Needham Elementary News Today

Students as young as kindergartners are learning Spanish at Needham Elementary School. The district has launched an elementary school Spanish program to further the understanding of other cultures as...

Durango has an abundance of outdoor industry businesses. However, very few specialize in snowboarding and skateboarding alone, except for The Boarding Haus. For owner John Agnew, it’s been a ride, whe...

A 13-year-old girl was reported missing Saturday in Durango, according to the Colorado Bureau of investigation. Nemeiah Walton was last seen around 4:30 p.m. Saturday on the 600 block of Arroyo Drive,...

In a world dominated by right-handed people, International Left Handers Day, which is celebrated annually on Aug. 13, affords the roughly 10% of Americans who are left-handed a day of recognition. Lef...

Three Durango School District 9-R schools were awarded the 2022 Governor’s Distinguished Improvement Award, which is given to schools that demonstrate exceptional student growth. The schools that rece...

If the narrative of 2020 was dominated by the emergence COVID-19 and 2021 was cast as a period of slow but sure recovery, the story of Southwest Colorado in 2022 may be filed away as a year of transit...

A 400-pound black bear that stopped for a nap under a resident’s deck Wednesday in west Durango was tranquilized and relocated by Colorado Parks and Wildlife. The unwelcome guest was reported by a res...

Tiffany Miera, a fifth grade math teacher at Needham Elementary School in Durango, thought Monday’s assembly was a typical gathering of students and staff. It didn’t take long for her

What appeared to be a run-of-the-mill assembly Tuesday at Needham Elementary School ended with a fifth grade math teacher being presented with a $25,000 check. Over the past 35 years, more than $1...

Tiffany Miera, a fifth-grade math teacher at Needham Elementary School in Durango, thought Monday’s assembly was a typical gathering of students and staff. It didn’t take long for her to