• A suspect placed in custody at the Rio Blanco County Jail was charged with robbing Mountain Valley Bank at Fourth and Main Streets in Meeker, according to the Meeker Police Department. The suspect was seen leaving the bank on foot. Meeker police officers, Rio Blanco County Sheriff’s Department officers[Read More…]
Features
2012 Year in Review – Part 3
• Neil Joy listened while his best friend’s mother, father, sister-in-law and district attorney spoke. Then he heard his counselor, a friend, his brother, his wife and his attorney speak on his behalf. Finally, Joy spoke for himself before Judge Denise Lynch sentenced him to three years of confinement in[Read More…]
2012 Year in Review – Part 2
• Snowmobilers gathered at the Lost Creek trailhead for the first annual “I Ride With James” benefit poker run. Funds raised by the 113 riders and 133 poker hands played go toward the James Sizemore Memorial Scholarship fund. Monies are used for a local scholarship and to assist RBC Search[Read More…]
100 years…
Holy Family Catholic Church in Meeker will celebrate being built 100 years ago, Sunday, Dec. 30 with mass at 9 a.m., followed by brunch at the Fairfield Center for all Holy Family parishioners.
Saying goodbye to 2012 – Year in Review – Part 1
RBC I With a struggling economy, severe drought and fires, and one of the most contentious national elections in memory, 2012 wasn’t an easy year. Residents of Rio Blanco County, Rangely and Meeker came together in times of celebration and sorrow to support one another and the continued growth and[Read More…]
Signature events are highlights of Christmasfest
RANGELY I Though the event went off well as a whole, there were definite highlights at this year’s Christmasfest, according to organizer and WRBM aquatics/recreation director Camilla Kennedy. “I think it went pretty well,” Kennedy said. “The Parade (of Lights) was beautiful this year. We had tons of kids in[Read More…]
Meeker’s fastest 100-yard dash
—Harold Ball’s record still stands 67 years later— MEEKER I From the record-setting 100-yard dash in 1945 to his extensive family history in the area, Harold Ball’s story is an interesting one. He ran a 10.1 second 100-yard dash in Rifle his senior year. He was unsure about the composition[Read More…]
RDH hosts grand opening of new hospital building
RANGELY I The new Rangely District Hospital building’s grand opening brought hundreds of people through the doors for the first time on Friday.
Kindermusik is a unique offering
RANGELY I When Brooke Lohse left Grand Junction a year ago to move back to Rangely with her husband Charlie, one of the things she missed most were Kindermusik classes for her son Cutler. The classes gave him a love for music and rhythm and connected him with Lohse and[Read More…]
Living in the now: Jean Welder
MEEKER I “Live your life well, and if you can help someone, help them.” Simple words that mean so much, and that exemplify Jean Welder’s philosophy on life as a schoolteacher in four different states at all different levels, and as a yoga instructor for four decades.
“Crumpled Classics”…
Hundreds turned out to see the first Rangely High School drama production in six years, Craig Sodaro’s “Crumpled Classics,” Monday and Tuesday.
Teaching runs in the family
MEEKER I “That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes to it matter of enjoyment within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity then all the provisions which we can make of[Read More…]
