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Greetings, dear readers! If you need some irrelevant trivia to discuss at company parties and family gatherings this holiday season, file this under things you didn’t know you needed to know: Cows have regional accents, depending on where they’re from and the herd they’ve been raised in, according to research done in England in the early 2000s. I’ll never hear a moo quite the same way.
And now, on to the actual news… there’s a VERY BUSY weekend ahead, with the Meeker Christmas Market at the Fairgrounds, the Girls’ Basketball Cowboy Shootout, ERBM’s Breakfast with Santa, Merry Meeker — Mistletoe Magic downtown with the parade, fireworks, the unveiling of the new skating rink, and more, and the high school drama presentation of “A Seussified Christmas Carol.”
MEEKER | The Meeker Library Board convened last week in the community room of the Meeker Public Library for its regular meeting. All board members were present for the meeting…
Meeker High School art students were out this week painting holiday scenes on windows at local businesses, including junior Ella Slaugh with her depiction of a border collie in winter…
RBC | Colorado Parks and Wildlife will soon begin elk capture work via helicopter to complete the final year of a project to help the agency better understand elk calf…
Beginning Thursday, Dec. 12, food bank recipients should be aware of a new traffic flow pattern for pickup at the Rio Blanco County Fairgrounds in Meeker. Follow the provided signs…
Our annual Shop@Home event continues with a chance to win $50 in Chamber Bucks weekly from our participating retailers (see below). Scan the QR code and enter your information when you visit one of our Shop@Home partners between now and Christmas. We’ll draw a random winner and publish the name in the following week’s edition.
Our #newsCOneeds campaign is marching steadily along, thanks to you! We have an opportunity to receive up to $5,000 in matching grant funds this month thanks to the Colorado Media Project. Funds raised will go toward adding Jared Henderson to our staff. You’ve seen his work as a freelancer during the last few months and we’re looking forward to bringing him on part-time in January. Help us meet that matching grant goal by donating any tax-deductible amount to The Lyttle Project through the Colorado Gives donor page this month.
To all of you who have already donated, THANK YOU!
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