Dear Editor: Just after midnight on April 15 of this year, my hometown of Woodward, Okla., was struck by a tornado. Six people lost their lives and many homes and businesses were destroyed. We are getting things cleaned up, but it will be years before the scars left behind are[Read More…]
Opinion
Loose Ends: Volunteer
There is one thing a community can never have in excess: volunteers. Warm weather brings out an annual call for helpers all through the town and some organizations are needier than others.
Meeker Locals
No news is good news, as they say. If so, it’s all good news around Meeker. A Google search for newsworthy items in Meeker, Colo., for the past week yielded little more than a Louisiana paper’s account of the Mountain Valley Bank robbery. According to www.thetowntalk.com , the $1,279 Thacker[Read More…]
Up and Down El Rio Blanco: In the merry month of May
First let me write: Happy birthday, Haylee! May is definitively my favorite month of the year. It is the month my daughter and only granddaughter were born, it has my favorite holiday – Mother’s Day (May 13, don’t forget), and it brings the peak of spring and all that spring[Read More…]
Letters to the Editor: May 3, 2012
Thank you Dear Editor: The Hodges and Dyer families are sending out a big thank you to the Rangely community.
Every day should be Earth Day
RBC I Earth Day, just passed, is the day we all look at ways we can reduce our carbon footprint. 20 percent of all greenhouse gases come from automobiles, so it makes sense to start there.
Letters to the Editor: April 26, 2012
Thank you Dear Editor: To the citizens of Rangely, Craig, Hayden, Meeker and South Routt: On behalf of the Colorado Northwestern Community College Foundation Board, we would like to thank each and everyone who attended this past week’s CNCC dinner dance, the kick-off for the 50th anniversary of Rangely Junior[Read More…]
Loose Ends: Step up to the plate
I was hoping that two weeks after announcing that I was giving up writing a weekly column, two writers from Meeker and Rangely would “step up to the plate” and give column-writing a chance.
Meeker Locals
Is the lovely warm weather really so odd, or are we just remembering the last two or three years when winter clung stubbornly to the calendar until June or later? No worries, we’ll probably have at least one more snowstorm before summer officially arrives.
Letter to the Editor: Living with Muscular Dystrophy
Dear Editor: I would like to share this with our firefighters that help support MD kids. This is a speech from a young man in Olathe, Kans. His name is Kylen Wilder. He was diagnosed with MD at the age of 3; he is now 22. He gave this speech[Read More…]
Loose Ends: The little things
During these tough economic times, it is important to look at the little things that indicate a change locally. Increases in home sales, rentals, and the number of active drilling rigs are a few of the statistics that help put the small details together to see the big picture.
Up and Down El Rio Blanco: Excitement
What a news week: Meeker’s first bank robbery in more than 100 years and an armed robbery of the Rangely Pharmacy. The good news is both robbers were caught and no one was hurt and the reverse 911 system works. The bad news is we had two robberies in a[Read More…]
