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Boulder Valley enrollment dropped by about 2% this school year, with the school district seeing its largest decrease in high school enrollment in more than 20 years. In the fall, according to a report on the agenda for Tuesday’s school board meeting, the district enrolled 565 fewer students for a total of 27,522 K-12 students. The school board hadn’t heard the report by the Daily Camera’s print deadline, but district officials in the report cited lingering COVID-19 impacts and uncertainty as the reasons for a larger-than-expected decline — though the district did project enrollment to continue to shrink. Last school...

Dr. Sam Hanke fell asleep on the couch with his 4-week-old son Charlie and woke up, hours later, to find his child dead. It was April of 2010 and the pediatric cardiologist and his wife Maura, a kindergarten teacher, were both overjoyed to have a healthy kid, who had come into the world without drama and, occasional fussiness aside, been a normal baby boy. Hanke fell asleep with his son hoping to give his wife, who had been breastfeeding, a rest.“I just sat down on the couch to watch some TV and he was kind of sitting on my chest....

Staring at my computer screen with the thousand-yard stare of someone who has seen stuff, I find myself unsure how to characterize 2022. The last year has been, frankly, not that different from the year before; despite the promise of vaccines, a new president in White House, and my new job (thank you /Film), 2022 turned out to be a lot less "post"-pandemic than many of us hoped.Oh, and apparently it'll take me 20 years of saving to buy a house. Yet, the optimist in me can't help but see signs of better things to come. The definitely-not-a-ponzi-scheme NFT boom of 2021...

Whoever said children should be seen and not heard was most certainly not a parent of a child whose speech was delayed. Because dealing with a late talker — a toddler who has a solid grasp of language and typical cognitive, social, vision, and hearing development, but a limited spoken or expressive vocabulary — is a stressful experience for parents.But it doesn’t have to be, says Michelle MacRoy-Higgins, Ph.D. A speech-language pathologist and co-author of Time to Talk: What You Need to Know About Your Child’s Speech and Language Development, she says that although late talkers demand attention, a speech...

Many myths surround the game of chess, such as it’s only for smart people, or it’s boring, or too complicated to learn. The truth is, anyone can learn to play chess. It’s a game that’s brought players together for centuries. During the Covid-19 pandemic, it enjoyed a surge in popularity as people searched for hobbies to cope with isolation. In April 2020, Chess.com saw 1.5 million new accounts opened by online users, nearly 1 million more accounts than were opened in January 2020. The Netflix series “The Queen’s Gambit” also fueled interest in the game and, recently, a scandal in...