The Meeker Herald125 years ago • Haying is now well underway in this locality. Prepare for rains.• White River is receding, and trout fishermen line its banks daily with variable success.• It is said that the 13-year and 17-year locusts are both due this year. Should they come wouldn’t it[Read More…]
Author: Herald Times Staff
DAYS GONE BY: June 16, 2022
The Meeker Herald125 years ago • There may be little choice between the men who contribute the funds that keep our politics rotten at the core, and the men who receive the money. But the practical politician of the machine variety is, after all, a better figure in politics than[Read More…]
GOP hosts forums for commissioner, sheriff candidates
RBC I Rio Blanco County Republican party leaders hosted forums last week for the contested primary races for District 1 commissioner and sheriff. Party chair Sam Tolley moderated the debate between commissioner candidates Ginny [Virginia] Love and Doug Overton and sheriff’s office candidates Anthony Mazzola and Rich Garner. Each set[Read More…]
2022 Election: Candidate Interviews
Candidate interviews will be posted here as we complete them. Rio Blanco County Commissioner Race: Doug Overton Ginny Love Rio Blanco County Sheriff Race Anthony Mazzola Rich Garner
PHARMACY OPEN …
Staff and management at Pioneers Medical Center celebrated the grand opening of Meeker Drugs Retail Pharmacy, located next to the main entrance of the hospital. The pharmacy hours are Monday through Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. and Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Days Gone By: May 12, 2022
The Meeker Herald125 years ago • Ed Fairfield is now pulling the ribbons over eight horses in one of the Hugus freighting outfits.• Sheriff Wilber had a hard trip to Yampa River after Fred Barbour The Meeker Herald100 years ago • There will be an exhibit of penmanship of the[Read More…]
Smoking River Brewing Co. creates first collab
There’s a new brew in town. The folks at Smoking River Brewing Co. recently collaborated with Ball Brewing, located in Glenwood Springs, to create Snow Blind, a Colorado-centric hazy IPA made with Smoking River hops grown right here in Rio Blanco County. According to Head Brewer Tyler Frye, “Snow Blind[Read More…]
Days Gone By: Feb 3, 2022
The Meeker Herald125 years ago • The Miners at Hahn’s peak and vicinity were greatly worked up last week over an attempt at wholesale claim jumping in that district. As a preventative a liberal use of hemp was threatened, which is a very good remedy in such cases.• Simp Harp[Read More…]
Getting to know your community newspaper
ONCE UPON A TIME … The first newspaper in what would later become Rio Blanco County was born in Meeker, Colorado on August 15, 1885. Mr. James Lyttle was an Irish immigrant who had worked at a newspaper in Leadville, Colorado. He must have liked the work, because he purchased[Read More…]
NEWS NOTES: Dec 30, 2021
NYE masquerade party at brewery MEEKER | Countdown to the new year at Smoking River Brewing Co. on Friday, Dec. 31 with live music by WAVE11 at 9 p.m., and Jamaican Joes with Mitch’s Wild Weiners Food Truck. Masquerade means wear your mask (the other fun kind)! If you don’t[Read More…]
The top 10 stories of 2021
What were the top stories in 2021 for Rio Blanco County? Based on our website traffic at ht1885.com, the top 10 are as follows (oddly, they’re all from the last half of the year) No. 1. — RBCSO explores jail changes (Sept. 2, 2021) Sheriff Anthony Mazzola laid out the[Read More…]
Days Gone By: December 16, 2021
The Meeker Herald125 years ago • Men do not have half the ailments that afflict women, but a visitor from a strange world would not suspect the fact by merely coming here to listen.• A campaign word that has done duty in this country for more than half a century[Read More…]
