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Dear community: In October, nearly 200 people joined together to save the Herald through an absolutely WILD $40,000 donation drive. Six months later, we have tons of new subscribers, 2,000+ newsletter readers, and tens of thousands of visitors to the website each month. People read the paper, y’all. (Sure …[Read More…]

March 27, 2024 by Caitlin Walker 0 comments

Where to find a paper now

In order to reduce expenses, we’ve limited the distribution of single copies to high-selling stores only. To ensure you get a paper every week in your mailbox, become a subscriber. To purchase extra print copies, call the newspaper office at 970-878-4017. Single-copy delivery to Rangely and Dinosaur has been discontinued[Read More…]

November 3, 2023 by Herald Times Staff Comments are Disabled

Community raises $20,000 in four days to help save the Herald

Last week, after the Oct. 12 edition had come out, the Herald was thrown into crisis-mode. Balancing the checkbook led to a discovery of an acute shortfall in cash flows and receivables. We had enough funds to publish two more issues, and that was it. Advertising sales, which generate 80-85%[Read More…]

October 19, 2023 by Niki Turner Comments are Disabled

Accident on CR 8 claims life of one Meeker teen, another hospitalized

MEEKER | A single-vehicle crash on County Road 8 at mile-marker 4 at approximately 9:20 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 14, resulted in one fatality. According to the Colorado State Patrol (CSP), a Pontiac Sunfire driven by a 16-year-old male from Meeker, was traveling westbound on CR 8. The driver swerved[Read More…]

October 15, 2023 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

FBI investigating wire fraud transfer scam involving Rio Blanco Water Conservancy District

RBC | According to a press release issued by the Rio Blanco County Board of Commissioners late Tuesday, Jan. 31, a “significant portion” of the $4 million grant awarded to the Rio Blanco Water Conservancy District last year to facilitate development of the proposed Rio Blanco Water Storage Project, AKA[Read More…]

January 31, 2023 by Niki Turner Comments are Disabled

No, she didn’t shoot the dog.

The real story on a viral social post claiming Congresswoman Boebert shot a neighbor’s pet “I don’t see anything other than this just being an October surprise to think it’s going to sway the vote. But the fact is, she didn’t shoot this woman’s dogs,” said Brady Hogan of Silt,[Read More…]

October 19, 2022 by Lucas Turner Comments are Disabled

2022 Primary Preliminary Election Results

The last round of preliminary results was released after press time Wednesday. No races flipped, and no races are close enough to trigger an automatic recount (by Colorado law, that would be a winning margin of 0.5% or less of total votes cast, or 20 votes.) Doug Overton won the[Read More…]

June 28, 2022 by Caitlin Walker Comments are Disabled

Love wins; recall passes

In the first successful recall campaign in Rio Blanco County in recent memory, Commissioner Gary Moyer, elected in 2018, has been recalled by voters 1,160 to 717, according to unofficial results (note: updated May 11 to reflect new report). The campaign to recall Moyer began more than a year ago,[Read More…]

May 10, 2022 by Niki Turner Comments are Disabled

The Case of the Missing Newspapers

To our print subscribers: if you don’t get your paper in the mail this week it’s because more than half of our print copies went missing this morning from the loading dock behind the Meeker Post Office. We are working with USPS staff to try and track them down, but[Read More…]

February 3, 2022 by Niki Turner Comments are Disabled

Winter storm warning: 4-8 inches of snow and 35 mph wind gusts expected in RBC

The National Weather Service in Grand Junction has issued a Winter Storm Warning in effect from 6 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 9 through 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 10. Locally, four to eight inches is expected, along with wind gusts as high as 35 mph. Travel could be difficult with reduced visibility[Read More…]

December 8, 2021 by Caitlin Walker Comments are Disabled

CDPHE authorizes COVID boosters for all adults; pediatric vaccines now available

Due to Colorado’s high rate of COVID transmission, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has authorized boosters for any adult 18+ in the state, as long as it’s been six months since the initial mRNA series or two months since the initial Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Additionally, pediatric[Read More…]

November 14, 2021 by Caitlin Walker Comments are Disabled

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BLM to remove some Sand Wash wild horses

CRAIG I The Bureau of Land Management has issued a decision to reduce herd numbers within the Sand Wash Basin Herd Management Area to appropriate management levels. The decision allows the BLM to gather wild horses to the low end of the appropriate management level, ranging from 163 to 362,[Read More…]

August 28, 2021 by Special to the Herald Times 1 comment