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Alfredo Borj, 14, works on his layup every chance he gets at the new basketball court in Cottonwood Park very near to his home at the Cottonwood apartments on Nov. 30, 2018, in Parachute. The court was paid for thanks to an influx in marijuana tax revenue.
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Budtender Desrie Hayhurst gives Anthony Lampshire of Parachute a smell of a rolled joint as he shops in the open air showroom at the Tumbleweed Parachute Dispensary in Parachute.
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Tom Wilke, Manzanola School District Superintendent and K-12 Principal stands in the school's old boiler room in Manzanola. The room is filled with outdated equipment and still houses the retired asbestos-laden boiler.
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Manzanola Jr-Sr High School 6th, 7th and 8th grade students cross Grande Ave. on their way to lunch at the elementary school a few blocks from the Jr-Sr high school in Manzanola.
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A sign supporting a bond measure for funding to secure a BEST Grant for the Manzanola Jr-Sr High School and Elementary School is seen in a store window in Manzanola. The measure failed and Manzanola did not secure a BEST grant.
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Manzanola Jr-Sr High School's Patsy Romero of Food Services packs up and carries food every morning from the elementary school cafeteria to the Jr-Sr High School kids for breakfast. All the students at the K-12 schools receive free school breakfast and lunch.
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Students use this small classroom as the breakfast room at Manzanola Jr-Sr High School.
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A large crack runs down a wall in the Manzanola Elementary School gymnasium.
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This fall, the Montrose County School District opened the new Columbine Middle School. The $33 million project replaced a nearly 60-year-old school building, which was deemed structurally deficient.
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(From left) Columbine Middle School 7th graders Caden Kay and Santana Hernandez work with the 3D printer to build a skeleton in the design side of the fabrication and design lab in Montrose.
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Columbine Middle School 8th grade students Aland Stroud and Torrie Eckerman use a Flight Simulator in the learning center on Dec. 18, 2018, in Montrose.
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Swallows Charter Academy students cross a large area between the modular buildings that make up the school's campus, including rented rooms in a strip mall in Pueblo West. A new facility, which will be paid for using a BEST grant that the school has been trying to attain for six years, will be built on this ground.
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Martina Cahill teaches a kindergarten art class in the library at Swallows Charter Academy in Pueblo West. The library and other parts of the school are housed in a former grocery store, a setup that will soon be replaced with a new two-story brick and mortar facility.
Fred Haberlein murals decorate the town of Antonito, as they do in many other Colorado towns, seen here May 30, 2018, in Antonito. (Photo by Joe Amon/The Denver Post)
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Tonya Olivas, left, with Antonito public works, paints as Loretta Gallegos, house keeper, washes down the front steps of the historic Warshauer Mansion in Antonito. Antonito public works is refinishing the mansion to be their new municipal building and town hall.
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The Antonito public works department uses their front loader during the remodel of a historic building in town to be their new municipal building and town hall on May 30, 2018, in Antonito.
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Tegan Welsch-Rainek, owner and co-founder of 420 Green Genie organizes some of her inventory in her dispensary in Antonito.
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Tegan Welsch-Rainek, owner and co-founder of 420 Green Genie, tries to open the front door of her dispensary as Fred, her 400-500 pound licensed service animal and guard pig, blocks the entrance. Fred is regarded as a town hero after helping an Antonito police officer capture a woman who was wanted on existing warrants and later was found to be carrying heroin.
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New sidewalk lighting graces the newly paved Sherman St. on Nov. 29, 2018, in Ridgway.
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Budtender Cody Terras weighes out buds from a strain called "So Cal Al" for Micheal Rose of Olathe at Fiddlers Green cannabis dispensary in Ridgway.
Alfredo Borj, 14, works on his layup every chance he gets at the new basketball court in Cottonwood Park very near to his home at the Cottonwood apartments on Nov. 30, 2018, in Parachute. The court was paid for thanks to an influx in marijuana tax revenue.
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