Maeve Murray

  • Locations: Columns, Opinion Published

    Opinion: Getting beneath the bullying

    Opinion: Getting beneath the bullying thumbnail 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: Español Published

    Un futuro mejor

    Un futuro mejor thumbnail 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 Published

    A brighter future by and for the youth

    A brighter future by and for the youth thumbnail 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 Published

    Why is journalism important?

    Why is journalism important? thumbnail From left to right: Marlo Bowman, Maeve Murray, Sofie Koski and Jaris Elliott. Photo by James Steindler

    By Sopris Sun youth journalists

    Maeve Murray

    After joining The Sopris Sun’s new youth journalism program, we were asked one question: why is journalism important? We responded with various ways of saying: “getting information out to the public” and “connecting the community.” 

    However important these things are, throughout this… read more →

  • Locations: News Published

    It's time to step up our support for teachers

    It’s time to step up our support for teachers thumbnail 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 →