NEDERLAND - The school year has officially started for students and teachers at Nederland Middle-Senior High School (NMSHS). For sixth and ninth grade students, the new school year can be an intimidating change: a new building, new teachers,...
GILPIN COUNTY - The Gilpin County Board of Education (BOE) met at 7 p.m. on August 5, 2025, in the Board Meeting Room in the Gilpin County School, ushering in the 2025 - 2026 school year. Along with the new year, a new board member was...
Gilpin County – Parking spots were hard to find, and the excitement was palpable as students, parents, and teachers returned for the Gilpin County RE-1 School District Back to School Night on August 11, 2025. With the RE-1 school year formally starting on August 13, 2025, the back-to-school night was a chance for informal introductions between parents and teachers and reunions between students and friends.
GILPIN/BLACK HAWK -- On Tuesday, June 17, 2025, President Sarah Swanson called a meeting of the Gilpin County School District RE-1 Board of Education to order at 7:01 p.m. The board stood for the Pledge of Allegiance before taking roll call. All...
Gilpin County – The Gilpin County RE-1 School District Board of Education accepted the resignation of Tami Velasquez at their June 3, 2025, board meeting and declared a vacancy in the school director office that needs to be filled with an interim appointment.
Owards and Upwards The fifth grade students of Gilpin County Elementary School received their diplomas on June 4, 2025. The excitement and support for one another was abundant and heartfelt. Congrats class of 2032!
JAMESTOWN - The schools have closed for the summer and all of the children and teachers have transitioned into their summer activities. The playgrounds assume their empty facades and the classrooms echo with the fading shouts and laughter of now...
Elite All-State Football Game DAVE GIBSON GILPIN COUNTY – Since securing the rights in 2020, Gilpin County has hosted the Colorado 8-Man All-State Football Game five times. Pitting the best senior football talent selected from 42 teams across...
NEDERLAND - Janet Turnburke has retired from Nederland Middle-Senior High School (NMSHS). For 14 years she was the athletic director’s assistant, she took care of attendance, and worked in the front office. These tasks are not easy. They...
Gilpin County – The Gilpin County School District RE-1 Board of Education met on May 20, 2025, at the school to approve the 2024/2025 Supplemental Budget and the 2025/2026 Adopted Budget. The Board also approved and signed a contract with the Black Hawk-Central City Sanitation District to become a customer of the Sanitation District when the sewer pipe project is completed.
GILPIN COUNTY - On Wednesday, May 20, the senior class at Gilpin County Secondary School participated in the annual Senior/Staff Challenge, where the class of 2025 this year challenged the staff to riding a mechanical bull. Max Tanner and Mr....
The Chinook West High School Class of 2025 was celebrated on Thursday, May 22. The main room at TEENS, Inc. became full of proud parents, emotional teachers, excited students, and past alumni, returning to the halls of their youth to honor the...
GILPIN COUNTY - Gilpin County School’s Class of 2025 graduated on May 24, 2025, in an outdoor ceremony attended by several family members and friends. The graduates came into the ceremony with the ever traditional “Pomp and Circumstance”...
GILPIN COUNTY — On the evening of Wednesday, May 21, the Gilpin County School auditorium filled with proud families, teachers, and community members as the Class of 2025 was celebrated at the annual Senior Awards Ceremony. This year’s class of 37...
NEDERLAND - At Nederland Middle-Senior High School the eighth grade class closed out the school year on May 21. They were honored with a continuation ceremony on their last day as middle schoolers. Asterion Nahapetian and Leila Tarleton gave two...
NEDERLAND - The fifth grade students at Nederland Elementary School (NES) have finished their elementary school years and are moving onto middle school. On the last day of school families of the students were invited to attend a continuation...
GILPIN COUNTY — Since Gilpin’s only childcare facility, Eagles’ Nest, closed due to financial difficulties in November of 2023, parents and guardians looking for childcare in Gilpin have been stretched thin. Resource providers, families, county...
DENVER - The Colorado Department of Education recognized and celebrated schools and districts that won performance awards in the 2023 and 2024 school years at its School and District Awards ceremony On May 16, 2025. The...
Ryan Marr: The fastest sprinter in Gilpin’s history DAVE GIBSON LAKEWOOD – Every spring the top high school track and field athletes in Colorado gather at the CHSAA Championships at Jeffco Stadium in Lakewood to determine who is the best of the...
NEDERLAND - The students from Nederland and Jamestown Elementary Schools came together and filled the Nederland Elementary School (NES) gymnasium with music that had been produced at the Caribou Ranch Recording Studio outside of...