MEEKER | White River Alliance members gathered for their holiday party and an end of the year report by president Shawn Welder this past Wednesday, Dec. 10. His 2025 progress report highlights a year marked by the group’s community engagement, hands-on stewardship, and strengthened educational outreach. A major focus of[Read More…]
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DAYS GONE BY – December 25th, 2025
Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago There is a disposition in some quarters to divide the trusts into “good” and “bad”, but self-interest seems to be the main factor in making the division. It’s the old story—what helps me is good, what helps the other fellow is bad. Sanderson &[Read More…]
Letters to Santa 2025
RBC | Santa shared a selection of the local letters he’s received with the HT. The following are from second-graders at Meeker Elementary School and Parkview Elementary School in Rangely. Dear Santa, How was your weekend Santa? How was your elves and reindeer and saint nicholas and hot chocolate and[Read More…]
Climate trends show warmer winters, earlier runoff and declining late-summer flows on the White River
RBC | A new analysis of 38 years of SNOTEL data and more than a century of USGS streamflow records compiled by local science educator Dr. Bob Dorsett shows clear signs that the headwaters of the White River are warming, drying, and running off earlier each spring—conditions that have profound[Read More…]
Meeker trustees hear updates, make plans for 2026
MEEKER | The Meeker Town Board of Trustees discussed infrastructure, municipal code revisions and upcoming state mandates during its regular December meeting last week. Public Works Director Jack Kilduff reported that the town pumped 8,942,976 gallons of water in November and provided updates on water system maintenance, staffing and equipment.[Read More…]
PMC Board approves 2026 budget during special meeting
MEEKER | Last week, the Eastern Rio Blanco County Health Service District’s Pioneers Medical Center (PMC) held a special meeting to approve its 2026 budget and adopt related resolutions. Board Secretary/Treasurer Sherri Halandras, along with board members Wade Bradfield and Jean Gianinetti, attended the meeting. Board President Mark Schryver and[Read More…]
RIO HAPPENINGS: Dec 7-13, 2025
ARRESTS 12/8/2025- Rio Blanco County Sheriff’s Office arrested a 48 year-old female for driving vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, drugs or both and possessing an open marijuana container. She was issued a summons and released to a sober party. 12/14/2025- Rangely PD arrested a 19 year-old male for[Read More…]
COMMUNITY CALENDAR – December 18th, 2025
Blue Christmas Service Friday, Dec. 19 MEEKER | Join Meeker United Methodist Church (368 4th St.) on Friday, Dec. 19, for our Blue Christmas Service at 7 p.m. Christmas can be a difficult time of the year, and the holidays aren’t always merry and bright. If you are carrying grief,[Read More…]
EDITOR’S COLUMN – We could all do with a visit from the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future
“‘There are some upon this earth of yours,’ returned the Spirit, ‘who claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who are as strange to us, and all our kith and kin, as if they had[Read More…]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR – December 18th, 2025
Reminders of Christmas this season Dear Editor: Romans 1:16: “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.” Three special reminders of this verse at this Christmas[Read More…]
LOOSE ENDS: All I want for Christmas
“All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth” is the name of an old, familiar song of the season. It was composed during wartime (1944), which might explain the reason the songwriter stuck to the one gift request, as well as an impossible gift wish for Santa, or[Read More…]
HISTORY LESSONS: G.D. Thayer… not a founder, but a stockholder
George Dana Thayer, AKA G.D. Thayer, or Dana Thayer, was not an original 1883 Meeker Townsite Company member, however, he did become a stockholder by June 1886, where he was listed as secretary of the Townsite Co. and Meeker Town Recorder. Dana Thayer was a retail grocer at Fort Fred[Read More…]
