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 Buena Vista school district’s board of education held its first work session and regular meeting of the year on Jan. 10 in a hybrid format.
The meeting room at 113 North Court St. was full to capacity and about a dozen attended via Zoom.
Numerous musical students have earned Colorado all-state honors.
The Buena Vista High School concert band’s spring break is going to be magical. Director Marti Bott and sponsors have arranged for the group to travel to California in March to perform at Disneyland.
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.
The Colorado Bandmasters Association seeks to bring together the best jazz students from across the state for the Colorado All-State Jazz Band, including Buena Vista High School senior Malachi Little.
The Buena Vista school district will add an electric school bus to its daily route schedule in 2022 at no cost to the school district.
Buena Vista school district’s board of education gathered on Dec. 13 for its final meeting of the year.
Superintendent Lisa Yates also held her weekly Monday Minute Zoom meeting.
The Buena Vista High School student council is ready to deliver gifts to about 115 children in the area for this year’s Toys for Tikes program.
Superintendent Lisa Yates held a weekly Zoom meeting for parents on Dec. 6 to provide updates on the latest Buena Vista school district developments. Topics discussed included a COVID update and some clarifications on the district’s calendar survey.
The Buena Vista school board convened Nov. 29 to swear in Lynn Montoya and Nancy Best and say farewell to Erik Phillips and Ken McMurry.
Eight Buena Vista High School students represented Buena Vista at the Tri-Peaks League Honor Band in Manitou Springs Nov. 8-9.
Every semester Buena Vista High School recognizes our outstanding students earning a grade point average of 3.8 or greater in at least five academic classes.
For the first time this academic year, all Salida schools will go remote, starting today through Thanksgiving break.
The Buena Vista marching band performed at the SoCo (Southern Colorado) Marching Exhibition at the Pueblo County High School stadium Oct. 11.
The resource advisory committee covering the Rocky Mountain region for the Secure Rural Schools program is being restructured. The Greater Rocky Mountain RAC in the Rocky Mountain Region will be created by consolidating the Saguache-Upper Rio Grande, Rocky Mountain and San Juan RACs.
Chaffee County received more than $250,000 from the program this year.
A student from Chaffee County High School gave a presentation on his service learning project to open the Buena Vista school district board of education’s meeting on Nov. 8.
The eighth annual film screening benefit event for Buena Vista’s adaptive skiers and snowboarders will take place Nov. 12 at Surf Hotel’s Ivy Ballroom. Doors will open at 6 p.m. and the showing will start at 7 p.m.
The Trident Theatre Company brought frights and delights to Buena Vista High School Halloween weekend with “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
The Buena Vista School District will now release board information packets to the public in advance of their bi-monthly meetings.
The Trident Theatre Company of Buena Vista High School brings stories to life on the stage not just with acting. More than a handful of students devote themselves to creating the right atmosphere and enhancing the experience, from makeup and costume to lighting and sound.
Preliminary enrollment numbers for the 2021-2022 school year at Buena Vista schools have been released. Total enrollments are up from last year at all BV schools except Chaffee County High School. The total head count increased by 94 students from 2020-2021.
Student population at Salida School District is close to what is was before the pandemic hit in spring 2020.
Buena Vista school district superintendent Lisa Yates held a weekly Zoom meeting for families Nov. 1 to discuss COVID-19 in BV schools and the district’s social studies curriculum review.
Preliminary enrollment numbers for the 2021-2022 school year at Buena Vista schools have been released. Total enrollments are up from last year at all BV schools except Chaffee County High School. The total head count increased by 94 students from 2020-2021.
Student population at Salida School District is close to what is was before the pandemic hit in spring 2020.
Buena Vista school district superintendent Lisa Yates held a weekly Zoom meeting for families Nov. 1 to discuss COVID-19 in BV schools and the district’s social studies curriculum review.
The Chaffee County clerk’s office provided live election result updates on the night of Tuesday, Nov. 2. As of 10:30 p.m. on election night, per both the web site and unofficial results distributed by Chaffee County clerk Lori Mitchell, all three state ballot measures failed.
Buena Vista schools superintendent Lisa Yates issued a notice on Oct. 28 that school will not be in session on Monday, Nov. 1. Extra-curricular activities remain scheduled and the Boys & Girls Club will be open both Monday and Friday all day, while classes are not in session.
Dare to venture into the secluded Sleepy Hollow on Halloween weekend with Buena Vista High School’s Trident Theatre Company in “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Just try not to lose your head.
COVID outbreaks in Buena Vista schools were the number one topic of the Monday Minute bulletin and meeting for parents.
Superintendent Lisa Yates also made it her first point in addressing the school board at its meeting that evening.
The cast of Sleepy Hollow rehearses Monday for the Halloween weekend production of Washington Irving’s classic American tale.
Candidates for 4-year terms for the Buena Vista school district board of directors answer a few questions for The Times.
The Avery-Parsons Elementary School Halloween Parade is on for 2021.
It will take place Friday, Oct. 29 from 2 to 3 p.m. on East Main Street from the school to Railroad Avenue and back, according to a press release from the school.
This week’s Buena Vista school district Monday Minute reported another COVID-free week at BVSD. Parents remained on mass hiatus from weekly Zoom meetings with Buena Vista school district superintendent Lisa Yates.
The Avery-Parsons Elementary School Halloween Parade is on for 2021. It will take place Friday, Oct. 29 from 2 to 3 p.m. on East Main Street from the school to Railroad Avenue and back.
Here are two things to know from Buena Vista School District’s Monday Minute bulletin.
The Buena Vista school board met on the evening of Oct. 11 to decide whether to add an electric school bus to the district’s fleet, hear monthly reports from principals, and seek consensus on policy positions recommended the Colorado Association of School Boards.
