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…]
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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…]
Letter: Goodbye from pharmacy
Dear Editor: Oh boy, I knew this was going to be hard but I didn’t realize how hard! It’s extremely difficult to say all this out loud for my beloved Meeker community to hear. My mind cannot articulate the words my heart wants to share. All who know me understand[Read More…]
Letters to the Editor: Thank yous
Thank you Dear Editor:I would to take this time and thank the Ranger, the deputy sheriffs, ambulance crew, Laura Smith and her helper, and family and friends for just being there. Also for all the flowers, food, cards and calls that I have received during a very difficult time. Wanda[Read More…]
Obituary: Thomas Lester Kilduff
May 21, 1947 ~ Dec. 21, 2021 Thomas Lester Kilduff, 74, passed on Dec. 21, 2021. He was born May 21, 1947, in Collbran, Colorado, to the late Howard Kilduff and the late Erma Dunn. Tom attended primary school in Meeker. By middle school, Tom had moved with his parents[Read More…]
Ice fishing guidelines for anglers
RBC | There probably is no such thing as “safe” ice, but there are some guidelines anglers should consider. In Colorado, ice conditions can vary from lake to lake. Along the Front Range, it is especially important that anglers check ice conditions before heading out because of the region’s notoriously[Read More…]