Highlights from the August 4, 2022 print edition of the Rio Blanco Herald Times
100 years ago the meeker herald wrote “We have finally located the meanest man in town. He stumbled upon a fine large “cache” of the stuff that makes things look bright, in the county road machinery building, last Sunday evening, but instead of putting a select few of his friends “next” as he should have done, goes and tells the wrong people, with the result that the exhilarating fluid fell into alien hands, as it were.”
For more enigmas, or to prove that the more things change, the more they stay the same, take a gander at the Day’s Gone By section, somewhere in the paper. Where you ask?
You’re just gon’ have ta find out by lookin’ at every single page…maybe you’ll even stumble across some like….news….or whatever. Just stuff going on, ion your general vicinity, funded by your tax dollars….not that any of that matters.
During a special meeting last Friday, RBC Commisioners approved the hiring of two full-time employees for the communications department. The hires will allow the county to take on new broadband customers following the departure of Visionary Broadband, and are expected to generate enough revenue to pay for themselves. https://www.theheraldtimes.com/county-beat-august-2-2022/
Oe’R in Rangely, Town Trustees had a mildly eventful July, though no major decisions were made. Town Trustee Don Davidson expressed concerns about Colorado Senate Bill 21-260, aimed at improving transportation infrastructure in the state, saying that it supports advances on the Front Range at the expense of the Western Slope. https://www.theheraldtimes.com/rangely-trustees-report-for-july-2022/
Meeker Elementary Principal Andi Murphy has resigned, just a few eeks before the start of the 2022-23 school year. Meeker School District superintendent Chris Selle, who has a principal’s license, will act as interim elementary school principal until the right candidate is hired. Barone Middle School will also have a new principal this year, with the first day of school set for August 22. https://www.theheraldtimes.com/changes-coming-to-meeker-school-district/
First responders, family and friends gathered at the 6th Street Field in Meeker on Tuesday to celebrate National Night Out with the community. You can find more pictures on our website.
Local sports are starting back up this Coming Monday, August 8, including cross country, softball and volleyball. Find all the schedule details at opne of the the links in the description, in the sports section, or online. https://www.theheraldtimes.com/cowboy-cross-country-softball-and-volleyball-begin-monday/sports/
One hundred-years after the historic Colorado River Compact allocated 15 million acre feet of water between seven states in the arid west, the situation has grown dire. On June 15, US Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Touton issued a call to action for all seven states in the 1922 Compact to come up with a plan to save 2-4 million acre feet of water.
In response, the upper basin states, made up of Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico and Colorado created a 5 point plan, which among other things, implores lower basin states to take meaningful action to address their overuse of and depletions of Lake Mead and Lake Powell.
That’s Rebecca (Becky) Mitchell, Director of the Colorado Water Conservation Board Upper Colorado River commissioner, speaking at the CLUB 20 policy meeting in Rangely last month. More on the dire state of water shortages and Colorado river compact negotiations in the west are at https://www.theheraldtimes.com/colorado-river-compact-discussed-at-club-20/rio-blanco-county/
