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.
Category: Community
FAM delivers dignity & hope
Founded by Kimberly Raff in 2017, its mission is to provide belonging and community to youth from the foster care system, who can feel like outsiders, alone and ashamed of their story.
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
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.
It’s Breakfast for Veterans
We’re serving up freshly baked buttermilk biscuits with all the fixins’ on Friday, November 11, 2022, starting at 8 a.m. Breakfast is compliments of Alpine Bank for vets and their families.
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.






