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The town of Breckenridge plans to survey residents about whether they would support a ballot measure to help fund the town’s child care centers.
The town’s child care program gives $800,000 per year to the child care centers including Little Red Schoolhouse, Carriage House, Timberline Learning Center and Breckenridge Montessori to support programming and teachers as well as access for local families in the form of tuition assistance. The current fund balance and the annual marijuana fund transfers can sustain the program into 2024, but after that, there isn’t a dependable funding stream.
Calls for pupils to repeat school year after learning time lost in lockdown
Some parents feel their children have lost so much education they should start the year again
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Some parents are calling for youngsters to repeat the academic year (Image: PA)
With the majority of pupils home learning amid the pandemic, some parents are calling for children to repeat the school year.
Thousands of youngsters across Greater Manchester missed vital classroom time before Christmas, when they had to isolate following confirmed cases of the virus among classmates and staff.
Since the holiday, they ve been remote learning once again after the Prime Minister took the decision to close schools to all but vulnerable and key worker children from January 5.
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The Father Dyer United Methodist Church is getting an update.
The church is set to add a 2,728-square-foot addition to the existing structure. The expansion will be modeled on the historic church, and would connect to a previous addition built onto the church after it was moved to its current location on Breckenridge’s Wellington Road in 1977. The Breckenridge Town Council agreed to move forward with a development agreement for the project at the council work session on Tuesday, Jan. 26.
The conceptual plans add rooms and facilities that are meant to accommodate the church’s social services. Town planner Chris Kulick noted that the expansion area has a sunken terrace that is not compliant with the town code, and the proposed development agreement also asked for other waivers of policies in the code, including for density guidelines, certain design standards, off-street parking requirements, and all fees associated with t
A shopper carries a reusable bag as he heads to the grocery store in Frisco on Jan. 2, 2020. Only reusable and paper bags made from at least 40% post-consumer recycled content will be allowed in Breckenridge once the plastic bag ban takes effect in September.
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Breckenridge Town Council decided Tuesday, Jan. 26, that compostable bags would not be exempt from the plastic bag ban that goes into effect in September and debated what type of reusable bag the town should distribute.
Sustainability Coordinator Jessie Burley said a restaurant owner asked the town if compostable bags would be allowed once the ban takes effect. Burley said town staff does not recommend that council allow compostable bags to be exempt from the ban because of a lack of collection and compost abilities in Summit County.