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DJ Nikki Swarn, director of programming at The Drop, who goes by the name Ameryka Jones on-air, talks on her morning show at the station on Feb. 17, 2021 in Denver. (Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post)
The folks at The Drop were feeling it. It was the morning after Valentine’s Day, the first official day of the station being on its FM signal, 104.7. Why not swoon a little?
The people for whom the station had been created have been showing their love for “The People’s Station for R&B and Hip Hop” since it began streaming in June 2019. Now, The Drop’s brew of commercial-free cuts and community-loving content had an FM home. And, yes, even in a world of digitized fare and streaming options, it felt different.
Kevin J. Beaty / Denverite
For the second time in three months, the Denver school board voted unanimously Thursday to reunify a comprehensive high school that had been dismantled in the past decade.
Montbello High School in far northeast Denver will reopen in fall 2022. To make that happen, three small schools Denver Center for International Studies Montbello, Noel Community Arts School, and Collegiate Prep Academy will close at the end of the 2021-22 school year, and a charter school will likely have to move.
Across town, West High School will reopen this fall. Both West and Montbello high schools were previously shuttered and replaced by smaller schools that district leaders hoped would improve education for the Black and Hispanic students who attended them.