RBC I Competitive shooters from across the country and around the world will make their way to the new Cameo Shooting and Education Complex when the United States Practical Shooting Association hosts its ESP-Bighorn Classic Sectional Championship July 19-21.
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Rio Blanco County Hazard Mitigation open house July 16
RANGELY I Rio Blanco County is in the process of updating the Hazard Mitigation Plan (HMP) and would like your input. Please join us at an open house at the Rangely Municipal Building (209 E. Main Street, Rangely, Colorado) on Tuesday, July 16, from 4-6 p.m. This meeting will be[Read More…]
See the signs…
Everyone is invited to the Milk Creek Battle Site Sunday, July 14 at 2 p.m. for an afternoon picnic and a chance to view the newly installed interpretive signs. Bring your own picnic lunch. This will be the quarterly meeting of the Rio Blanco County Historical Society. To get to[Read More…]
County Beat: July 9, 2019
RBC I Sheriff Anthony Mazzola and Lieutenant Jeremy Muxlow presented their case for hiring an additional full-time deputy for the jail to the Rio Blanco County Board of Commissioners during a work session Tuesday. The department currently has 10 full-time employees, who are at risk of “burning out.” So far[Read More…]
Rangely 2019 Fourth of July
Range Call 2019 Photos
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Editor’s Column: Freedom demands responsibility
On the holiday each year when we hold our freedoms most dear, I get a bit frustrated that so many folks forget that with freedom comes great personal responsibility. Lighting illegal fireworks all night long is not you “exercising your freedom,” it’s just you being a selfish jerk. Those are[Read More…]
A community champion remembered
RANGELY I A community champion is anyone—a public official, a community leader, a concerned citizen, a health or human service worker, a volunteer. This person works hard and well to start and/or support an initiative or intervention, to bring a program or idea to reality, or to otherwise improve the[Read More…]
Obituary: Carol Ann Douglas
Carol Douglas, 58, passed peacefully on June 29, 2019. Carol was born to Robert and Joyce Coley in Denver, Colorado. She moved with her mother and siblings to a sheep ranch near Meeker, Colorado in her early teens. Her ranch girl upbringing gave her a love of the outdoors, of[Read More…]
‘Walter’ the dinosaur gets a lift
RANGELY | The fossilized remains of the dinosaur dubbed “Walter,” found just outside of Rangely in 2014 by a Colorado Northwestern Community College (CNCC) professor, were airlifted to a federal repository on the CNCC Craig Campus Thursday, July 11, where they will join the duck-billed dinosaur’s skull and limbs. The[Read More…]
Wyoming wolf sighted in Jackson County
RBC I A wolf recently sighted and photographed in Jackson County, Colorado, was confirmed by Wyoming Game and Fish to be a dispersing male gray wolf from Wyoming.
Obituary: Peggy Jo Rector
Peggy Jo Rector, 80, of Rangely, Colorado, passed away in her home on July 2, 2019.
