Bobby Gutierrez | The Herald Times

6 brains are better …

Gracie Bradfield, Kenzie Turner, Lila Klinglesmith, Kale Burke, Charlie Day and Pake Burke, members of the Destination/Imagination team Six Brains are Better than One, performed the skit that qualified the team for the International Global Finals in Knoxville, Tenn., later this month.

May 12, 2011 by Bobby Gutierrez Comments are Disabled

Meeker

For the birds …

For the past six years, Mary Cunningham, who works at the U.S. Forest Service office in Meeker, has celebrated International Migrating Bird month by taking Meeker Elementary School students on field trips to watch and spot birds in the area.

May 10, 2011 by Bobby Gutierrez Comments are Disabled

Foggy track

Bad weather cancelled track meets for RBC track teams last week and both teams will compete at Battle Mountain this Saturday. RBC 1600-meter runners recently ran through fog in Rifle. Bobby Gutierrez

May 10, 2011 by Bobby Gutierrez Comments are Disabled

LeBlanc receives team award

Head coach Mark Branch and the Cowboy coaching staff announced the Wyoming wrestling squad’s team awards during the program’s annual year-end gathering last Saturday in Laramie.

May 9, 2011 by Bobby Gutierrez Comments are Disabled

Meeker

Near record snowfall

The White River is not flooding yet but the near-record snowfalls this season could result in major spring run-off. Rio Blanco County emergency manager John Hutchins said the town and county have prepared a plan of action and all departments are ready for a possible high water event.

May 8, 2011 by Bobby Gutierrez Comments are Disabled

RHS Panthers end baseball season for Cowboys

The Meeker baseball team played its final home game on the road last week. Because of the weather, Meeker’s baseball diamond was never dry enough to play on this season, so the Cowboys had to play their scheduled home games against Paonia in Rifle and their final home game against[Read More…]

May 8, 2011 by Bobby Gutierrez Comments are Disabled

Everyone marimba!

Fourth- and fifth-graders from Meeker Elementary School have spent a couple hours a week with music teacher Anna Todd and learned to plan the marimbas.

May 4, 2011 by Bobby Gutierrez Comments are Disabled

RBC teams play for playoffs

Rio Blanco County’s high school baseball teams met in Rangely yesterday after press time for a doubleheader, which are the final games of the regular season for Meeker and will have district playoff implications for both teams.

May 3, 2011 by Bobby Gutierrez Comments are Disabled

Boesch breaks five-minute mile

Meeker High School freshman Jake Boesch broke the five-minute-mile time barrier last Saturday during a cold and rainy day in Rifle. Several other members of the Meeker track team set personal records (PR). The Meeker boys’ team finished second behind the host team and the girls placed sixth.

May 1, 2011 by Bobby Gutierrez Comments are Disabled

Chintala will give 2011 address

Longtime Barone Middle School teacher Greg Chintala will give the commencement address for the 2011 graduation ceremonies May 28.

April 29, 2011 by Bobby Gutierrez Comments are Disabled

Up and Down El Rio Blanco: Perseverance

“Endeavor to persevere,” said Lone Watie, the Indian character in the 1976 movie “The Outlaw Josey Wales.”

April 29, 2011 by Bobby Gutierrez Comments are Disabled

County

Harmon honored for child support enforcement work

John Bernhart, director of the Colorado Division of Child Support Enforcement, drove to Meeker from his Denver office to present Andrea Harmon with a certificate of excellence award at the Rio Blanco County Board of County Commissioners’ meeting held Monday in Meeker.

April 28, 2011 by Bobby Gutierrez Comments are Disabled