The Meeker Elementary Student Council would like to thank Homemaker Furnishings for donating the pumpkins for our Pumpkin Decorating Contest. Everyone enjoyed making their pumpkin unique. We all had a great time!
Opinion
Letter: Thanks for making pumpkin patch go
Homemaker Furnishings would like to thank Dick Welle and WREA, Cindy Welle and Meeker Realty, Meeker Chamber of Commerce, and Bobby at Cuppa Joe
Request for info about traveling gypsies
This is a historical request for information about three wagons of traveling gypsies that came through the town of Meeker around 1946. My mother, Dorothy Kracht Archer, told me that she was about 13-14 years old when they came through town.
Letter: Wilderness Act would cut off access to land
Diana DeGette, representing the First District of Colorado, is once again proposing a large swath of land or 890,000 acres be set aside as part of the Colorado Wilderness Act of 2009. You may recall that U.S. Rep. DeGette proposed the same 1.65 million acres in 2007 that the Hidden[Read More…]
Family connections among county volleyball teams
Jimmie Mergleman, Rangely’s volleyball head coach, will be on the sideline Friday for the Lady Panthers’ regular-season finale against West Grand. Two weeks ago, she gave birth to a healthy baby boy — Cutler Owen.
Letter: Thanks to supporters of Hailee Benefit Run
We would like to thank everyone who rode and donated to the Hailee Benefit Run. We hope to make this an annual event to help a local family every year. We would like to especially thank the following for their donations: Rangely True Value, Rangely/Dinosaur Conoco, Carquest, White River Market,[Read More…]
Letter: ERBM Punt, Pass and Kick was a success
I would like to thank all the participants, volunteers and spectators of the 2009 Punt, Pass and Kick event on Sept. 28. We had 34 participants ranging from ages 4-15. Congratulations to the first-place finisher in each age division who will have a chance to compete in the sectional competition[Read More…]
Letter: Meeker Fire Dept. appreciates donations
The Meeker Volunteer Fire Department taught fire prevention for preschool through fifth grades this past week. The preschool and kindergarten learned about good and bad fires, not to play with matches and lighters, stop, drop, cover your face and roll if your clothes catch fire, and what to do if[Read More…]
Letter: The rights of citizens should come first
A number of years ago I retired from a public entity in Rangely. Some time after retiring I discovered while reading minutes of this entity that the trustees met at public meetings and discussed making an amendment to previous minutes drafted, but the trustees, allegedly, did not record in the[Read More…]
State supreme court to decide county’s use tax case
An ongoing dispute with ExxonMobil over the county’s application of its use tax, could be settled soon as the state’s highest court will hear oral arguments in the case Tuesday. Rio Blanco County will be represented by attorney Malcolm Murray of Denver, who has been handling the case for the[Read More…]
Letter: Meeker Library is spoiling local patrons
Earlier this year while knocking around the downtown area of a much larger area city (which will go unnamed as I enjoy the restaurants and don’t wish to have ground glass mixed in my pasta), Cindy and I discovered what we thought was a branch library. I mean it had[Read More…]
Letter: Another example of political correctness
“When the white men killed the Indians, we called it a victory” has been quoted and re-quoted in the Herald Times.