The Colorado School Safety Resource Center will host a free, virtual 2-day Safe Schools Summit on Oct. 21 and 22, 2021. The event is open to any Coloradan who works with school-age children.
The League of Women Voters of Chaffee County held a Buena Vista school board candidate forum over Zoom on Monday, Sept. 27.
Roughly 15 community members attended the hour-long event, where the five candidates for the upcoming school board election on Nov. 2 were presented a wide variety of topics on which to speak by moderator Scott Hartman.
Elections for the Buena Vista School District’s board of education are to take place on Nov. 2. Five candidates are running for three open seats. All three seats carry 4 year terms.
The League of Women Voters of Chaffee County is pleased to announce a virtual School Board Candidate forum that will be of interest to Buena Vista voters.
Questions from parents in the Monday Minute meeting centered primarily around appropriateness and potential harm of some questions from the Healthy Kids Colorado Survey.
A BVPD patrol car and the high school band escort the football team downtown during Friday’s Buena Vista High School homecoming parade.
BVHS homecoming king Calvin Taterschall escorts 2021 queen Molly McMurry at Saturday’s football game
The Buena Vista school board met Sept. 13 to hear faculty training results and big picture school-year plans from principals and continue discussions about concurrent enrollment problems, surplus property uses and the superintendent’s latest reopening update.
School is back on this week after the Labor Day holiday and Buena Vista school district superintendent Lisa Yates said all is well.
The Buena Vista school board held a meeting at Buena Vista High School on Aug. 30 to gather community input on how to leverage school properties in order to pursue a set of goals.
The District Accountability Committee, a subcommittee of the board of education, is a group of parents, community members and BV school district staff that studies different school-related issues.
School openings in Buena Vista are still proceeding according to plan. Students’ first day of school is set for Thursday, Aug. 26.
Students are expected to bring masks, which are required on buses and will be implemented in school when risk of transmission is high, based on staff discretion.
A group of 90 United States Air Force Academy cadets from around the world are taking to the trails, rivers and crags of the Upper Arkansas River Valley this summer.
As school began Monday for Salida School District R-32-J students, Superintendent David Blackburn said the district will continue the flexible strategy used last year for dealing with COVID-19.
Superintendent Lisa Yates announced an upcoming visit from keynote speaker and former high school and college football player Dominic Miller and provided the latest information on school reopening plans in the latest Monday Minute meeting on Aug. 16.
BV Peaks had its second biannual meeting for 2021 with the Buena Vista school board Aug. 9. The District Accountability Committee was also represented.
The board engaged with the owner/stakeholder groups on some of the district’s most pressing issues: Potential liquidation of school properties, use of federal stimulus funds, and, of course, reopening classrooms this month.
Buena Vista school district superintendent Lisa Yates clarified in a Zoom meeting on Aug. 2 that the district’s plans to hold in-person learning at the start of the school year remain unchanged.
Here are 5 things to know from the July 12 Buena Vista school board session, its only meeting this month
The Central Colorado Unmanned Aircraft Systems Club invited Chaffee County SWAT and Buena Vista school district representatives to their drone park Tuesday for a flight demonstration and presentation.
Seventeen area students earned post-high school scholarship awards earlier this spring from SDCEA for the 2021 to 2022 school year.
The Buena Vista school district board of directors held a very brief meeting on June 14 and another on June 28. Here’s what you may have missed.
Buena Vista native Meghan Rodriguez was selected to receive the prestigious Daniels Fund scholarship this year.
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.
Red and white caps flew into the air over the Buena Vista High School football field as the stands erupted with jubilant applause, shouts and whistles.
The new graduates celebrated many years of hard work with confetti, streamers, colored smoke and even bubbles as they marched away together, clutching their diplomas. Phones and cameras came out for congratulatory photos and choir and band students danced the Macarena.
The Buena Vista school district board of directors continued to discuss if the board should be involved in district employee exit interviews at their meeting May 11.
Last week, two cases of COVID-19 were recorded impacting the Buena Vista school district, according to superintendent Lisa Yates’s last Monday morning update of the school year.
In a brief meeting Monday evening, the Buena Vista school district board of directors revisited the topic of allowing non-CHSAA sports to receive varsity letters.
The Central Colorado Humanists awarded $1,000 scholarship to six 2021 high school seniors.
“All are high-achieving students with grade point averages exceeding 3.9,” CCH said in a press release. “They exemplify the values of the Central Colorado Humanists: Informed by science; guided by reason; inspired by art and nature; motivated by compassion. “All of them wrote compelling essays about the integrity of science. Not all have confirmed the college of their choice – they had multiple acceptances.”
After the COVID-19 pandemic interruption in 2020, Buena Vista High School was relieved to be able to hold its traditional Creative Arts Fair this year. At last, students were able to present their hard work from the school year, and the public was able to come and admire their talent.
The Buena Vista school district reported no new cases of COVID-19 impacting the schools this week, according to superintendent Lisa Yates’s May 17 update.
This fall, a new program not only will teach students how to “fly,” it also will help them realize opportunities in the emerging and expanding field of small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS), commonly called drones.
Graduation will begin May 29 at 1 p.m. on the football field.
Olivia Martzke of Buena Vista was named the High School Youth of the Year by the Chaffee County Boys & Girls Club.
There were three new cases of the COVID-19 virus related to Buena Vista schools – one each in the middle and high schools and Chaffee County High School – according to district superintendent Lisa Yates.
The Buena Vista school district reported one case of COVID-19 impacting the district and resulting in a limited quarantine after over 2 months with no cases.
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