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🌱 How Bayfield is “growing its own” teachers inside local classrooms

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  • How Bayfield is “growing its own” teachers inside local classrooms

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Today's riddle: Can February March? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Tuesday: Partly sunny, with a high of 49 and low of 29 degrees.
  • Wednesday: Sunshine and some clouds, temps: high: 50, low: 24.
  • Thursday: Partly sunny, with a high of 50 and low of 25 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Bayfield School District trains next cohort of teachers through mentorship program (durangoherald.com) — Bayfield School District is growing its own future teachers through Colorado’s new Teacher Degree Apprenticeship, with apprentices already working in Bayfield High and Intermediate schools while earning their degrees online. The program aims to ease rural teacher shortages, gives participants a paycheck and classroom experience, and relies on local mentors like third grade teacher Wendy Benne to train the next generation.
   

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

  • Please share & repost to help reunite this lost dog!
    Scraps was LOST on December 8, 2025 in Denver, CO 80223 near Near w asbury ave 80223 Sharing for a neighbor. For the latest information or to… (Nextdoor Homestead)
  • O'Reilly Automotive posted a job opening for Parts Specialist in Bayfield. Apply here.
  • United Pacific posted a job opening for Assistant Store Manager in Bayfield. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Bayfield here.

🗞 Nearby News

Durango

  • Durango lawyer dies while backcountry skiing on Red Mountain Pass (durangoherald.com)
  • A Rivian R1T Owner Towed the New Pebble Flow Electric Trailer and Watched Efficiency Jump to 1.76 mi/kWh, Saying Tow Assist Made the Truck Recalculate the Trailer as '5,000 lbs Instead of 6,500,' Adding 22% More Range and Turning a Risky 4% Arrival Into a (torquenews.com)
  • The legacy of Orion's belt (durangoherald.com)

Cortez

  • Cortez Youth Athletic Performance program expands to prepare athletes for college (the-journal.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

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