{"id":7037,"date":"2025-10-06T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/koto.org\/?post_type=news&#038;p=7037"},"modified":"2025-10-06T16:41:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T22:41:57","slug":"newscast-10-6-25","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/koto.org\/es\/news\/newscast-10-6-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Newscast 10-6-25"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Childcare Funding Challenges Deepen in San Miguel County<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Horror Show Haunts the Box Canyon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Childcare Funding Challenges Deepen in San Miguel County<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Childcare centers in San Miguel County are facing growing financial pressure as federal, state and local funding cuts ripple through the system. The result: mounting deficits, longer waitlists for assistance and tough decisions about service reductions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Colorado, over $70 million in additional childcare funding is needed over the next three years due to rising enrollment. Locally, San Miguel County projects a deficit of more than $100,000 next year \u2014 driven by unfunded mandates for higher provider pay and new federal enrollment requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three main funding streams support childcare in the county \u2014 the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Strong Start, a voter-approved local initiative. Those sources, combined with individual grants and family tuition payments, make up the county\u2019s childcare funding landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Primetime, one of two childcare centers in Norwood, offers infant, toddler and preschool programs up to four days a week. The other, based at Norwood School, runs a two-day, half-day preschool. Without cost assistance, four days of toddler care at Primetime costs $940 per week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Melissa Merrill, director of Primetime, said the CCAP funding that helps low-income families cover childcare costs is on a waitlist in San Miguel County and completely frozen in Montrose County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Merrill said it will likely be at least a year before funds return in Montrose County. The freeze has forced families to pay full childcare costs out of pocket or stay on waitlists \u2014 even as Primetime\u2019s enrollment declines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI would say some of it is cost. Some of it is just logistics. We had multiple families move. We&#8217;ve had a couple whose families work in Telluride, and it&#8217;s just more practical for them to take their kiddos to centers in Telluride. So we lost a few to that,\u201d Merrill said. \u201cYou know, I don&#8217;t know. We&#8217;ve kind of just\u2014we&#8217;re in a weird slump, and I don&#8217;t feel like it&#8217;s just us, like I know that there are centers in Telluride that rarely have openings, that currently have them as well. So I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s like a COVID, not-as-many-babies-were-being-born kind of issue. I don&#8217;t know.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last month, San Miguel County commissioners authorized emergency funding for Primetime to keep operations running. Still, Merrill said they\u2019ve made the difficult decision to close their infant room in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo unfortunately, our infant room will be closing in December, and we are one of only two infant rooms in the county,\u201d Merrill said. \u201cThere&#8217;s one in Telluride \u2014 well, it&#8217;s Mountain Village \u2014 and then ours here in Norwood, the only two infant rooms. Infant care is the most expensive because the number of children to the number of staff is the lowest. The state says we can have four infants with one teacher, but Prime Time has always tried to keep a one-to-three ratio. It&#8217;s just not cost-effective to run, so at the moment, our plan is to hopefully only temporarily close our infant room until we can find some ways to help boost enrollment and help families be able to afford coming to the center.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only other infant center in the county, Mountain Munchkins in Mountain Village, currently has a waitlist of 26 families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Merrill said her biggest challenge remains funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo, like I, I don&#8217;t have a good solution, but I also know how important child care is to make sure that families can still go to work,\u201d she said. \u201cUnfortunately, in today&#8217;s age, both parents usually have to work, and if they don&#8217;t have reliable care, how are they going to do that?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Primetime has submitted a financial sustainability plan alongside its emergency funding request, but Merrill said more long-term support will be needed to reopen the infant room. With Colorado facing an $800 million state budget deficit and counties absorbing cost increases across programs, the future of childcare funding in San Miguel County remains uncertain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Horror Show Haunts the Box Canyon<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The hillsides are glowing, the nights are cool and damp. It\u2019s the spookiest month of the year, and horror is closing in on us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe horror genre is a huge genre,\u201d said Ted Wilson, festival director at the Telluride Horror Show. \u201cThe Horror Show is a great way to showcase how diverse the genre is.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wilson notes horror films have their tropes, but he loves the creativity filmmakers from across the world are bringing to the table, keeping the genre fresh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSeeing people turn all that stuff on its head, using horror movies as a mirror on society\u2019s woes. Using horror as a great backdrop for comedy, the list goes on and on,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This weekend, the 16th Telluride Horror Show returns to the box canyon with 20 feature films, 33 short films and a number of special events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One film of note \u2014 <em>Good Boy<\/em>, Wilson said, features an unlikely protagonist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt stars a dog. It\u2019s a haunted house movie that\u2019s shown completely from the perspective of a dog,\u201d he said. \u201cThe dog is an incredible actor. He does an amazing job in this movie. It\u2019s a great horror movie because it works. You\u2019ll be scared, you\u2019ll be nervous, you\u2019ll be tense, which is all the things you want out of a fun horror movie ride.