February, 2012 | The Herald Times | Serving Meeker, Rangely, Dinosaur & Northwest Colorado

Al White to speak in Rangely Feb. 28

RANGELY | The next Community Networking Group meeting will be Tuesday, Feb. 28 at noon in the Weiss Conference Room at CNCC. The guest speaker will be Al White, director of the Colorado Tourism Office.

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Meeker

Library fun at elementary school

MEEKER I January was library month at Meeker Elementary School. We set a goal of reading an accumulated 40,000 minutes. When all was tallied we read 140,973 minutes. Preschool through fifth-grade kept track of their minutes. We were very excited to have 10 adults turn in their time as well.

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Loose Ends: Reading is fun

Reading is fun. A seemingly self-explanatory statement often evokes an odd response from parents, teachers, and experts in the field of education.

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Proposed water facility in Piceance

meeker I The Bureau of Land Management seeks public comment on a proposal from BOPCO, L.P., to construct a facility 20 miles west of Meeker, Colo., to treat produced water from oil and gas development on the Piceance Basin and discharge it into Yellow Creek.

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Rangely

Public service …

Officer Hood visited Rangely Cub Scout Packs 189 and 191 to talk to them about law enforcement and safety. (Left to right) Ben Nielsen, Ty Fielder, Officer Hood, Den Chief Braxton Bishop, Zane and Lincoln Cordrey.

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Obituary: Lawrence Marshall Jr.

Lawrence William Marshall Jr., known by family as “Bill” and by his many friends as “Larry” was the first born Son of Lawrence “Doc” and Eva E. (Evans) Marshall.

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Mental health first aid provides skills

MEEKER I One in four Americans have some sort of mental health disorder, from anxiety to schizophrenia to substance abuse disorders.

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Days Gone By

The Meeker Herald — 100 years ago – The Shepherd hardware store will open Monday. – Snow was eight feet deep at the Wilson Park saw mill last Saturday. – F.E. Sheridan returned from Denver early in the week, after attending to the hopeless task of trying to get the[Read More…]

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Obituary: Lawrence “Larry” Wayne Adair

Lawrence “Larry” Wayne Adair, 50, died Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011, in Craig, Colo.

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Home of: Anthony Mazzola

MEEKER | Well-known Meeker resident Anthony “Matz” Mazzola is this week’s “home of” honoree. Matz will be celebrating his milestone 50th birthday Feb. 12.

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Snowpack remains below average

RBC I January saw the Pacific jet stream finally begin to shift southward; by mid January it had positioned itself over southern Wyoming and northern and central Colorado bringing much needed precipitation to basins west of the Continental Divide.

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Letter to the Editor: Let’s not make a bad investment

Dear Editor: To Jack, from Mr. Selfish: do you buy a used car without looking it over? Or for the ag. people out there, a tractor or baler and just pay whatever the seller is asking and trust it has been honestly represented? I don’t think so but, for the[Read More…]

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