Dear Editor: How long does it take for an idea to come to a possibility then to a reality? How about almost three years. Many times ideas are discussed around a table of good food and conversation then the seed has been planted and someone takes the idea and makes[Read More…]
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NEWS NOTES: July 14, 2022
OHV poker run this saturday RBC | The Wagon Wheel OHV Club’s annual poker run is set for this Saturday, July 16. Meet at Lake Avery and follow the posted signs. Card sales start at Station 1 at 9 a.m and end at 11 a.m., and are to be submitted[Read More…]
Repairs to Lake Avery dam slated to begin in 2023
RBC | Discussion of expanding Lake Avery — aka Big Beaver Reservoir – has been going on since shortly after its construction, Area Wildlife Manager Bill deVergie of Colorado Parks and Wildlife told a packed room at Smoking River Brewing Co. Tuesday. White River Alliance organized the presentation to discuss[Read More…]
POLIS VISIT …
Colorado Governor Jared Polis visited with Town of Meeker trustees Melissa Kindall, Chris Lockwood, Wendy Gutierrez, Scott Nielsen, Tiffany Jehorek and Travis Day; Rio Blanco County Commissioner Ty Gates; CPW Area Wildlife Manager Bill DeVergie, and CPW Commission member and local outfitter Marie Haskett last Friday at the Meeker Café[Read More…]
Rangely town board update
RANGELY | On June 28, 2022, the Town of Rangely Board of Trustees convened to hold their bi-monthly meeting to conduct town business. It was a particularly eventful meeting with special recognition presented by Chief Hamblin, a presentation by Marketing/Economic Development Coordinator Jeannie Caldwell, and public input. After Mayor Andy[Read More…]
CORNHOLE FOR A GOOD CAUSE …
Cornhole was the game of the day last Saturday at the RBC Fairgrounds during the annual HopeWest fundraiser, which included a cornhole tournament, silent and live auctions. This year’s cornhole tournament attracted more teams, including some professional cornhole players who wrapped up the day’s competition with a point-by-point nailbiter. Following[Read More…]
Golden Spade Awards – June 2022
Rangely’s Golden Spade Awards for June were presented to Conrado and Celia Quezada for their Best Residential Yard at 218 S. White Ave, Jesus Guzman and Adriana Vasquez for their Most Improved property at 121 Foothill, and Silver Sage RV Park for Best Business Front. More entry photos below. Congratulations,[Read More…]
HAPPY RETIREMENT …
Christy Whitney Borchard (left) enjoyed receiving a blaze orange ‘Meeker Is Uniquer’ t-shirt to commemorate her retirement as HopeWest CEO. Fellow HopeWest retiree Solveig Olson (right) presented the gift at a party last Thursday at Smoking River Brewing Co., where Borchard was celebrated by family, friends and community members. |[Read More…]
A LEGACY OF SERVICE …
Not pictured, son-in-law Dick Welle, U.S. Navy, Vietnam 1969-73 Courtesy Photos
Obituary: Tim Mantle
Nov. 25, 1938 ~ June 22, 2022 Tim Mantle, 83, of Meeker, Colorado, passed away Wednesday, June 22, 2022, at his ranch located on Piceance Creek. Funeral services will be held July 9, 2022 at 11 a.m., in the grandstands at the Rio Blanco Fairgrounds in Meeker, Colorado. His nephew,[Read More…]
Town discusses strategy after first Just Transition grant request denied full funding by state
MEEKER | Following a disappointing outcome for the Town of Meeker’s first grant application with the Office of Just Transition (OJT), town staff and trustees met with Kirstie McPherson, representing the OJT to discuss strategy moving forward. The Office of Just Transition was established by the State of Colorado “to[Read More…]
EDITOR’S COLUMN: Nostalgia
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins. ~ CARLOS SANTANA Nostalgia is defined as “a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable[Read More…]