If you are getting our multiple award-winning weekly newsletter (if you’re not, you should be), you got a peek last week at what goes on in the minds of your local journalists when they bring home a handful of awards from the Colorado Press Association convention: “existential crisis.” So why[Read More…]
Columns
Loose Ends: Collaborative efforts
“We never have done it that way before” is the go-to reaction in a well-established community when someone tries to bring change. That often puts a halt to any efforts to collaborate. Negativity continues to seep deep below the surface. One continues to hear complaints that things have not gotten[Read More…]
History Lessons: The Water Street pool
What better place to build a swimming pool than on Water Street? Meeker’s first pools were natural hot water pools outside town. Our first pool in town was located at Third and Water Street. According to the Herald issue of Aug. 11, 2012, it was built in 1957 where the[Read More…]
Museum Musings: Letters from History, No. 17
Special to the Herald Times White River Agency, Colorado January 13, 1879 Sir: I beg leave to call your attention to the fact that if I should succeed, as I think I certainly shall, in getting the Indians to engage in agriculture, and by this means more and more keep[Read More…]
Editor’s Column: When in Doubt…
“When in doubt, tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.” ~ Mark Twain Remember the old TV show “Candid Camera,” where people were set up for foolish tricks and pranks and filmed without knowing it? With the proliferation of security cameras — homes, doorbells, malls,[Read More…]
Guest Column: The first agency
This June a new sign was placed along RBC County Road 8. If you are traveling east toward Buford and Trappers Lake you will pass right by it. Look for it just past the 6-mile marker on the right-hand side. It is worth the time. The sign is a culmination[Read More…]
Editors Column: Assume Positive Intent
“Everyone is doing the best they can. When they can do better, they will.” Dr. Lee Gibson I’d like you to try an imagination exercise. Think about the person in your life who causes you the most resentment, frustration and disappointment. You might think they’re lazy, sloppy, careless, mean, foolish,[Read More…]
A positive approach to birthdays
“You are really getting up there” is the kind of comment no one really wants to hear, unless you are still a child eagerly awaiting the next birthday. As long as it is said as a joke, it is accepted as a well-meant reminder. Children and adults alike learn quickly[Read More…]
Museum Musings: Letters from History, No 15
Editor’s Note: For those of you who are keeping track of this series, we inadvertently skipped a week in numbering. There was no No. 10. Our apologies for the confusion. White River Agency, Colorado. Jan. 6, 1879. Sir: I am convinced that, with the working teams on hand, I shall[Read More…]
Guest Column: Sweet Sisters
Headline in the Steamboat Pilot May 22, 1947: RANGELY OFFICER WANTS LARGE SUM FOR ALLEGED LIBEL. Town Marshal John Howlett alleged in the complaint that an article published in the Rangely News was libelous and “brought great shame, humiliation and mortification to the plaintiff.” The article in question was published[Read More…]
Editor’s Column: Classic pride
“Paralyze resistance with persistence.” ~ Woody Hayes Standing in line at Jammin’ Lamb Fest with hundreds of hungry Meeker Classic attendees, with my cardboard meal tray and paper napkin in hand, I eavesdropped on the conversations of those nearby. They laughed and chatted about the town, about who made the[Read More…]
Guest Column: Lost
By ED PECK All who wander are not lost. Except guys. We get lost, we are not just wandering. Of course, we claim we are taking “the scenic route,” but we are lost. Part of the creed written on the back of our “Man Card” says, “Never Stop and Ask[Read More…]
