HT STAFF MEEKER | With this issue of the HT we begin our 141st year of continuous community journalism as the second oldest newspaper in Northwest Colorado (the Steamboat Pilot beat us by two weeks because of travel troubles encountered getting the old printing press from Leadville to Meeker by[Read More…]
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My turn
Dear community: In October, nearly 200 people joined together to save the Herald through an absolutely WILD $40,000 donation drive. Six months later, we have tons of new subscribers, 2,000+ newsletter readers, and tens of thousands of visitors to the website each month. People read the paper, y’all. (Sure …[Read More…]
HT, Chamber launch new business FB group
RBC I The Herald Times and Meeker Chamber of Commerce have teamed up to create an online community for local business owners to connect and grow their businesses. Today they will be launching the county’s first business development Facebook group “RBC Business Insiders.” The group will feature marketing and business[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…]
HT studio ready for action
RBC I After almost an entire year of grant writing (thanks especially to the Town of Meeker for the original grant that allowed us to get this project rolling), planning, testing, building, setup, lighting checks, camera configurations, rearranging, and maybe even a few tears, our podcast and live-streaming studio is[Read More…]
Coronavirus Q&A No. 2 transcript
RBC | The HT and RBC Public Health co-hosted a second live Facebook Q&A Monday, April 13. Public Health Director Alice Harvey responded to questions on a wide variety of topics, including the use of ibuprofen, recommendations regarding cloth face masks, herd immunity, and whether or not RBC already had[Read More…]
Herald Times launches updated Web site
RBC — The Herald Times has launched a redesigned Web site, and the new look provides more photos, slide shows and stories for subscribers.