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Week of December 1, 2022
ELBERT COUNTY, COLORADO
A publication of
ElbertCountyNews.net
VOLUME 127 | ISSUE 42
Foundation announces 2022 grant recipients More than $9,000 awarded to educators in Elizabeth School District BY CHANCY J. GATLIN-ANDERSON SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA
Proposed Elizabeth West residential development, west of Walmart on Highway 86.
PHOTOS BY CHANCY J. GATLIN-ANDERSON
Elizabeth trustees OK rezoning Group still hopes to halt development in area at west end of town BY CHANCY J. GATLIN-ANDERSON SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA
The Elizabeth Board of Trustees recently approved a rezoning of agricultural land to planned unit development (PUD) in the west end of the town. Developer and applicant Jim Marshall requested approval to rezone 425.9 acres located south of Highway 86 and immediately east of Legacy Ridge Street to accommodate residential, regional commercial, mixed-use commercial, public, and semi-public land uses. Town documents refer to the land as the Elizabeth West Property. SEE REZONING, P2
All seats were filled at the Elizabeth Board of Trustees meeting on Nov. 15.
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The Elizabeth Education Foundation recently announced its 2022 grant recipients. This year, 26 teachers across the district’s five schools received a total of more than $9,000 in grants that go toward bettering the classrooms, teaching opportunities for faculty, and learning experience for students. The grants are funded through year-long fundraising efforts. Partnerships with local restaurants and discounted community nights with the Colorado Avalanche, Denver Nuggets and Colorado Mammoth are significant contributors. The Elizabeth Education Foundation also received private donations from anonymous contributors. Robin Neelley of Elizabeth Middle School is one of this year’s EEF grant recipients. The seventh-grade language arts and reading teacher plans to use her $526 grant toward purchasing books for classroom use. “`The Lightning Thief’ by Rick Riordan is a wonderful text with cross-curricular ties to everything they learn about in world history class, in addition to all of the reading and writing standards SEE GRANTS, P5
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