MEEKER – Justin Jacob, a graduate of Meeker High School, was still in an intensive care unit (ICU) Tuesday, Feb. 12, at Rapid City Medical Center in South Dakota after falling from a third story balcony Feb. 9. According to his father, he is improving.
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BMS A-teams beat Sailors
MEEKER — The Barone Middle School girls basketball teams hosted the Steamboat Springs Sailors last Saturday and won three of four games.
Meeker loses league game in Paonia
MEEKER — The lady Cowboy basketball team traveled to Paonia last Friday and lost a league game to the Eagles 60-41. Meeker will host the Rangely Panthers Friday and Soroco Saturday. “We are still trying to get the flow back we had right after Christmas,” head coach Hallie Blunt said.[Read More…]
Cowboys take on bigger schools, beat Hotchkiss
MEEKER — The Cowboys used six pins and a forfeit to defeat the 3A Hotchkiss Bulldogs last Friday in front of their last hometown crowd of the season. “We needed a lot of them,” Meeker’s head coach Willy Theos said of the pins that allowed the Cowboys to win the[Read More…]
Lady Cowboys drop two league games on the road
MEEEKR — It wasn’t a good week to be unable to make baskets but according to Meeker’s head girls basketball coach Hallie Blunt, that’s what happened in games against Grand Valley and South Routt County (Soroco) last week. “We couldn’t make a basket,” Blunt said.
Panther wrestlers beat Cowboys in annual dual
RBC — “I’ve never seen the scoreboard on our side when we wrestled Meeker,” Rangely’s head coach Jeff LeBleu said after his Panthers defeated the Cowboys 15-48 last Friday in Meeker. It was the first time the Panthers have beat the Cowboys under LeBleu’s tenure.
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The Barone Middle School track team competed and placed well in the meet in West Grand last weekend. The eighth grade boys won the overall meet. Read the recap online at ht1885.com.
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The Meeker Preschool Roundup will be held this Friday, April 26th from 8am to 4pm!
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Gear up for an unforgettable adventure with the 2024 Ride The Rockies Route, set to unfold from June 9th to 15th! Read all about this new and exciting adventure visiting Meeker this year in this week’s edition and online at ht1885.com.
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Rangely Panther Kobey Chism (#22) has been selected to play in the 2024 8-man football all-state game. He’s sponsored by the Bleed Green Lancaster #17 Foundation. Story at ht1885.com.
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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Rio Blanco Fire Protection District (RBFPD) will begin work on a firebreak northwest of the Town of Meeker this month. Read about it online at ht1885.com.
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You can always find a reason to laugh... start with yourself. Hear from our Editor in her column this week online at ht1885.com.
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The amount of money reported lost to fraud and scams in the United States nearly tripled from $3.5 billion in 2020 to $10 billion in 2023, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Learn the tricks to help protect yourself and your family in this week’s edition and online at ht1885.com.
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About 80 Meeker Elementary Students participated in the reading competition. Prizes were distributed according to the most minutes read by each student. Story at ht1885.com.
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