MEEKER | The lady Cowboys’ volleyball team played four matches in the West Grand tournament last weekend in Kremmling, winning three of four and placing third in the tournament. Meeker will host their first match of the season this Saturday when the DeBeque Dragons come to town. “It was a[Read More…]
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Classifieds: September 7, 2017
Ads for 9/7/17 **ANNOUNCEMENTS** The 2017 Annual Craft & Gift Show will be Friday, Nov. 3rd from 4:00 to 8:00 PM. and Saturday, Nov. 4th from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM at the RBC Fairgrounds. Please email: [email protected] or call Michelle Weston at 970-878-5563 to request a registration form. Booth[Read More…]
Editor’s Column: News, or melodrama?
Between the fires in the western half of the U.S. that have clogged the atmosphere with smoke, the hurricanes flooding the southern states, and word that North Korea has amped up its nuclear weapons tests and has America in a bullseye, it’s starting to feel like a particularly sketchy season[Read More…]
Last farmers’ market this Saturday
MEEKER | A local farmers’ market made its first entrance in 2010 in Meeker. Through an organized non-profit, Foods-Are-Us, and sponsored by the Rio Blanco Farm Bureau, it was weekly July through September and loved by the community. The produce was excellent, and other organic products made it a desirable[Read More…]
Lady Panthers bring home 3-1 tournament win
RANGELY | Rangely volleyball hosted their annual season opener tournament on Sept. 1-2. Rangely played Moffat County in the first match of the tournament. They beat Moffat County in two straight sets 25-7 and 25-16. The lady Panthers served well, with Kassidee Brown leading with 10 earned points. Rangely then[Read More…]
Jammin’ Lamb culinary competition Saturday in downtown Meeker
MEEKER | Many “lamb” traditions have surrounded the annual Meeker Classic Sheepdog Championship Trials for 31 years. This year a new family event is being added to all the fun. Downtown plaza in Meeker will be the site for our first Jammin’ Lamb Festival on Saturday, Sept. 9, a culinary[Read More…]
UPDATE: Hime’s Peak Fire 25 percent contained
MEEKER | A multi-mission aircraft conducted an infrared survey of the Himes Peak Fire 46 miles east of Meeker in the Flat Tops Wilderness on Thursday and found an active heat perimeter of approximately 94 acres at 3:30 p.m. This is considerably smaller than previous estimates. Firefighters were able to[Read More…]
Panthers win season opener, head to Del Norte on Friday
RANGELY | This weekend the Panthers hosted the Dove Creek Bulldogs for the season opener. The Panthers started off the night quickly and never took the foot off of the pedal. Having a sped-up clock at halftime with a lead of 44-0. Scoring in the first half for the Panthers[Read More…]
Cowboys beat Titans, travel to Holyoke next
MEEKER | In the second game of the season, the 1A Meeker Cowboys took on the bigger 2A Titans from Coal Ridge and after a hard fought three quarters of play, the Cowboys wore them down and won 30-7. Meeker will now travel across the state to play the Dragons[Read More…]
Cowboys run up Devil’s Thumb in Delta
MEEKER | Normally, it does not take 30 minutes to run a high school cross country race, which is five kilometers but there is nothing normal about the Devil’s Thumb Hill Climb race in Delta, which Meeker runners attempted last Saturday. The Cowboys will run in Hotchkiss this Saturday. “The[Read More…]
Delta cross country race one of ‘mental endurance’
RANGELY | The Rangely cross country team adventured to the first ever Devil’s Thumb Hill race in Delta, Colo., on Friday, Sept. 1. It was not a race for time but a race of mental endurance: who could keep going when it was tempting to stop since your legs were[Read More…]
Pipeline leak in Piceance Basin prompts $5 million lawsuit
RBC I Mike Bishop is a jovial fellow with a quick wit, ready smile and lively sense of humor, until you ask him about the conditions on his Piceance Basin hunting ranch. Concern etches his features when he talks about the pipeline leak he discovered on his property a little[Read More…]
