Dear Editor: We want to express our appreciation for the $50 gift certificate as the Week No. 4 winner over the holidays. We are grateful for the generosity of the businesses in Rio Blanco County like White River Market, which helped make this possible. We like to see our money[Read More…]
Opinion
Letter to the Editor: Poker run a success
Dear Editor: The Sizemore family would like to express its heartfelt thanks to this great community and friends for the continued support of the “I Ride With James” Poker Run.
Letter to the Editor: Something can be done with wild horses
Dear Editor: In response to the gathering of wild horses in the Western states. All animals, domestic or wild, have to be controlled in numbers that match the feed they consume or they will all starve to death.
Letter to the Editor: Not happy with reporting on school issues
Dear Editor: As an educator in the Meeker School District, I have been incredibly disappointed in the seemingly skewed reporting about the district for the past year. Once again I was dismayed with last week’s report about the school board’s public forum held Feb. 3.
From My Window: Meeker’s old IOOF Lodge also on National Register; the poker is missing
Through my now-clear window, I see that I made a bit of a mistake these last two weeks while writing about a portion of downtown Meeker that has been targeted for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places. In the two-part series I wrote, I included the “incorrect” facts[Read More…]
Letter to the Editor: Comments on wild horse gathering
Dear Editor: On the front page of the Feb. 5 Herald Times, I read a press release by the local BLM requesting comments on local wild horse gathers. Comments were to be submitted prior to Feb. 14 and cannot be kept private by the BLM. My comments will not make[Read More…]
One Man’s Opinion: Bad facts cloud reality about fracking
RBC I The American Southwest is undergoing a spike in seismic activity. A new U.S. Geological Survey shows that a small basin on the New Mexico-Colorado border experienced 20 times more serious earthquakes between 2001 and 2011 than it had during the previous 30 years.
From My Window: Two events offer sense of community during long winter
The visibility has been darned clear for the past weeks, interrupted briefly on Sunday as snow fell intermittently high on County Road 8 during the annual “I Ride With James” Poker and Snowmobile Run. It was too darned clear on the way up to Lost Creek Trailhead, about a mile[Read More…]
Guest Opinion: Not all food stamp recipients are drug abusers or lazy deadbeats
RBC | I am my father’s pride and joy, a graduate of the University of Florida, a Fulbright scholar, a master’s degree candidate at the University of Montana in Missoula, and a food stamp recipient. Without that assistance, I wouldn’t be at college; I’d probably be working at a restaurant,[Read More…]
From My Window… Honesty a great thing to find; good luck teams; ice getting thin
I truly appreciate an act of honestly, and last week’s action by a Meeker merchant actually caught me off guard, but cognizant of a great act.
Letter to the Editor: Great care at PMC
Dear Editor: I can never express my thanks and appreciation to all those who kindly ministered to my recovery at Pioneers Medical Center. You all touched my heart.
Letter to the Editor: Regarding oil, gas spills in Colorado
Dear Editor: The recent article in the Rio Blanco Herald Times about oil and gas spills in Colorado provides limited data from the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and does not provide an accurate context around how much is actually spilled.