Tag: Meeker Locals

Meeker Locals: May 8, 2008

MEEKER — You still have a day or so to remember mom! Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 11 this year. Don’t forget to let the moms in your life — biological, adopted, spiritual, in-law, and so forth — know you appreciate them!

Meeker Locals: April 17, 2008

MEEKER — Time for spring cleaning! Every year when the snow finally abandons those final holdouts on the north sides of houses and shady corners, we’re left wondering where all that newly sprouted trash and junk in our yards came from.

Meeker Locals: April 10, 2008

By Harold Tymes Staff Writer MEEKER — So what is a recession, anyway? According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, a recession is defined as “a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP (gross domestic product),[Read More…]

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MEEKER — April Fool’s Day is coming up Tuesday. It’s a good day to give yourself a gullibility test: Do you believe everything you see, hear or read?

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MEEKER — The greeting card. After rummaging through a 20-year-old box of correspondence, filled with greeting cards and handwritten letters, a young family member piped up with, “This was all before e-mail, wasn’t it?”

Meeker Locals: February 21, 2008

By Harold Tymes Staff Writer MEEKER — Leadville, Colo., in Lake County, a mountain community about the same size as Meeker, serves as a reminder this week of the importance of being diligent to demand responsible and ethical methods of extracting our natural resources to protect our environment. Leadville has[Read More…]