Stuff by Maeve Murray

• Locations: Columns, Opinion By Maeve Murray Published Mar. 16, 2022

  Opinion: Getting beneath the bullying

  Youth correspondent Maeve Murray

  If you tell a bully to stop bullying, it’s not going to work. Let me put this a different way; if you tell a hurt individual to stop externalizing their pain and taking it out on others, it’s not going to work. Plain and simple, current anti-bullying strategies… read more →

• Locations: News By Maeve Murray Published Feb. 16, 2022

  Rams define team spirit

  RFHS Ram, Genesis Quintero, keeps her eye on the prize during the match against the Titans. Photo by Sue Rollyson

  As the Roaring Fork High School (RFHS) Rams’ boys varsity basketball game against the Coal Ridge Titans was about to start the evening of Saturday, Feb. 12, fans were filing in. Loud cheering, particularly from the RFHS student section, who were stomping their feet, commenced. 

  As… read more →

• Locations: Español By Maeve Murray Published Feb. 2, 2022

  Un futuro mejor

  Magdalena Palomares es la representante de los jóvenes en el consejo administrativo de YouthZone. Foto de cortesía

  Traducción por Dolores Duarte

  YouthZone, un programa local que ayuda a los jóvenes a mejorar sus perspectivas de futuro busca ampliar la colaboración entre la población a la que sirve.

  Según su página web, YouthZone es una “organización sin fines de lucro que da… read more →

• Locations: News By Maeve Murray Published Jan. 26, 2022

  A brighter future by and for the youth

  Magdalena Palomares serves as a youth representative for the YouthZone Board of Directors. Courtesy photo

  YouthZone, a local program that helps young people improve their future outlook, is looking to expand collaboration among the population they serve.

  According to their website, YouthZone is a “family-first nonprofit dedicated to fostering positive youth development for teens that call the Western Slope their home.”… read more →

• Locations: News By Maeve Murray Published Dec. 1, 2021

  It's time to step up our support for teachers

  School funding and teacher compensation is far from a new problem — as evidenced by a series of demonstrations in 2018 — but the pandemic has created a true crisis. Sopris Sun file photo.

  Teacher retention, and employee retention in general, has increasingly been a problem in the Roaring Fork Valley.  Recently, it has become a crisis. As COVID-19 spread throughout the Valley and schools shut down, teachers were put under immense pressure and many even quit.

  There were many reasons… read more →