MEEKER | Click to view photos from the Veteran’s Day parade.
Author: Jeff Burkhead
For Meeker banker, humor is serious business
Money and banking are serious business. But for Todd Young, he can see humor, even in the financial world. “I was co-president of my banking school class at CU (Colorado University) and both of us got to make a commencement speech. The one guy’s was just like the typical commencement[Read More…]
Barone beats Soroco in overtime
MEEKER I Dylan Mobley made all four of his free throws in overtime and Barone Middle School’s eighth-grade boys’ basketball team beat Soroco 40-35 Saturday. “Ultimately, that made the difference,” said eighth-grade coach Neil Joy. Mobley scored 20 points — including all four shots in the fourth quarter — to[Read More…]
Chavez, Matrisciano have gone from rivals to roommates
RANGELY I In high school, they played for rival teams on opposite ends of the county. Now they are teammates. And not only that, roommates. Roman Chavez of Rangely and Tyler Matrisciano of Meeker are first-year members of the Colorado Northwestern Community College baseball team.
Meeker native shocked at Fort Hood shootings
MEEKER I Like everyone, Daniel and Deni Saucedo were shocked by the shooting spree last week at the Army base at Fort Hood, Texas. “It was definitely scary and shocking,” said Deni Saucedo, formerly Back, who is from Meeker. “It was crazy. (At first) they thought there were multiple shooters,[Read More…]
Meeker woman wins statewide beauty pageant
MEEKER | Beauty pageants are about, well, beauty. But for Roni Bibb, it is about more than physical beauty. A lot more. It’s about promoting a cause.
BMS comes out on top at Rangely
RBC I In a matchup of county rivals, Meeker’s Barone Middle School teams won its games last Thursday at Rangely. Meeker’s eighth-grade team won both games, 29-21 (A team) and 20-16 (B team), as did the seventh-grade teams.
Panthers close season with 2-7 record
RANGELY I The Panthers’ football season ended the way it started, with a loss. In between, there were ups and downs — more downs than ups — but plenty of reason to look forward to a brighter future, first-year coach Tim Galloway said. “We did some good things, we did[Read More…]
Meeker ends with a win
MEEKER I Overall, it wasn’t the season the Lady Cowboys hoped for, but at the end, they were playing their best volleyball. “The ending is always bittersweet when you’re not on top,” said coach Christy Atwood. “But, unlike a lot of teams, we finished our season with a win.”
County foreclosures continue to rise
RBC I The number of foreclosures in the county continues to rise. “We have opened 37, with 28 still active,” said Karen Arnold, Rio Blanco County treasurer. “Of the 28, three are files that opened in 2008.” Active files are cases that are going through different stages of the foreclosure[Read More…]
Slide Show: Halloween Parade
Crazy outfits were the norm at the Halloween parade in Meeker.
Learning more about my neighbor after she’s gone
Virtually every week, there is at least one obituary, usually more, published in the Herald Times. Historically, that’s something newspapers have done — they document the life, as well as the death, of a person. In between, the newspaper records other milestone moments in a person’s life — graduation, marriage,[Read More…]
