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Mountain Middle School

Mountain Middle School

If given the chance, would you ever go back to middle school? It’s a time of intense cognitive, physical and emotional change for humans. For most, it’s a commonly held truth that those years are among the most challenging. But in Durango, Colorado, the solar-powered, carbon-neutral Mountain Middle School is changing the paradigm. 

Giving voice to the vulnerable

Giving voice to the vulnerable

In the central Rockies of Colorado, there’s team of volunteers and staff dedicated to making some of the hardest days of a child’s life better. Each of these devoted individuals say what the child cannot, at a time when it matters most.

Everything is better with donuts

Everything is better with donuts

Locally, he’s known as Bobby the Donut Whisperer. For the past three-and-a-half years, Bobby Sanderson and his family have been serving hot, fresh, mini donuts from their cheerfully festooned food truck. Aspen Mini Donuts is a small business run by a big family.

Loving life & extending it

Loving life & extending it

There’s a longstanding observation in Colorado mountain towns: The value of a person’s mountain bike and the car rack they put it on often exceed the value of the car itself. It says a lot about residents’ priorities.