The Cowboy softball team traveled to Eagle last Friday to play Battle Mountain. Both the varsity and JV came away with victories. The varsity team was led by senior Reagan Hafey who went four for four at the plate, with two doubles and five RBIs. Hafey also pitched three solid[Read More…]
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Cowboy volleyball heads into HoCo matches
With only one game this week, Meeker volleyball got a small reprieve before homecoming. “Oh, how nice it was to relax a little this week,” began head coach Greg Cravens. The JV and C Team went to Baggs on Tuesday; C Team won in two, and JV played a three[Read More…]
BMS XC runs on home course
Saturday morning was a beautiful day for a junior high cross country meet. The Cowboy athletes prepared the course Friday morning with a multitude of colorful flags starting outside the track, through the middle school practice fields, over to the Rec Center and finishing on the track. To assure no[Read More…]
CNCC rodeo team ready for fall
The CNCC rodeo team is back up and going for the Fall 2022 college rodeo season. The team competed in its first rodeo of the season on Sept. 9-10 in Cedar City, Utah, with a new group of freshmen. The second rodeo of the season was in Pocatello, Idaho, last[Read More…]
Granger sworn in at Sept. 13 Rangely meeting
The Rangely Board of Trustees met on Sept. 13 with no public hearings or public input. During the meeting, the Board accepted the resignation of Trustee Alisa Granger. Before the meeting, the Board interviewed candidate Ron Granger to take her seat and swore him in at the end of the[Read More…]
Town previews 2023 budget
Town of Meeker Trustees got a glimpse of the 2023 draft budget Tuesday for preliminary discussion. The budget will be presented to the public in October. The draft budget includes a wage increase for staff to keep up with cost of living. Increases in health insurance, retirement, etc., indicate higher[Read More…]
PMC Sleep Center receives full AASM accreditation
The Sleep Center at Pioneers Medical Center (PMC) has recently received full accreditation from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM). The AASM is the only professional society dedicated exclusively to the medical subspecialty of sleep medicine. It sets standards and promotes excellence in sleep medicine health care, education and[Read More…]
Marjorie Bradbury Smith
1931 ~ Sept. 2, 2022 Marjorie Smith, 91, of The Neighborhood in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, and recently of Salida, Colorado, died Friday, Sept. 2, 2022, while under the care of UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center after a short illness. Born in 1931 in Richmond, Virginia, she was the daughter[Read More…]
Death Notice: Doris S. Layton
Oct. 2, 1930 ~ Sept. 16, 2022 Doris S. Layton of Meeker died Friday, Sept. 16 at the Walbridge Wing. She was 91. Doris was born Oct. 2, 1930 in Raymondville, Missouri, to the late Otis and Mary (Copeland) Smallwood. Doris and her husband, George were ranchers. He preceded her in[Read More…]
Is your information diet well-balanced?
In 1951, Richard Lyttle, son of Meeker Herald’s founder James Lyttle, served as president of the board for the Colorado Press Association. Last weekend at the first in-person convention we’ve had in two and half years, I was honored to step into that role for the coming year. The Colorado[Read More…]
Letters to the Editor: Sept 22, 2022
EDITOR’S NOTE: While we have not had a formal policy for fact-checking letters, we do reject letters that include obvious falsehoods and libelous statements. Sometimes falsehoods aren’t obvious, and libel is a sticky wicket when it comes to political candidates, but we feel it necessary to alert our readers that[Read More…]
Spaghetti trees and other tricks
In 1957 on April 1, the BBC broadcast a three-minute report on their current affairs program. The television program featured a family in Southern Switzerland harvesting a bumper crop of spaghetti from their Spaghetti Trees. This black and white TV segment aired in Great Britain to an audience of about[Read More…]
