Kyle Stewart—Metal Artist and Welder, Stewart Welding RANGELY | Kyle Stewart graduated from Rangely High School in 2007. Growing up around metal (his family has owned a Stewart’s Welding shop for decades) he developed a desire to not just work with metal, but make it art, eventually becoming an award[Read More…]
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“A good time was had by all.”
MEEKER | The statement, “A good time was had by all,” ended many a Meeker Herald report about the annual Oldtimers’ Reunion and Dance. Even though it’s a biased assumption made by the writer—who has no way of knowing if everyone attending had a good time—it must be mostly true. After[Read More…]
Homegrown Entrepreneurs: Ryan Huitt
Ryan Huitt—Owner, Wildlife Expressions RANGELY | Ryan Huitt is truly a Rangely native, spending his entire childhood locally and graduating from Rangely High School in 2007. As a lover of the outdoors he found Rangely an ideal place to live and chose to build his family and business, Wildlife Expressions[Read More…]
Sweet treats return to Meeker
MEEKER | At long last, Meeker has a bakery again, and residents have been very receptive. “The support from the community has been overwhelming. We’ve been so busy,” said Janice Millar. The White River Bakery, owned and operated by Millar and Mike McPherson, opened at the end of March in[Read More…]
Wild Bunch: New Rangely business offers outdoor recreation fun
Rangely’s new and aptly named Wild Bunch Consortium is preparing for a grand opening celebration Friday, May 25. The rental and retail shop owned by Dan and Bobbie Fiscus aims to serve those interested in a variety of outdoor recreation activities available locally, a sector of the economy that they[Read More…]
Meeker School Board accepts BEST rejection, moves on
FCCLA Successes Before getting down to business Monday, the Meeker Board of Education celebrated some student successes. There to describe their endeavors were Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) state award winners Kolbi Franklin, Kirsten Brown and Jacob Slone. All three are headed to the FCCLA nationals in[Read More…]
Buffalo Horn, BLM try for land exchange again
RBC | More than 50 people, primarily landowners and outdoorsmen, shared their concerns about the initial draft of a proposed land exchange between Buffalo Horn Properties, Inc., and the Bureau of Land Management in 2017. Their comments, almost entirely in opposition to the exchange, prompted BLM to revise the proposal,[Read More…]
Prescribed burn serves dual purpose
By Doc Watson Special to the Herald Times MEEKER | In a joint effort of the U.S. Forest Service and other agencies, there was a “prescribed burn” of some 500-plus acres in the Miller Creek area on May 9, utilizing state-of-the-art equipment, for the two-fold purpose of minimizing fuel in[Read More…]
County Beat: May 17, 2018
Deputy accepted to FBI academy Rio Blanco County Sheriff’s Deputy Lt. Jeremy Muxlow has been accepted to the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Va., for a 10-week training program this summer. He’ll be the first RBC law enforcement officer to attend the program since the 1970s, when former Sheriff Bob[Read More…]
Independent? Unaffiliated? You can now vote in primary elections
RBC | Thanks to Proposition 108, unaffiliated, active voters can participate in the Colorado primary election for the first time this year. According to voter registration statistics from the Colorado Secretary of State’s office, there are 819 active unaffiliated voters in Rio Blanco County as of May 1. Those votes[Read More…]
New volunteer group helps mustangs thrive in NW Colo.
By Amy Hadden Marsh Special to the Herald Times RBC | Piceance Mustangs is not just the name of a wild horse herd in northwest Colorado. It’s also the name of a new outfit that’s helping the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) do a better job taking care of that[Read More…]
Homegrown entrepreneurs: Katelyn Carlson
RANGELY | The long-term survival of any small town often hinges on the desire of young people who were raised in the community choosing to either return to or stay in their town, finding a way to make a living and contribute to the community. Over the next few weeks[Read More…]
