The pandemic confirmed the essential role that small businesses play in our daily lives. It sounds cliché, but locally owned small businesses truly are the heart and soul of our cities and towns. The holiday shopping season is a crucial time for small retailers and restaurants that depend upon the[Read More…]
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Behind the lens: Kaysyn Krystal Photography
MEEKER | Whether you consciously observe the peace, animal life, and operations of the White River Valley, or have become used to it offhandedly, it is unique. Kaysyn Chintala knows this, and works to highlight that through her photography. “I love sharing the western lifestyle, and the stories behind[Read More…]
Business Spotlight: Kelly O. Clark, McDonough Law, LLC
the name of your business? Kelly O. Clark Of Counsel McDonough Law LLC When did you start your business? I have been an attorney for over 30 years. I leveraged my early experience in the oil patch and construction estimating into a diverse legal career stateside and overseas. Most recently,[Read More…]
Sweetbriar turns 25!
RANGELY I In November of 2021, Rangely’s small town gift shop, Sweetbriar, turned 25. The best smelling place in town, the boutique holds treasures unlike anywhere else in Rangely. Owners Kathy and Gary Staley put their day’s work into making the gift shop feel like home. You will walk in[Read More…]
GRAND OPENING …
Mtn Made Trading Company, Meeker’s newest business located at 610 Main St., celebrated its grand opening and open house on Friday, March 11. Owners Kaysyn Davis and Mayda Southern opened Mtn Made Trading Company to provide a variety of handmade and small business associated retail items. The Meeker Chamber of[Read More…]
Giovanni’s changes hands
RANGELY I In the early 1970s John Payne’s restaurant career began as a dishwasher at Garramone’s Pizzeria and Italian Restaurant in Lakewood, Colorado. He soon discovered a love for cooking and pizza-making as well as love for his beautiful high school sweetheart, Sandy. They married in 1975. Tony Garramone taught[Read More…]
Editor’s Column: What we lose when we lose local
The news that Meeker was losing its independent, family-owned pharmacy, saddened me. I’m old enough to remember being able to call my family doctor at home late at night or on the weekends when we had a medical crisis and getting personal “telemedicine” the old-fashioned way. And there was rarely[Read More…]
Raise a glass to Glou Glou
MEEKER I Vanessa Trout is no stranger to the business world. As the current owner of Blanco Cellars, The Little Cheese Shop, and now her patio Glou Glou, she has brought many shopping opportunities to the community. As a result, she is broadening her customers’ horizons with every purchase. Glou[Read More…]
GRAND OPENING …
Some of the descendants of Rio Blanco County pioneers Link and Fannie Tagert have officially returned to the former Tagert Hardware building at the corner of 6th and Main Street in Meeker.Suzan Pelloni and the Streamline Realty team held a grand opening celebration at the remodeled location on Sunday, July[Read More…]
New spa service to be unveiled Friday at Prescriptions Salon
MEEKER | The award-winning healing potential of whole-body red light therapy is now available to the Meeker community at Prescriptions Salon & Spa. Look and feel your best with medical-grade chronic pain relief and a full menu of spa services. “After my personal experience/success using red light therapy to heal[Read More…]
BACKCOUNTRY OUTPOST …
Joshua Harrison, owner of Backcountry Outpost in Meeker (formerly Wyatt’s Sporting Goods) is happy to build on the solid business foundation established 27 years ago by Stan Wyatt. Harrison, originally from Texas but relocating from Arvada with his wife and daughter, bought the business in April 2021. Suggestions are welcome.[Read More…]
Barber on the run
MEEKER | Jason Boudreaux has a lot of stories to tell. Whether you catch him outside the local Go-Fer Foods, run into him on the street, or sit down for a haircut in his barber chair, you’re sure to hear at least one of them. Growing up in Lafayette, Louisiana,[Read More…]