No news is good news, as they say. If so, it’s all good news around Meeker. A Google search for newsworthy items in Meeker, Colo., for the past week yielded little more than a Louisiana paper’s account of the Mountain Valley Bank robbery. According to www.thetowntalk.com , the $1,279 Thacker[Read More…]
Author: Herald Times Staff
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Is the lovely warm weather really so odd, or are we just remembering the last two or three years when winter clung stubbornly to the calendar until June or later? No worries, we’ll probably have at least one more snowstorm before summer officially arrives.
Rio Blanco County Days Gone By
The Meeker Herald — 125 years ago n Position wanted: Young man of 17, in good health, with good education would like to secure some pleasant outdoor work during the summer. No pay asked. Have been attending school and would like a change for a few months. n Get a[Read More…]
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We’re not sure why the “big” news stories so often occur on Wednesday afternoons or Thursday mornings. Perhaps it’s some ancient curse on newspaper reporters. Whatever the case, it’s almost as interesting to read the actual facts as it is to compare all the zany variations that show up on[Read More…]
Home of: Kurt and Jackie Pozorski
MEEKER | This week’s “home of” honorees are Kurt and Jackie Pozorski of Meeker. The Pozorskis moved to Meeker in September 2007.
Clarification
RANGELY I The golf benefit fundraiser for Roebi Hodges on Friday, April 20 is sponsored by the staff at Parkview Elementary, the Rangely School District and hosted by Cedar Ridges Golf Course. The event is benefit golf game with prizes for participants who make the best shots at each hole.[Read More…]
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April 15 is usually Tax Day. This year it falls on Sunday, and Emancipation Day falls on Monday, April 16 (only in Washington, D.C., because all those government workers really need another day off). That said, this year you have two whole extra days to procrastinate! Taxes must be filed[Read More…]
Home of: Jonathan and Barbara Daniels
RANGELY | Longtime Rangely residents Jonathan and Barbara Daniels are this week’s “home of” honorees. Jonathan moved here in 1981. Barbara’s family came here in 1966.
Home of: Clyde and Diane Slaugh
RANGELY | This week’s “home of” honorees are 42 year Rangely residents Clyde and Diane Slaugh. The Slaughs have been married 29 years.
Rio Blanco County Days Gone By
The Meeker Herald — 100 years ago – The town board of registration met Tuesday and enrolled more than 500 voters. The complete registration will foot up nearly 550.
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S pring break has almost come and gone! And for once, the weather is cooperating. Well, except for the wind and fire danger.
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A huge congratulations to hometown hero Joe LeBlanc for his fourth All-American win at the NCAA wrestling championships last week in St. Louis, Mo. Your hometown is proud of you, and with good reason. Up for a really strange spring vacation? You can sign up for a 100th anniversary of[Read More…]