Peacock Building site to be museum

Last week’s demolition of what was popularly known as the Peacock Building on South Stanolind Avenue, where Peacock Oil Co. and several other businesses operated over the last six decades, marked the end of one era and the beginning of a new era in history. Owner Bud Striegel hopes to have an 80-by-180-foot steel building he plans to turn into a car museum on the site by August.

RANGELY I A piece of Rangely history came down when the structure popularly known as the “Peacock Building” was demolished last week. Another form of history, a car museum, will take its place.

MHS Spring Show, Coffee House

Visitors check out some of the art work displayed at the Meeker Elementary School as part of the Meeker High School Spring Art Show and Coffee House. The coffee house was held to showcase the MHS students’ performing arts, and talents included singing, instrumentals, poetry, dance and humor.

MEEKER I Meeker High School students produced an abundance of art this year and it was displayed at the Meeker Elementary School library for the Spring Show and Coffee House.

13 Cowboys qualify for state track meet

Meeker freshman T.J. Shelton lengthened his lead as the anchor in the 4x100-meter relay, an event they easily won. Shelton won the 100- and 200-meter dashes and also qualified for the state meet, anchoring the 4x200-meter regional championship relay team.

MEEKER I “The regional meet could not have gone any better for us,” Meeker High School head track coach John Strate said of team members qualifying for the 2013 Colorado State Track and Field Championships, starting today at Jefferson County Stadium in Denver.

Panthers qualify seven

Colton Coombs qualified for the state meet in both the 100- and 200-meter dashes.

RANGELY I Seven Rangely High School track team members are in Denver competing at the 2013 Colorado State Track and Field Championships at Jefferson County Stadium.

Hey, foxy lady…

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Mama fox ran off, but two of her four kit foxes remained at play outside their den Friday amid meadow land along County Road 8, not far from Lake Avery.

Meeker alumna is tops at horse reining

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MEEKER I Meeker High School alumna Melanie Watt Wilhelm will be recognized June 27 for her recent selection as the National Reining Horse Association Professional Horsewoman of The Year.

Economy taking toll on Rangely District Hospital

Rangely District Hospital is cutting employee hours, leaving positions vacant and increasing marketing efforts for long-term care and assisted living facilities after a four-year recession and an energy industry bust cycle continue to drive admissions, out-patient procedures and clinic visits down, CEO Nick Goshe said. Hospital statistics, which have been steadily declining for more than three years, were projected by feasibility studies to have emerged from recession numbers by the time the hospital’s new building opened. Goshe said the impending move and implementation of an Electronic Medical Records (EMR) system made cutting back impossible before now.

RANGELY I Cutting staff hours, leaving vacant positions unfilled and marketing long-term care and assisted living options are among the steps Rangely District Hospital is taking to fight a recession that feasibility studies predicted would be over by now, Chief Executive Officer Nick Goshe said last week.

179 get CNCC degrees, certificates

RANGELY I Roughly 179 students received their degrees and certificates from Colorado Northwestern Community College on Saturday afternoon, culminating what for most students has been at least two years of hard work.

RHS wins RBC matchup

RANGELY I The two Rio Blanco County baseball teams played two doubleheaders during the regular season and played a single elimination game Saturday to determine which team would advance in the district tournament.

BMS track team completes record-setting season

MEEKER I The Barone Middle School track team completed a very successful season with two meets in the past week.

Quigg Newton Award…

Meeker High School Principal Jeremy Voytko, left, presents the Quigg Newton Award to Amanda Kendall and Lathrop Hughes.

Rangely Youth Wrestling program a labor of love

RANGELY I When it comes to the perks of heading up the Rangely Youth Wrestling Program, don’t go by the numbers. And certainly don’t go by the dollars.

Deer on campus …

Two does, one to the right and one to the left of the sign marking the designated parking spot for Colorado Northwestern Community College President Russell George, keep a sharp eye out to make sure no one other than George uses his parking spot.

Rangely Guardsmen return home

RANGELY I In July, Utah National Guardsman and Rangely High School graduate Greg Skelton left with brother Brian and childhood friend Zachary Green for a nine-month deployment to Afghanistan with the 624th Engineer Co., 1457th Engineer Battalion.

Branding: Tradition hasn’t changed much

Kelly Sheridan, left and Coley Turner, right, represent the fifth generation of the Sheridan family in Meeker.  Above, the men work on a calf as they carry on the tradition of family branding.

MEEKER I Spring is here, and for ranchers that means it is time to brand calves and prepare to turn them out for the summer. It is an exciting tradition that has been passed down from generations.

RBC boys of summer play Saturday in Rangely…

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The Rangely Panthers celebrate after beating the Hotchkiss Bulldogs 7-6 in the first game of a doubleheader Friday. Senior Chad Bolding is pictured getting a hit for his team. The Panthers finished third behind second-place Hotchkiss and first-place Paonia in the league standings and will host the Meeker Cowboys in

Meeker girls finish second in MoCo, boys finish third

Sydney Hughes won the triple jump and was on the winning 800-meter medley relay team. The Cowboys will be in Battle Mountain on Saturday.

MEEKER I “We had some great performances in the warm weather at Moffat County,” Meeker head track coach John Strate said of his team’s most recent competition.

MHS Prom Royalty…

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As the 2013 MHS Prom got underway, the court was announced after the Grand March.

Ward: Mixed memories of marathon

Sarah Ward of Rangely (pink shirt with sunglasses) crosses the finish line with an unofficial time of 4:03.16 and an official time of 3:57.46. She finished the race several minutes before two bombs detonated near the finish. She was five blocks away at the time and described “booms” that sounded like thunder.

