RBC | Colorado Northwestern Community College (CNCC) in partnership with Colorado Mountain College has been awarded a $2.9 million dollar RISE grant to support concurrent enrollment in rural school districts by equipping them with much needed classroom technology. With these funds, CNCC will be standing up 28 smart classrooms in[Read More…]
Author: Special to the Herald Times
“Look at me” culture leaves too many marks
RBC | I attended a ranger program recently dealing with Leave No Trace. The ranger showed a picture of rock art, or “ancestral inscriptions” as archaeologists often refer to the practice. We agreed that one does not touch or otherwise deface it. Then she flashed a shot of some modern[Read More…]
Loose Ends: This is how it is now
MEEKER | This is how it is now — no same old/same old, no business as usual — as we all attempt to go back to our daily lives. Reading a magazine article recently I came across that phrase and the obtuse “new normal” that is used to describe daily[Read More…]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Feb 4, 2021
Hospital jackets frivolous Dear Editor:The new jackets bought by Rangely Hospital for board members and hospital staff are very sharp looking, but is this the best use of hospital money or mill levy money? Thursday, Jan. 28, I had received my tax bill for the year and of course was[Read More…]
Raymond Lavern ‘Bub’ Sutton
July 24, 1937 ~ Jan. 27, 2021 Bub Sutton, 83, husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, passed away at his home in Fruita, with his wife of 62 years, Jeri, and his loving daughter, Tracie, by his side. Bub is survived, in addition to his wife and daughter, his sister, Mary[Read More…]
Dr. William R. Zagar
Jan. 25, 1939 ~ Jan. 23, 2021 Surrounded by love, Dr. William R. Zagar, passed away on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021. Billy was born in Pittsburg, Kansas, on Jan. 25, 1939, to Ann Strah Zagar and Frank Zagar. Bill was raised in Arma, Kansas, where the Zagar family had settled[Read More…]
Shirley Renae (Ottosen) Fliegel
May 14, 1937 ~ Dec. 31, 2020 Shirley Renae (Ottosen) Fliegel was born on May 14, 1937, to Byron C. and Vera M. Ottosen. Her early years were spent on the ranch just west of Meeker. She rode the bus to the Powell Park School in Powell Park and later[Read More…]
The great escape
MEEKER | I’m already dreaming of summer plans to escape COVID and isolation in Meeker. Perhaps a trip to see Alaska and the northern skies. Or how about a lovely, sandy beach in Hawaii? Not happening for us and not for most of us. Still, it is time to plan[Read More…]
Board of Health/pandemic
RBC | The county’s Board of Health heard from community members, student athletes, athletic directors and school superintendents regarding the requirement for high school basketball players to wear face masks both on and off the court on Jan. 28. On Feb. 2 the board reconvened to approve a letter addressed[Read More…]
Wolf collared in Colorado
RBC | Colorado Parks and Wildlife has placed a GPS tracking collar on a wolf in the north-central part of the state. The wolf was confirmed in late January when it was seen with M1084 – a VHF-collared male wolf that entered Colorado in 2019 from the Snake River wolf[Read More…]
Meeker Sanitation senior citizen sewer rate reduction program
MEEKER | If you live in a household with one family member who is 65 years or older, as shown by a birth certificate, school records, and military discharge documents or other supporting documentation acceptable to the Meeker Sanitation District, you may qualify for a reduced sewer rate. Eligible households[Read More…]
Rangely boys drop two games
RANGELY | Rangely’s opening weekend of boys basketball ended with the Panthers 0-2. The boys met the Cowboys first on Meeker’s home turf. At the half the Cowboys were up 44-13 and the Panthers were unable to close the gap, final score 72-34 (scores according to MaxPreps and the Colorado[Read More…]