MEEKER I “I love everything about it, helping families and knowing what we are doing is good,” Patti Arrington said about the Giving Tree project she helps spearhead.
Year: 2011
Letter to the Editor: Return to sender
Dear Editor: You don’t know me, but I’m the little birthday card that got lost. I was mailed here in Meeker to a 90-year-old lady who has lived here all of her life.
Letters open a window in time for son of WWII pilot
MEEKER I The box that came to Sandy Munro a few months after his mother passed away in 2007, was a virtual time machine into the past. The love story that emerged from the correspondence between Munro’s father and mother is now available as a book titled, “Finding Uri,” published[Read More…]
Campground closed due to lion
DINOSAUR I Dinosaur National Monument has closed the Split Mountain Campground, picnic area and Green River access effective immediately due to mountain lion activity.
New arrival: Madi Cojucaru
RBC I Nick and Tara Cojocaru of El Paso, Texas, are the proud parents of a new baby girl.
Douglas Pass repairs under way
RANGELY I The Colorado Department of Transportation will repair two sections of damage to the shoulder on SH 139 on Douglas Pass.
Days Gone By
The Meeker Herald — 100 years ago – If Theodore Roosevelt doesn’t want to run for president, why does he keep insisting so often and so publicly that he doesn’t? – From the Yampa Leader: “Occasionally one will hear the remark, ‘I wish I was out of this town!’ and[Read More…]
RBC proud to furnish Capitol Christmas Tree tree
RBC I Rio Blanco County commissioner Kai Turner joined Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, Under Secretary of Agriculture Harris Sherman, and representatives from the U.S. Forest Service last Friday in Denver for the official announcement that the 2012 Capitol Christmas Tree will be provided by the White River National Forest. RBC[Read More…]
Classifieds: Dec. 22, 2011
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Sharing the lights …
The recent full moon illuminated the top of one of the Christmas trees on the courthouse lawn at the PMC tree lighting ceremony Wednesday, Dec. 7.
RBC swimmers …
Meeker High School senior Adrienne Wix and Rangely High School senior Alexis Silva are swimming with the Moffat County High School swim team this season.
AAA: prepare for the “silver tsunami”
RBC I The first wave of America’s baby boomers turning 65 this year will be driving the “silver tsunami” says the American Automobile Association (AAA).