By JULIE DRAKE RBC Director of Public Health RBC | Parenting is hard. It’s confusing and downright exhausting sometimes. Especially the job of cutting the apron strings and allowing teens to try things on their own, allowing them to fail and encouraging them to learn. We all have different approaches[Read More…]
Opinion
Editor’s Column: Pollen stole my muse
Judging others by a different standard than we judge ourselves is how hypocrisy is born. I think about the elected and appointed officials who take office espousing a particular ideology or purpose, only to turn around and do exactly the same thing they complained about in their campaigns. Or the[Read More…]
Dare to be different {OPED}
RBC | Our society runs on appearances. Follow the yellow brick road of conformity to a magical land of acceptance, and your life will be gumdrops and lollipops. Cue the flying monkeys. Whether it’s a specific body weight or shape, a set of interests, religious beliefs or how we wear[Read More…]
Letter: Stuttering awareness
Dear Editor: National Stuttering Awareness Week begins May 7, 2018. Did you know more than three million Americans stutter? That’s more than the populations of Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, and Washington, DC…combined. One percent of your readers stutter, and up to five percent of children stutter for a time[Read More…]
Letter: Goddard family appreciates support
Dear Editor: The family of Phyllis Goddard wish to extend our deepest appreciation for the support shown after the passing of our mother, Phyllis. Special thanks to David Morton and everyone from the First Baptist Church. Greg Goddard and Family Rangely
A heads up for local veterans (OPED)
By WES EUBANKS Meeker VFW & American Legion RBC | This is a heads up for veterans, family members, friends and caregivers. There are some bad people out there, always has been. Some of these folks are after your home. Unsolicited offers (fantastic deals) to refinance your home/lower monthly payments/access[Read More…]
Letter: Wilhelm vows to increase teacher pay
Dear Editor: Teachers in Colorado are criminally underpaid and underfunded. Depending on the metric used we are either 46th or 47th in teacher pay. Also teachers spend on average about $650.00 of their own money on their classrooms each year. We all know teaching is a hard profession and that[Read More…]
There is no ‘away,’ but there is Western Slope recycling (OPED)
By NICOLETTE TOUSSAINT Special to the Herald Times RBC | Our handyman, Tim, warned us we’d have to pay a fee when he took our defunct microwave away. That worried me, because environmentally, there’s no such place as “away”. The earth is a closed loop system, so mankind’s junk isn’t[Read More…]
Letter: Thanks to Bank of the San Juans and PTO
Dear Editor: I would like to once again recognize the Bank of the San Juans and the Parkview PTO for their financial assistance with both the 2018 science fair and the treasure hunting for Parkview students this year. Because of the generosity shown by the folks in these organizations Rangely[Read More…]
Letter: Strates appreciate community support during health crises
Dear Editor: Words cannot express our appreciation for this community. With Chris’s recent health crises our emergency response members have literally been life savers. They do their jobs so expertly and with such compassion and caring. Our community is so blessed to have the staff at Pioneers Hospital. We have[Read More…]
{Editor’s Column} Democracy: Participation required
First off, congratulations to the newly elected members and reelected incumbents of the fire district board, the rec center board and the hospital board. Voter turnout for this combined special district election was higher than the voter turnout for the town election in April. That’s excellent news, and hopefully a[Read More…]
Letter: Can a woman win the third congressional district?
Dear Editor: This question maybe would have been relevant in the 1950s, or perhaps even in the 1960s. But with powerfully able women leaders as Ambassadors to the UN, as Justices of the United States Supreme Court, as governors and U.S. Senators, as business heads—it is a question of yesteryear.[Read More…]