Meeker Locals: Dec. 30, 2009

Cortney and Scott Aldridge got their 15 minutes of fame when the couple was interviewed by Denver’s Channel 7. The Aldridges were traveling from Greeley to Meeker to spend the holidays with family, and had left early to avoid the anticipated storm that created travel havoc across the nation.
Reported in the Steamboat Pilot’s Dec. 21 edition back in 1934 (75 years ago), “An epidemic of measles, scarlet fever and diphtheria is in progress in…