Today is the official first day of winter, the December solstice.
Meeker
Letter to the Editor: Thank you for excellent care at PMC
Dear Editor: I would like to express my sincere appreciation to the Pioneers Medical staff for the excellent care I received during my recent extended hospital stay.
Loose Ends: Gift wrapping time
More. More. More … It’s not money everyone finds themselves short of this holiday season, it’s time.
Meeker Range Call: Rejuvenating a tradition
MEEKER I Following the 2011 event, the Range Call committee feared that our 126-year-old celebration would be diluted to merely a parade.
Home of: Sandy Shimko
MEEKER | Sandy Shimko of Meeker is this week’s “home of” honoree.
New arrival: Tiernan Houser
Tyler and Kristen Houser of San Antonio, Texas, welcomed Tiernan Vern Houser Oct. 8, 2011. He weighed 7 pounds and was 20 inches long.
Blessed in the giving
MEEKER I “I love everything about it, helping families and knowing what we are doing is good,” Patti Arrington said about the Giving Tree project she helps spearhead.
Letter to the Editor: Return to sender
Dear Editor: You don’t know me, but I’m the little birthday card that got lost. I was mailed here in Meeker to a 90-year-old lady who has lived here all of her life.
Letters open a window in time for son of WWII pilot
MEEKER I The box that came to Sandy Munro a few months after his mother passed away in 2007, was a virtual time machine into the past. The love story that emerged from the correspondence between Munro’s father and mother is now available as a book titled, “Finding Uri,” published[Read More…]
Days Gone By
The Meeker Herald — 100 years ago – If Theodore Roosevelt doesn’t want to run for president, why does he keep insisting so often and so publicly that he doesn’t? – From the Yampa Leader: “Occasionally one will hear the remark, ‘I wish I was out of this town!’ and[Read More…]
RBC proud to furnish Capitol Christmas Tree tree
RBC I Rio Blanco County commissioner Kai Turner joined Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, Under Secretary of Agriculture Harris Sherman, and representatives from the U.S. Forest Service last Friday in Denver for the official announcement that the 2012 Capitol Christmas Tree will be provided by the White River National Forest. RBC[Read More…]
Sharing the lights …
The recent full moon illuminated the top of one of the Christmas trees on the courthouse lawn at the PMC tree lighting ceremony Wednesday, Dec. 7.
