RANGELY I Rangely District Hospital will receive a $25,000 grant from the Caring for Colorado Foundation to expand its laboratory testing services. The project’s focus is to provide primary care services through laboratory testing to residents of rural northwestern Colorado.
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Obituary: Anita ‘Tiny’ June Usery
Anita (Tiny) June Usery was born June 13, 1929, in Boulder to Lowren and Minnie Osborn. She left our presence to enter into heaven, her ultimate goal, on Oct. 11, 2009, at St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction after a brief illness.
Educational meeting to discuss beef cattle issues and opportunities in Western Colorado
RBC | What is the market outlook for calves this fall? What will be the situation with agricultural credit in the near future? What is a financial health check-up? What beef cattle cost factors should be considered?
Fall Festival contest results released
Results of Fall Festival pie and salsa contests:
Good effort isn’t enough
MEEKER I The Lady Cowboys played well. Just not quite well enough to win. “This was the best collective effort we have had this season,” Meeker volleyball coach Christy Atwood said of last Friday’s rivalry match against Rangely. “If we can continue to eliminate errors, the karma is going to[Read More…]
Rangely spikes Meeker in four
RANGELY I It was a big week for the Lady Panthers. Their head coach, Jimmie Mergleman, delivered a baby boy the morning of Oct 13. Then there was the always-intense matchup against county rival Meeker. In between, there was a tough loss to Vail Christian, the league’s only unbeaten team.[Read More…]
Outgoing chairman sees big future for powwow
MEEKER I Even though he’s planning on stepping out of a leadership role, Bill Kight expects the Smoking River Pow Wow to only get bigger and better. Kight, an archaeologist with the White River National Forest in Glenwood Springs, has worked closely with the Ute Tribe for many years and[Read More…]
Coach: We weren’t real ready to play
RANGELY I This season, when his players take the field for a game, Tim Galloway never knows which team will show up. Friday night it was the team that showed up against Hotchkiss and Aspen. Both blowout losses. It certainly wasn’t the team that showed signs of the old Panther[Read More…]
Letter: Thanks for making pumpkin patch go
Homemaker Furnishings would like to thank Dick Welle and WREA, Cindy Welle and Meeker Realty, Meeker Chamber of Commerce, and Bobby at Cuppa Joe
CNCC flight team third at nationals
RANGELY I Colorado Northwestern Community College’s flight team proved it can fly with the big boys. And girls.
Letter: Meeker Classic was ‘a fantastic event’
I was able to attend the Meeker Classic for the first time this past September. All I can say is “wow!” What a fantastic event with fantastic people! The day of the finals, I turned to my dad, as we watched a dog run and said to him, “I just[Read More…]
Request for info about traveling gypsies
This is a historical request for information about three wagons of traveling gypsies that came through the town of Meeker around 1946. My mother, Dorothy Kracht Archer, told me that she was about 13-14 years old when they came through town.
