By STEPHEN PYNE | Writers on the Range As I look out my window, the smoke from the Bush fire is belching upward behind the fabled profile of the Superstition Mountains. The fire has closed Highway 87 that joins the Phoenix metro area to Payson, one of its exurbs. Some[Read More…]
Author: Special to the Herald Times
News Briefs: July 2, 2020
Free legal clinic at Meeker Library MEEKER | Upcoming Rio Blanco County free legal clinic on Wednesday, July 8 from 2-5 p.m. Contact the Meeker Public Library at 970-878-5911 to be added to the sign-up sheet for a scheduled Virtual Pro Se Clinic (VPC) appointment. Space is limited. Meeker Library[Read More…]
Pioneers Medical Center staying vigilant in fight against COVID-19 after relief employee tests positive
Pioneers Medical Center appreciates our community. You have been supportive and understanding about the necessary changes Pioneers has put in place to manage COVID-19. We give you our most sincere thank you for wearing your masks and practicing social distancing. We appreciate the sacrifices businesses have had to make. Without[Read More…]
Fly high, pray low…
The third week of the Meeker Summer Rodeo series is in the books. The results are: Bull riding – Tucker Gately; Jr. barrel riding – Leah Wood; Open barrel riding – Kristie Grieve; Open pair roping Joe Wood/Kash Atwood; Number 11 roping – Drake Groom/Evan Kostner; Number 8 roping –[Read More…]
Henderson graduates from United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point
JC Henderson, a Meeker High School Class of 2014 graduate, has graduated from the United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in shipboard engineering and shipyard management and the United States Coast Guard Engineers License. After graduation from Meeker High School,[Read More…]
Conservation Corner
This summer, like every summer, a cornucopia of Colorado grown foods are beginning to appear at grocery stores and farmers markets. Coloradoans will once again be biting into juicy Palisade peaches and ripe Rocky Ford cantaloupe. What is the primary ingredient of these delicious products? Water. Cantaloupe and peaches are[Read More…]
Obituary: Armand Wellman
June 1, 1954 ~ June 19, 2020 Armand passed away in New Castle, Colorado, at the residence of a great friend and caregiver. Armand was 66 years old. Armand was born in Meeker, Colorado, where he went to school and graduated from Meeker High School Class of 1972. He attended[Read More…]
Dinwiddie earns pilot’s licenses
Meeker High School Class of 2013 and U.S. Air Force Academy Class of 2018 graduate Kaitlyn Dinwiddie has completed a year-long undergraduate pilot training, earning her commercial fixed and rotary wing single engine pilot’s licenses. Dinwiddie is now headed to Albuquerque, New Mexico, for continued training for the UH-1N helicopter,[Read More…]
Guest Column: “Thank heavens for small mercies”
I am reminded these days of similar troublesome days in our lives when the smallest of gestures, of helpfulness, respect, or friendliness helped us survive. I treasure these gifts of help as “thanks for small mercies.” One day, the battery died on our vehicle on terribly busy and heavily traveled[Read More…]
Obituary: Beverly Jane (Purkey) Pierce
March 8, 1935 ~ June 12, 2020 Beverly Jane (Purkey) Pierce, a mother, a grandmother, a great-grandmother, passed away June 12, 2020, at Heritage Park Care Center in Carbondale, Colorado. She was surrounded by her family and was peacefully embraced into the loving arms of her lord and savior. Beverly[Read More…]
PMC opens $12 million expanded on-campus orthopedic facility
Pioneers Medical Center announces the completion of its 11,000 square-foot expansion of the hospital’s orthopedic and specialty center. According to the hospital’s Chief Communications Officer Margie Joy, the expanded facility is scheduled to open on July 8 and will offer a broad array of orthopedic services. In addition to knee[Read More…]
Obituary: William Alfred Tuttle
July 27, 1926 ~ May 16, 2020 July 27, 1926, was just another day for most folks, but for Gladys Mae Rice Tuttle, the 10 minute trip from Russell, Kentucky, to the hospital in Ironton, Ohio, seemed to take forever. Little could she have guessed how it would change her[Read More…]
