Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago
• We are in receipt of a letter from Simp Harp, in which he states that he will unload at Rifle Monday and be in Meeker shortly afterwards. He says he has the best lot of registered short-horns that ever left Iowa.
• After spending the winter in the city Mrs. Lakamp and Miss Clara Steele left on Thursday for their Buford homes.
Meeker Herald ~ 100 years ago
• Another thing we can’t figure out is why a boy will dig fish worms in the boiling sun and call it fun and then want to tear the roof off the house if he is told to hoe in the garden.
• The Meeker-Rifle mail and passenger line made good time all week, notwithstanding heavy snow torepart of the week. The Harps bucked through the snow drifts on time, except two days when the coaches were a bit late. We have good service on the Meeker-Rifle Line.
Meeker Herald ~ 50 years ago
• Tonight will be the second and final presentation of The Miracle Worker by the Meeker High School and grade school youth, under the direction of Mrs. Margaret King.
• A public hearing on the proposed zoning map for the Town of Meeker on Monday. The revised map which is being considered Monday night, appeared in the Feb. 20 issue of The Herald.
Tentative requests from Western Colorado school administrators to the state legislatures for immediate aid to offset the impact of oil shale development, were covered at a meeting last Wednesday by seven of the nine school districts on the educational advisory committee of the Colorado West area Council of Governments.
Meeker Herald ~ 25 years ago
• The wrestlers from Barone Middle School won the team title last Saturday in Soroco by 58 points over second place Hayden.
• The District Attorney for the Ninth Judicial District has declined to prosecute 18 year old Meeker high school student for felony drug trafficking.
• If you ain’t a Meeker Chamber of Commerce member, you gotta heap a trouble headin’ your way.
RANGELY TIMES ~ 50 years ago
• In response to the request that the Rangely Town Council meeting agenda be published ahead of the meeting, city officials said the agenda is not completely known in time for publication, but in a tentative agenda is posted in the Post Office and on the Municipal Building bulletin board on or about the Saturday before meetings.
• Visible work has begun at the site of the new Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, north of Rangely Hospital.
RANGELY TIMES ~ 25 years ago
• Baker Dave Richards brought his delicious, yummy trade to a Dinosaur Elementary Funshop. Dave and Carol Richards are the owners of the Pinyon Seed Bakery in Rangely.
• Rangely Middle School 7th and 8th grade girls made a great showing at the Celebrate Girls Conference at Mesa State College on Saturday, March 11, in Grand Junction.