First, I would like to personally thank Meeker’s town staff and board for doing the right thing in the interest of transparency and accountability, as I knew they would. After being asked about publishing the town’s disbursements in public notices, they reviewed the state statutes defining the requirements for publication,[Read More…]

Would you rather be tickled to death, sneeze yourself to death or choke on your own spit and die? Why do I ask? Because for the last few years I’ve been afflicted by regular sneezing fits that leave me weak and watery-eyed, with a stuffed up nose. But I’ll take[Read More…]

Every job comes with some unexpected perks. While I spend several nights a month covering meetings, many of which are drier than dust, Tuesday I got to do something new. I was asked to be a judge for the district spelling bee. It’s the most fun I’ve had in ages.[Read More…]

It’s that time of year when dictionaries announce the “word of the year.” Different dictionaries choose different words based on the spikes they see in word searches throughout the year. This year’s words, from three different publishers, are: complicit, feminism and youthquake (that from British-based Oxford Dictionary). Youthquake, defined as[Read More…]

When my kids were small, and now with my grandkids, when one child gets in trouble for something at least one of the others is quick to chime in with, “I wasn’t doing that, Mimi!” or “He/she was doing it first.” That kind of behavior is expected from children under[Read More…]

We witnessed something interesting—and maybe a little disturbing—about the transient nature of social media this week. The Meeker Police Department posted a photo of one of the town’s “pet” deer before and after it was shot with an arrow by a careless, thoughtless individual last weekend, resulting in the animal’s[Read More…]