The 2019 ERBM Adult Coed Softball League season wrapped up last week with a two-day tournament. The five teams that participated in the six-week long season were McPhee Construction, Ace Trucking, Meeker Misfits, Natural Soda and Noxious Weeds Management (NWM). The championship game was held on Friday, July 26 between[Read More…]
Author: Special to the Herald Times
Letter: Thanks for making folks feel significant
Dear Editor: “If you want people to feel significant, give them significant things to do.” I’ve heard this phrase over and over throughout my life. Until recently, I haven’t put much thought into how that plays out in my own household. Last week my 9-year-old son wrote his first article[Read More…]
Country Raised store under new ownership
MEEKER | Country Raised is still alive, under new management, to the delight of its dedicated patrons. There was a collective sigh of sorrow among area shoppers in June when Makala Barton, founder of Country Raised, announced the store would be closing as she took on greater responsibility at the[Read More…]
National Night Out in Meeker
MEEKER | Meeker Police Department is sponsoring a free family barbecue for National Night Out at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 6 at Town Park. Attend and receive a free UV pen to mark your personal belongings!
LABOR OF LOVE …
The residents of White River Village Assisted Living have a thriving, colorful community garden to enjoy this season. Kandis Dotson photo
Conservation easement enables former ranch manager to purchase former Pearce ranch on White River
RBC | Anyone who has talked to Lex Collins knows how much the E Lazy S Ranch means to him. For years Collins stewarded its landscape with former landowners, Tom and Ruth Pearce, and their daughter Denise. The ranch’s productive hayfields combined with spectacular scenery and a mile of White River[Read More…]
Letter: Appreciation for assistance with Milk Creek signs
Dear Editor: We have just celebrated another Fourth of July. As a community we have come together to enjoy a pretty big celebration of the birth of our county. Most of us think that the Fourth is about the founding of our nation. It is. It is also a celebration[Read More…]
Cedar Ridges Golf Course 27-hole two-man scramble results
RANGELY | Cedar Ridges Golf Course hosted the 27-hole two-man scramble Saturday. Fifty-six participants played nine holes each of scramble play, best ball, and Chapman, broken into the four following flights. Championship Flight First gross, Josh Teague and Christopher Hejl (Rangely)—score of 101 First net, Kirk Blaszyk and Danny Schard[Read More…]
National Night Out in Rangely
RANGELY | Celebrate National Night Out with the Rangely Police Department Tuesday, Aug. 6 from 6-8 p.m. in the Rangely Town Square. There will be a First Responder Costume Contest with prizes, free hot dogs and drinks provided by the Town of Rangely and the Rangely Chamber, and games for[Read More…]
Highway 13 project update
MEEKER | For the week of July 29, motorists on Hwy. 13 between Meeker and Rifle will encounter continued single-lane, alternating travel from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and a 12-foot width restriction, from 6 a.m to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday north of County Road 5 as shoulder and[Read More…]
CPW preparing leftover license sales
RBC | Colorado Parks and Wildlife locations statewide are preparing for Leftover Day on Tuesday, Aug. 6, beginning at 9 a.m. Mountain time. For those new to Leftover Day, the first Tuesday in August, this year Aug. 6, is the date CPW begins selling licenses that have gone through the[Read More…]
HEREFORDS …
Kolbi and Kaden Franklin participated in the Junior National Hereford Expo in Denver, Colorado during the second week of July. There were kids from every state and Canada exhibiting Hereford cattle and competing in several other contests. Kolbi showed a heifer which made it to the division championship, a steer[Read More…]
