It appears this year the pranksters are packing. At least that is what their pockets stuffed with clear, plastic tape might indicate. Making midnight visits all over town to darkened doorways and windows, ringing doorbells or knocking on the glass, is the modus operandi for teenagers with too much time[Read More…]
Opinion
Letters to the Editor: May 17, 2012
Theos backs Turner for commissioner Dear Editor:
Loose Ends: Oh, the stories they tell
The local historical society’s fundraiser may have shed a little light on family mysteries for local residents. It did for me. My familiarity with the old doll could not be questioned, but my knowledge of where it originated was spotty. My mother’s and grandmother’s stories about the doll did not[Read More…]
Letter to the Editor: Thank you all, very much
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…]
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.