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Good Boy<\/em> will screen Saturday, Oct. 11 at 12:40 p.m. at the Palm Theatre as a fundraiser for Second Chance Humane Society and Telluride Humane Society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a unique opportunity for us to celebrate our love of pets and horror, but the best part of it is it\u2019s a really good horror movie,\u201d Wilson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Festival favorites the Adams Family will be back for the fourth time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey are truly independent filmmakers as a family. They make amazing films with a very do-it-yourself approach. We\u2019re really excited to have them back in town all weekend. I know they\u2019ve garnered a huge local following as well,\u201d Wilson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their film this year is <em>Mother of Flies<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mickey faces a deadly diagnosis and searches for a cure at the hands of dark magic. But every cure has a cost, and the veil between the living and dead begins to unravel with Mickey at the center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe cast is essentially the family as well. This is a fun, unique story,\u201d Wilson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, <em>Dust Bunny<\/em> is what Wilson calls a \u201cgateway horror movie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s more family friendly. <em>Dust Bunny<\/em> is one that older kids could definitely come to and enjoy. It\u2019s more of a dark fantasy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The film follows 10-year-old Aurora and her mysterious \u2014 and real-life monster killer \u2014 neighbor, after she believes a monster ate her entire family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Dust Bunny<\/em> comes from Bryan Fuller \u2014 known for the shows <em>Hannibal<\/em> y <em>Pushing Daisies<\/em> \u2014 in his feature directorial debut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Outside of the features, the Horror Show will highlight four shorts programs: <em>Chamber of Horrors<\/em>, <em>Uncanny Tales<\/em>, <em>Sinister Stories<\/em>, and <em>Vault of Humor<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are also a number of free events for the community, including creepy campfire tales, author talks and horror films from the vault at the Wilkinson Public Library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wilson said the aim of the weekend is to send folks away with their bellies full of new horror films \u2014 and the joy of seeing them with the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe thrill for us boils down to that one simple thing \u2014 you get to see these movies in a movie theater, on the big screen, with a crowd of like-minded fans. That\u2019s what these movies were made for,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Telluride Horror Show will take place in Telluride from Friday, Oct. 10 through Sunday, Oct. 12. Festival passes, film packs, single film tickets and a full schedule are available at <a>telluridehorrorshow.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Library\u2019s Lunch &amp; Learn Series Revisits U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>On Sept. 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, 39 delegates signed the central document of the U.S. government \u2014 the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Nearly 250 years later, those ideas still form the foundation of American democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This fall, the Wilkinson Public Library is inviting the community back to civics class with a Lunch &amp; Learn series focused on government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first program in the series will highlight the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Local social studies teacher Laura Ianacone and federal criminal defense lawyer Melanie Morgan will lead the discussion, revisiting key ideas, surprising stories, and quirky facts behind the documents that shaped the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLunch &amp; Learn: The Constitution &amp; Bill of Rights\u201d takes place Tuesday, Oct. 7, from noon to 1 p.m. Registration is appreciated and available at telluridelibrary.org. Future Lunch &amp; Learns will take place Nov. 4 and Dec. 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Talking Gourds Poetry Series Returns With Ghost Stories<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Telluride Institute\u2019s Talking Gourds Poetry program is back this month with a Bardic Trails virtual Zoom event themed \u201cGhost Stories.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The featured reader is Betsy Quammen, author of <em>American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God &amp; Public Lands in the West<\/em> y <em>True West.<\/em> Quammen collects stories to make sense of a place defined by colonization, extraction, rebellion, myth, beauty, and land. She lives in Bozeman, Montana, with her spouse, writer David Quammen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The virtual event begins at 7 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 7. This month\u2019s prompt is \u201cGhosts.\u201d Participants are encouraged to bring a story or poem to share after the featured reading \u2014 their own work or someone else\u2019s. More information and the Zoom link are available at tellurideinstitute.org.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Colorado River Experts Push for Urgent Water Management Reform<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A group of Colorado River experts is calling for sweeping changes to how the region manages its shrinking water supply, warning that policymakers need to act faster in response to climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re so far away from meeting the moment right now, the moment might as well be on another planet,\u201d said Kyle Roerink, with the nonprofit Great Basin Water Network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roerink said negotiations between the seven states that use the Colorado River need to be more transparent. The group is calling on every state that relies on the river to come up with plans to use less water. Other experts stress that negotiators also need to rethink how and where water is stored, as dams and reservoirs drop to record lows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Colorado Conversion Therapy Ban<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Supreme Court justices will hear a case Tuesday about a Colorado law that bans conversion therapy for minors, over concerns that it violates the First Amendment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the Colorado Capitol News Alliance, Bente Birkeland has more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Story begins at 11:20.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; Childcare Funding Challenges Deepen in San Miguel County<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Horror Show Haunts the Box Canyon<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-category":[515],"news-tag":[300,376,477],"class_list":["post-7037","news","type-news","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","news-category-newscasts","news-tag-colorado","news-tag-kotonews","news-tag-telluride"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Newscast 10-6-25 - KOTO FM<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In today&#039;s headlines: Childcare Funding Challenges Deepen in San Miguel County. 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