The White River National Forest winter travel season is underway. During the winter season, all wheeled vehicles, including bikes, are limited to plowed routes to protect snow conditions for winter recreation and to protect road quality. “These winter regulations are an important part of keeping the White River National Forest[Read More…]
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Rio Blanco County COVID update
Please visit https://rbc.us/606/COVID-19-Updates for the most current COVID data and trends available for RBC. case counts Total Cases to Date: 1,397 Meeker Active: 12 Rangely Active: 16 New hospitalizations in the last 14 days: 2 Total Hospitalized: 123 School District Meeker: 1 School District Rangely: 1 TOTAL Deaths: 12 Updated[Read More…]
Responsible gun owners need to be heard
I own a closet full of guns. But nowhere in that closet is ammunition. That is locked up elsewhere, reflecting a rule I was taught in childhood. Guns are powerful, even deadly, tools. If you own one, it’s on you to keep it safe. That is what the parents of[Read More…]
Loose Ends: Extra, extra
Growing up in a small town, we always got a newspaper delivered to our front door. It was the main way that we got our news. Most everyone supported the local newspaper by subscribing, as well as advertising their businesses in it as well. The dailies or “big newspapers”, as[Read More…]
Kaye’s Corner: Let’s walk!
Keep up your exercise with an indoor walking/jogging opportunity. The paired efforts of the Rec Center and the Meeker High School are again making available to the community the use of the high school track above the gym. And … it’s free! No registration required. Just check in at the[Read More…]
Rio Blanco Water Conservancy District making progress on rural water project
As you may recall, the Rio Blanco Water Conservancy District (RBWCD) Board of Directors completed a beneficial initial step forward by finalizing a Rural Water Feasibility Study. This report found the project to be feasible with considerable benefits to our community. The project will provide a reliable, high-quality supply of[Read More…]
Black-eyed peas
Call it tradition or superstition, given the course of the first two years of this decade, partaking of some food thought to bring good fortune on the first day of the new year can’t be a bad idea, right? In America, the best-known New Year’s Day good luck dish is[Read More…]
Editor’s Column: Ringing in the new year
I used to be a compulsive resolution-maker. New Year’s Eve was often spent making lengthy lists of goals I hoped to keep in the coming year. Sometimes I even accomplished one or two of them, but the majority of them faded away by the end of January. It’s all well[Read More…]
Getting to know your community newspaper
ONCE UPON A TIME … The first newspaper in what would later become Rio Blanco County was born in Meeker, Colorado on August 15, 1885. Mr. James Lyttle was an Irish immigrant who had worked at a newspaper in Leadville, Colorado. He must have liked the work, because he purchased[Read More…]
New state law aims to replace faded license plates
Drivers will be paying a bit more to renew their license plates in 2022 thanks to a new state law that goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2022. The law (SB21-069) will require drivers to replace old license plates with new ones that are easier for law enforcement to read.[Read More…]
Death Notice: Robert “Bob” L. Ruckman
Jan. 8, 1944 ~ Dec. 27, 2021 Services pending.
Letter: State statement on mental health services
Dear Editor: Ensuring Coloradans have real access to mental and behavioral health care services has been a commitment for the Polis-Primavera administration since day one. Even before the pandemic increased the need for behavioral health services into a crisis, we recognized the need to make significant changes to our behavioral[Read More…]