These Meeker Elementary School students were all smiles at the end of the first day of the 2025-26 school year on Monday. JARED HENDERSON PHOTO
Author: Herald Times Staff
COMMUNITY CALENDAR – August 21st, 2025
Date/location change for food bank to this Friday at City Park MEEKER | The Meeker Mobile Pantry will be held on Friday, Aug. 22 at 10:30 a.m. at City Park. This is a date and location change due to the wildfires. La Despensa Móvil Meeker se realizará el viernes 22[Read More…]
DAYS GONE BY – August 21st, 2025
Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago The Rio Blanco County High School will open on Sept. 7. Parents and pupils may meet the principal or superintendent at the high school Friday and Saturday afternoons for consultation. A traveling sign painter was in town this week and as a result several[Read More…]
Happy 140th birthday to the Herald!
HT STAFF MEEKER | With this issue of the HT we begin our 141st year of continuous community journalism as the second oldest newspaper in Northwest Colorado (the Steamboat Pilot beat us by two weeks because of travel troubles encountered getting the old printing press from Leadville to Meeker by[Read More…]
Fundraiser established for Bob Kydd, whose home was lost in the Elk Fire
HT Staff MEEKER | Reports of losses and damages from the Elk and Lee Fires are just beginning to come in as the focus starts to shift from the fire to its aftermath. You may not know Bob Kydd by name or face, but if you ever enjoyed the famous[Read More…]
COMMUNITY CALENDAR – August 14th, 2025
CPW hosting shooting event in Rangely Aug. 16 RANGELY | Join Colorado Parks and Wildlife for the the Rangely Family Shoot on Saturday, Aug. 16 at the Rangely Elks Trap Range (1/2 mi. south of Rangely, east side of Dragon Trail) from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Free for all[Read More…]
DAYS GONE BY – August 14th, 2025
Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago With this issue the Herald enters its 16th year. W.F. Hossack has been appointed a forest ranger. A good appointment. A hypocrite is a man who, in trying to fool others, fools himself. Campaign documents prove the untruthfulness of the adage, “Figures cannot lie.”[Read More…]
COMMUNITY CALENDAR – August 7th, 2025
Community theater production of ‘Matilda’ postponed MEEKER | The Meeker Arts and Cultural Council’s production of Roald Dahl’s “Matilda: The Musical” scheduled for this weekend has been postponed due to the wildfires and will be rescheduled. Circle Park remains closed during final construction MEEKER | The public is reminded that[Read More…]
DAYS GONE BY – August 7th, 2025
Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago The man who believes that he benefits himself by taxing himself poor to make others rich is not in a good position to poke fun at those who believe in the faith cure. About the heaviest rain ever seen in this section visited Meeker[Read More…]
COMMUNITY CALENDAR – July 31, 2025
Community theater production of ‘Matilda’ coming Aug. 7-9 MEEKER | Mark your calendars for Meeker Arts and Cultural Council’s production of Roald Dahl’s “Matilda: The Musical” on Thursday, Aug. 7, Friday, Aug. 8, and Saturday, Aug. 9. All performances are at 7 p.m. at Meeker High School and tickets are[Read More…]
DAYS GONE BY – July 31st, 2025
Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago Burnham Smith had the misfortune to have the fingers of his left hand mashed Thursday at the Cross-Bar-Z ranch at the mouth of North Elk Creek. The little fellow was working around the water wheel which is used to run the grindstone and other[Read More…]
COMMUNITY CALENDAR – July 24th, 2025
Food Bank needs this week MEEKER | Specific needs of the Food Bank of Meeker this week: mustard, peanut butter, jelly, coffee, chili, pork/beans, baked beans, refried beans, tuna, cream/mushroom soup, tomato sauce, canned tomatoes, canned spaghetti, cereal — we thank our friends and neighbors for their generosity to the[Read More…]