Meeker
Elliot/Choate top golfers, Collins/Hooks take top net honors
MEEKER | Twenty-three teams, many from out-of-town, played in the annual two-man best ball golf tournament held last weekend at the Meeker Golf Course. It was out-of-town teams taking the top honors in both flights but locals finished in the money in both flights too. Perennial champs Joe Elliot of[Read More…]
Trail Work …
Consultants release preliminary cost estimates to replace or renovate aging high school, transportation building
MEEKER | Denver-based planning consultants Anne Weber and Linda Wagner of Bennett Wagner Grody Architects (BWGA) led the discussion at both the Meeker School District’s facilities master planning advisory group and public meetings last Thursday at the high school. The public meeting began with a tour of the bus garage,[Read More…]
Trustees and commissioners open discussion about the future of retail marijuana and growing operations
MEKER | In response to a request from Rio Blanco County Commission chair Shawn Bolton, Meeker’s board of trustees met with the county commissioners in a joint meeting to discuss the issue of retail marijuana sales and grow operations in RBC. Speaking for Bolton, who was in Washington, D.C., economic[Read More…]
Girl Scouts …
Washburn honored at retirement party
By Doc Watson Special to the Herald Times MEEKER | About 30 people, including law enforcement officers, family, friends and city and county personnel gathered in the town hall board room on June 8 for a retirement party for Mike Washburn, who served and protected Meeker and Rio Blanco citizens[Read More…]
Cloverbuds…
Plein Air art event returns
RBC | Starting June 15, artists from around Colorado and the United States will take their talents outside for the sixth annual Meeker Plein Air art event, following in the footsteps of famous artists like Monet, Renoir and Homer. Plein air art is painting done outside, “in plain air.” It[Read More…]
Retiring…
School board approves new hires, honors retirees
MEEKER | In a special meeting on June 6, the Meeker Board of Education approved two new hires: Rebekah Cravens as an elementary para-professional and Maria Beckington as the high school Spanish teacher. Cravens is coming from Westcliffe with her husband Greg Cravens, who has been approved as the new[Read More…]
Master facilities planning meeting for Meeker schools tonight
MEEKER | Meeker School District Superintendent Chris Selle continuously reminds the Board of Education (board) to focus on the district’s mission statement. The statement reads “to assure the highest possible level of success for each student in learning those things which the district believes to be important in assuring each[Read More…]
