Dear Editor: The staff and residents of the Walbridge Wing would like to send out a big thank you to our wonderful community for the Halloween candy donations. Our residents and the children all had a wonderful experience. Thank you so much for being so generous. Jean Gianinetti Meeker
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Outrage addiction
My grandma used to buy those supermarket “rags” in the checkout line. The over-the-top headlines and doctored photographs were just barely plausible enough you could imagine stories titled “Santa found frozen in chunks of ice,” “Jesus action figure heals the sick” and myriad references to Elvis being alive and well[Read More…]
DAYS GONE BY: November 18, 2021
The Meeker Herald 125 years ago • Not until we know a man’s heart, have we any right to say that we know him. • Suffering often puts into the human voice a tone that seems divine. The Meeker Herald 100 years ago • The first issue of the MHS[Read More…]
Cowboys end season in Buena Vista
MEEKER I For ten seniors on the Meeker Cowboy Football team, the quarter final playoff game was their last high school football game to be played. The seniors this year were Zagar Brown, Damik Chintala, Liam Deming, Zach Eskelson, Ty Goedert, John Hampton Hightower, Porter Hossack, Trinden Powell, Zach Simonsen,[Read More…]
STATE VOLLEYBALL 2021
Volleyball ends season at state tournament MEEKER I Meeker Cowboys Volleyball took the court this past weekend at the Colorado State Championship Tournament at the World Arena in Colorado Springs. Twelve teams qualified from around the state. This is the first year that the tournament had bracketing similar to the[Read More…]
Junior high basketball
The Barone Middle School seventh grade boys basketball team played and won last Saturday in Hayden, maintaining their undefeated status. The BMS eighth-grade boys won one game and lost another. | Matt Scoggins and Tania Valeriano Photos
Chatting with ‘Dandy Dan’
The HT has been on location for the first two showings of Meeker Arts and Cultural Council’s Bugsy Malone Jr. this week. We chatted with seventh-grader Tucker Chinn, AKA dapper gangster Dandy Dan, about the play and the drama program. Here’s a transcript of our short conversation (lightly edited for[Read More…]
Why ‘just say no’ doesn’t work: pathophysiology of addiction
Part 2 By DAVID BERRY, M.D. Founder, providence recovery services Winston Churchill is quoted as saying; “Everyone has an addiction, the key is to find one that is socially acceptable.” As a person in recovery nearly 20 years I can relate to this comment. I spent years trying to find a[Read More…]
Getting to know your community journalists
We’re not cyborgs, we promise! (Sounds like something a cyborg would say, right? ) Take a read through this Q and A to get to know a few of us at the HT. You may have noticed we ran out of room for head shots in the print edition this[Read More…]
Town of Rangely meeting higlights–Oct. and Nov.
Oct. 12 and 26 The Town of Rangely’s Board of Trustees heard the first reading of an amended floodplain management ordinance to align with new recommendations from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). FEMA has changed recommendations to provide higher floodplain management standards to help communities prepare and plan for,[Read More…]
Veterans Day
County Beat: Nov 16 meeting report
PUBLIC HEALTH UPDATE Public Health staff workloads are “at the highest level we’ve seen” according to Director Alice Harvey, who updated the RBC Commissioners in Rangely this week. She said the department was spread thin between testing, vaccination clinics, answering phone calls, contact tracing and other pandemic-related work, in addition[Read More…]