The Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago
We are now having lovely days and cold nights.
Messrs. J.W. Hugus and J.C. Davis returned from Yampa river points Saturday evening and tarried over Sunday in the White river metropolis. Both gentlemen left for the outside Monday morning. Mr. Hugus is very much impressed with the upper Yampa river region, but he has not gone back on his first love–Meeker. He says he knows of very few more favored regions than this, after all.
The Meeker Herald ~ 100 years ago
The Lions club is doing things and is proving itself to be a great aid in backing up the work of our well organized Commercial Club. May their “roar” grow louder as time goes on.
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The Meeker Herald ~ 50 years ago
Well it had to happen sometime and Mrs. Ethel Starbuck of Meeker just happened to be the lucky one to do it. After three years of what probably now accumulated to thousands of games played on the Meeker Golf Course, Mrs. Starbuck sighted in on hole No. 2 Sunday afternoon and collected the course’s first hole-in-one.
Beginning school enrollment for the 1973-74 year in Meeker School District Re-1 is up 15 students, to a total of 683 from last years 668.
The Meeker Herald ~ 25 years ago
Meeker’s Annie Merriam appears to be recovering from her bout with the dreaded hantavirus.
Two federal civil rights lawsuits pending against the Meeker school district appear to be headed for a major milestone. Former administrators have blasted Meeker school officials, charging the district with long-time student abuses.
Rangely Times ~ 50 years ago
Darcy Lynn Stewart daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dale Stewert, received her degree from Brigham Young University at Provo, Utah, Aug.17, 1973.
She majored in elementary education and will teach this fall at Todd school between Vernal and Roosevelt, Utah.
Rangely College is glad to offer to regular college students and members of the community an opportunity to “sharpen up” your reading skills. Available for the fall semester is a nine week course in Accelerated Reading as prepared by CONTEMPORARY SCHOOLS INC. of Colorado. This is a thorough course in reading skill with special emphasis on retention. Contemporary Schools guarantees to increase your reading efficiency four-fold or return the cost.
Rangely Times ~ 25 years ago
The Colorado Division of Wildlife is offering a reward of up to $1,000 through its Operation Game Thief program for information leading to the arrest of whomever is responsible for killing 43 deer and pronghorn antelope in northwestern Colorado and leaving them to rot.
