Your community news roundup: March 7, 2024 Hello everybody! Although my name was on the newsletter last week, it’s really actually me (Caitlin) this time! Thanks so much to our professional and courteous first responders and for all the well wishes, notes, and kindnesses after my accident last Tuesday. As[Read More…]

Your community news roundup: Feb. 29, 2024 Happy Leap Day! Once every four years, except on certain years, we get an extra day on the calendar. In February. Couldn’t the calendar people have picked a better month to add a day to? Like July? The front page. Headlines. Sports digest.[Read More…]

Your community news roundup: Feb. 22, 2024 Happy Friday! Here’s your community news roundup, but FIRST let’s ignore the gaping maw of doom that is reality ( … that’s probably just me/lack of sunshine … ) and talk about the REALLY important issues. The front page. Headlines. Milestones. This week[Read More…]

Your community news roundup: Feb. 15, 2024 Good morning, everyone! If you haven’t had a chance to check out the paper yet, here’s your community news roundup! But first, a meme. The front page. Headlines. Sports digest. Several RBC athletes are currently competing at the state competition! You can keep[Read More…]

Your community news roundup: Feb. 8, 2024 Hi friends! We have just about 2,000 subscribers to this newsletter now, so hello to all the new folks here! 👋 I try very hard NOT to think about how many people actually read this email because it gives me ridiculous anxiety ([Read More…]

Your community news roundup: February 1, 2024 Greetings and Happy Groundhog Day, or, for those of us in Rio Blanco County, Happy Yellow-Bellied Marmot Day! Our marmots are *supposed* to be hibernating until April or May, but we’ve had at least TWO confirmed sightings during our weirdly warm weather. Here’s[Read More…]

Your community news roundup: Jan. 25, 2024 Hi again … We are sending out the newsletter early this week because I accidentally just emailed EVERYONE a copy of a story we wrote this week, instead of publishing it to the website like I was trying to do … Don’t you[Read More…]

Your community news roundup: Jan. 18, 2024 Hallo, everyone! If you’re new here, welcome! This is our weekly newsletter, where I wax poetic about all things Rio Blanco County … except there’s not really much waxing, and there’s very little poetry. There IS a lot of fresh community news, though![Read More…]

Hello dear readers! I hope you haven’t gotten whatever germ is going around, but if you have, I’m raising my 47th mug of tea to your restored health, and mine. I have been sick with this bug for what feels like forever. Even so, there’s no days off in community[Read More…]

We made it! Happy New Year! We have lots of news to get to, but FIRST I’m super excited to announce the return of Rio Blanco County News! If you prefer your news in audio form, you can take a listen here or at the link at the bottom of[Read More…]

Hello dear readers! It’s officially the week when we can’t tell what day … or year … it is. Date disorientation plus nose-hair freezing cold, a sprinkle of holiday drama, and some sad events have left me pretty *checks thesaurus* … phlegmatic? Listless? Apathetic? One of those. HOWEVER, there’s been[Read More…]

Merry Christmas!🎄 Merriest Christmas wishes from all of us at the Herald! The front page. The Lyttle Project. The Lyttle Project is live! Thank you for helping us launch a wonderful sustainability initiative for our treasured community newspaper. 🖤🗞️ Learn more here.