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Three wildland fires were ignited by lightning on Friday in Mesa Verde National Park. And the Montezuma-Cortez RE-1 School District will be cracking down on student attendance and discipline this year.

The non-violent crime records of more than a million Coloradans will soon be sealed thanks to a new law Governor Jared Polis signed this week. And two Utah families are challenging the recent state bill that bars trans girls from competing in school sports.

At an emergency meeting on Tuesday, the Montezuma-Cortez RE-1 School Board voted five to two against a mask mandate in the district's schools.

An individual at Montezuma-Cortez High School has been diagnosed with COVID-19; The Colorado Independent Redistricting Committee has released preliminary maps and is currently taking comments from the public.

Colorado Governor Jared Polis wants to pay grade school students to regularly get tested for COVID-19 this school year; In Southwest Colorado, firefighting efforts on The Willow Fire reached one hundred percent containment on Thursday.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Hank Nuwer about concerns that a pandemic-induced lull in hazing-related deaths may reverse as college students return to campus.