Author: Special to the Herald Times

Town previews 2023 budget

Town of Meeker Trustees got a glimpse of the 2023 draft budget Tuesday for preliminary discussion. The budget will be presented to the public in October. The draft budget includes a wage increase for staff to keep up with cost of living. Increases in health insurance, retirement, etc., indicate higher[Read More…]

PMC Sleep Center receives full AASM accreditation

The Sleep Center at Pioneers Medical Center (PMC) has recently received full accreditation from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM). The AASM is the only professional society dedicated exclusively to the medical subspecialty of sleep medicine. It sets standards and promotes excellence in sleep medicine health care, education and[Read More…]

Marjorie Bradbury Smith

1931 ~ Sept. 2, 2022 Marjorie Smith, 91, of The Neighborhood in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, and recently of Salida, Colorado, died Friday, Sept. 2, 2022, while under the care of UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center after a short illness. Born in 1931 in Richmond, Virginia, she was the daughter[Read More…]

Death Notice: Doris S. Layton

Oct. 2, 1930 ~ Sept. 16, 2022 Doris S. Layton of Meeker died Friday, Sept. 16 at the Walbridge Wing. She was 91. Doris was born Oct. 2, 1930 in Raymondville, Missouri, to the late Otis and Mary (Copeland) Smallwood.  Doris and her husband, George were ranchers. He preceded her in[Read More…]

Spaghetti trees and other tricks

In 1957 on April 1, the BBC broadcast a three-minute report on their current affairs program. The television program featured a family in Southern Switzerland harvesting a bumper crop of spaghetti from their Spaghetti Trees. This black and white TV segment aired in Great Britain to an audience of about[Read More…]

GIVING BACK …

Barone Middle School Student Council representatives Dexter Chinn and Ryan Hanberg, now in seventh grade, presented a check to the Meeker Education Foundation (MEF) for $516.89. Last spring, BMS Student Council members organized a “penny wars” fundraiser. “We wanted to do something to give back to the community and we[Read More…]