The Meeker High School Girls’ golf team would like to thank our wonderful little town for all of the love and support for the team throughout the year. Another awesome year in the Homecoming Parade. Naomi Etchart Photo
Author: Special to the Herald Times
CPW announces public meetings on elk plan
PRESS RELEASE RBC | Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s Northwest Region announces additional public meetings for proposed changes to the region’s Elk Herd Management Plan in October. Northwest Region terrestrial biologists are seeking input on elk management as we draft Herd Management Plans (HMPs) for 15 elk herds in northwest Colorado.[Read More…]
Champs!
More than 25 seventh- and eighth-grade volleyball teams from Meeker, Rangely, Craig, Hayden, East Grand (Granby), North Park (Walden), West Grand (Kremmling), Soroco (Oak Creek) and Steamboat Springs played in both high school gyms, as well as the elementary school. The Rangely Middle School seventh-grade A-team won the seventh-grade championship[Read More…]
Days Gone By – October 5th, 2023
The Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago From three to five inches of snow fell in Meeker and vicinity last Saturday night, but it soon disappeared the day following wherever the sun could reach it. The weather has been clear since, and the nights are quite cold. The county commissioners[Read More…]
Emergency alert test Wednesday, Oct. 4
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will be sending out a test tomorrow. Wednesday, Oct. 4 be prepared for your phone to possibly get that loud alert tone around 12:20 p.m. FEMA, in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), will conduct a nationwide emergency alert[Read More…]
Athlos Wrestling Club parent meeting Oct. 3 at 7 p.m. at Meeker High School
Athlos Wrestling Club is excited to start preparing for the upcoming season! Please see below for important dates and information. Team Mission: Forging lifelong athletes for a Higher Purpose Team Values: Parent’s meeting: First day of practice: 12/4/2023 at 18:30 Weekly practice structure: Season Overview Tuition: Important note to middle schoolers: Once Barone Middle[Read More…]
Stylin’!
Meeker’s Chip Brown won the costume contest at Smoking River Brewing Co.’s Oktoberfest celebration over the weekend, helped by very creative facial hair styling.
Invasion of the noxious weeds: growing concern over blooms
Three kinds of invasive weeds have emerged in Rio Blanco County along Hwy. 13. Leafy spurge (left), musk thistles (center) and white top (right) are all being quite (ob)noxious. BY LINDA MASTERS AND JANE TURNBURKE Special to the Herald Times RBC | Several people have been reporting the spread of[Read More…]
MHS student council to put on Give Back Day Oct. 13
BY OPAL MUNGER MEEKER | Last year on Oct. 21, 2022, the Meeker High School Student Council put on Give Back Day. Student volunteers signed up to go to the homes of people in the community to assist them with housework, landscaping and other tasks. MHS Student Council is going[Read More…]
RIO HAPPENINGS: SEPT. 17-23, 2023
The cost to hold the inmates for the month of August in Moffat County was $653.00, saving the County $149,347.00 in just one month had the jail been open. Total cost for Moffat County holding inmates to date are $21,094.10, saving the County $1,178,905.90 had the jail been open. ARRESTS[Read More…]
Guest Column: The first agency
This June a new sign was placed along RBC County Road 8. If you are traveling east toward Buford and Trappers Lake you will pass right by it. Look for it just past the 6-mile marker on the right-hand side. It is worth the time. The sign is a culmination[Read More…]
Letters from History, No. 16
Special to the Herald Times Department of the Interior Office of Indian Affairs, Jan. 7, 1879. Sir: In reply to your letter of the 19th ultimo, asking authority to buy 2,000 paper sacks for use in making issues, you are informed that the sacks have been ordered shipped to you[Read More…]
