The dog walkers among us may be familiar with the handy plastic bags dispensed at a few of the parks in town but they may not have noticed that each station is marked with a reminder to be responsible and pick up after pets.
Author: Dolly Viscardi
Loose Ends: Keeping up with town news
These days it is not the post office door’s memorial cards that catch you off-guard, it is the casual mention of something on Facebook. Once you “friend” someone, you can see their daily Facebook correspondence.
Loose Ends: Blue skies few and far between
Watching the news in the past few weeks, it was obvious that predicting the weather is more of an art than a science. They need to be able to predict blue sky, as so many of us simply take it for granted. Can’t you just picture it? The meteorologists would[Read More…]
Loose Ends: Some stories have front page appeal
I like the look of the Herald Times these days. The increase in stories featuring local folks gives readers a closer look at the unique people, places and events of the area. It is only through the stories of an area’s residents that the story of a community becomes common[Read More…]
Loose Ends: Weather chatter continues
We live in “far-below” country — the area that historically has below zero temperatures all winter long. If you live upriver (East of Meeker) towards the Flattops, temperatures qualify for far-far-below. Newcomers considering settling in the White River valley often ask the question every employer or rental agent dreads, “How[Read More…]
Loose Ends: Different fences
Robert Frost’s famous poem “The Mending Wall” and the line “good fences make good neighbors” is quoted time and again for its applicability to relationships between neighbors. Between Fences, a Museum on Main Street project from the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, opened in December at the Rio Blanco County[Read More…]
LOOSE ENDS: Missing Mary
Girls, I’m going to tell you.” Mary Hossack would begin with a sweep of her hand before she joined in the conversation. The gesture conveyed her dry sense of humor, as if to say, “Go on, I can top that!”
Loose Ends: These days thrifty is no longer nifty
“Doing without” and “making do” are two traditional cost saving measures that one hears little about these days. The two time-honored traditions began in the earliest days of the area’s settlement and continued well through World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II.
Loose Ends: Another quiet season
As hunting season ends and the quiet season begins, picturing the White River Valley years ago seems to make one feel a lot better when that the old cabin fever feeling starts up again. Many of us love the long, cold, winters but quite a few residents never have gotten[Read More…]
Loose Ends: It’s time to talk turkey
The hunt for the perfect turkey involves searching for the ideal bird based on both price and size. Going out and getting one usually involves one trip to the grocery store.
Loose Ends: Speck of truth in local legends
Weird Rio Blanco is a book just waiting to be written. “Weird Colorado: Your Travel Guide to Colorado’s Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets” by Charmaine Ortega Getz garnered quite a bit of attention when it was published earlier this year.
Loose Ends: The color of a season
“Is everybody who wears orange here a hunter?” There was a time here where there was no respite from the color orange. Ask that question these days and you might get a completely different answer, as the number of hunters has declined during this recession.
