Delta coaches Luis Meza, center, and Clayton Curtis congratulate 152-pound senior Hunter Brasfield after an upset win sent him into the 4A Region 4 semifinals.
Hotchkiss senior Joe Boyle controls Ruben Chagoya of Basalt to win a 3A Region 1 title. He is one of 7 Hotchkiss state qualifiers.
Hotchkiss and Paonia boys will square off this week on the basketball courts. Both are 6-4 in league play.
Delta senior Brooke Taylor scores two of her 12 points against Summit after grabbing an offensive rebound.
Paonia 195-pounder Tyler “TK” Kendall sets Rangely’s Drew Collins up for a pin.
Paonia freshman Bo Pipher sets TJ Richard of North Park up for a pin in Saturday’s regional semifinal round. He is one of 13 Paonia wrestlers headed to state!
Surrounded by coaches and his dad, Conner Beard signs Letter of Intent to play football for the University of Nebraska Kearney.
Hotchkiss' Jacobe Galley signed a Letter of Intent to play football and study engineering at Colorado Mesa University.
Hotchkiss senior Cody Bartlett signed his National Letter of Intent to run cross-country for Hawaii Pacific University.
Photo by Tamie Meck Delta’s 3200m relay team placed fourth at last weekend’s 4A state track meet in Lakewood. Its time, 9:32.92, set a new DHS record. Team members are; left to right, Clarissa Whiting (Sr), Mykayla Music (Fr), Skylyn Webb (Sr) and Cleo Whiting…
Photo by Rich Meck Hotchkiss distance runners, and sisters, Natalie Anderson (left-center) and Mae Anderson start the 3200m run together on the opening day of the state track meet. They were fourth and fifth in the 3200 and fourth and sixth, respectively, in…
Photo by Tamie Meck Andy Pipher and son Bo meet Bo’s opponent during the Parade of Champions at the 2013 state wrestling tournament. Pipher was recently named 2013 Colorado Coach of the Year by the National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA).Paonia…
It's that time of year again — Eckert Crane Days. From Friday, March 15, through Sunday, March 17, there will be members of the Black Canyon Audubon Society on the causeway at Fruit Growers Reservoir from 9 to 11 a.m.
Everyone is welcome! Each evening I check the number of cranes at the reservoir and leave that message information on my phone (835-8391).
On March 15, viewing begins at 9 a.m. We'll break for lunch about 11 a.m.
The Wildfire Pizzeria and Wine Bar on the golf course in Cedaredge will be offering lunch for birders. Then at 12:45 p.m., we'll move to the Presbyterian Church in Eckert. It displays some lovely stone work and is celebrating its 100th birthday. The ladies of the church will provide coffee and pie as a fund raiser. The church is the setting for my presentation at 1 p.m. At the Yampa Valley Crane Festival last September we viewed a video entitled "Raising Kid Colt." A young crane, with its long legs and neck, is called a "colt." This video was created by Nina Faust in Homer, Alaska, of cranes that nested in their yard!
In our area if someone says "crane," our minds think Hart's Basin and these birds are a subspecies of the American Sandhill Crane. Ours are known as Greater (Grus Canadensis tabida) and they number about 20,000. But the Lesser Sandhills (Grus Canadensis canadensis) were the first ones to be scientifically labeled and they number over 500,000! The models shown (I copied it from my third book) compare the three cranes of our continent: the Whooper at five feet tall, the Greater at four feet tall and the Lesser at over three feet tall. The birds in the video are Lessers and I'll discuss their migration during my presentation. On Saturday and Sunday, March 16 and 17, viewing on the causeway will be from 9 a.m. until the cranes take off.
Eckert Crane Days