By DOLLY VISCARDI Smart watch wearers say that one of the reasons they sport a version of this arm jewelry 24/7 is that the device reminds them to remember to perform some essential daily duties, like waking up. Apparently hitting the phone snooze button one too many times has become[Read More…]
Columns
Guest Column: Camp Hale
By ED PECK WHAT!? I joined the Army to fight the Japanese Imperial Army and you want me to strap two barrel slats on my feet and slide down a snow pile in Colorado?! I want transferred…er, Sir? You may occasionally see a Colorado license plate with the shield of[Read More…]
County Fairs: A Celebration
By REP. MEGHAN LUKENS Whether you are a fan of prize pigs, storytelling quilts, or junior livestock auctions, there is something for everyone at the Northwest Colorado County Fairs. Like the agricultural heritage that our region celebrates, county fairs are central to our modern experience in this part of the[Read More…]
Editor’s Column: What’s Next?
The recent decision by the Rio Blanco County Commissioners and Public Health to stop providing Covid vaccines through the taxpayer-funded public health department has raised valid questions about government overreach, personal freedom, and the right to choose. It’s exactly the same debate we all had (and are apparently going to[Read More…]
Guest Column: Hazen’s Daughters
By ED PECK George Hazen’s daughters did well also in Meeker. Miss Agnes Hazen was teaching at the Mesa School on May 4, 1889. Her sister, Grace Evangeline Hazen Adams, also taught school in Axial about 1892. According to the April 7, 1894, Meeker Herald, Agnes was the assistant principal[Read More…]
Welcome back!
By Dr. Lisa Jones CNCC President I am pleased to welcome our amazing students and faculty back to campus. It is such an exciting time of year. Staff and administrators have been working diligently all summer to prepare for the new year which included overseeing technology, facilities and grounds upgrades. We[Read More…]
Letters from History, No. 9
The White River Museum has a collection of letters that Meeker founding father Thomas Baker kept for many years. There are letters from Nathan Meeker and prominent figures like Chief Ouray, ex-Indian Agents, and the violently anti-Indian Colorado Governor Pitkin, as well as various Army officers from 1874-1879. The letters[Read More…]
EDITOR’S COLUMN: Happy Birthday, HT!
“By the absence of an irreverent press, Europe for a thousand years has existed merely for the advantage of half a dozen seventh-rate families called Monarchs, and some hundreds of riffraff sarcastically called Nobles. Our papers have one peculiarity — it is American — it exists nowhere else — their[Read More…]
LOOSE ENDS: Winding Down
The full bloom of summer is over, as the the summer’s annual festivities and celebrations end. Officially summer is not over but once the fair finishes and the school year starts, it feels done. Barbecues, musical gatherings, and special parties wind down, yet the taste of summer lingers for quite[Read More…]
Our Founding Fathers: Part One
No, not George Washington, our first President, but George S. Hazen, one of Meeker’s founding fathers. One of our earliest settlers and owners of the Meeker Town Company. Our George may not have been as colorful as Washington. I do not know if he owned any wooden false teeth or[Read More…]
Editor’s Column: Common knowledge is not so common
A broad definition of “common knowledge” is information an average, educated person can accept as reliable and accurate without having to verify it. However, what we individually consider “common” is often completely unfamiliar to those outside our individual sphere of experience and understanding. In the workplace, for example, common knowledge[Read More…]
Guest Column: Legislative action on wildfire
By Dylan Roberts | State Senate District 8 Even after a winter with substantial snowfall and a spring and early summer full of considerable rain and cooler temperatures, we now enter August and the Fall with drier conditions and an increasing risk of wildfire. As of this writing, several fires[Read More…]
