Dear Editor: This is a very difficult time for all of us. We are saddened by the passing of Sally Carter Brown during Christmas Day. Your presence before, during and after the funeral services helped to lighten our burden. We were grateful to enjoy your company and hear your lovely[Read More…]
Opinion
Guest Editorial: Across the Street – A new year for state board of education
By Joyce Rankin Special to the Herald Times RBC | Happy new year and what a year it is shaping up to be. While President elect Trump is poised to take office this month, and we expect changes, there are big things close to home that are beginning to unfold[Read More…]
Letter: Appreciation for the self defense course
Dear Editor: Hats off to Kevin Amack and State Farm for sponsoring the women’s self defense course last week. It was a remarkable class, thank you for offering it to the ladies in our community! Sincerely, Suzan Pelloni Meeker
Guest Editorial: School choice week is about making a choice
RBC | This week brings the annual celebration of National School Choice Week, a week in which we are all reminded that no matter your family’s desires and needs—homeschool, private, public or charter school—we are each, as parents, gloriously entitled to make that choice for our own families. While Rio[Read More…]
Editor’s Column: Pioneering
We pride ourselves in this part of the country on our pioneering spirit. Many of us can trace our family heritage back to well before Colorado became a state in 1876, and some of us even before it was officially a territory. We’re familiar with the term “pioneer” as someone[Read More…]
Stuttering help is available
Dear Editor: For many people, ringing in the New Year brings hope and joyful anticipation. But for those who struggle with stuttering, the old fears of speaking and being teased remain the same—year after year. Many of your readers don’t know that help for stuttering is available from so many[Read More…]
Uncertainty and opportunity in 2017
By REP. Bob Rankin State House District 57 Special to the Herald Times RBC | I’m having a hard time getting my mind around the fact that it’s 2017 and the start of my fifth session in the Colorado House of Representatives. Thank you for the opportunity. It looks like[Read More…]
Pleased with new commissioners
Dear Editor: Mr. Woodruff and Mr. Rector, I am so pleased to see both of you as our new county commissioners. Perhaps you can teach young Mr. Bolton that when someone in this county is elected to an office, their actions should be in accordance with what the people who[Read More…]
Thank you to Suzie’s hero
Dear Editor: This is to give a huge thank you to Deputy Pena. My dog, Suzie, went through the ice into the river yesterday. Deputy Pena responded to my 911 call quickly. He was able to get across the ice and pull her out. I can’t thank him enough. He[Read More…]
‘The Chosin Few’ of the Korean War
By Wes Eubanks Meeker VFW RBC | By mid-1950 after the successful landing at Inchon by the U.S. X Corps and the subsequent destruction of the Korean People’s Army, the Korean War appeared to be all but over. United Nations (U.N.) forces advanced rapidly into North Korea with the intention[Read More…]
Editor’s Column: The five rights of the First Amendment
The media has gotten a bad rap lately (sometimes rightfully so), but while we rant and rail against whichever media outlet rubs our personal confirmation bias the wrong way, we need to keep some very important facts in mind. 1. We only have the right to rant and rail about[Read More…]
Meeker schools receive high score
By Chris Selle Special to the Herald Times MEEKER I The purpose for which schools exist is to help students learn. Given this truth, how do we determine the level of student learning occurring in the Meeker School District? Student learning cannot be simply reduced to a singular number or[Read More…]