RBC I It was standing room only at Meeker’s board of trustees meeting Tuesday. Residents packed Town Hall to discuss the future of the elementary school building.
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Home of: Roy & Lee Light
MEEKER | Roy and Lee Light of Meeker are this week’s “home of” honorees. The Lights moved here in July 2008, from Loyalton, Calif., which is “right on the eastern border of California.” They have been married 36 years.
Results listed for MHS homecoming
MEEKER I The homecoming royalty candidates for 2009: From the freshman class: • Kaysyn Chintala, daughter of Greg and Roxanne Chintala and Becca and Alan Nielsen
BMS football, volleyball teams are winners
RBC | Both Barone Middle School football teams won big last week, with the A team winning 50-6 and the B team 46-0. Meanwhile, the Rangely seventh- and eighth-graders combined for a 27-6 win over Vernal, Utah.
Rio Blanco County Days Gone By
The Meeker Herald — 50 years ago • The Meeker High School homecoming parade was scheduled for Oct. 2, 1959, centered around a “Roundup Time” theme. • Phil Sheridan was the top money winner at the Delta County Fair Rodeo last week. The Meeker local pocketed $289 and another Meeker[Read More…]
Roybal 13th in girls’ race at Moffat Co., others hurting
MEEKER I Sometimes running can be painful, and last Saturday in Craig two runners on Meeker’s cross country team experienced more pain than usual. One was able to finish, the other wasn’t.
Meeker defeats Plateau, loses to Soroco
MEEKER I The Lady Cowboys had mixed results last week. On Friday, Meeker’s volleyball team traveled to Plateau Valley, winning in three games (25-9, 25-8, 25-16).
Looking Back: The settlers arrive
The stories of the first settlers in the White River Valley remind us how often we take modern-day roads for granted. Most of us can’t fathom traveling such long distances by horseback or wagon, much less count on the unpaved roads in all weather. Many of the old-timers recount childhood[Read More…]
Meeker rolls over Rifle on 18 QB sacks
MEEKER I The fifth- and sixth-grade Meeker Mustangs dominated Rifle on Sunday afternoon, 22-0, sacking the quarterback 18 times.
No opponent means no game, but a win for MHS
MEEKER I The Cowboys won a game without even suiting up. And it was against a school that apparently is no longer, well, a school. Meeker called off its game last Friday against New Direction Academy of Aurora after repeated attempts to contact the online school proved unsuccessful.
Meeker Locals
In case you didn’t catch it in last week’s paper, it is no longer politically correct (and we are all about being politically correct, if you believe some of our letters to the editor), to refer to Meeker’s claim to historic fame as the “Meeker Massacre.”
Long-time Rangely superintendent to get memorial
Books were a big part of Bob Mullen’s life, both professionally and personally. So, it’s only fitting that a sculpture — in Mullen’s memory — will be installed in front of the Rangely Regional Library.
