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Meeker grants help local businesses improve properties
MEEKER I The Town of Meeker is continuing the town grant program aimed at encouraging and helping town businesses succeed and enhance their building and business site appearances.
To better educate next generation, reinvent the classroom
RBC I Quick! Pop quiz! More education funding plus smaller class sizes equals better test scores, right? Wrong. Foreign students outperform Americans on numerous tests: literacy, math, technological knowledge, even everyday skills.
Obituary: Shirley Louise Robertson Englert Wix
Shirley Louise Robertson was born April 9, 1935, to George Andrew and Myrtle Ida (Woodard) Robertson in their home at the back of her father’s barber shop in Simla, CO.
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Meeker holds Memorial Day events Monday
MEEKER I The VFW, American Legion, and their Auxiliaries would like to invite everyone to attend the Memorial Day ceremony at the Fifth Street Bridge on Monday, May 30 at 10 a.m. Then please follow us up to the cemetery for another ceremony honoring our veterans.
OHV club to meet Wednesday
MEEKER I The public is invited to enjoy a root beer float and join the Wagon Wheel OHV Club meeting on Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Meeker Drug.
Ficken is on Dean’s List at Fort Lewis
RANGELY I Chelsea Ficken, of Rangely, Colo., was named to Fort Lewis College’s Dean’s List for the Spring 2016 semester. Ficken’s major is business administration and accounting.
Obituary: Melba Clara (Moore) Dennemeyer
Melba Clara (Moore) Dennemeyer passed away on April 11, 2016. She was born Jan. 17, 1925, at the Moore Ranch in Strawberry Creek to Reid and Lena Moore.
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Rio Blanco jobless rate continues to increase
RBC I December and January saw solid drops in the Rio Blanco County jobless rate, but a sharp increase in the unemployment between January and February, which saw a .07 percent increase in the county, continued to rise another half percent in March.
House act puts grouse close to ESA
RBC I On May 18, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). I this “must-pass’”legislation that funds America’s military readiness was language that would force the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Forest Service (USFS) to abandon successful sage-grouse conservation plans.
