Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago
Almost every day one or more outfits are passing through town, the objective point being either Battle Lake or Saratoga. Meeker is already represented in both places.
Piceance creak ranchmen seem to be having more than the usual amount of trouble over water this season. The water commissioner has been down there nearly all the while, but it appears that whenever he gets out of sight his mandates are ignored.
Six weddings are booked for the coming summer. Possibly one or two are not so near at hand as some people imagine they are. However, the first one to come off is slated for next Tuesday. “ Who can it be?” “Oh, I know; but I dassen’t tell!”
Meeker Herald ~ 100 years ago
The Rio Blanco high School track team returned from the Yampa Valley Conference meet with second place honors.
A town cannot progress any faster than the people in it. They are “bound” to win or lose together. If the individuals comprising a city lack foresight and enterprise, they not only retard their own chances of success, but they hold back the town’s chances as well. On the other hand, a vigorous and progressive citizenship sets a rapid pace and the community keeps up with it.
Meeker Herald ~ 50 years ago
The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced today that a seven volume draft environmental statement on Federal actions related to proposed development of coal resources in northwest Colorado is now available to the public.
Two area teenagers and an out of state adult were caught in the act of stealing a citizens band radio out of a vehicle early Saturday morning by the Meeker Police Department in conjunction with the Rio Blanco County Sheriff’s Department.
RANGELY TIMES ~ 50 years ago
Three Rangely men received Bachelors degrees at Colorado State University’s spring commencement May 14. They were Gregory K.Dagget, David R. Fox, and Edwin C. Nielsen.
Rangely is an official American Revolution Bicentennial Administration Bicentennial Community according to word received by the local Committee Chairman, Leonard Smith.
RIO BLANCO HERALD TIMES ~ 25 years ago
The wheel fender found in Marvine Lake has been positively identified as part of the missing Piper airplane, Sheriff Phil Stubblefield said Thursday morning. Family members also confirmed that a shirt found in the lake belongs to one of the missing persons.
The Black Diamond Fire, that started on the back side of what locals call “China Wall,” by a suspected lightning strike hold over, has burned more than 100 percent contained by acres and is considered 100 percent contained by Bureau of Land Management officials. Part of the fire burned in a fire scare from 1990 when the areas experienced two fires. China Wall also burned in the early 1970s.
