RBC I As of Tuesday, Aug. 31, one additional death due to COVID-19 had been reported in the county, with 14 new reported cases and one new hospital admission. Total Cases to Date: 784 Meeker Active: 12 Rangely Active: 11 Current Hospitalized RBC: 1 Total Hospitalized: 63 School District Meeker:[Read More…]
Tag: COVID-19
The long haul
RANGELY I Thanksgiving dinner preparations were underway last November when Rangely’s Wendi Gillard noticed she couldn’t smell the homemade cranberry sauce simmering on the stove or the turkey roasting in the oven. Or anything else. Gillard thought maybe she was just used to the cooking smells from being in the[Read More…]
RBC: 18 active COVID-19 cases
RBC I As of Monday, Rio Blanco County was reporting 18 active COVID-19 cases in Rangely and five active cases in Meeker. Twelve of those were new cases reported between Aug. 16-22. Two RBC residents are currently hospitalized with the disease. No new deaths have been reported. Approximately 40.7% of[Read More…]
Letter: Alternative view to recent COVID opinions
Dear Editor: I hope this letter is printed in order to present an alternative view to recent opinions. COVID is a real illness and can be deadly to some. That is fact. The views that have been presented in this section recently, veer away from fact at this point. They[Read More…]
Loose Ends: Uncomfortable Conversations
MEEKER I I recently heard someone say, “Nobody asks questions anymore.” The implication was that people hated the real answer, so they just barreled ahead without stopping to consider the consequences. The people who believed that fake news could be applied to the reporting of verifiable facts began to drown[Read More…]
COVID-19 cases down
RBC I COVID-19 cases in Rio Blanco County as of Monday, August 9, were as follows: • Total Cases to Date: 741 • Meeker Active: 8 • Rangely Active: 5 • Current Hospitalized RBC: 1 • Total Hospitalized: 59 • Deaths: 4 VACCINE CLINICS The COVID-19 vaccine is now available[Read More…]
Kaye’s Corner: Get vaccinated, PLEASE
MEEKER I Recent numbers show that Rio Blanco County is one of the least vaccinated in the state of Colorado and now swarming with new cases, including deaths from COVID. Since it doesn’t cost you a penny to get the vaccine and is incredibly easy locally, please just do it[Read More…]
18 COVID cases, 2 hospitalized
RBC I The COVID-19 weekly update as of Monday, Aug. 2, is as follows. Total Cases to Date: 734 Meeker Active: 15 Rangely Active: 3 Current Hospitalized RBC: 2 Total Hospitalized: 59 Deaths: 4 Approximate percent of eligible population vaccinated with at least one dose (now 12 and up): 38.7% [Read More…]
25 new COVID-19 cases
RBC I As of Monday, July 26, there were 25 new COVID-19 cases in the county in the last week. There were four new hospital admissions in the last week (July 18-25) and two were still hospitalized as of Monday. According to the RBC Public Health Department, approximately 20% of[Read More…]
Meeker School District’s COVID guidelines
MEEKER I The Meeker School District’s Board of Education held a special meeting Monday to approve the verbiage of a letter to be sent to parents next week regarding COVID-19 mitigation for the 2021-22 school year. A handful of parents were present to take a position against mandatory masking or[Read More…]
Letter: Meeker School District board encourages COVID vaccinations
Dear Editor: School will be starting soon. We anticipate a full year of learning in our classrooms, but the coronavirus persists in our community and it may yet disrupt activities. Following established public health recommendations, we encourage eligible students to be vaccinated against the SARS-CoV-2 virus for the beginning of[Read More…]
Editor’s Column: Here we go again
We’re apparently very slow learners. A year and a half into a global pandemic we’re circling around into another wave of illness thanks to a variant of COVID-19. This shouldn’t come as a surprise. We were warned, and we’ve watched it unfold with heartbreaking devastation around the world. If we[Read More…]
