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Spartan Times Wild game dinner Feb. 5

RANGELY | The second annual Spartan Times Wild Game Dinner will be held in the CNCC Colorado Room Feb. 5, starting at 5:30 p.m. and serving until 8 p.m. Enjoy exotic meats: Goose, antelope, deer elk, mountain lion, bear, bighorn sheep and oryx. Donation are being accepted for the silent[Read More…]

MHS wrestlers on track, as planned

MEEKER I “We are working our plan to get better each week and we saw big improvements last week in Paonia,” Meeker’s head wrestling coach Joe Gutierrez said. No Cowboys won individual titles but four placed in the Paonia Invitational last Saturday. Meeker will wrestle a triangular in Hayden against[Read More…]

Loose Ends: Different fences

Robert Frost’s famous poem “The Mending Wall” and the line “good fences make good neighbors” is quoted time and again for its applicability to relationships between neighbors. Between Fences, a Museum on Main Street project from the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, opened in December at the Rio Blanco County[Read More…]

Letter: Laws for mentally ill

Dear Editor: I have a daughter in her 40s who has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and anosognosia (she does not believe she is mentally ill but others are). At this time she is in the Mental State Hospital in Terrell, Texas. The fact she is in a mental hospital[Read More…]

Happy with the process

Dear Editor: As a member of the Colorado 8th Senate District Vacancy Committee, I have to say that I am extremely happy with the process that was used to replace outgoing Senator Al White. The steps taken to provide transparency by Chairman Phil Vaughn, and Secretary Audrey Danner were well[Read More…]

Child Find a worthy program

RBC I When asked to write an article for Child Find I debated which direction or approach I should take: that of a current preschool parent witnessing the benefits of the program, or that of a preschool teacher truly believing in the benefits of the preschool program. Consequently, both feel[Read More…]

Meeker Locals

Is anyone else glad January is almost over? For some reason, January seems like the longest month of the entire year. Monday, Jan. 31 is Backward Day. For those of you who frequently do things backward (and we know you’re out there) it might be a good time to reverse[Read More…]

Church to dedicate worship center

MEEKER I The Meeker United Methodist church would like to invite the community to the dedication and celebration of our new church facility. This exciting event will take place on Sunday, Feb. 6 starting at 9:45 a.m. The church is located at 809 Park Ave. in Meeker.

Letter: Debt must be addressed

Dear Editor: What has happened to our country? We owe other people and other countries more money than most of us can comprehend. One thousand billion dollars equals a trillion dollars. Our debt is 14 times one thousand billion dollars! And that doesn’t count the many trillions in unfunded liabilities[Read More…]

CDOW helping ranchers in Colo.

RBC I The Colorado Division of Wildlife is mobilizing an effort to head off conflict between northwest Colorado’s elk herds and important agricultural operations as herds of elk fleeing heavy snows near livestock feeding areas in the bottomlands of the Yampa River.