The digital world has created an outrage economy where there is money to be made … if you can stand the heat. Robert Shrimsley, “Financial Times,” 2015 Call it “poking the bear” or “shaking the jar” or whatever you want to call it, the “outrage economy” is a cheap marketing[Read More…]
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Loose Ends: One-sided conversations
You are doing less walking than the week before. Congrats! you have exceeded your reading goal today. You got less sleep yesterday than today. These are not messages left on the phone by just anyone. No one is trying to tell you anything that you are not already fully aware[Read More…]
Museum Musings: Letters from History, No. 6 Part 2
Special to the Herald Times The White River Museum has a collection of letters that Meeker founding father Thomas Baker kept for many years. There are letters from Nathan Meeker and prominent figures like Chief Ouray, ex-Indian Agents, and the violently anti-Indian Colorado Governor Pitkin, as well as various Army[Read More…]
Letters to the Editor: July 27, 2023
More from CD3 candidate Dear Editor, I am currently running unopposed for Colorado’s Congressional District 3 Republican nomination. My only credible opponent in the 2024 general election is Aspen-Adam Frisch, whose single platform plank when I announced my candidacy was to defeat Lauren Boebert. Since I plan to do just[Read More…]
Obituary: Jarrod Albert Nay
Jarrod Albert Nay Oct. 19, 1982 ~ July 20, 2023 Jarrod’s campfire went out after losing his brief battle with cancer on Thursday, July 20, 2023, surrounded by his family and friends. Jarrod was born in Meeker, Colorado, at Pioneers Hospital to Pat Nay and Brenda Nay on Oct. 19,[Read More…]
The history behind LO7
The story begins in the fall of 1883, Utah. William B. Loring, a back East gent, sent an outfit of cowboys to Utah to bring back 3,300 head of cattle. The crew took time to brand all of them with the new brand of LO7. The brand was the left[Read More…]
4-H Shooting Sports competition kicks off the start of the 2023 Rio Blanco County Fair
RBC | The Rio Blanco 4-H Shooting Sports teams kicked off the 2023 Fair this past weekend by holding their annual County Shoot in Rangely. This is a community, volunteer, and leader-led event that would never take place without the dedication of several members of the community. Special thanks to[Read More…]
DEMO DAY
“The 2023 4-H Demonstration Day was a blast! A big thank you to everyone who attended! This was a wonderful opportunity for our youth to develop their leadership and speaking skills while at the same time engaging with pillars of our community. Attendees moved between demonstration stations listening and asking[Read More…]
8 reasons to visit the County Fair
RBC | The 102nd Rio Blanco County Fair started last weekend with the 4-H County Shoot-Off and gets rolling in earnest this weekend with the horse show, fashion revue, cake decorating and team roping. Events continue throughout next week. For long-time residents and 4-H’rs, the Fair is a familiar and[Read More…]
Become a certified Ag Ambassador at the Fair
RBC | Rio Blanco County residents are invited to participate in the Indoor Exhibits at the Fair which are entered on Wednesday, Aug. 2 from 9 a.m. – 8 p.m. Indoor Exhibits are anything along the lines of: baked and canned goods, photography, scrapbooking, painting, drawings, crafts, horticulture, floriculture, sewing,[Read More…]
Learn what Horizons Specialized Services has to offer
RBC | Since 1975, Horizons Specialized Services has been serving people with Intellectual Developmental Disabilities (IDD) in Northwest Colorado. IDD affects an individual’s physical, intellectual and/or emotional development. These conditions happen prior to the age of 22 and last throughout a person’s life. Examples include Down syndrome, cerebral palsy and[Read More…]
CNCC welcomes new athletic director
BY KATIE FAYE KING Special to the Herald Times RBC | Colorado Northwestern Community Colleges’ (CNCC) new athletic director, Zachary “Zach” Stevenson, is pumped about the opportunity he has been offered and the upcoming season of CNCC athletics. Zach is a former student-athlete of CNCC who played baseball from 2011-[Read More…]