RANGELY I At 2:23 p.m. on April 15, Colorado Northwestern Community College anatomy and nutrition instructor Sarah Ward was on top of the world. Months of training had just culminated in her finishing the Boston Marathon with a time of 3:57.46.

Reflecting on CNCC after 50 years

Russell George, finishing his second year as president of Colorado Northwestern Community College, offers knowledge of the past, a vision of the future and a long career of serving Colorado.

RBC I First a small-town lawyer, then a legislator, then director of a couple state government departments and, now, Russell George is ending his second year as president of Colorado Northwestern Community College with a vast vision for the future while being highly reflective of the past.

Meeker man alleged head of drug ring

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By Gary Harmon and Paul Shockley Grand Junction Daily Sentinel By Sean McMahon sean@theheraldtimes.com MEEKER I The end of a drug ring long rumored to operate in Grand Junction took shape April 16, when local and federal officials stopped a car bound for Las Vegas to collect 3.5 kilograms of cocaine in exchange for $95,500 [...]

Livestock nutrition…

Volunteers and Friends of the FFA Alumni cooked and served lunch to the county residents taking part in the day of seminars. Author and speaker Jim Whitt was keynote speaker at the event.

Spring Expo…

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Several hundred people took advantage of Spring Expo 2013, held at the Rio Blanco County Fairgrounds in Meeker on Saturday as a fundraiser to benefit Meeker cancer victim Toni Simmons, who has large travel expenses pending as she travels the country seeking treatment.

RHS royalty…

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Members of the royal court were crowned Saturday night during the Rangely High School prom.

Three Meeker D.I. teams go global

Three Meeker Destination Imagination teams qualified for the Global Finals in Knoxville Tenn., in May. The third-grade team is in the front row; the fifth-grade team in the middle row; and the sixth-grade team in the back row. Meeker has three of the four teams representing the Western Slope as members of Team Colorado.

MEEKER I Meeker was well represented in Colorado’s Destination Imagination competition Saturday on the Auraria Campus in Denver. Five teams competed for Meeker and three teams are advancing to the global competition in Knoxville, Tenn., in May.

Rangely health fair…

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More than 100 people attended the Rangely Community Health Fair at Rangely District Hospital Saturday.

FFA Ag Issues team to Denver

Meeker High School’s FFA Agriculture Issues team, made up of students Kaylynn Dunham, Tristan Nielsen, Anna George, Jamie McLaughlin, Brittany Smith and Kaitlynn Dinwiddie, presented their program examining the multiple use of lands to the Meeker School Board on April 16. The team traveled to Denver this week to present their program to Colorado state legislators at the state Capitol.

MEEKER I The Future Farmers of America (FFA) Agriculture Issues Team from Meeker recently received an invitation to present their project on multiple use of state lands at the Colorado State Capitol.

9Health Fair…

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Meeker Fire Chief Steve Allen, left, watches as fire department emergency medical technician Laura Smith ties off a tourniquet to draw a blood sample from Michelle Shults, right, during the Channel 9 Health Fair on Saturday at Meeker Elementary School.

After Birth Ball…

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The After Birth Ball was a great success Saturday night in Meeker as the Freeman E. Fairfield Center was filled with people partying and dancing to the country-western sounds of Coy Keithley and the band Straight Shot.

CNCC Foundation Dinner raises more than $39,000

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Roughly 170 persons attended the annual Colorado Northwestern Community College Foundation fundraising dinner Saturday at the Weiss Activities Center on campus.

Early CNCC classes set

MEEKER I The Colorado Northwestern Community College campus in Meeker is offering a couple of early summer classes.

Bears close two Dinosaur camps

DINOSAUR I Superintendent Mary Risser of Dinosaur National Monument announced Friday that the two backcountry campsites at Ely Creek, located along the Jones Hole Trail, are closed until further notice due to black bear activity in the area.

Wedding: Kinnison~Titmus

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Shaelene D. Kinnison, the daughter of Raelene and Marty Bills of Rangely, Colo., became the bride of Johnny W. Titmus, Jr., the son of Candy Titmus, also of Rangely, on April 20, 2013. The wedding took place at their home in Dinosaur, Colo., with all their loved ones in

Smaller deer numbers to be discussed

RBC I To address the overall decline in mule deer populations throughout Western Colorado, state wildlife managers are participating in numerous, ongoing research projects in Rio Blanco and Moffat counties as they continue their search for answers and possible solutions for the drop in numbers. To discuss their findings so far, local wildlife managers are [...]

Teachers: BMS meets more needs

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second of three stories looking at the results released by TELL Colorado, which surveys teachers in Colorado every two years on specific teaching/preparation conditions at their schools. This week we will look at Meeker’s Barone Middle School. Next week, we will examine the results from Meeker Elementary School teachers. All [...]

Classifieds: May 23, 2013

Classifieds: May 23, 2013

Sandhill crane…

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Most sandhill cranes live in freshwater wetlands, feeding on plants, grains, mice, snakes, insects and worms.

Canada geese…

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These two Canada geese enjoyed lounging in the sun and grass in the Bel-Air area off County Road 8 over the weekend.

Bennet: PLT, SRS, fire funds needed

RBC I Colorado U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet is urging Senate appropriators to support resources for the Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILT), the Secure Rural Schools (SRS) programs and for wildfire prevention, suppression and mitigation efforts.

Drug Take-Back Day expands nationwide

RBC I The United States Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA’s) sixth National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day, held locally in Meeker on April 27, collected 50 percent more pills nationally than in 2012.

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