“Best ‘Fest” returns to Rangely

RANGELY | The origins of the annual Rangely community event Septemberfest are spotty at best but when you ask around everyone agrees Flossy Eddy and Barbara Wade organized the first Septemberfest. Back in 1976 when the celebration began it was actually held around the Fourth of July weekend.  Eddy and Wade dubbed themselves the R.A.I.D. (Rangely Area Independence Day) Committee. 

Local historian Bob Haag and longtime Rangely Town Manager Don Peach recall its originating in the early 1980s.  Either way the early days of…