The Meeker Herald125 years ago • Black crickets are becoming dangerously plentiful on the divide between White and Yampa rivers.• E.D. Hayden is laying the foundation of a handsome residence on Park Avenue. Mr. Hayden will build with stone in modern architectural style, and will incidentally give Meekerites and idea[Read More…]
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Obituary: Jim Brown
Oct. 8, 1947 ~ May 18, 2022 Jim Bancroft Brown of Meeker, Colorado, died peacefully in his daughter’s home in St. John, Indiana, on May 18, 2022. He was 74 years old. Jim was born to James Buchanan Brown and Martha Fair (Bancroft) Brown on Oct. 8, 1947, in Grand[Read More…]
Editor: Prioritizing = putting first things first
“Put First Things First! These four words cover an entire philosophy which can be applied with profit by every business leader, by every executive and by every employee.” ~ Thomas J. Watson (1874 – 1956), Industrialist, Former President of IBM Change is hard, and letting go of things is harder[Read More…]
21st century citizenship: four civic skills we need to keep our democracy
As primaries roll out around the country, we’re tracking voter turnout. Raised on Schoolhouse Rock’s cartoon civics lessons, I know that being a good American means voting. Those 1970’s cartoons weren’t wrong. Voting is the most fundamental act of democratic citizenship. That’s why it has been fiercely contested throughout our[Read More…]
Ditches are a vanishing paradise
Annette Choszczyk lives in rural western Colorado these days, but when she was a kid, the Highline Canal in Denver was her summer paradise. “To us, it was river and a playground, complete with rope swings, swimming holes, crawdads and a trail alongside it that adults and kids could walk[Read More…]
Letter: Time to switch
Dear Editor: Perhaps you remember when there was enough water to launch a boat from the ramps on Lake Powell. Or when CPW didn’t have to close fishing streams because the water temperature was too high. Or when forest fires didn’t explode, launching embers that started spot fires two miles[Read More…]
NATIONAL NIGHT OUT …
Mayor Kent Borchard signed a proclamation supporting the Meeker Police Department through annual community-building campaign National Night Out, happening Tuesday, Aug. 2 this year. | COURTESY PHOTO
Family reunion brings wisdom for marriage
A few weeks ago, I attended a family reunion. This year, we were encouraged to share with the others how many years we had been married. I don’t know most of these distant relatives on a personal basis, so I was amazed at the number of couples who had passed[Read More…]
WRESTLING SUMMIT …
Athos Life, a company owned and operated by Dr. Justin Grant and his wife Rebekah Grant, hosted their first inaugural wrestling summit up at Meadow Lake over the weekend. The summit featured wrestling coaches from Meeker and the surrounding area including Trevor Grant, Stryker Lane, Tytus Coombs, and TJ Shelton.[Read More…]
RANGELY RALLY
A parade, a race and a community celebration marked another successful Colorado Rally event for Rangely last weekend. KATIE KING/JESSE MCCANN PHOTOS
SWISS BIKERS …
Bikers from Switzerland stopped off in downtown Rangely on Friday to get a cup of espresso from the Main Street Café. They were headed to Montrose after an overnight stay in Vernal, Utah. | René Harden Photos
Hoot Gibson retires as Veterans Service Officer
RANGELY | John Revell Gibson, or ‘Hoot’ as he has been referred to since he was 18 years old, was named after rodeo champion and actor Hoot Gibson, but he has made a name for himself in the Rangely community since moving here in 1979 with his wife Geniel and[Read More…]
