Jessi Marlatt

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Another Ouray County resident has come forward, stating she saw a strange light in the sky in late April. Coleen McElroy, 52, told the Plaindealer that she saw a strange light from her home on Highway 550 near Dexter Creek around the same time as the sighting reported by the Plaindealer last week.
"I too saw a UFO...,” she wrote in an email. “What happened is, I have been watching the skies a lot this year due to the planets moving around so much. One night, I was looking out of the window and just south of Whitehouse was a huge bright round light. I though it was a planet, even though it seemed to be much bigger and brighter than the planets I have become used to seeing, and it seemed to be lower in the sky.”

Jessi Marlatt
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The Ridgway School Board met with the District Accountability Committee (DAC) at their work session on Tuesday, May 8, to discuss survey findings and possible courses of action to improve the district. Areas defined by the committee and recognized by the board in need of improvement and further investigation included staff dissatisfaction, effectiveness of the Student Learning Program (SLP), general problems at the middle school level, student achievement and the effectiveness of professional development time.
The committee explained to the board that the survey results were a tool for the board to use and that it was the board’s responsibility to decipher results and make appropriate changes. DAC made recommendations, but ultimately, it is the board that must decide how to move forward to implement change.