Colorado Governor Jared Polis visited with Town of Meeker trustees Melissa Kindall, Chris Lockwood, Wendy Gutierrez, Scott Nielsen, Tiffany Jehorek and Travis Day; Rio Blanco County Commissioner Ty Gates; CPW Area Wildlife Manager Bill DeVergie, and CPW Commission member and local outfitter Marie Haskett last Friday at the Meeker Café[Read More…]
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Colorado residents urged to test homes for cancer-causing radon
CDPHE offers low-cost test kits during National Radon Action Month RBC | Gov. Jared Polis has proclaimed January 2022, National Radon Action Month, and the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment urges Colorado residents to test their homes for radon using a low-cost radon test kit. Radon is the[Read More…]
Letter to the Editor: To Polis
Dear Editor: This letter is to Governor Polis. My name is Abigail Morgan. I am a senior studying environmental science at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction, Colorado. I was born and raised in Colorado; specifically, in the town of Meeker. I am writing to let you know that you[Read More…]
Statewide Colorado mask mandate goes into effect Friday, July 17
RBC | Governor Jared Polis is issuing an executive order, effective Friday, July 17, requiring all Coloradans ages 10 and up to wear a mask in indoor public spaces. Announcing a statewide mask requirement for public indoor spaces (like stores & businesses) unless someone has a medical condition or disability[Read More…]
Stay-at-home order shifts to ‘safer-at-home’; stay in if you can
RBC | Monday was the official day for Colorado’s stay-at-home orders to be lifted. Gov. Polis, as expected, shifted the state public health order to a “safer-at-home” version that will allow businesses to begin to open up in stages and with strict precautions. The phased plan for reopening has led[Read More…]
Breaking: Polis issues statewide stay at home order
RBC | Beginning Thursday, March 26 at 6 a.m., Colorado’s 5.7 million residents will be under a stay at home order, limiting all unnecessary travel and events outside the home until at least April 11. Governor Jared Polis cited a large jump in both hospitalizations, which doubled today, and deaths[Read More…]
Polis responds to RBC questions
MEEKER | Jared Polis, Democratic candidate for Colorado governor, made campaign stops across the Western Slope during the Labor Day weekend, including a stop at the Meeker Café early Sunday. Between 20-30 voters—Republican, Democrat and unaffiliated—were in attendance to ask Polis questions about his platform.