Trinidad News

A teenager is dead and a one-year-old girl is hospitalized after a one-vehicle rollover north of Trinidad in southern Colorado.

A 17-year-old Aguilar, Colo., girl was thrown from an SUV and a 1-year-old girl was seriously injured in a one-vehicle rollover on Interstate 25 in southern Colorado this morning, officials say.

Trinidad High School (THS) was recently recognized for its achievement in bridging the achievement gap between its students of differing socioeconomic levels. A study by research firm Augenblick, Palaich & Associates (APA) on the CSAP scores of poorer Colorado students found a large percentage of them at THS had exceeded average state scores on the test.

The study from which THS garnered recognition was itself prompted by a 2005 study by the Colorado Children's Campaign showing that the academic achievements of the economically comfortable students outpaced the achievements of their peers in lower socioeconomic levels.

Published October 7, 2008 at 10:10 p.m. * Why here? The reservoir offers potentially good fishing for a mix of warm- and cold-water fish species, including walleyes, trout, bass, perch and catfish amid ...

Trinidad's city council is scheduled to vote on approving or disapproving a fountain design for Miners Memorial Park at Tuesday's meeting, additionally voting prior to that whether it considers council member Jennie Garduno to have a conflict of interest in regards to the proposed fountain design.

The vote was suggested by City Attorney Jerod Beatty, who told the council that while he saw no professional conflict of interest on Garduno's part, the council could help to avoid an appearance of impropriety through its vote on the matter.

Newly appointed U.S. District Court Judge Christine Arguello will be a guest speaker at the 20th annual Trinidad-Las Animas Hispanic Chamber of Commerce awards banquet.

Trinidad School District No. 1 failed to achieve the Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) mandated by the federal government, though improvements had been made by the district since the previous year.

Colorado on the whole experienced a drop in the number of schools making AYP, with 60 percent of the state's schools making AYP, as opposed to 75 percent the previous school year. Of the districts in the state, 42 percent made AYP.

Colorado has three accountability systems that districts have to meet: the AYP standards set by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, the State Accreditation System measured by showing growth on the Colorado Student Achievement Program (CSAP) along with points given for taking measures like devising improvement plans, along with a state-issued School Accountability Reports that issue basic reports on overall academic performance.

The board of directors for the proposed charter school, Trinidad International Academy (TIA), met Sept. 16 with the board of education for Trinidad School District No. 1 for a presentation by the TIA board of directors concerning the intentions and possible direction of the charter school.

Trinidad School District No. 1 Interim Superintendent Mike Tranter warned the participants that the meeting was not to be a debate between the two boards, but a chance to examine the aims and processes behind the establishment of charter schools.

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My recent column about The Moreno Valley, home of Eagle Nest town and lake, generated questions about The Big Ditch Project constructed in 1868 to furnish water to the new gold mines.

Police Commissioner Ausbert Regis was called into a meeting with the Home Affairs Minister Friday, probably to discuss his return from his year-long mandatory vacation.

A group of concerned locals are planning to open a public charter school in Trinidad. The school, Trinidad International Academy (TIA), would be open to all local children of school age, have 12 grades, and is currently scheduled to open for the 2009-2010 school year.

TIA Board President and local attorney Dennis Malone defined the largest improvement that TIA could offer to potential students as "choice."

"We have a personal education plan that starts with the parent, the teachers and the student," Malone said in a phone call Friday. "That plan will be developed between the parent, teachers and student."

Officials in Las Animas County don't want a one-size-fits-all regulation for water produced by drilling for natural gas.

Trinidad's city council voted at its regular meeting last Tuesday to put out for bid the first phase in the restoration of the Old Stone Water works Building on Cedar Street, hoping to find a lower price for the project than the current estimate of $587,425.

The city currently has $245,616 available for the project in its Capital Projects Fund, along with $244,985 from a Department of Local Affairs (DOLA) Energy and Mineral Assistance Impact Fund grant. That currently gives the city a total of $490,601 to put towards phase one of the building's restoration, a shortfall of $96,824.

A Pueblo man was killed in a traffic accident near Trinidad early Wednesday morning.

CBS Sunday Morning presented a feature story on sex reassignment surgery yesterday.

Seth Doane travels to Trinidad, Colorado, where the first private practice for gender reassignment surgery, more commonly called "sex-changes," was begun over forty years ago.

When people decide to make one of the most drastic changes in their lives, they often head to the most unlikely town you could ever imagine.

Looking for a way to bring expanded and enriched education programs to Trinidad's classrooms, a group of businessmen, parents and other citizens are proposing the creation of a kindergarten through 12th grade ...

The town of Trinidad, Colo., population 9,000 and "sex change capital of the world," is so much the stuff of fiction that PJ Raval and Jay Hodges initially had trouble believing the place actually existed.