Category: CMC In The News
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Dual enrollment saves big dollars for Eagle County students
EAGLE COUNTY — On college tuition checks, the numbers tend to contain more zeroes than your average congressional committee. As a group, local high school students save almost $1 million a year by taking college classes while still in high school. They’re called dual enrollment classes and the Eagle County school district ranks eighth among…
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State recognizes Glenwood for downtown improvements
This article was published in the Glenwood Post Independent. By John Stroud. Glenwood Springs has been recognized by the state of Colorado for its four-year, $18 million-plus effort to spruce up its downtown. Downtown Colorado Inc. on Thursday announced that the Glenwood Downtown Development Authority, the city and four other public entities had won the…
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Feel the love, Wilderness.
In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act, Steamboat Magazine asked people, “What does wilderness mean to you?” The staff talked with artists, ranchers, naturalists, land managers, photographers and many Steamboat Magazine contributors featured in the magazine’s pages throughout the years. CMC professor Tina Evans was one of contributors whose words were featured…
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Jimmy Westlake: Super moon to stifle meteor shower
CMC professor Jimmy Westlake’s Celestial News column appears Tuesdays in the Steamboat Today. Catch his sum up of this weekend’s full moon, first printed in the Steamboat Today, below. For more columns by Westlake here. Steamboat Springs — Ordinarily, I would be writing this week to tell you all about the upcoming Perseid meteor shower, arguably…
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What will drive future state economic success?
CMC President Carrie Besnette Hauser and Kelly Brough, president and CEO of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, addressed economic development at a recent Vail Valley Partnership event. A Vail Daily News recap of the event, first published in the Vail Daily, is reprinted below. VAIL — Colorado’s first regional economic initiative was completed before…
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Tickets on sale now for upcoming Empty Bowls fundraiser in Edwards
CMC Edwards “bowl-a-thon” creates hundreds of bowls for fundraising event. This article was first printed in the Vail Daily News. By Zachary Johnson. EDWARDS — The sixth annual Empty Bowls fundraiser returns to the Vail Valley on Aug. 12. Guests are encouraged to take part in a simple meal of soup, bread and dessert contributed…
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CMC creates strolling history tour in downtown Glenwood
This article was published in the Glenwood Post Independent. By Randy Essex. Glenwood Springs has some new history. It’s downtown, right across the street from where Doc Holliday died, at the heart of Glenwood’s earliest developments — and connected to one of the newest things in town. Thirteen plaques that outline key moments in Glenwood’s…
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CMC sustainability studies program featured in Homelink magazine
Whitney Chandler wrote about her experience as a Colorado Mountain College sustainability studies student for the Summer 2014 issue of Homelink magazine. A second article penned by Chandler featured the college’s first annual Sustainability Conference and was published in the same issue. “Being a part of the program has opened doors for me in ways…
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Regional: Son of Storm King firefighter reflects on 20th anniversary
This article featuring Andy Tyler, recipient of the CMC Foundation‘s Storm King 14 Memorial Scholarship, first ran in the Glenwood Post Independent. When Tulane University student Andy Tyler began looking at internship possibilities for the summer before his senior year, it seemed only natural that he would end up in western Colorado, where he was born…
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Roaring Fork Valley veterans raise funds, inform through acting
CMC Theatre director directs play raising awareness of veterans’ issues This article first appeared in the Aspen Times. By Karl Herchenroeder Coming to grips with the loss of cognitive functioning and codependency on family members are a couple of the issues returning veterans with traumatic-brain injuries experience. They are issues happening in living rooms and…