Lisa Belmonte’s idea of fun is running long distances — 26.2 miles, to be exact. Belmonte runs marathons. She ran the Portland Marathon on Oct. 5, finishing 11th out of 639 in the women’s 35-39 age division and 44th overall out of 3,900 women. And, most importantly, her time qualified[Read More…]
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Meeker Recreation Center News: Nov. 6, 2008
n The Dance Academies recital will be Sunday, Nov. 9 at 4 p.m. in the Meeker High School auditorium. Everyone is invited to this free, very entertaining event. Please note the time change. n Dance for ages 5-10 will be held on Thursdays, Nov. 13-Dec. 18, from 3:30-4:30 p.m. Cost[Read More…]
Meeker’s season ends at regionals
MEEKER — At the beginning of the season, the volleyball team looked at the Rocky Mountain News predictions for the league. Vail Mountain was the outright favorite for the league championship and Meeker “has some size and experience and they should battle well.”
Lady Panthers upset Meeker to qualify for state volleyball tourney in Denver
RANGELY — Tournament play for the Lady Panthers started a little rocky, but they ended up playing their top games at the right times.
Drilling in NW Colorado could degrade elk and deer herds, native trout habitat
RBC — As sportsmen flock to western Colorado to hunt elk and mule deer, the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership recently announced its protest of federal leases that would permit oil and gas drilling in crucial big-game winter range and migration corridors and Colorado cutthroat trout habitat.
Gerloff, Thomson seek trustee position
MEEKER — Appointment of a new town of Meeker trustee was delayed Tuesday, after two letters of interest for the position were received by town staff.
Elder continues her quest to re-open alley access
MEEKER — Samme Elder came before the board of trustees Nov. 4 requesting clarification of the board’s plans for the alley behind the post office.
Brady Ross starts Meeker businesses
MEEKER — Brady Ross, formerly a loan officer with First National Bank of the Rockies in Meeker, has recently left employment with the bank to start two new businesses here in Meeker; RosKen, LLC and Rosken-Equipment, LLC.
Florida man killed in Sat. single-vehicle accident
RANGELY — A 50-year-old Jacksonville, Fla., man, Timothy Dorsey, was killed Saturday night in a single-vehicle rollover crash on Highway 64 in rural Rio Blanco County. A 47-year-old woman from Rangely, who was not identified, was driving the vehicle, a 2006 Ford F150 pickup.
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No injuries sustained in rollover accident
RBC — A Texas man walked away uninjured from a one-vehicle accicent Oct. 30. Kirk Lawhorn, 44, of Gilmer, Texas, was driving eastbound in a 2008 Chevrolet pickup when the truck left the north side of the road.
Moderate damage in hit-and-run accident
RBC — A driver in a GMC pickup pulling a trailer sideswiped a truck in the opposite lane Oct. 28 and kept driving, but no injuries were reported.
