Meeker | The Meeker Recreation Center will be running its annual shutdown in August. The pool will be closed Aug. 7-20 and the center will have a full shutdown Aug. 17-20. Both will resume normal hours on Monday, Aug. 21. Each year the center must close for critical maintenance that[Read More…]
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Protect your vision during Monday’s solar eclipse
EDITOR’S NOTE: If you picked up eclipse glasses at the Meeker Library, DO NOT use them. The glasses received by the library have been recalled by Amazon.com. No matter where you got your eclipse glasses from, double check to make sure they haven’t been recalled and that they meet the[Read More…]
Panther golfers begin season at Cedaredge
RANGELY | The Rangely Panthers started another season on Thursday of last week. The team traveled to Cedaredge to play one of the toughest back nines on the Western Slope. Playing in the number one slot is Phil Arnold, Marshall Webber in the two spot, Nick Massey at the three[Read More…]
Get ready for eclipse traffic
Traffic going to Wyoming and Nebraska for Monday viewing is expected to be very heavy through the weekend RBC | The Colorado Department of Transportation is doing everything it can to ensure folks who are driving to Wyoming or Nebraska to view the totality of the solar eclipse on Monday[Read More…]
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Editor’s Column: Whose flag are you flying?
I said the Pledge of Allegiance twice this week. Both times I couldn’t help pondering the Nazi and Confederate flags brazenly displayed at the protests in Virginia. Here’s my question: how does one declare allegiance to the flag of the United States of America—one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty[Read More…]
Free performance at the TANK Aug. 19
RANGELY | Visiting artist Christina Hildebrandt will demonstrate and perform with crystal singing bowls in The TANK Saturday, Aug. 19 from 12-1 p.m. Admission is free. Everyone is welcome. (This demonstration/performance will happen in the last hour of Open Saturday at The TANK.)
Wagon Wheel OHV club ride Aug. 19
MEEKER | Greetings four-wheelers, we have our August Club Ride scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 19. We planned a Saturday so those who choose to do so could attend church, and hopefully get a good, lively group together. We will meet at the Miller Creek OHV parking lot at 9 a.m.[Read More…]
2017 Rio Blanco County fair results
RBC | The Colorado State Fair activities in Pueblo start this week and continue through next week. According to our the Rio Blanco County Extension office, exhibitors expected to be taking animals to state fair include Macy Collins, Marryn and Hayden Shults, Kolbi and Kaden Franklin, Samantha Lapp, Ryan Mergelman[Read More…]