RBC | The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) encourages drivers to be aware of snowplow operations as crews are actively working to maintain the roadways. “In the past few weeks, several passenger vehicles have crashed into our plow trucks while they were clearing snow from the roads. All were attempting[Read More…]
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Keeping New Year’s resolutions demands strategic planning
By Bryan Golden Special to the Herald Times RBC | Almost 90 percent of Americans will make at least one New Year’s resolution. Less than 20 percent will succeed in accomplishing even one. The beginning of the year is a great time for life improving resolutions. Common resolutions include losing[Read More…]
Bidding farewell to 2016 and welcoming 2017
RBC | Contentious, tumultuous and full of surprises are all ways to describe 2016. It was “the best of times, and the worst of times.” Here’s a brief glimpse at some of the things that transpired during the last 12 months in Rio Blanco County. – Pioneers Medical Center welcomed[Read More…]
Get fit for half price this year…
All’s well that ends well …
Applicants sought for noxious weed management grants
RBC | The Colorado Department of Agriculture is now accepting applications for 2017 Noxious Weed Management grants. This year, the Department plans to award more than $755,000 in grant funds to organizations and associations for projects that focus on controlling the state’s designated noxious weeds. Of that amount, over $105,000[Read More…]
Shifting focus to helping others in the new year
RBC | 2016 was not my year. I mean, it was better than some people’s—rest in peace Prince, David Bowie, Alan Rickman, Muhammad Ali, Carrie Fisher (Tuesday morning found me screaming at my computer, “NO, NOT PRINCESS LEIA, TOO!”) and so many more—but when the nicest thing you can say[Read More…]
EAST TO WEST …
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A real-life Christmas miracle
MEEKER | Once in a while you are lucky enough to see the real meaning of Christmas. This year was one of those times. There was a mother with three children whose sister fell ill with brain tumors. After several surgeries she had problems with reoccurring strokes and tumors and[Read More…]
Broadband celebration Jan. 3
MEEKER | Rio Blanco County is proud to be the first county in Colorado to provide Google standard service to its residents. Join county officials Jan. 3 at 1 p.m. at the Fairfield Center in Meeker to celebrate RBC’s successful broadband initiative rollout. RSVP to Keely Winger at [email protected] or[Read More…]
Stocking winner …
Editor’s Column: The surreal post-truth year that was 2016
Every year in December the world’s leading lexicographers choose a “word of the year.” Their choice is based on criteria like how many times the word was referenced in the media, or how many times someone searched for its definition. Sometimes the word of the year is a benign word[Read More…]
