Andrea Kramar

New York

Investigative Multimedia Journalist at KRMA-TV (Denver, CO)

Producer @USAToday. Formerly @CNBCMakeIt, @ABCNews. Left-handed-er with a spine full of curiosity and an arm full of funny bones.

Articles

Colorado Senior Games puts older athletes in a league of their own

1 week ago | rmpbs.org | Carly Rose |Andrea Kramar |Alec Berg

DENVER — Marion Caldwell stepped up to the table and planted her legs wide, with her knees bent and the paddle gripped firmly in her right hand. Her eyes narrowed, locking in on the table tennis ball lying flat in her competitor’s palm as she prepared to receive the serve. Caldwell is no stranger to competitive sports. In her early 20s, she was a world champion freestyle skier. This year, at 70, she competed in her first table tennis tournament at the Colorado Senior Games.
Cowboys cope with cattle shortage

1 week ago | rmpbs.org | Cormac McCrimmon |Andrea Kramar |Ziyi Xu

GLENDO, Wyo. — The rules of steer wrestling are simple enough: chase a runaway steer, leap off your horse and muscle the animal to the ground. “You better have your hammer cocked and like a little bit of contact,” said professional steer wrestler Austin Eller, 31, who began competing at 16 years old. But finding steers to wrestle is getting harder. The best steers come from Mexico.
Is Colorado equipped to handle the pending nursing shortage? Maybe not.

2 weeks ago | rmpbs.org | Andrea Kramar |Carly Rose |Alec Berg

DENVER — Two years after the World Health Agency declared an end to the public health emergency for COVID-19 and a exited the field, the health care industry has largely stabilized. Pay for nurses has leveled off after ballooning during the pandemic and employment has become less erratic. But Colorado, like many states across the country, still faces a shortage of registered nurses — 15 percent less than projected demand by 2030.
School’s out forever at Castro Elementary

3 weeks ago | rmpbs.org | Carly Rose |Joshua Vorse |Cormac McCrimmon |Andrea Kramar

DENVER — Kindergarteners through fifth graders walked out of Castro Elementary School for the last time Tuesday after an early dismissal, kicking off their summer vacation under gray, cloudy skies. The somber weather matched the bittersweet ending to the school year. After more than 30 years of welcoming students in Denver’s Westwood neighborhood, Castro Elementary is closed.
Gov. Polis signs law to reduce Colorado’s rape kit backlog

3 weeks ago | rmpbs.org | Lucas Brady Woods |Bente Birkeland |Andrea Kramar

This story was produced as part of the Colorado Capitol News Alliance. It first appeared at kunc.org. DENVER — Gov. Jared Polis signed a law Tuesday launching new efforts to cut down the state’s delays in testing sexual assault evidence kits, including by increasing oversight over the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
The first year at Grand Junction's new high school comes to a close

3 weeks ago | rmpbs.org | Joshua Vorse |Cormac McCrimmon |Andrea Kramar |Alec Berg

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Students at Grand Junction High School have finished their first academic year in the new, $145 million building. In 2021, Mesa County voters approved a bond measure to replace the old high school, which dated back to 1956 and had serious foundation and structural issues that were impossible to repair. Over the years, the old school expanded, sprawling to seven separate buildings. The new facility consolidates the campus into a 250,000 square-foot, three-story school.
Did Boulder high schools' cell phone ban work?

4 weeks ago | rmpbs.org | Cormac McCrimmon |Andrea Kramar |Alec Berg |Ziyi Xu

LAFAYETTE, Colo. — Since Centaurus High School banned cell phones in January, principal Carlyn Carroll said she can hear the difference. At lunchtime on May 6, Jenga blocks crashed to the ground, pucks whistled across air hockey tables and chatter rebounded off the walls of one of the school’s activity rooms. “It used to be really quiet. Kids would be on their phones. They’d be sitting at a table, and every single one of them would have a screen up,” said Carroll.
Calving season is a round-the-clock job for mother-daughter duo

1 month ago | rmpbs.org | Cormac McCrimmon |Chase McCleary |Andrea Kramar |Kyle Cooke

KREMLING, Colo. — At 10 p.m., Caitlyn Taussig trudged through the darkness toward her Chevrolet Blazer. The car groaned to life as Taussig maneuvered through the pasture, shining a flood light outside the car window to search for cows in distress. Calving season is one of the most stressful times of year for Colorado ranchers like Taussig. Cows give birth with little warning and ranchers must vaccinate, tag and care for newborns. When births go awry, ranchers must act fast to save calves.
Pop-up skatepark in Cortez brings community together indoors

1 month ago | rmpbs.org | Ziyi Xu |Andrea Kramar |Amanda Horvath |Cormac McCrimmon

CORTEZ, Colo. — A pink warehouse with colorful murals and large windows sits at the corner of an intersection. Inside, people moved quickly — too fast to be on foot. On nice days, the garage door is open, and the sound of squeaky wheels and music can be heard from a block away. Two years ago, a group of local skaters created Beech St. Skatepark to have a place to skate during the winter. They found the warehouse, which houses a few nonprofit organizations, including the Good Samaritan Food Pantry.
These pilots are flipping planes on purpose

1 month ago | rmpbs.org | Chase McCleary |Andrea Kramar |Kyle Cooke

FORT MORGAN, Colo. — Between the calm of puffy, mid-morning clouds, a half-dozen drifting parachutes and fluttering spring butterflies slices the glistening red of the MSU Aerobatics Team’s GB1 GameBird, climbing and diving, twirling and torquing, rearing and roaring, until returning smoothly to the runway below. Describing the performance is enough to turn a stomach. MSU Aerobatics coach Dagmar Kress assures the trip becomes more digestible after a few flights.

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