RANGELY | Raymond and Lissette Torsell of Rangely are this week’s “home of” honorees. Raymond moved to Rangely 37 years ago. Lissette has been here 34 years. They celebrated their 33rd wedding anniversary May 10, 2012.
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Angel Tree project…
The Rangely High School National Honor Society sponsored an Angel Tree Family with gifts and a dinner for Christmas.
3 physicians join TMH team
RBC I Like a championship team that recruits new players to maintain its dominance, the community-focused team at The Memorial Hospital at Craig is welcoming three new, highly regarded physicians to the hospital’s already robust emergency, family medicine and OB/GYN departments.
Panthers defeat Plateau Valley, DeBeque
RANGELY I The Panthers boys’ basketball team won two games last weekend, defeating the Plateau Valley Cowboys 43-34, then pounding DeBeque 61-32 at home Saturday last. The Panthers will play in Hayden this Friday and host the Soroco Rams this Saturday afternoon.
Girl Scout cookie season is upon us!
MEEKER | It’s Girl Scout cookie season! Please be watchful for the girls. If you have any questions, comments or concerns, please contact the Meeker service unit leader, Cheryl Mohr, at 878-3798.
Waving Hands seeks submissions
RBC I An injured bull elk, shoulder blade shattered, careens off into the dusk. A Northwest Colorado hillside, its skin “scoured, flayed, and carried off,” lies exposed to the shameless scrutiny of passersby. Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch hunker down in Brown’s Hole, safe from the intrusion of pesky[Read More…]
Panthers crown two champs
RANGELY I Almost half the the Panther wrestling team did not compete last weekend because of illness but four of the five who did wrestle placed in the top three, including two individual champions.
Cowboys double wins over the weekend
MEEKER I The Meeker High School boys’ basketball team continued their winning streak in league play with wins over Debeque and Plateau Valley over the weekend.
4-H Senior Citizen Dinner Feb. 10
MEEKER | Local senior citizens are invited to attend the Meeker 4-H Council’s annual Senior Citizen Appreciation Dinner on Sunday, Feb. 10 at 2 p.m. at the fairgrounds.
Letter to the Editor: 2nd Amendment thoughts
Dear Editor: By the time a criminal with a gun breaks into your home, breaks into a school, carjacks your car, tries to rob you in the street, or tries to hurt your loved ones, it is too late to call 911. Tom Kilduff Meeker
Cowboys place 7 in Paonia
MEEKER I The Meeker High School Cowboy varsity wrestling team beat the Grand Valley Cardinals 42-22 in a dual meet last Thursday before wrestling in the competitive Screaming Eagle tournament in Paonia last Saturday, where they placed seven wrestlers in the top four.
Dog whisperers…
When Rangely animal shelter manager Vicky Pfennig learned that Cesar Millan, made famous by the National Geographic Channel’s show “Dog Whisperer,” would be in Salt Lake City last Friday, she wasted no time gathering people to attend the show with her.


