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1.Unofficial Garfield Re-2 school board election results show Heil barely leading in District A 

Unofficial results for the Garfield Re-2 School District Board of Education election show Megan Heil leading in the polls for the District A seat, according to the Colorado Secretary of State.

As of 4:45 p.m. Thursday, Heil has earned 2,484 (52.48%) of the vote, followed by Darlane Evans with 2,249 (47.52%) votes.

Both Rifle residents have long ties to the district. Heil was appointed to the District A seat in August following the resignation of former board president Britton Fletchall in June. Evans, a Rifle High School graduate, serves as director of gifted education for the Colorado River and Rio Blanco Boards of Cooperative Educational Services and previously spent 19 years teaching in Garfield Re-2.

-Taylor Cramer

2. Ballot measure 7A passing in Garfield, Eagle and Pitkin counties 

As of 4:45 p.m. Thursday, ballot measure 7A, which supports early childhood development services, is passing by around 4,556 votes — about 19% — in the 2025 coordinated election, according to the Colorado Secretary of State.

Around 23,814 votes were cast in Eagle, Garfield and Pitkin Counties. Around 56% of Garfield, 66% of Eagle and 67% of Pitkin voters are in favor of the measure, which would create a special tax district that would help fund early childhood development services through a 0.25% sales tax in Garfield, Pitkin and southwestern Eagle counties.

Expected to generate around $12 million annually, the tax would be levied to help alleviate early childhood care and education expenses through tuition credits for families within the special district. It would also fund local provider grants that would boost existing child care programs, help fund the creation of new programs and increase wages for early childhood teachers. 

-Julianna O’Clair 

3. Unofficial results see Kuhlenberg and Nimmo take lead in Roaring Fork school board election 

Unofficial results from the Colorado Secretary of State website show that the Roaring Fork School District Board of Education will only welcome one new face, following a Wednesday update.

As of 4:45 p.m. Thursday, results show that former board president and incumbent Kathryn Kuhlenberg is leading the District E race with 7,493 (72%) votes. Opponent Elizabeth Cockrill Taylor currently trails Kuhlenberg with 2,930 votes (27%).

“I feel like we’re at a launching point for the district,” Kuhlenberg said on Tuesday night. “We have a really good team in place at the district to be ready to get into the meat of the work and have some long term positive impacts.”

-Jaymin Kanzer 

4. Another reintroduced wolf from Canada has died, Colorado Parks and Wildlife says

Another of Colorado’s reintroduced gray wolves has died, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife. 

The agency said in a Friday news release that it received a mortality alert from a female gray wolf’s collar on Oct. 30. Parks and Wildlife said the death took place in southwest Colorado. 

Parks and Wildlife said the cause of death won’t be known until an investigation, including a necropsy, is completed. The investigation is being handled by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

-Robert Tann

5. Two Rivers Community School and Garfield Re-2 School District entangled in transportation law dispute

Two Rivers Community School and the Garfield Re-2 School District are currently in disagreement over the charter school bussing students in and out of Re-2 district boundaries — something with elevated stakes given how state and federal funding is allocated on a per-student basis.. 

TRCS Head of School Jamie Nims and Re-2 Superintendent Kirk Banghart met at the charter school in Glenwood Springs on Friday afternoon in an initial attempt to resolve the dispute, although Nims said they were unable to reach an agreement during that meeting.

“I want to be clear in saying that not only do we believe what we’re doing is right and just, but we also believe it’s lawful,” Nims said.

-Jaymin Kanzer