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  • Students, parents speak out as Poudre School District closures loom

    Students, parents speak out as Poudre School District closures loom

    By Rae Solomon, KUNC (Via AP Storyshare) Lilian Moore is just 10 years old, but she’s already clear on how she feels about shutting down local schools. “You throw this amazing place where many children have thrived – you just throw it into the garbage can,” Lilian said, standing just outside the auditorium at Poudre High School in Fort Collins, where a public listening session about proposed school closures in Larimer County’s Poudre School District was stretching on for hours. “It’s super sad.” Declining enrollment is behind those proposed closures. In March, the district unveiled draft plans to close some

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  • Students, parents speak out as Poudre School District closures loom

    Students, parents speak out as Poudre School District closures loom

    By Rae Solomon, KUNC (Via AP Storyshare) Lilian Moore is just 10 years old, but she’s already clear on how she feels about shutting down local schools. “You throw this amazing place where many children have thrived – you just throw it into the garbage can,” Lilian said, standing just outside the auditorium at Poudre High School in Fort Collins, where a public listening session about proposed school closures in Larimer County’s Poudre School District was stretching on for hours. “It’s super sad.” Declining enrollment is behind those proposed closures. In March, the district unveiled draft plans to close some

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  • Yellow Scene Magazine takes home 12 SPJ Top of the Rockies Awards, 3 First Places

    Yellow Scene Magazine takes home 12 SPJ Top of the Rockies Awards, 3 First Places

    Yellow Scene Magazine was incredibly honored to receive 12 Society for Professional Journalism awards in the 2024 Top of the Rockies contest. Media organizations of all sizes from across four states competed in numerous categories covering design and editorial content. The awards ceremony itself was in the iconic Denver Press Club with attendees flying in from across the country, and even one of YS’s writers from Canada was able to attend, making it an international event. Several members of YS attended the event, with six individual people there in person to collect their awards! We are so proud of our

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  • “The Stone Harp” Makes its Debut at Dairy Arts After Four-Year Wait

    “The Stone Harp” Makes its Debut at Dairy Arts After Four-Year Wait

    Composer John Clay Allen and pianist Er-Hsuan Li collaborated to bring the concerto to the stage for the first time In April 2020, John Clay Allen was preparing for the premiere of his original piano concerto, ‘The Stone Harp: Concerto for Piano and Strings,’ when the world went silent.  Nearly four years to the day and a pandemic later, Allen finally brought his music off the sheet and onto the stage of the Gordon Gamm Theater at the Dairy Arts Center on April 13, 2024.  “I’m really pleased with how it went,” Allen said afterward. “I’m happy with how everyone

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  • Red Shadows Brings MMIR “Artivism” to Lafayette

    Red Shadows Brings MMIR “Artivism” to Lafayette

    Editor’s Note: There are over 5,000 missing and murdered Indigenous women reported in 2022. 4,000 of them are under the age of 18. There were 658 active cases at the end of 2022. Art brings attention to the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous people across North America If you’re in old-town Lafayette this month, allow the hand-lettered fabric swaying in The Collective’s tall front windows to catch your eye, and let its poetry and statistics sink in. It’s a work of art by Tanaya Winder, one of more than a dozen Indigenous artists exhibiting in “Red Shadows: The Crisis

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  • Brian Hedden Leads Colorado’s Environmental Movement By Example

    Brian Hedden Leads Colorado’s Environmental Movement By Example

    Between his upcoming documentary and future plans, Hedden does more than tell us to make greener decisions. He wants to show us how. Brian Hedden didn’t set out to make a documentary on fracking in Colorado. But back in 2017 he met some Lakota Elders, who had been at Standing Rock, and they convinced him to just look into it.  “At the time my thoughts were more about climate change in general, and what a person can do about it,” said Hedden.  But before he knew it, Hedden was going to meetings, talking to activists, recording thousands of stories, filming

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