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.
Tag: Meeker Elementary School
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.
D.I. to present challenge May 9
The Destination Imagination team, Six Brains are Better Than One, will host a public presentation of their team challenge May 9, at 6:30 p.m., in the elementary school cafeteria.
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.
Steps toward school’s future
Meeker mayor Mandi Etheridge signed the paperwork to cancel the school district’s lease on the former Main Street elementary school. Some discussion is still underway between the school district and the town about property improvements which still need to be addressed.
Letter to the Editor: Thoughts about the old school building
Dear Editor: I see that the Meeker Town Council is at long last in possession of the old elementary school and will soon be making some decisions about what to do with the building.
Laying the cornerstone
Engineering a road to the future
RBC I After questioning who actually has ownership of the existing Ute Road, the Meeker School District — with the town of Meeker as a co-applicant — is seeking a revised $925,000 energy impact grant from the Colorado Department of Local Affairs to build a new road leading to the[Read More…]
Roundabout proposed for Meeker road
MEEKER I The results of a traffic study for Ute Road estimate the cost to prepare for traffic generated by the new elementary school at more than $1 million.
Future of grade school under review
MEEKER — Meeker’s Board of Trustees has designated the second meeting of every month as a “workshop” time for discussion concerning major town projects. The workshops are open to the public. For February 17, the board opted to discuss the future of the elementary school building, which is owned by[Read More…]
Principal proposes science lab for Meeker Elementary
MEEKER — At the top of the school district’s wish list was, of course, a $24 million bond that was passed by voters in November, which will pay for a new elementary school as well as improvements to the middle school and high school.
Finding a fitting use: What do you do with a vacated elementary school building?
MEEKER — Back in November, voters settled the issue of whether to pass a bond election to build a new elementary school. Now, the question is what to do with the old one.
