New board member Gerloff has a 30-year commitment

MEEKER — Just because he is the newest member of the Meeker Town Board doesn’t mean he is a newcomer.
Rod Gerloff, who was sworn in Wednesday night, has been around since the late 1970s, when his family moved here from Texas during the oil shale boom.
They have been here ever since.
“My parents moved us here with the oilfield boom, and we stayed,” Gerloff said. “We didn’t consider ourselves short-term people. We were…