RANGELY | Western Slope League Champions is a phrase that has not been used toward the Rangely High School football team for some time, and that has now changed. By defeating the Gilpin County Eagles Saturday in Rangely to a score of 28-20, the Panthers can now call themselves league[Read More…]
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Rangely Food Bank update
RANGELY | Every day, Food Bank of the Rockies works tirelessly to fight hunger and feed hope throughout Colorado and Wyoming. They provide more than 56 million meals to more than 593,239 individuals every year. They ensure everyone who is food insecure knows they can get the help they need. On Nov. 5 Rangely residents[Read More…]
Commissioners Regular Meeting Nov 17
RBC | In work sessions, the regular board meeting and a Board of Health meeting on Tuesday in Rangely, Commissioner Gary Moyer presided over the meeting while Commission Chair Jeff Rector was quarantined awaiting the results of a COVID-19 test and Commissioner Si Woodruff participated by telephone. Commissioners discussed revisions[Read More…]
County Advertising for Three New & Updated Positions
WORK SESSION: RBC | On Nov. 10 during a work session with Rio Blanco County Board of Commissioners, HT staff met the board to address concerns over allegations of misrepresenting information to the public. Editor Niki Turner started by presenting the commissioners with the HT’s Corrections Policy, stating, “if you[Read More…]
COVID-19: student perspectives
RBC | With the rise in cases, COVID-19 has become a hot topic in the community. There’s talk of it everywhere — stores, school and restaurants. Here at the school there’s a level of uncertainty about whether we have to go home or if we get to stay in school.[Read More…]
Meeker v. Strasburg (livestream only)
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Conservation Corner: Forest health and watershed impacts
Forests play a major role in natural systems. Forests can protect watershed health and function, provide suitable habitat for numerous wildlife species, promote a robust logging industry, provide soil erosion control, supply forage for livestock, and offer endless recreational opportunities. While healthy forests provide these benefits, a mismanaged or unhealthy[Read More…]
Letters to the Editor: Nov. 17 2020
Is this the season to love your neighbor as yourself? Do you remember sneezing and coughing as a child? Your grandmother and mother asked you to cover your mouth so you would not pass on the bugs to somebody else. Your grandmother knew something. Pay attention now.China is forcing their[Read More…]
DEERY ME …
When the hunters go to the forest, the deer go to town. Despite this reverse migration, it’s been a relatively good hunting season in our estimation, with plenty of antler racks poking out of the backs of muddy pick-up trucks downtown. Of course, if you ask any hunter who didn’t[Read More…]
From an ER physician: COVID is no hoax and no joke; an experience to be missed
RBC | Former Pioneers Medical Center emergency room physician Kurt Papenfus, MD, was recently released to his home in Cheyenne Wells to continue recuperating after a week’s stay in a Denver hospital while battling COVID-19. He was interviewed by friend and part-time Meeker resident James Magid by telephone last week,[Read More…]
News Briefs: Nov 17, 2020
ERBM closure due to COVID-19 MEEKER | Due to COVID-19 related staffing concerns, ERBM Recreation & Park District operations and facilities (including the Meeker Recreation Center) will be closed beginning Tuesday, Nov. 17, until further notice. More information, as it becomes available, will be posted at www.ERBMrec.com. Meeker featured in[Read More…]
