Sponsored by White River Electric Association For years, I believed that being a great baseball player meant being perfect. Every strikeout felt like a personal failure, every error proof that I wasn’t good enough. I chased flawless games, thinking that perfection was the only path to success. That belief started[Read More…]
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Captain Jack
Meeker High School art students Joshua Quinn and Brooklyn Kirkpatrick are installing the second mural in the Pioneers in Paint project, featuring Captain Jack. Both students are juniors and returning Colorado Scholastic Gold Key recipients. This mural is part of Uplift Meeker’s effort to celebrate local history through public art,[Read More…]
MHS HOMECOMING ROYALTY 2025
Pictured from left to right: Second attendants Sam Smithers and Lili Hernandez, first attendants Shailee Rundberg and Trent Sanders, Queen Birdie McCaffrey and King Eli Rundberg. In front are crown bearers Lainey Carroll and Kasen Jensen. PHOTO by Bobby g’s memories
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: The oddity of human cruelty
MEEKER | I have always been fascinated by contradictions in nature. Fire can both warm a home and burn it to the ground. Water gives life, but it can also drown. Yet the greatest contradiction I have found is not in the world, but in people. Human beings are capable[Read More…]
Meeker High School celebrates Homecoming this weekend
MEEKER | Meeker High School will celebrate Homecoming with a full day of events on Friday, Sept. 26. This year’s homecoming theme is “Music Genres.” Festivities kick off at 11 a.m. with the Athletic Department Barbecue, which will be served for $8 per plate, followed by the Homecoming Parade at[Read More…]
Digging deep: Meeker High School students help rebuild more than fences in wake of wildfire
MEEKER | Charred trees still stand as reminders of the destruction left by the Lee Fire. But amid the blackened landscape, new signs of hope have come from an unexpected source: a group of Meeker High School students who volunteered their time to help a teacher rebuild. Seniors Holton Harvey[Read More…]
Shults wraps up, Stallings steps up: FCCLA builds future leaders at Meeker High School
MEEKER | For Aimee Shults and Autumn Stallings, the recent National FCCLA Leadership Conference was more than just a competition — it marked the culmination of years of dedication, teamwork, and personal growth. Shults, who graduated from Meeker High School this spring, closed a proud chapter of her high school[Read More…]
From Meeker to the rainforest: Students explore science abroad
MEEKER | “I figured if I could go again and help, why not? I love helping,” said senior Alex Garcia, who has traveled on Meeker High School’s ecology trip not once, but twice. “My interest for the earth has increased, and these trips have shown me what I can do[Read More…]
Presenting the Meeker High School Class of 2025
The Class of 2025 at Meeker High School turned their tassels and tossed their caps Saturday, March 24. Meeker High School Class of 1999 alum Dominick Spencer gave the commencement speech with advice to the students to choose to be victors, not victims. “Don’t be defined by your circumstances, be[Read More…]
MHS CLASS OF 2029
This year’s incoming class of high school freshman have graduated from eighth grade at Barone Middle School and taken orientation at the high school.
CAPS IN THE AIR!
Graduates tossed their caps at the close of the graduation ceremonies in Meeker last weekend. The program for the Class of 2025 is included in this week’s paper. NIKI TURNER PHOTO
PEOPLE’S CHOICE
Meeker High School sophomore Brooklynn Kirkpatrick received the 2025 People’s Choice Award at this year’s MHS Art Show for her grand champion clay dragon, which also earned a first-place ribbon. Kirkpatrick collected $186.20 in donations, while the MHS Art Department received a $200 contribution from the Streamline Gives Program. JARED HENDERSON[Read More…]
