RANGELY | You are invited to the Rangely Community Networking meeting on Monday, Oct. 28 from 12-1:30 p.m. on the Rangely Campus in the Weiss Conference Room. This month we have House District 57 Representative Perry Will joining us for a town hall style meeting. He will come and talk[Read More…]
Author: Special to the Herald Times
Meeker softball team wraps season 3-20 overall
MEEKER | Cowboy softball came to a close earlier than they had hoped. Thursday the girls traveled to Palisade to take on the class 4A Bulldogs. In a tight match, the Cowboys narrowly missed the victory. The final score was 16-15. This was the first of two losses during homecoming[Read More…]
Fall community education classes
MEEKER | Social Media Marketing: Next Steps—Monday, Oct. 28 and Nov. 4, 10 a.m. to noon. Develop strategies to market your business on all major social media marketing platforms. Presentation Creation—Tuesday, Nov. 5 and 11, 10 a.m. to noon. Use PowerPoint and Prezi to produce flyers, presentations and handouts. Google[Read More…]
Concert for all ages
RANGELY | The concert finale for the 2019 season of the Tank will be Wednesday, Oct. 23 from 6:30-8:15 p.m. at Rangely High School auditorium. Musicians from Texas, Leadville and the Front Range will play Classic Rock, Americana, Bluegrass and Blues, opening up for multi-instrumentalist/ composer/entertainer Thomas Helton. Bill Aspinwall and friends[Read More…]
Letter: Forest Road access concerns
Dear Editor: Access to public lands is of vital interest to residents of Rio Blanco county. We have lost some of that access with little knowledge of that happening. Two examples are cited below. I met with Aaron Grimes of the White River National Forest recently to discuss my concerns. I discovered that the[Read More…]
OPED: Colorado journalism needs public support
RBC | There was a time, not so long ago, when the two of us were foes in a “newspaper war.” We thought that the winner would be in a position to thrive as the sole surviving major newspaper in the Denver metropolitan area. Were we ever wrong. John’s Rocky[Read More…]
Obituary: Dwight Webster ‘Shorty’ Frantz
Dwight Webster ‘Shorty’ Frantz April 30, 1935 ~ Oct. 6, 2019 Dwight Webster “Shorty” Frantz, passed away on Oct. 6, 2019, surrounded by his family at Pioneers Medical Center at the age of 84. He died of complications related to congestive heart failure. Shorty was born to Charles and Julia[Read More…]
County Beat: October 17, 2019
RBC | The Rio Blanco County Board of Commissioners heard from Jim Paul, the director for the Tank Center for Sonic Arts in Rangely, on Tuesday in Rangely. The Tank, a non-profit organization, is hoping to make some major improvements to the landscape around the concert and recording venue in[Read More…]
GoFundMe set up for children of couple killed in Hwy. 13 accident
RBC | The couple killed in a double fatality accident on Monday, Oct. 7 that closed Hwy. 13 south of Meeker for approximately three hours have been identified as Casey and Briana Grossnickle, both 39, of Grand Junction, Colorado. Keith Griffitts, the other driver involved in the head-on collision, was[Read More…]
Planning Advisory meeting Oct. 21
RANGELY | The White River Planning Advisory Committee will be meeting in Rangely at Colorado Northwestern Community College’s Weiss Conference room on Monday, Oct. 21 at 6 p.m. This committee will assist the White River and Douglas Creek Conservation Districts gather public input regarding the local communities’ interest in and[Read More…]
Donation account established for injured Grand Valley football player
MEEKER | A Grand Valley High School senior who suffered a serious head injury during the Oct. 4 football game in Meeker has been released from the intensive care unit at St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction as of Oct. 14, according to a Facebook post from his parents. In[Read More…]
Mysterious …
CNCC President Ron Granger (right) and wife Alisa joined the 80s-themed fun for a murder mystery dinner fundraiser Oct. 12. The well-dressed (and hairsprayed) crowd would have made the likes of Madonna, Michael Jackson and Cyndi Lauper proud. Roxie Fromang Photos
