The concert downtown drew quite a crowd from every age group Friday night. Watch for the next free summer concert in this year’s series soon! With the economy what it is, and folks struggling to make ends meet across the country, does the NFL players’ strike seem a little absurd?[Read More…]
Meeker
Watch for elk on Highway 13
RBC I Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers are warning motorists on State Highway 13 south of Meeker to be especially watchful for large numbers of elk congregating on a five- or six-mile stretch of road around mile marker 26.
ERBM community day July 23
MEEKER | The Eastern Rio Blanco Metropolitan Recreation and Park District invites everyone to come out and celebrate Community Appreciation Day this Saturday, July 23, from 10 a.m. until dusk.
Letter to the Editor: Meeker Lions Club thanks volunteers
Dear Editor: Meeker Lions Club would like to thank everyone who volunteered to help all the clubs,and community organizations to make a successful Fourth of July weekend.
Wrestling camp…
More than two dozen wrestlers from Meeker and Rangely attended a camp giving by three-time all-American Joe LeBlanc last Friday at Meeker Elementary School.
Letter to the Editor: Help our own country
Dear Editor: Someone please tell me what the hell’s wrong with all the people that run this country! Both republicans and democrats! We’re “broke” and can’t help our own seniors, veterans, orphans, homeless etc.?
RIO BLANCO COUNTY DAYS GONE BY
The Meeker Herald — 125 years ago Meeker began celebrating on the third and kept it up until late on the night of the fifth. Early Saturday morning people began coming in and by noon all sections were represented. On the morning of the July 3, pony racing was indulged[Read More…]
Obituary: Ira (Pat) (Buddy) Clifton Johnson, Dec. 4, 1921 ~ June 28, 2011
Ira (Pat) (Buddy) Clifton Johnson, 89, of Piceance Creek in Rio Blanco County, Colo., passed away June 28, 2011, at Pioneers Hospital in Meeker, Colo.
Letter to the Editor: Thanks to Range Call volunteers
Dear Editor: I would personally like to thank the community of Meeker and all of our wonderful volunteers who helped make this year’s downtown Range Call celebration a huge success!
Letter to the Editor: Student thanks host families
Dear Editor: My name is Maxime van Dijk, I’ve been one of the foreign exchange students this past school year in MHS. I graduated with the senior class of 2011. I would like to thank everybody in Meeker for their great hospitality. It’s been an amazing year with lots and[Read More…]
Loose Ends: Namesakes
There are plenty of small towns whose namesake dates back to the town’s origin, passed down from the pioneer settlers and their descendants. A small town in Alabama sports an unusual twist to that tradition. Phil Campbell, Ala., bears both the first and last name of a local pioneer.
Letter to the Editor: Yellow Jacket district responds
Dear Editor: To the constituents of the Yellow Jacket Water Conservancy District: As previously reported, Judge Michael O’Hara of the Division 6 Water Court in Steamboat Springs granted certain upriver landowners and Western Resource Advocates (a Boulder-based environmental group) motion for summary judgment to dismiss several of the district’s historical[Read More…]
