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3 ways to pay your income tax

If you owe taxes but can’t pay the full amount by the April 18 deadline you should still file your return on time and pay as much as you can to avoid penalties and interest. You should also contact the IRS to ask about alternative payment options.

Meeker Locals

You’ve got three extra days to file your income taxes, thanks to a little-known Washington, D.C., holiday that happens to fall on April 16 this year.

9Health Fair in Meeker April 16

The 2011 9Health Fair is scheduled for this Saturday, April 16. Free and low cost health screenings along with educational health information, will be available at the Fairfield Center from 7-11 a.m.

Towns work on development

Meetings were held in Rangely and Meeker last week to discuss Gov. Hickenlooper’s Bottom Up Economic Development strategy.

Up and Down El Rio Blanco: Keep the momentum

“I think we have momentum,” Katelin Cook said after a recent public meeting about economic development in Rio Blanco County. “The rubber meets the pavement in the way the information is dealt with; is it ignored or embraced?” asked Peter Brixius, Rangely town manager, after a public meeting concerning the[Read More…]

Loose Ends: Pioneer pines

Picking up errant pine cones littering the driveway, the woman suddenly saw them in a new light. The stately old trees were planted by a pioneer family in the 1880s, not long after the original settlement of the former camp on White River.