Morton wins National Merit Scholarship

RANGELY — Michael Morton of Rangely was recently named a National Merit Scholarship Winner.
More than 1.5 million juniors in more than 22,000 high schools entered the 2009 National Merit Scholarship competition when they took the 2007 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT), which served as an initial screen of program entrants. Last fall, some 16,000 semifinalists were named on a state representational basis, in numbers proportional to each state’s percentage of the nation’s…