“Should is a futile word. It’s about what didn’t happen. It belongs in a parallel universe. It belongs in another dimension of space.” ~ Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin By NIKI TURNER [email protected] Years ago a friend admonished me during one of my self-deprecating diatribes about how I was failing[Read More…]
Author: Special to the Herald Times
Guest Column: Paul Revere
One of the pitfalls in studying history is the lack of fact-checking. Once an action has been recorded in print, it becomes gospel. A mistake is self-perpetuating. This has been amplified a hundredfold in our age of social media, but it certainly didn’t start there. I would like to take[Read More…]
Veteran’s Corner: Write your Congressmen
In 1979 my 1st Sgt. told me, “When you have tried following the proper channels and gone up the Chain of Command then you can write your Congressman. Please feel free to copy my letter and share your thoughts with our Congresswoman, Lauren Boebert. She is first rate. My wife[Read More…]
Letter: Thank you to Meeker fire crew, PMC staff
Dear Editor, Meeker is blessed to have folks like these: Thank you to the Meeker Volunteer Fire Department. Last month they helped save my father-in law’s barn from burning down. Quick response, professional performance. Thank you to the folks at Pioneer Medical Center. Last month I had a medical emergency[Read More…]
Guest Column: Protecting Colorado’s water future
This year’s legislative session was one of the most important and impactful for water — our state’s most precious resource — in recent history Water is the lifeblood of the Western Slope, as it powers our agriculture, tourism and recreation industries and sustains the health and well-being of our communities.[Read More…]
Museum Musings: Letters from history, No. 4
Special to the Herald Times The White River Museum has a collection of letters that Meeker founding father Thomas Baker kept for many years. There are letters from Nathan Meeker and prominent figures like Chief Ouray, ex-Indian Agents, and the violently anti-Indian Colorado Governor Pitkin, as well as various Army[Read More…]
CNCC Corner: Upgrades and updates at CNCC
For the last four years, Colorado Northwestern Community College (CNCC) has been keenly focused on improvements to the College’s infrastructure. In alignment with CNCC’s strategic priority to improve sustainability, our goal has been to ensure our students, staff and faculty have the tools, facilities and safe environment needed to be[Read More…]
Guest Column: Here’s to the future of education
Each year, our communities come together to celebrate the accomplishments of our youth who have graduated high school. I am so proud of all of the 2023 high school graduates in Northwest Colorado and our state as a whole. As a social studies teacher at Steamboat Springs High School, I[Read More…]
Range Call 2023
Range Call put on the 138th annual Independence Day celebration with style again this year, with numerous activities over five days. Here are some snaps from just a few of the events. This year’s Range Call celebration included performances by Escape: A Journey Tribute Band Friday evening. Saturday, Josh Gracin[Read More…]
Rangely celebrates the Fourth
Rangely’s rec district hosted their annual concert and dinner in ideal weather at Cedar Ridges Golf Course, as well as splashy fun for kids at Elks Park. 4-Hers kept everyone cool with a snowcone fundraiser, while the annual Color Run, a fundraiser for New Eden Pregnancy Center, brought residents out[Read More…]
Rising star …
Meeker’s Gracie Blagg, a 2023 graduate of Meeker High School, earned the Future Farmers of America (FFA) State Star in agri-business at the state-level competition, as well as winning an award for proficiency in diversified horticulture as well as receiving her state degree. Also at the state convention, Meeker’s Amy[Read More…]
Rangely LDS update: Wren, Winder, Wagner headed to missions
(Left to right) Marstan Wagner, Fisher Winder and Kevin Wren. Courtesy Photo Kevin Wren and Fisher Winder are the most recently called missionaries for their church in Rangely. These two young men, along with Marstan Wagner, have been long time friends from starting kindergarten together, played basketball together as Panthers,[Read More…]
