By ROXIE FROMANG | Special to the Herald Times RANGELY I Depending on who you ask the year of origin for the Rangely community event known as Septemberfest varies. Most old timers agree Flossy Eddy and Barbara Wade organized the first Septemberfest, but it wasn’t in September. In 1976 when the celebration began it[Read More…]
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Rockin’ & Rollin’ for Kaiden
RANGELY | Rangely School District is working hard to fund-raise enough money to purchase a wheelchair swing for Parkview Elementary School. On Sept. 2 come to Septemberfest in the Park and paint a rock. Pay $5 to paint a rock and the rocks will be part of a rock garden[Read More…]
Annual Ice Cream Social Sunday, Sept. 1
RANGELY | Baskin-Robbins may boast 31 flavors, but if you take all the flavors submitted in the annual Ice Cream Contest and Social sponsored by the Rangely Outdoor Museum since its inception, Rangely surely has them beat. From cinnamon, to coconut lime, to vanilla bean crunch, to vanilla marshmallow, to[Read More…]
“Best ‘Fest” returns to Rangely
RANGELY | The origins of the annual Rangely community event Septemberfest are spotty at best but when you ask around everyone agrees Flossy Eddy and Barbara Wade organized the first Septemberfest. Back in 1976 when the celebration began it was actually held around the Fourth of July weekend. Eddy and Wade dubbed themselves the R.A.I.D. (Rangely Area[Read More…]
Nebo Road headlines Septemberfest
RANGELY | Rangely’s Septemberfest fun will culminate Monday night with a free concert at the Elks Park Softball fields featuring country music band Nebo Road. Nebo Road is a Utah-based high energy country band who perform a variety of pop country hits by artists such as Jason Aldean and Kenny Chesney.[Read More…]
Cribbage Tournament Sunday, Sept. 2
RANGELY | Join us for a cribbage tournament Sunday, Sept. 2 at 2 p.m. in the Town Hall conference room. $10 per person, double elimination.
Rangely Outdoor Museum picnic Aug. 31
RANGELY | Rangely Outdoor Museum invites you to the second annual Old Timers’ and Alumni Picnic Aug. 31 from 4-8 p.m. at
Hurricane relief …
The National Honor Society and National Junior Honor Society saw the need that was happening in Houston from Hurricane Harvey. They set up a booth at Rangely’s September Fest asking the community for donations. The community stepped forward and they were able to send $435.00 to Greater Houston Community Foundation[Read More…]
Rangely Rock ‘N’ Bull results are in
RANGELY | The arena has been packed up, the stock has headed back out to their different homes, the cowboys have rolled on to the next rodeo, and now the dust has settled on the eighth annual Rangely Rock ‘N’ Bulls. From a production standpoint, of the previous seven years,[Read More…]
CNCC rodeo coach takes a turn at Rock ‘n’ Bull for scholarship program
RBC | Rodeo announcer Bob Edmonds said the sun had set on Jed Moore’s professional rodeo career New Year’s eve, 2010 but as Moore watched it set Friday in Rangely, Colorado during the eighth annual Rock ‘n’ Bulls event at Columbine Park, he accepted a challenge, which could have prevented[Read More…]
Rangely museum fundraiser Sept. 4
RANGELY | Arrest your friends, co-workers, family, etc., on Sept. 4 for $2. Or buy a stay-out–of-jail card for $5. It’s $3 to bail yourself out and $2 to bail someone else out. The fun will start at the parade and continue at Elks Park. Contact Margaret Slaugh at 970-675-2625[Read More…]