The MHS varsity volleyball team hosted a team camp and were undefeated 8-0. BOBBY GUTIERREZ PHOTO
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Sports physicals July 27 and Aug. 1
MEEKER | Any Meeker High School or Barone Middle School student who wishes to participate in athletics must have a completed physical. Pioneers Medical Center offers two free physical dates each year and for 2023 they are July 27 and Aug. 1. You must call and make an appointment for[Read More…]
How AI and ChatGPT work, Part 2
RBC | Last week I gave a quick overview of ChatGPT and what it can do. In this article I will explain its underlying computational circuitry and how it is trained. I will hack through some dense thickets, try to explain with familiar analogies. The details can be daunting. I[Read More…]
Days Gone By: July 20, 2023
The Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago A typical “Wandering Willie” went through town Monday, walking in from Rifle and going north at a two-mile-an-hour aint. “Ragged Jack” wasn’t in it. Water Commissioner Moog reports less trouble with ranchmen as the summer advances. Not on account of rain, but because[Read More…]
Obituary: Kristina Dawn Nay Wright
Sept. 19, 1976 ~ July 12, 2023 Kristina Dawn Nay Wright fought the good fight and finished her race hearing, “Well done, good and faithful servant,” on July 12, 2023, at the age of 46. Kristina was born to George and Patricia Nay on Sept. 19, 1976, in Meeker, Colorado.[Read More…]
‘Perfect storm’ of conditions causes largest Mormon cricket hatch in recent memory
RBC | Rural living comes with the cost of dealing with Mother Nature, sometimes at her worst: high winds, big snows, drought, forest fires, flooding and on occasion, really ugly insects. And Mormon crickets are among the ugliest of them all. These creatures have been increasing in numbers over the[Read More…]
Debate over proposed solar farm continues
RBC | “I want to know if we are just going to have lip service to private property rights, or if we are going to support them,” said Kathleen Kelley, lifetime Meeker resident and landowner seeking board approval for what her family considers to be the most beneficial use of[Read More…]
Air Force cadets to build new bridge for Spring Cave trail
MEEKER | Through a unique partnership between the Air Force Academy and the White River National Forest, some of the brightest young minds in the country will design, plan, and build a new bridge on the Spring Cave Trail near Meeker this month. Air Force Academy cadets and Forest Service[Read More…]
Rio Happenings: July 2-8, 2023
ARRESTS On 7/6/2023 a male party was transported from Cheyenne to Moffat County Jail on 2 Rio Blanco County Warrants by Rio Blanco County Sheriff’s Office. Rangely PD arrested a male party on a Mesa County Felony Warrant and transported him to Moffat County. Both subjects are still being held[Read More…]
Community Calendar: July 13, 2023
Book club Aug. 14 MEEKER | The book club book will be reading Troubled Trails: the Meeker affair and the expulsion of the Utes from Colorado by Robert Silbernagel. We will discuss the book on Monday, Aug. 14 at 1 p.m. All are welcome to join in the fun. July[Read More…]
Back on Board …
The community bulletin board at the Meeker Post Office has had a thorough facelift and been returned to service thanks to Barone Middle School student Gracee Gardner, Meeker resident Chakwah Brink, and Boadachia of Bowah Media. With fresh cork and paint, the board is ready for flyers, notices, handbills and[Read More…]
Editor’s Column: What do we see?
“Cyberspace is a funhouse mirror of our own society.” Bruce Sterling During the previous century (late 1990s), when I told a friend I was moving to Meeker she flinched. She’d recently been on a cross-country flight and her seatmate turned out to be from Meeker. They’d told her the town[Read More…]
