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On the morning of April 15, Archuleta County commissioners Veronica Medina, Ronnie Maez and Warren Brown; County Manager Derek Woodman; County Transportation Coordinator Kevin Bruce; Mountain Express Transit (MET) Dispatcher Lavonne Rababah; County Public Works Director Mike Torres; Principal Architect Brad Ash of Reynolds Ash + Associates; and bid awardee Buildings by Design (BBD) Managing Member Travis Lefever lined up with shovels in hand to break ground on a project five years in the making,...

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Federal funds will help CapMetro build a new Demand Response Operations and Maintenance Facility.

Cheers: To school support staff. The Legislature has committed $600 million over the next three years for more counselors, nurses, social workers and psychologists in public schools. Previously, school-funding formulas provided for one nurse for every 5,263 elementary school students; money for additional positions had to come from district levy funds. By 2025, the ratio will be one nurse for every 684 students through state funding. Under the new formula, schools must show the money was used to...

C-Tran will receive a $2.7 million grant from the Federal Transit Administration’s Bus and Bus Facilities Grant Program, according to a Wednesday announcement from Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, both D-Wash.

The Breez express bus fleet has exceeded METRO’s projected ridership for work, school and other daily activities by over 60%.

In Biden’s brief speech, he said he was proud that nearly 6,000 local governments were able to directly receive funding.