RBC | The idea of a sales tax to pay for local dispatch is dead in the water, at least for this year. Commissioners heard unanimous support for keeping dispatch local Monday and Tuesday, and one community member suggested the idea of a sales tax. With the deadline for adding[Read More…]
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Main Street improvements, grants and more
RANGELY | The Town of Rangely’s Board of Trustees met Tuesday. During supervisor reports, Janet Miller reported that four White River Village tenant recertifications were completed. The sprinkler system was repaired, common area deep cleaning has been routinely taking place, shampooing carpets, spraying exterior for elm tree beetles, Ring© door[Read More…]
HERE’S YOUR SIGN …
Work continues on a Dollar General on Rangely’s Main Street. The store is still on schedule to open in October. —ROXIE FROMANG PHOTO
Clean-up operations underway on oil spill near Parkview Elementary School
RANGELY | Last week a concerned citizen informed the Herald Times about a potential oil spill just to the south of Rangely’s Parkview Elementary School. Images submitted to the HT showed an unknown volume of what appeared to be oil near the base of large storage tanks on the site.[Read More…]
Rally Town, USA …
New confirmed COVID-19 case in Rangely
Rio Blanco County Public Health has announced a new laboratory-confirmed positive case in Rio Blanco County. The new case is in Rangely. This is the 21st case in the county. There are now 12 active cases, 9 recovered, and zero hospitalizations. The new case changes the school districts’ 14-day counts[Read More…]
Lucero wins grand champ
RBC | Corbin Lucero has been participating in 4-H since he was 5-years-old, starting as a “Cloverbud.” He has been showing livestock since he was 8, but this year marks his first time winning grand champion for beef in Rio Blanco County. “I was speechless, it was amazing. It was[Read More…]
Rally Colorado returns to Rangely
RANGELY | After months of planning and reworking the operations of the event, Rally Colorado Organizers and America Rally Association are geared up and ready for the August 15-16 event. Rally Colorado will feature Rally Cars tackling over 130 stage miles of twisting dirt roads divided into 14 stages. This[Read More…]
Obituary: Glenda Ryan Horton
Glenda Ryan Horton passed away on Sunday, Aug. 2 at 1:30 a.m. She is the sister of Joan (Ryan) Padilla of Rangely and in-law to Shirley Faye (Jones) Cox of Rangely who passed four days earlier. Glenda was the oldest of seven children and one of the two sets of[Read More…]
Obituary: Shirley Fae “Jones” Cox
Shirley Fae “Jones” Cox, 84, passed away Tuesday, July 28, 2020, at 11:30 p.m., at the Colorado Veterans Community Center in Rifle, Colorado, following her battle with Alzheimer’s and diabetes. She was a loving wife, mother of three, grandmother of four and a great-grandmother to eight. Shirley was born to[Read More…]
Letter to the Editor: Aug. 6, 2020
Resource Pantry under new management Dear Editor: The Rangely Community Resource Pantry is under new management. We would like to thank all of you who visited us in the past and hope you will continue to support the new management. A huge “thank you” from:René Harden, Brenda Hopson, Cindy Cramm,[Read More…]
Kottenstette Blood Drive Wednesday, Aug. 12 at CNCC
RANGELY | This year marks the 10th anniversary of the birth of our four-day-old daughter, Makayla Jane Kottenstette. She was born on March 23, 2010, and passed on March 27, 2010. She has forever changed our lives and in honor of Makayla’s memory, we are continuing an annual blood drive[Read More…]
