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MHS and BMS bands and choir will perform together on May 18
MEEKER | Jeff Hemingson, the director of Choral and Instrumental Music at Meeker High School and Barone Middle School, announced Tuesday that the spring combined choir and band concert will be held May 18 at 6:30 p.m. at the Meeker High School auditorium.
County 4-H Livestock Judging Team off to a good start
RBC I Members of the Rio Blanco County 4-H Livestock Judging Team have four contests under their belts midway through this season, and team members fared very well at the Four Corners Ag Expo in Cortez, Colo.
Monument brought $16 million in tourism dollars to this area
DINOSAUR I A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 250,624 visitors to Dinosaur National Monument in 2014 spent $14,298,400 in communities near the monument. That spending supported 194 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $16,059,100.
Letter to the Editor: Many made softball golf tournament a success in Rangely
Dear Editor: April 26 started with a rainy and gloomy morning, but that did not stop the fourth annual CNCC Softball Golf Fundraising Tournament at Cedar Ridges Golf Course in Rangely with 15 teams.
Birth: Ellieanne Margaret Rundberg
Last in group of poachers severely punished
RBC I Nicholaus J. Rodgers, 32, of Medford, Ore., one of a group of outfitters working out of Mack, Colo., located just south of Rio Blanco County, who was involved in an extensive lion and bobcat poaching scheme in western Colorado and eastern Utah, has received his sentence in U.S.[Read More…]
Letter to the Editor: Delayed ruling on sage grouse doesn’t help anyone
Dear Editor: Sportsmen’s groups are deeply concerned that a motion to strike a rider added to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which will delay the September 2015 listing decision for sage-grouse by 10 years, has been defeated. The rider, introduced by Utah Representative Rob Bishop, is non-germane to the[Read More…]
Oldtimers’ Celebration in Meeker is June 6
MEEKER The Oldtimers’ Celebration will be held June 6 at the Freeman Fairfield Center in downtown Meeker.
Sandhill cranes…
Give moose plenty of space
RBC I Colorado Parks and Wildlife wants to remind people to give wildlife plenty of room, especially when it comes to moose. The moose population is thriving in Colorado and as the number of moose rise, so does the chance for human interaction with them.
Letter to the Editor: Do some reading on global warming
Dear Editor: In his State of the Union address in April, President Obama stated that “no challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.” Of course he was referring to human-caused global warming (HCGW), which, in his view, is “settled science.” Thousands of workers in the field[Read More…]
