MEEKER I Brock Campbell, who was recently graduated from Meeker High School, recorded a hole-in-one Monday. “I was really excited,” Campbell said of the feat, witnessed by his dad, Brad Campbell. Campbell, who has been golfing since he was 6, said he used a pitching wedge on the par 3,[Read More…]
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Huey ‘at home’ as PMC’s interim CEO
MEEKER I Ken Huey doesn’t know how long he’ll be the interim chief executive officer at Pioneers Medical Center. But, however long it turns out to be, one thing is for sure: He feels at home. “From a CEO standpoint, I’ve quickly felt this is my hospital,” Huey said. “It’s[Read More…]
Cause of ‘cloudy’ water is undetermined
MEEKER I The recent boil order for all users of Meeker’s town water supply was the result of the discovery of “cloudy water” in certain parts of town. Public Works Superintendent Russell Overton explained his department’s decision to issue the boil order at the June 2 Board of Trustees meeting[Read More…]
Letter: Democratic Party looks to the future
My odyssey started back in January when I attended the Democratic precinct caucus. By the end of March, through the county caucus and county assembly, I had volunteered to be a delegate at the Democratic State Assembly. The assembly, held in Broomfield on May 22, proved to be both an[Read More…]
Ladies Deerfly results:
MEEKER I More than 40 ladies competed in the annual Ladies Deerfly tournament, hosted by the Meeker Ladies Club at the Meeker Golf Course last Saturday. The annual two-lady scramble featured 21 teams from courses around the Western Slope, divided into two flights.
Groups partner to clean up County Road 5
Natural gas operators, area contractors and county agencies will partner with numerous Rio Blanco County service organizations to conduct the fourth annual trash removal project along County Road 5 this Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon.
Groups partner to clean up County Road 5
Natural gas operators, area contractors and county agencies will partner with numerous Rio Blanco County service organizations to conduct the fourth annual trash removal project along County Road 5 this Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon.
Letter: Tea Party represents old-fashioned values
I read with interest the letter from Mr. Kuhn printed in the May paper. I understand how Mr. Kuhn might feel confused. I believe that these are confusing times, and there are certainly quite a few circumstances that I don’t understand. I personally don’t understand how those who came to[Read More…]
Rio Blanco County 4-H Club News
RANGELY | The 4-H Makin’ Bacon Pig Club has been off to a good start this year. We started off the year with a visit to a pig farm in Craig. We have been planning fun things for the summer and deciding what we will do for our demonstrations.
Andy Goettel: From teacher to artist
Goettel’s retirement at MHS means he can devote full time to pottery MEEKER | Meeker students celebrated the last day of school May 27. But at the same time, the end of this school year marked the end of an era, as Andy Goettel, longtime art teacher at Meeker High[Read More…]
Smith gets State Department scholarship
MEEKER I Jerod Smith of the University of Wyoming has been awarded a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study Russian in Kazan, Russia, during the summer. He is among the 575 U.S. undergraduate and graduate students awarded by the U.S. Department of State’s CLS Program to[Read More…]
CNCC Community Education classes in June
MEEKER I There are a few CNCC Community Education classes starting this month: digital photography, June 19; oil painting, June 12-13; traveler’s Spanish, June 30-Aug. 18; scrapbooking with Cricut, July 8-29.
