February 9, 2021
Cobre students will return to classrooms March 8 Written by Dean Thompson on February 9, 2021
After a lengthy discussion Monday night, the Cobre Schools Board of Education voted to announce a tentative date for moving classes in the district to the hybrid model March 8 and to approve the reopening of athletic practice pods beginning Monday, Feb. 15.
Joyce Barela, the district’s school improvement coordinator, gave the board a rundown on school reentry from the Public Education Department.
Barela said there were three options: remaining remote 100 percent and continuing small groups for special education; continuing in remote, but expanding small group sessions; or a move to hybrid instruction, with kids with last names beginning with A through L going to school Mondays and Tuesdays, and those with last names beginning with M through Z going Wednesdays and Thursdays, with their days away from classrooms inc
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At one point during 2020, the James Prendergast Library Board of Trustees had concerns about its endowment fund with the large downturns in the stock market during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
However, according to board treasurer, Michael Corey, the library’s endowment fund increased last year. Corey shared the good news with the rest of the board during its board meeting last week.
Corey said at the start of 2020 the endowment fund had $6.5 million and ended the year with more than $7.4 million, an increase of more than $900,000. He said during the first quarter of the year when the library had to shutdown because of the pandemic, the board withdrew an additional $94,000 from the endowment fund to assist in paying for facility operations. However, when the stock market stopped its free fall and started to improve, the board didn’t withdraw any additional funding during the second, third and fourth financial quarters.
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Jerome DeCarlo received a COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 31. He is an essential worker but doesn’t work in a hospital or a nursing home.
DeCarlo serves as the coordinator at Marsh Brook Place, a 40-unit apartment complex on the Southeast Side for young people ages 18 to 24 who have faced homelessness or other serious barriers to stability such as being a victim of domestic violence or dealing with mental health or substance abuse issues.
“We are boots on the ground, said DeCarlo
, who is employed by Huckleberry House, a youth-serving nonprofit agency that provides on-site services such as counseling and job training at Marsh Brook.
(Press Staff Photo by Makayla Grijalva)
Grant County Farm and Livestock Bureau President Stuart Rooks and volunteer Michael Koury attach a sign to the front door of the 12-foot-by-21-foot greenhouse erected Saturday by the organization at San Lorenzo Elementary School in the Mimbres Valley.
The Grant County Farm and Livestock Bureau funded and constructed most of a 250-square-foot greenhouse at San Lorenzo Elementary School in the Mimbres Valley on Saturday with hopes of eventually building a similar one at every elementary school in the county.
※We feel like we can reach more people by providing these greenhouses in more urban settings,” said Stuart Rooks, president of the county farm bureau. ※Anything out in the rural areas we are certainly going to support, but we are looking at these schools and getting these kids interested in agriculture at a younger age.”