{"id":8960,"date":"2026-01-12T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/koto.org\/?post_type=news&#038;p=8960"},"modified":"2026-01-12T16:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T23:49:11","slug":"newscast-1-12-26","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/koto.org\/es\/news\/newscast-1-12-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Newscast 1-12-26"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Technical Glitch Puts Telluride Schools in Lockdown<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Colorado General Assembly Convenes for 2026<\/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\">Technical Glitch Puts Telluride Schools in Lockdown<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Telluride Middle High School was placed on lockdown Monday afternoon due to a technical glitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAt about 1:28 this afternoon the school was placed into a lockdown. It was later determined it was technical glitch,\u201d said Telluride Chief Marshal Josh Comte.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Comte said law enforcement responded as if the situation were real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe treated the lockdown like it was an actual lockdown. We sent all our resources over there. We had responding units to the schools in under two minutes. Obviously our SRO was already on campus at the middle school and high school. By 1:42 the lockdown was lifted, so it lasted approximately 14 minutes,\u201d Comte said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The SRO is the district\u2019s school resource officer, a marshal\u2019s deputy stationed at the school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Telluride School District Superintendent John Pandolfo said the lockdown was triggered when a phone code was accidentally activated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn addition to the emergency buttons in each office, there\u2019s a phone code that can be used to initiate a lockdown. Typically, that phone code takes several steps, it\u2019s not just dialing a phone number,\u201d Pandolfo said. \u201cToday that phone code was inadvertently activated, and our belief is that a default got reset so it didn\u2019t require the multiple steps it typically requires.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pandolfo said the district is still investigating why the process was reset and plans to conduct additional testing over the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Comte said he understands the emotional toll lockdowns can have on the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe don\u2019t take any of these things lightly when a school is placed in lockdown. Even the drills we treat very seriously, and we understand those can have pretty significant impacts on people\u2019s mental health and mental wellness and the stress involved for both the students and parents when these things happen,\u201d Comte said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said he was grateful the lockdown procedures were taken seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEveryone responded very well to the lockdown, which made our job easier. From an officer standpoint, we were able to get in the schools, we were able to clear them very quickly and deem them safe and lift it very quickly,\u201d Comte said. \u201cWhile we hate to see these happen, it\u2019s a good reminder that when it does happen, they\u2019re treated seriously and everyone responded very well today.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">School operations returned to normal following the lockdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pandolfo said that while the incident was unfortunate, situations that occur in real time help the district better prepare for future emergencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Colorado General Assembly Convenes for 2026<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Colorado\u2019s General Assembly reconvenes this week for the start of the 2026 legislative session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KOTO will again provide coverage of state lawmaking through its ongoing segment, <em>Capitol Conversation<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week, statehouse reporter Lucas Brady Woods provides a preview of what to expect during the session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Story beings at 2:50. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Improv, Comedy Night Brings Community Together<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Sheridan Opera House, San Miguel Resource Center, San Miguel County Public Health and the Fig, a local arts collective, are teaming up this week for a night of improv and stand-up comedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The event will feature low-stakes, high-energy improv games focused on building connection and community while having fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The night is part of the organizations\u2019 Dry January at the Show Bar program and is free and open to the public. Nonalcoholic beverages will be available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The improv and comedy night will take place Wednesday, Jan. 14, at the Show Bar, beginning at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Snowpack Lags Across Upper Colorado River Basin<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Snowpack is well below average across the Upper Colorado River Basin, in part due to an unusually warm winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Temperatures in December were nine to 12 degrees above normal across the region, resulting in more precipitation falling as rain, particularly at lower elevations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seth Arens, a scientist with the Western Water Assessment, said climate change is likely to bring more winters like this in the future, though he cautioned against calling it \u201cthe new normal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re going to keep going through these cycles of having warm winters and cold winters, but that average is going to get higher and higher,\u201d Arens said. \u201cSo that means on these extremes: our extremely warm winters are going to be warmer and warmer, and the extremely cold winters aren\u2019t going to be as cold.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arens said there is still time left this winter for snow accumulation, but long-term forecasts point to continued warm and dry conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A crowd of people gathered in downtown Carbondale last week for a vigil honoring Renee Nicole Macklin Good. She died last Wednesday after a federal immigration agent shot her in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Rocky Mountain Community Radio, Aspen Public Radio\u2019s Sarah Tory reports under falling snow, people gathered around a large, black and white photo of Good. She was a poet, writer, wife, and mother to three children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump Administration officials defended the shooting, saying the immigration agent fired in self-defense. But a video analysis by the New York Times shows Good\u2019s car turning away from the agent as he opened fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Willits resident Bettina Slusar, Good\u2019s killing was a disturbing realization about the escalation of violence at the hands of immigration agents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;There was a point where I was worried that protesting ice might get me, you know, handcuffed and taken away, but now what we have to worry about is being shot in the head for honking our horns,&#8221; said Slusar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Volunteers with the nonprofit, Mountain Action Indivisible organized the vigil. They\u2019re urging people to speak out against Good\u2019s killing by attending future protests \u2014 and calling their elected representatives to demand an end to the Trump Administration\u2019s violence.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; Technical Glitch Puts Telluride Schools in Lockdown<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Colorado General Assembly Convenes for 2026<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-category":[515],"news-tag":[],"class_list":["post-8960","news","type-news","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","news-category-newscasts"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Newscast 1-12-26 - KOTO FM<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In today&#039;s headlines: Technical Glitch Puts Telluride Schools in Lockdown. 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