MEEKER | In the first official Board of Trustees meeting for 2021, the town reviewed a proposed assessment and design of the White River corridor through town, completed in conjunction with the Eastern Rio Blanco Metropolitan Recreation and Park District and SWCA Environmental Consulting out of Broomfield, Colorado. The study[Read More…]
Author: Niki Turner
Editor’s Column: Maybe politics shouldn’t be a profit game
Anyone who thought politics was a slow-moving game, or dreadfully dull, has had that idea challenged this year. Now almost every political race is a neck-and-neck battle to the finish line (if a finish line can ever be agreed upon… how I miss those simpler times). It’s exciting when a[Read More…]
Walk-in vaccine clinics start today for 1B tier
RBC | Changes made to the state’s vaccination roll-out plan last Wednesday that added additional groups of people to Tier 1B have created new opportunities for vaccination distribution. “Supply chains have been able to get allocations out sooner than expected,” said RBC Public Health Director Alice Harvey. “We have 300[Read More…]
State changes vaccination tier schedule
After press time Wednesday, the state announced surprise changes that will expand the number of people who qualify for a COVID-19 vaccination in Tier 1B. Tier 1A included highest risk health care workers and long-term care facility staff and residents. The new 1B tier includes Coloradans age 70+, moderate-risk health[Read More…]
Editor’s Column: Good Riddance, 2020
When the pandemic kicked off last spring I said I thought this event was going to leave a mark. Little did I know at that point how deep that mark would go. I’m chalking 2020 up as the second worst year of my life (second only because no one in[Read More…]
Editor’s Column: One Good Thing
This has been a year of unusual events. The conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the night sky for the first time since 1226 A.D., is just one of those events. From our perspective on Earth, the two visible planets look very much like an unusually large star, much like[Read More…]
Town approves 2021 budget
MEEKER | In the final formal meeting for 2020, Meeker’s Board of Trustees approved the 2021 budget and certified the town’s property tax mill levy. The board also approved a Memorandum of Understanding with the White River Partnership for the conservation of riparian areas along the White River and its[Read More…]
Editor’s Column: Just keep swimming
In the animated movie “Finding Nemo,” a clownfish (ironically named Marlin) and a regal blue tang fish set off on an improbable journey: to find Marlin’s missing son Nemo (also ironically named). Dory suffers from short-term memory loss, regularly becoming distracted and forgetting what she was doing, which creates all[Read More…]
New quarantine guidelines released by the CDC
RBC | Fourteen days of vacation at the beach whizzes by at warp speed, but enduring 14 days of stay-at-home quarantine due to COVID is almost as much fun as watching paint dry. Quarantines are one of the oldest and simplest tools for slowing the spread of contagious disease, but[Read More…]
Editor’s Column: It’s a pressure cooker.
A quote from the Dec. 10, 1970, Rangely Times stands out: “Fifty years ago today this country was known as a melting pot. Today it resembles a pressure cooker.” Another 50 years down the road, we might be more of a melting pot, but we’re definitely still a pressure cooker.[Read More…]
White River Alliance hears from water engineer Erin Light on drought preparedness and other issues
RBC | The White River Alliance, a local stakeholders group for the White River, met Dec. 4. Erin Light, the Division 6 Water Engineer, who is in charge of all administration of water rights on the White River (and Yampa and Green), was the guest speaker. She announced that Governor[Read More…]
Colorado Secretary of State certifies 2020 election results
RBC | Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold today certified the 2020 General Election, thereby making the results of the election official and final. The certification was conducted after each county’s bipartisan canvass boards submitted their official abstract of votes to the Secretary of State’s Office, as well as the[Read More…]
