Author: Niki Turner

Editor’s Column: About that siren

I’d be willing to bet the number of Meeker residents who eat lunch every day is higher than the American average. I think we’re conditioned to respond to the siren. (Note: This is an opinion, totally based on anecdotal experience. If you don’t know what that means, look it up,[Read More…]

Placemaking workshop sparks new ideas

MEEKER | Think of a place you love in a town you’ve visited (or live in); a place that makes you feel welcome, happy and part of a community. It might be a sidewalk cafe or a downtown square, a park, or a local business.

County Beat: October 25, 2018

RBC | Two county departments are “98 percent” relocated from the second floor of Meeker Town Hall to the Fairfield Center as of Monday. Following a lengthy remodeling project of the office space on the east side of the Fairfield Center, once occupied by the library, and later by county[Read More…]

Candidate Forum Q & A

RBC | Candidates for the two contested county races had an opportunity to answer questions prepared by members of the Meeker High School Student Council Monday. Due to extenuating circumstances for both the forum planners and one candidate, questions from the public were not taken, but questions can be submitted to[Read More…]

Commissioners choose Visionary to replace LAI

RBC | Rio Blanco County Commissioners named Visionary Broadband, which is a division of Visionary Communications, to replace Local Access Internet as the county’s second value-added reseller of broadband services after hearing interviews with Visionary and with Homestead Fiber Communications, owned by Jared Harvey of Meeker, and receiving recommendations from the[Read More…]

Bad habits? Anxiety? Chronic pain? ADHD?

MEEKER | What do you think of when someone says “hypnosis”? Most people’s experience with hypnosis is limited to Las Vegas-style entertainment where gullible volunteers are made to cluck like chickens in front of a laughing crowd. But what if the same kind of techniques that made your neighbor cluck[Read More…]

Funeral Notice for Spencer Wagner

Funeral services for Spencer Wagner of Rangely will be conducted on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018, at 11 a.m. at the Rangely LDS Chapel. Viewings for family and friends will be at the Blackburn & Sons Vernal Mortuary Tuesday from 6-8 p.m. and Wednesday at the Chapel in Rangley from 9:45-10:45[Read More…]