Buena Vista High School will move to remote learning for at least a week to quarantine due to possible contact with COVID-19, district superintendent Lisa Yates said Monday.
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Fifteen people spoke in the public comment period of Monday’s meeting of the Buena Vista school board on the subject of adding Career Technical Education courses to the curriculum at BV schools.
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Buena Vista schools will be closed Monday, according to messaging sent out by the district late Sunday afternoon.
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Colorado Mountain College has been awarded a $2.125 million, 5-year grant through the U.S. Department of Education’s highly competitive Strengthening Institutions Program, according to a press release issued Monday.
SIP is intended to expand colleges’ capacity to serve low-income students by providing funds to improve and strengthen academic quality, institutional management and fiscal stability.
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Avery-Parsons Elementary School’s annual Halloween parade is happening in 2020, beginning at 2 p.m., Friday, Oct. 30, as is a homecoming parade the following day.
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Salida School District announced all Salida schools switch to remote learning Wednesday.
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On Monday, Buena Vista school district board members discussed a project proposal put forward at its previous meeting that would build a new district facility to house a kindergarten and preschool space as well as affordable housing for district employees.
Due to a positive case of COVID-19 at Salida High School all schools will move to remote learning Salida School District announced Tuesday.
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The Buena Vista school district is working with the town on plans for the annual Halloween Parade down East Main Street later this month.
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Students at Darren Patterson Christian Academy in Buena Vista began a year-long academic focus on trash late last month with a trip to Mt. Princeton Hot Springs Resort.
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The Buena Vista school district board of directors heard an update from Joseph Teipel, the executive director of the Chaffee County Community Foundation, on a partnership concept he introduced at the beginning of the year that would fund a multi-use development for the district.
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Students at Buena Vista Middle School returned to in-person learning Wednesday following a 2-week quarantine due to a confirmed positive case of COVID-19 at Buena Vista Middle and High School.
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Three weeks into the fall semester at the Buena Vista school district, Avery-Parsons Elementary School put the district’s COVID-19 protocols into action following the confirmation of a positive case of the illness at the elementary school Monday.
Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine – Southern Utah is pleased to announce the acceptance of student doctor Keenan Barr of Buena Vista.
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The Boys & Girls Club of Chaffee County has continued to provide service to families in the county throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, even as social distancing measures forced the traditionally face-to-face organization to adapt, said executive director Brian Beaulieu.
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The plans and protocols that staff at the Buena Vista school district, as well as partners in the local medical field working to make the return to in-person learning as safe as possible, left the realm of theory and entered the world of practical application when the fall school semester commenced Thursday, Aug. 27.
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With schools starting back for the fall semester this week, the Buena Vista school board received an update from local healthcare providers about the protocols the medical community would be observing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Liz Barnaby, the new director of the Grove, Avery-Parsons Elementary’s preschool, brings with her a lifelong love of working with children and a desire to build a staff family at the school.
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The Buena Vista school district will begin the fall semester next Thursday, Aug. 27.
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Buena Vista High School’s new principal, Jon Ail, brings 20 years of education experience to his role as head of the school in BV, where he says he hopes to stay for the rest of of his career.
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A sure sign that summer is coming to an end and the new school year is fast approaching: The Buena Vista School District board’s Aug. 10 meeting saw the introduction of new teachers and the return of reports from school administrators, who shared their outlooks about returning to school during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Buena Vista school district will host a Jump Start to Kindergarten program to help incoming students at The Grove early school who were unable to have orientation due to COVID-19, district superintendent Lisa Yates said in a weekly email to families Monday.
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Phase B of the building project at Buena Vista Middle and High School – including art classrooms, a new gym, food service room, athletic commons, kitchen servery and the flex commons – will be complete by October, said Buena Vista school district superintendent Lisa Yates.
The physical education complex will be ready for students when they return to school at the end of August, Yates said in her weekly letter to district families.
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During a weekly Zoom meeting with parents Monday, Buena Vista school district superintendent Lisa Yates went further into the district’s plan to reopen schools to in-person learning when the new semester begins Aug. 27.
WINFIELD, Kan. – Southwestern College announced Heather Harnish of Buena Vista was named the Dean’s Honor Roll for the fall 2019 semester. Full-time students who earned grade point averages of at least 3.70 (4.0 equals an A) were eligible for the honor.
GREELEY – The following local students were among those who received degrees from the University of Northern Colorado at the end of the spring 2020 semester.
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