The Meeker Herald 125 years ago • Rev. Ostenson held impressive and appropriate Easter services at St. James church last Sunday. • Sam Wear moved his fine bunch of cattle from the Powell park feeding ranch to the summer range on Miller on Tuesday. The Meeker Herald 100 years ago[Read More…]
County
Election FAQs: special districts, WRBM mill levy, Moyer recall
SPECIAL DISTRICT ELECTIONS Special district elections for the Eastern Rio Blanco Metropolitan Recreation and Park District (ERBM) board of directors and the Eastern Rio Blanco County Health Services District (Pioneers Medical Center/PMC) board of directors are slated for May 3. Voting for both entities will be held at the Fairfield[Read More…]
Rector formalizes resignation
RECTOR RESIGNATION Rio Blanco County Commissioner Jeff Rector’s second term will end early following a resignation announcement Tuesday. “I sent a letter to the Republican Party last night and today’s my last day, I’m resigning my Commission as of today,” he said, thanking “constituents and staff” of Rio Blanco County[Read More…]
Rangely hosts Colorado River District event
RBC I A forecast for conditions in the Colorado River Basin, including the White River Area, is not what many who are dependent on and involved with the river hoped for. The Colorado River District hosted a “State of the River” event in partnership with the Rio Blanco Water Conservancy[Read More…]
WACKY WEATHER
In true Rocky Mountain spring fashion, Rio Blanco County experienced massive wind gusts, temps in the seventies, temps in the 30s, sunshine, snow and everything in between–all in the course of a few days. We could do without the wind, but the wacky weather hasn’t phased the county’s fluffier residents,[Read More…]
NEWS NOTES: APRIL 21, 2022
Water Initiative meetings in April RBC | The White River Integrated Water Initiative is holding its next round of public meetings in April. We will be discussing priority projects for each segment of the White River. All meetings are from 6-8 p.m. Upper Reach April 19 at the Buford School, [Read More…]
Sand Wash horses meet Steve Mantle for mustang clinics
RBC I The Sand Wash Basin wild horses are a little like the Beatles–they have a huge following of fans. A number of these beautiful wild horses were gathered as a result of the lack of feed from years of drought. The Meeker Mustang Makeover will pair 20 of these[Read More…]
UNTIL NEXT YEAR, EASTER BUNNY …
Rio Blanco citizens celebrated Easter in fun ways this past weekend. (Right) the Easter Bunny rode in style to the annual egg hunt Saturday in Meeker, courtesy of the Meeker Volunteer Fire Department. (Left) kids in Rangely collected eggs and earned prizes at the annual Rangely Rec Center pool egg[Read More…]
DAYS GONE BY: April 14, 2022
The Meeker Herald 125 years ago • Victor Dikeman discovered the lair of a mountain rat in one of the Hugus warehouses a few days ago. Vick thought the occurrence was extraordinary, but when we told him that we had known them to carry off grindstones over in Park County,[Read More…]
County dispatchers recognized
RBC I National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week is sponsored by the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International and celebrated annually, honors the thousands of men and women who respond to emergency calls, dispatch emergency professionals and equipment, and render life-saving assistance to the nation’s citizens. The Rio Blanco County[Read More…]
NEWS NOTES: April 14, 2022
Water Initiative meetings in April RBC | The White River Integrated Water Initiative is holding its next round of public meetings in April. We will be discussing priority projects for each segment of the White River. All meetings are from 6-8 p.m. Upper Reach April 19 at the Buford School, [Read More…]
Terry Smalec running to replace Moyer in May recall election
RBC I For those of you who don’t know me, I am Terry Smalec, and I am running for successor in the Gary Moyer Recall Election. My wife and I came to Rangely in 1982 so I could pursue an instrumentation tech degree at Colorado Northwestern Community College. We arrived[Read More…]
