COURTESY PHOTOS About 50 individuals took part in the annual Youth Fishing Day, held this year at Lake Avery in Meeker. Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) and the Lions Club helped host this event along with the Eastern Rio Blanco Metropolitan Recreation and Park District.
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Get your Range Call wristbands now
By PAIGE JONES Special to the Herald Times MEEKER | The Fourth of July is a busy time of year for Meeker. Bringing in new and old faces to its festivities, Meeker Range Call provides an old-fashioned good time. This year’s Range Call Events start Tuesday, July 3 and end Saturday,[Read More…]
Paranormal, creepy, just plain weird?
MEEKER | You’ve seen them on the Travel Channel. They’ve recently been to Montrose, Cripple Creek and other Colorado locations. Now Zak, Nick and Aaron of “Ghost Adventures” are coming to Meeker, and they need your help. When Hotchkiss Paranormal Investigators visited Meeker this spring, they encountered enough paranormal activity to warrant[Read More…]
Still no railroad, but Colowyo expansion extends life of mine
MEEKER | A century ago in the Meeker Herald, editor and publisher James Lyttle wrote, “Some of our citizens who put ‘this and that’ together and then drew satisfying conclusions, are of the decided opinion that the recent sale of the famous Collom coal mine property at Axial means a railroad[Read More…]
Meeker Summer Rodeo Series Results: June 7
For more photos of this event, check out https://rioblancoheraldtimes.smugmug.com/Meeker-Summer-Rodeo-Series-June-7-2018 MEEKER | The first rodeo in the summer series provided plenty of thrills and spills. Below are results. The series continues Thursday, June 14 at 7 p.m. Ladies Breakaway (place, name, time) 1, Deena Norell, 3.6 2, Paula Cooper, 6.5 #8 Header (place,[Read More…]
BMS GOES TO WASHINGTON …
Barone Middle School eighth-graders met with Meeker alumnus Sam Love, who works for Colorado Senator Cory Gardner, during their trip to Washington, D.C. KRIS CASEY PHOTO
HOLE-Y MOLY …
Contractor Terry Goedert has been fielding plenty of public questions about his current project for the county. The site on the corner of the courthouse square at Sixth and Main will be the location of the three engineered fiberglass climbing rocks the county is installing. Goedert said public reaction has[Read More…]
More mosquitoes? To be determined.
MEEKER | It could be a buggier summer than usual. Or not. Local pilot Lanny Coulter has reportedly told Mayor Regas Halandras he won’t spray for the town this year following public debate about aerial spraying. If the aerial spraying doesn’t take place—as it has for more than 45 years—will Meeker[Read More…]
RIBBON CUTTING …
Alex Plumb of Alpine West Properties, Meeker’s newest realty, cut the ribbon Friday at his new office with help from the Meeker Chamber of Commerce. Alpine West opened in March 2018. The new office at 643 Main St., (former location of Meeker Realty) will be open Monday through Friday from[Read More…]
Youth fishing day June 9
By TIFFANY JEHOREK Special to the Herald Times MEEKER | The annual Youth Fishing Day is this Saturday, June 9 at its new location, Lake Avery. This event is free and open to all youth 18 years and under, no pre-registration is required. Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) in partnership with[Read More…]
OFFICIALLY HISTORIC …
After three years of work by local community members, Meeker’s National Register Historic District is officially listed on the United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Register of Historic Places as of April 13, 2018. COURTESY PHOTO
AIR FORCE GRAD …
Meeker High School 2013 graduate, Kaitlyn Dinwiddie, graduated last week with a degree in geospatial science from the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant. Beginning in July, she will serve as a military trainer in the Air Force Academy Prep School until[Read More…]
