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Obituary: Dennis R. Middleton Sr.

Dennis R. Middleton Sr. Sept. 2, 1954~Oct. 25, 2010 Dennis Ray Middleton, Sr. went to be with the Lord Oct. 25, 2010, at St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction. He was 56. Dennis was born to Robert Dean and Betty June Middleton on Sept. 2, 1954, in Granite City, Ill.

Panthers end season at 0-9

RANGELY I They didn’t win a game. But they didn’t quit. “It was a tough year,” said Rangely football coach Tim Galloway after the Panthers finished the season without a win. “But they kept fighting. They kept battling.”

Sixth-grader recoving from his injuries

MEEKER I Two days after undergoing surgery Oct. 27, Dade Heck came home. A week earlier, Dade, a sixth-grader, was injured in an accident Oct. 22 during recess at Barone Middle School.

Local voters follow some state trends

RBC I Voters, locally, turned out in big numbers for Tuesday’s general election. Seventy-six percent of voters in Rio Blanco County cast ballots. In some races, the outcome of local voting followed the statewide results. In other races, RBC voters bucked the statewide trends.

FALL BACK!

Daylight Saving Time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 7. Remember to set your clocks back one hour. The current schedule, adopted in 2007, calls for DST to extend from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November.

Meeker Locals

By the time you read this, the elections will be be over for another cycle. Hopefully, the winners of these particularly vitriolic races will take it upon themselves to lay aside partisan politics and get busy doing what they are supposed to be doing: representing their constituents instead of representing[Read More…]