PRESS RELEASE | Special to the Herald Times RBC | The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) today released guidance for organized sports including organized youth recreational and adult amateur leagues, club sports, interscholastic, and other organization-sponsored athletics. The guidance includes information for each phase of the State’s[Read More…]
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Perspectives on the new Meeker High School building
From an MHS alumnus … By Jay Sullivan | 1967 MHS Graduate Fifty-three years ago, I graduated from Meeker High School. Yesterday I went back for a sneak peak at the future of education. One member of our tour crowd asked, “Are you feeling nostalgic?” We were standing in front[Read More…]
Panther football officially underway
RANGELY | Panther Football is officially underway Thursday and the Panthers are excited and have good reason to be. With 10 players who started on one side of the ball or the other last year the team is ready to go. Rangely had an early out in the playoffs last[Read More…]
Editor’s Column: A long way to go
Fight for the things that you care about. But do it in a way that will lead others to join you. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg It’s hard to believe that just 50 years ago, a woman couldn’t get a credit card without having her husband co-sign the application, could be[Read More…]
Writers on the Range: A clear warning about the Colorado River
RBC | For the West this summer, the news about water was grim. In some parts of California, it didn’t rain for over 100 days. In western Colorado, the ground was so dry that runoff at first evaporated into the air. And in New Mexico and Nevada, the rains never[Read More…]
Letters to the Editor: Sept. 24, 2020
No dispatch shift Dear Editor: In reference to shifting the county’s dispatch to the regional call center in Craig, the commissioners were overwhelmingly responded to with negative public input. Rightly so! I witnessed a classic example this past weekend on County Rd. 8. I don’t know any details of the[Read More…]
Golf wraps season
MEEKER | The Cowboy golf season has wrapped up for 2020 at the close of the regional tournament. This year’s team was Peter Hanks, John Hampton Hightower, Ryan Phelan and Ryan Sullivan. The tournament itself is only one day long but the team gets an opportunity for a practice round[Read More…]
Rangely Chamber hires Webber for executive director position
RANGELY | McKenzie Webber is the new face of the Rangely Area Chamber of Commerce after the executive director position was vacated by Richard Smith. Webber spent the summer as an intern at the Town of Rangely helping promote the town and town events with marketing coordinator Jeannie Caldwell. She[Read More…]
OLD GLORY FLIES HIGH AT COAL CREEK …
With the assistance of White River Electric Association, the Rural Schools Committees of the Rio Blanco County Historical Society installed a flag pole at Coal Creek school. You can visit the school and check out the new flag, as well as all the other renovations the committee has completed, at [Read More…]
Obituary: Joe Papez
Oct. 12, 1934 ~ Sept. 15, 2020 Longtime Meeker resident, Joe Papez passed away on Sept. 15, 2020, at Pioneers Medical Center. He was 85. Upon Joe’s request, private family services are being held. He retired from the Division of Wildlife with many years of service. He is survived by[Read More…]
Tuesday, Sept. 29 marks 141st anniversary of “Meeker Incident”
MEEKER | Tuesday, Sept. 29 will mark the 141st anniversary of the “Meeker Incident” (https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/meeker-incident). That sad day in early autumn was the culmination of more than a decade of rising tensions between the Utes and the federal government after six Ute tribes signed a treaty in 1868 ceding their[Read More…]
Interview with Karl Hanlon
RBC | Long time northwest Colorado resident and Glenwood Springs-based attorney Karl Hanlon is running for Colorado’s 8th Senate District this election. The district encompasses six counties in northwest Colorado, including Rio Blanco County. Karl Hanlon described SD8 as large and diverse, noting that resort communities like those in Garfield[Read More…]
