MEEKER — The Barone Middle School girls basketball teams hosted the Steamboat Springs Sailors last Saturday and won three of four games.
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Panthers end regular season in Fruita
RANGELY — The Panther wrestling team traveled to Fruita to wrestle its last dual of the season last Tuesday.
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…]
Two local hoopsters advance to Nuggets Skills finals event
RANGELY — This past weekend Rifle was the site of the sectional competition of the statewide Denver Nuggets Skills Challenge.
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…]
January Streaker trips
MEEKER — The Meeker Streaker took our area seniors on the following January trips:
“Dizzy Decorators”
MEEKER — The Scrapbooking Club is meeting and working in full force. This 4-H club was dubiously named “The Dizzy Decorators” at the first meeting Jan. 23. They also elected officers: Emily Eliasen, president; Nicole Hilkey, vice president; Alexius Gumm, secretary; Darcy Usher, treasurer; and Ariah Adams and Kendra Nelson[Read More…]
FCCLA enjoys winter activites
MEEKER — To ring in the new year, Meeker’s FCCLA chapter visited Walbridge Wing residents to make some delicious treats Jan. 2.
Vaughn returns from cattle convention
RBC — Barb Vaughn, Colorado CattleWomen president, has returned from attending the 2008 Cattle Industry Annual Convention and Trade Show of the American National CattleWomen, Inc., National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, Cattlemen’s Beef Promotion and Research Board, and Cattle-Fax held in Reno, Nev., February 4-9.
Snow pack registers high marks for year
RBC — The first snow survey of the winter was conducted on Jan. 30 at the snow survey sites on the upper White River Basin. The White River snow pack water equivalent (snow moisture) is 141 percent of what it was in 2007 at this time of the year. Overall,[Read More…]
Letters to the Editor: February 7, 2008
Dear Editor,
Veterans’ benefits expanded
RBC — Many veterans living on the Western Slope, to include the Utah counties of San Juan and Grand, will benefit by recent changes in VA policy and law. One change was a mileage allowance increase from 11 cents to 28 cents a mile for veterans living more than 50[Read More…]