PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Dorothy May Baker, Deceased Case No.: 2023PR9 All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Rio Blanco County, Colorado on or before February 26, 2024, or said claims[Read More…]
Author: Herald Times Staff
That Classic magic …
The 36th annual Meeker Classic Sheepdog Championship Trials entertained hundreds of attendees this past week. Here are some photos from the event.
Colorado Grand coming Tuesday
The Colorado Grand returns to Meeker on Tuesday, Sept. 12, combining classic cars and philanthropy for 34 years. This remarkable event has contributed more than $8.3 million to Colorado charities to date. Approximately 150 cars will start rolling onto Main Street around 11:30 a.m. and stay through lunch. The drivers[Read More…]
Days Gone By: August 10, 2023
The Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago Several wagon loads of fruit have come in from Grand River within the last week or two, but the quality is not what it was a year ago. The apple crop of Garfield county bids fair to be an abundant one this year,[Read More…]
Days Gone By: August 3, 2023
The Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago Two trout poachers, Charles Harrison and Edward Gorman, were nailed at Trappers Lake, on Tuesday, with 77 pounds of trout in their possession, by a Glenwood deputy game warden. They pleaded guilty, and now languish in jail in default payment of $67.50 fine[Read More…]
Community Calendar: July 20, 2023
Book club Aug. 14 MEEKER | The book club book will be reading Troubled Trails: the Meeker affair and the expulsion of the Utes from Colorado by Robert Silbernagel. We will discuss the book on Monday, Aug. 14 at 1 p.m. All are welcome to join in the fun. Feedback[Read More…]
Days Gone By: July 20, 2023
The Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago A typical “Wandering Willie” went through town Monday, walking in from Rifle and going north at a two-mile-an-hour aint. “Ragged Jack” wasn’t in it. Water Commissioner Moog reports less trouble with ranchmen as the summer advances. Not on account of rain, but because[Read More…]
Days Gone By: July 6, 2023
The Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago Reverend Davis took M.E. Sunday school students at Robertson place to a picnic in Powell Park with a turnout of 33 students. This inspired Reverend Handel of St. James Episcopal church to do the same. Thomas F. Dunn, brother of John, of Big[Read More…]
Days Gone By: June 29, 2023
The Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago A man in Virginia, rode 40 miles to Fairfax Station, for the express purpose of getting Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy, and took home with him a dozen bottles of medicine. Another old landmark began to disappear this week. The adobe where Judge Hazen once[Read More…]
Days Gone By: June 15, 2023
The Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago At the meeting of the Town Council last week it was decided to cut down all the trees in the Town Park and to replant it at a cost of $500. Our councilmen seem to think the trees are objectionable because they are[Read More…]
Days Gone By: June 8, 2023
The Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago The town board passed an ordinance this week prohibiting the erection of amy more barbed wire fences within the corporate limits, and all those up now have to be removed by the first of next May. Aren’t we getting metropolitan? Another one of[Read More…]
Community Calendar: June 1, 2023
Grand opening of the The Heritage MEEKER | Mark your calendars for the grand opening of The Heritage on June 3, 2023 in the Hugus Building, 594 Main St. A collaboration of efforts between Christie Borchard, the Rio Blanco County Historical Society, and the Meeker Arts and Cultural Council, the[Read More…]