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Brielle Quigley, a graduating senior of The Peak School, holds onto to her graduation cap as she rides up the Super Bee chairlift with family members Thursday, May 27, at Copper Mountain Resort to receive her diploma. This is the second year The Peak School hosted its graduation ceremony at Copper. Photo by Jason Connolly /Jason Connolly Photography Eleven graduates were celebrated Thursday, May 27, during The Peak School’s graduation ceremony at Copper Mountain Resort. Last year, the school held its graduation at the resort as a creative way to celebrate during the pandemic, and the tradit...

The Rotary Club of Summit County has announced the winners of is annual high school short story and poetry contests, which are designed to encourage creative literacy among students. The prizes for first, second and third places were $250, $150 and $100, respectively. Short story contest Maggie Butler, home-school student, “The Thought of Plummeting from an Impossible Height” Poetry contest Sam Burke, Snowy Peaks, “Mascne” and Maleena Mero, Summit High School, “Waves” (tie) Maggie Butler, home-school student, “Sisyphus” A special poetry award also was given to students in Kari...

Special to the Daily School bus drivers are the first district employees to greet students in the morning and the last to say goodbye. However, after battling a bus driver shortage for most of the year, students may be greeted by their bus driver at a different time next year. Currently, the district has 18 drivers on staff but requires a team of 35 to effectively serve the needs of its students. And while Eagle County Schools has implemented a number of recruiting and retaining efforts — including adding a hiring and retention bonus and making increases to the base salary — it is still h...

  The town of Breckenridge, the Summit County Sheriff’s Office and the Summit School District will host a parade May 26 to celebrate the class of 2021. The parade will start at 3:30 p.m. on Breckenridge Main Street for seniors graduating from Summit High School, Snowy Peaks and The Peak School along with any other high school seniors graduating this spring. Parade organizers decided to hold the event again after last year’s parade successfully sent off class of 2020 seniors amid the pandemic. Parking is free in town-owned lots around Breckenridge, and spectators will need to walk to Main...

Photo from Ren Bittner Like most celebrations this year, Teacher Appreciation Week looked a bit different at Summit County schools, and many students felt a new level of appreciation for their teachers’ work to educate them amid a pandemic. Cameron Kalaf, a senior at Summit High School, said he doesn’t think students understood what teachers were up against at the beginning of the pandemic. “The way that they’ve learned and the way they’ve been technically taught to teach, it’s always been face to face,” Kalaf said. “And so I think … we didn’t really understand the situati...