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WEEK OF AUGUST 24, 2023
VOLUME 64 | ISSUE 40
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A new school year in the foothills There’s excitement, a new principal and an update on a school addition BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
A new school year has begun with excited families and teachers, new start times, a new principal at West Jefferson Elementary and construction plans in the works of Bergen Valley Elementary.
school all day. But she will still have two young ones at home.
Conifer’s public library will be moving out of Conifer High School and into a space of its own. The question is where and when. Jefferson County Public Library officials agreed at the Aug. 17 board meeting that after 27 years of being housed in Conifer High School, the library should be moved to accommodate the area’s changing needs. “The time has come for us to transition away from a shared location,” Julianne Rist, director of public services for the library district, wrote in a report to the library board. “As a result, JCPL will be looking for other existing spaces to provide equitable library services to the Conifer community.” With the library board’s approval to move ahead, staff will begin scouting available space along the
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Back to school
The Bergens elementary schools hosted their annual back-to-school gathering on Aug. 14 with families helping themselves to snowcones as children played on the playground and in a bounce house, while parents chatted. “We are so excited for the new school year,” said JJ Scott, vice president of the Bergens PTA. “Our goal this year is to get more parents into the school to volunteer now that (the pandemic) is over.” Parents Phoenix and Devon Svejcar enjoyed snowcones with their four children: Huck, 6, Ever, 3, Roam, 2 and Edge, 3 months. Huck is now a first grader and Ever has
Conifer’s library will move when a new location is found
Best friends and first graders Weston Deen and Matthew Colosimo sit under a tree to eat their snowcones at the Bergen Meadow Elementary School back-to-school PHOTO BY DEB HURLEY BROBST gathering on Aug. 14.
just started preschool. Phoenix Svejcar said Huck was excited about first grade, and she was a little sad that Ever will be in
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