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Moon Lake nominates director candidates

RANGELY — Grant Earl, general manager/CEO of Moon Lake Electric, reported that the cooperative recently held two district nominating meetings to receive director candidate nominations for upcoming director elections. In District 2, members nominated Bill Muir, incumbent Yordis (Yogi) Nielsen, and Paul Tanner, all of Duchesne. District 3 members nominated[Read More…]

CNCC works on its own ‘Field of Dreams’

Tom Cassera, Colorado Northwestern Community College’s first-year baseball coach, had never met Julius and Lomell Poole. That is, until about two weeks ago. Cassera met the Pooles for the first time during a recent doubleheader at the CNCC ballpark in Rangely. “They seem like very nice people,” Cassera said of[Read More…]

Letters: March 26 Edition

Dear Editor, First of all, I’d like to begin by saying congratulations to the Meeker boys’ and girls’ basketball teams for an outstanding showing at the 2A state tournament recently held in Pueblo. As a former Meeker girls’ coach (1991-1994), it was awesome to see some familiar faces and watch[Read More…]

4-H News

MEEKER — The Meeker 4-H pig club has had three meetings. We found out that in order to complete we have to make it to half of the meetings, which is four meetings.

Trustees go forward with changes in code

MEEKER — It just goes to show, one person still has the power to affect change in a community. Harry Watt, co-owner of the Blue Spruce Inn, stepped up to the planning commission and spoke up about his desire to see a change made to the town’s sign code. Part[Read More…]

Second Street workshop generates ideas

MEEKER — The town’s engineer, Chris Hale, participated in a telephone interview during the March 17 scheduled workshop for the Second Street right-of-way project. Trustees and staff had been waiting on Hale’s design suggestions before considering whether or not to proceed with a plan to extend Second Street from Garfield[Read More…]