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Watt’s Ranch Market celebrates 65 years

Bobby Gutierrez Photo

MEEKER | Back in 1955, Meeker was a pretty self-sufficient community, home to multiple drug stores, clothing stores, and several grocery stores. That was the year Tom Watt opened Watt’s Ranch Market, and for 65 years this year, the Watt family has owned and operated what is now Meeker’s only grocery store.

A clipping from the Meeker Herald, 1955.

A tiny notice in the Meeker Herald, circa 1955, reads: “Tom Watt…