By Tory Lasker Special to the Herald Times MEEKER | The White River Electric Association (WREA) is a rural electric distribution cooperative serving eastern Rio Blanco County, southern Moffat and northern Garfield Counties. Not only does the association ensure that members receive safe and reliable electric service in their homes and[Read More…]
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Firefighters plan prescribed burn west of Meeker
MEEKER | Fire managers from the Northwest Colorado Fire Management Unit are planning to ignite the 313-acre Pinto Gulch Prescribed Fire 32 miles west of Meeker in the next several weeks if weather and air quality conditions are favorable. The burn is planned in sagebrush, pinyon pine, and juniper near the[Read More…]
Meeker school board votes 6-1 to hire bonding help
MEEKER | The Meeker Board of Education held a special meeting Monday night to discuss the presentation from the George K. Baum & Company’s Denver office the board had at their work session last week. This presentation—focused on the investment banking firm’s ability to help the Meeker School District achieve success[Read More…]
Robotics …
Rhiwan Williams and Drew Drake from Kirstie Strate’s fifth-grade class demonstrated their robotic project Friday at Meeker Elementary School. Fellow team member Haley Rippy, from Keri Grieser’s class, is not pictured. The robotics project, taught by Ann Bailey, takes 45 minutes a week for eight weeks to teach coding to[Read More…]
Meeker residents encouraged to attend historic district presentation March 20
MEEKER | Meeker National Register Historic District (MNHD) consultant Carl McWilliams, owner of Cultural Resource Historians, will provide a public presentation on the designation on Tuesday, March 20 at 7 p.m. at Meeker Town Hall. All are welcome and encouraged to attend to learn about the economic development, tax credit and[Read More…]
Fireman’s Ball …
Meeker Fire & Rescue celebrated 85 years of service to the community at the annual banquet Saturday, March 10 at the Fairfield Center. Among the awards presented by Fire Chief Terry Skidmore and Assistant Fire Chief Vaughn Moody were Officer of the year to Luke Pelloni (left), Firefighter of the[Read More…]
Walbridge Wing receives customer service award
MEEKER | The Walbridge Wing at Pioneers Medical Center is the recipient of the 2018 Pinnacle Customer Experience Award™ for nine areas of service and care. Pinnacle Quality Insight is a business to business organization offering phone-based customer satisfaction interviews for senior and long-term care facilities. As a well-established third party,[Read More…]
New ambulance for Meeker Fire
MEEKER | The Rio Blanco Fire Protection District has a new ambulance. The state-of-the-art 2017 vehicle includes a powered stretcher that can be loaded and unloaded at the push of a button, improving patient comfort and safety while protecting the well-being of first responders. The vehicle has four-point safety harnesses for[Read More…]
UPDATED: Fatal crash on Hwy. 13 south of Meeker
The following official press release from the Colorado State Patrol was released late Friday night: On Friday, March 16, at approximately 10:14 a.m., local emergency personnel were dispatched to a three-vehicle crash on Colorado Highway 13 near milepost 35, approximately five miles south of Meeker. A gray 2011 Dodge Caliber[Read More…]
Meeker FFA uses spirit week to teach others about the program
By ALLIE WILLEY Special to the Herald Times MEEKER | The FFA program held an FFA spirit week for the school during the week of Feb. 19-22. Every day students had to dress as something different, and there was an event every day as well. Monday was pun day, and everyone[Read More…]
Seuss Celebration …
March 2 was the birthday of Theodor Seuss Geisel, otherwise known as Dr. Seuss. He was born in 1904 and died in 1991. In celebration of Dr. Seuss’ birthday last week, readers’ theater productions by Kathleen Kelley’s Meeker High School speech class were presented to students at the Meeker Elementary[Read More…]
Meeker PD Report: February 2018
– A Meeker man is out about $10,000 on a scam starting with a caller wanting to reduce interest on victim’s credit cards. – A Meeker woman is out $300 on an IRS scam. Caller threatened her arrest if she did not pay. Woman was asked to purchase Apple cards from[Read More…]
