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…]
Opinion
Editor’s Column: Those Pesky Legal Notices
Some papers call them public notices. We call them legal notices. They’re in the classifieds section, before the stuff like what’s for rent and who’s having a yard sale this weekend. Most of us ignore the legal notices, because they tend to be written in legalese. (I’m dating myself here,[Read More…]
Guest Editorial: Under the Dome: It’s all about taxes and spending
By Bob Rankin Special to the Herald Times RBC | The hot issues at the state capitol this session seem to all be about taxes and spending. Or maybe my perspective is skewed by being a member of the Joint Budget Committee with the constitutional responsibility of balancing the budget[Read More…]
Guest Editorial: Across the Street: School choice
By Joyce Rankin Special to the Herald Times RBC | School choice is a term for K-12 public education options describing a wide array of programs offering students and their families’ alternatives to those publicly provided schools assigned based on the location of their family residence. Two popular school choices[Read More…]
Letter: Thank you to the Meeker community
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…]
Letter: 2017 WRCA Buy/Fly Tournament
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…]
Editor’s Column: It’s adventure time! But please wear your seatbelt
In case you haven’t heard, we’re changing the “branding” of our annual spring/summer magazine, formerly known as the Northwest Colorado Summer Recreation Guide. The new magazine is titled Adventure Colorado and will be published twice a year. Why, you might ask, would we go to the trouble of creating a[Read More…]
Letter: ‘Oversized’ local government may be hurting our economy
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…]
Editor’s Column: In support of open records
It’s spring. Oh, not on the calendar quite yet, but I know it’s spring because I have bug bites. I raked my flower beds last weekend and came inside with a dozen or so tiny yet interminably itchy bug bites. Trust me, when the first mosquito hatches this year, it[Read More…]
If it doesn’t come out in the wash it will probably come out in print
By Pat Turner [email protected] RBC | I’ve learned that when you work at the newspaper a lot of extra information comes your way. We try and keep conflicts “under the radar” and hope the powers that be will work them out. But when it comes to information that affects the[Read More…]
Letter: Accusations about Trump are false
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…]
Letter: Unscientific survey may be misleading
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…]