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As young people across the country continue to die in the fentanyl epidemic, El Jebel resident Cath Adams is spreading awareness in schools and other venues about the synthetic opioid drug after losing her 21-year-old daughter to an accidental overdose in 2020.

Garfield Re-2 School District wants to require its staff to notify parents if a student requests a gender-affirming chosen name at school — a move that some community members support, while others worry it could further isolate transgender kids, and even put them at risk. School board members proposed the idea as part of a name change policy they’re required to implement under a new Colorado law.

Local schools from Aspen to Glenwood Springs have teamed up with national organization Best Buddies to make prom more accessible and fun for all.

The Basalt Regional Library and the Basalt Education Foundation partnered to host a School Board Candidate Forum. Listen in as candidates answer questions from the community and get to know them in advance of the election on November 7th.

A local nonprofit is hoping that a retrofitted R.V. can help bring down barriers for the many informal, in-home childcare providers in the Roaring Fork Valley.

Aspen School District Superintendent Dave Baugh talks with Aspen Public Radio about the challenges that the district is facing in 2022-23.

The public health order that mandates masks in Pitkin County is set to expire Tuesday. And new guidelines from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment suggest schools become mask optional. The Aspen School District plans to follow those guidelines, but some students have mixed feelings about the change.

Skyler Lomahaftewa is a Basalt resident and a member of the Uncompahgre band of the Ute tribe. In the winters, he gives snowboard lessons at Aspen…

You can find an English-language version of this story here.Todos los años alrededor de esta época, los alumnos del último año del distrito escolar…

Every year around this time high school seniors in the Roaring Fork School District present their final capstone projects to their teachers, classmates…