Up and down el Rio Blanco: Getting the paper out

Every Thursday morning Ray Castle Sr. drives to the south end of Rifle to pick up more than 2,000 copies of the Herald Times. He drops them off at the Hugus Building in Meeker, where our office is, before 4 a.m. Also every Thursday my younger brother Joe, Steve Harman and myself meet at 4 a.m. and take the delivered papers into the Hugus Building basement, or what we affectionately call “The Hole,” to insert…