Dear Editor: An open letter to Joyce Rankin: While I am sure that parents in our community appreciate your comments on school choice, your recent article in the Rio Blanco Herald Times raises several concerns about the distribution of public funds and questions regarding points of fact. There is no[Read More…]

Dear Editor: We the family of Kylen Cole Wilder would like to thank each and every one for the phone call, cards, flowers and prayers for the passing of our son, grandson, brother, uncle, cousin. He will be greatly missed and we are so glad to have had him in[Read More…]

Dear Editor: Dear Meeker, thank you for being such a wonderful and caring community. The several months before Dianne passed away were extremely difficult but your care, well wishes and prayers made the unbearable bearable. We are blessed to have in our community a very caring health care community that[Read More…]

Dear Editor: The 13th annual White River Community Association Buy/Fly Fishing Tournament hosted eight wonderful teams who competed for prizes, enjoyed good food and caught the whitefish needed for the Community Fish Fry this year. We had great weather March 11 and 12, both days of the tournament. Final weigh-in[Read More…]

Dear Editor: By all reasonable standards, it’s more than unusual for a county like ours to collect (borrow) and spend tens of millions of tax dollars in the name of serving the people for such a small rural community as ours (around 8,000+ people). Compared to most counties throughout the[Read More…]

Dear Editor: I have a response to a letter writer in the opinion column a Bob Dorsett, M.D., wrote, All the accusations that Dr. Dorsett made against the president are either false or have been answered or vetted. Apparently Dr. Dorsett is watching a news channel such as MSN (sic)[Read More…]

Dear Editor: While I agree that it is important to seek public input on the Outdoor Adventure Center, a survey such as offered on your website can be misleading. Valid surveys, by the rigorous rules of statistical sampling, must be administered to a sample of people from the community who[Read More…]

Dear Editor: We decided to help kids read and have many reasons why it is important and can be fun for children to read. We wanted to convince people in Meeker to read. We have a flyer for you that has all the reasons why children should read. Reading is[Read More…]

Dear Editor: No matter what our personal political leanings, I think we all agree on the Constitutional foundation of our democracy. It is therefore troubling to see legitimate Constitutional questions dismissed as tests of party loyalty. Actions by the new administration in Washington raise serious concerns. They should not be[Read More…]

Dear Editor: We want to give a big thank you to all the volunteer EMS personnel serving eastern Rio Blanco County, Pioneers Hospital medical staff and the St. Mary’s CareFlight team for the exceptional jobs they do. We know firsthand, because on Jan. 31 one of our own, Darrell Kendall,[Read More…]

Dear Editor: Our family would like to thank all those dedicated people on the ambulance crew who came to our house when Chris broke his hip. They did such a professional job of getting him down our stairs (which any of you who have been to our house know is[Read More…]