The last round of preliminary results was released after press time Wednesday. No races flipped, and no races are close enough to trigger an automatic recount (by Colorado law, that would be a winning margin of 0.5% or less of total votes cast, or 20 votes.) Doug Overton won the[Read More…]
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Days Gone By: June 23, 2022
The Meeker Herald125 years ago • Dry, windy, dusty, hot and cold by spells, were the weather features during the past week.• Real estate is in demand these days. The time to buy this class of property is when it is low. It’s low now.• Mrs. David Smith entertained a[Read More…]
County Beat: June 21 Meeting
RBC | In Rangely on Tuesday, RBC Commissioners heard updates from Leif Joy on his departments. For surveying, 12 plats have been updated and surveying software and propeller drone targes have been updated. Developing a legal description for County Rd. 8 is underway and surveying work on the landfill has[Read More…]
Jail closure expected to save county $500K
Local police departments impacted by increased costs for transport RBC | Nine months after the closure of the Rio Blanco County Detention Center, numbers demonstrating savings to the county have been made available to the HT. Rio Blanco County Sheriff Anthony Mazzola first announced the intention to close the jail[Read More…]
NEWS NOTES: June 23, 2022
Class of 1962 reunion June 25 MEEKER | The Meeker High School Class of 1962 reunion will be June 25. Call this number for more information: 208-932-0249. Division of Water Resources meeting MEEKER | Please join the Division of Water Resources (DWR) for a public meeting June 29 from 5:30[Read More…]
GATHER PLANNED
The Bureau of Land Management and cooperating partners are planning a wild-horse-gather in the Piceance East-Douglas Herd Management Area on July 15. Ongoing bait-trap, range monitoring and related activities leading up to the gather are already underway. Approximately 300 horses will be returned to the range post gather. CORRECTION: The[Read More…]
Rio Blanco County Hosts Regional 4-H Expo
RBC | Colorado State University Extension Vice President Blake Naughton and Assistant Vice President Lindsey Shirley from the CSU Office of Engagement and Extension traveled to Meeker on Thursday, June 17 as part of a University tour of the northwest Colorado counties. They brought with them Ali Eccleston, Julee Stephenson,[Read More…]
DAYS GONE BY: June 16, 2022
The Meeker Herald125 years ago • There may be little choice between the men who contribute the funds that keep our politics rotten at the core, and the men who receive the money. But the practical politician of the machine variety is, after all, a better figure in politics than[Read More…]
COUNTY BEAT: June 14, 2022
RBC | During work sessions Tuesday morning, the Rio Blanco County Board of Commissioners heard second quarter updates from Maintenance and Facilities Director Eric Jaquez. The department has been busy with spring cleaning and planting, updates to signage, OHV trail maintenance, repairing drainage issues, and attending trainings, among other activities[Read More…]
Wild horse gather underway
RBC | The White River Field Office began conducting gather operations to capture wild horses in the Piceance-East Douglas Herd Management Area on June 16 in an effort to reduce the population of wild horses to the appropriate management level to protect the health of the herd and the range.[Read More…]
Interview with SD8 candidate Solomon
RBC | “I want to help be the voice and the messenger and the representative in the senate for this northwest corner of Colorado,” said two-time Eagle trustee, business owner and longtime Colorado resident Matt Solomon. He’s running for Colorado’s Senate District 8 against Democrat Dylan Roberts. Solomon cites his[Read More…]
