Meeker News

Longtime Meeker rancher Bart Strang died Dec. 3, 2009 at Pioneer Hospital in Meeker.

The business and circulation offices will be closed on Thursday and Friday this week.

Local emergency-response teams benefited last weekend from three days of training funded by a $74,000 grant from ExxonMobil.

MILITARY APPRECIATION MONDAY, 5-9 p.m. at the Golden Corral, 3035 S. 23rd Ave., Greeley.

Rocky Mountain pipeline completes run from Colorado to Ohio The final leg of the Rockies Express Pipeline, a $6.7-billion pipeline that stretches 1,700 miles from its origin in Meeker, Colo., through Wyoming and then east to its terminus in Clarington on Ohio's eastern border is now done.

An article in the Denver Post has questioned how many jobs have actually been created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

The family of John "Ed" Wiebers of Fleming, is requesting a card shower in honor of his 80th birthday on Nov.

Williams Cos. Inc. said Tuesday that a 26.4-mile natural gas transmission pipeline is in service in the state.

Just as work on a series of wildlife safety improvements along Highway 82 between Glenwood Springs and Carbondale are nearing completion, a local advocate for further protections will have the ear of Rep.

Fossils are all around us here in western Colorado, though they may be hard to see.

Wesley Miller and Tracy Roedell were united in marriage Oct. 16 along the White River above Meeker.

A $13 million project for rebuilding a stretch of Colorado Highway 13 between Rifle and Meeker has been suspended for the winter months, state highway officials said Thursday.

In December 1869, Nathan Meeker's article "A Western Colony," which solicited recruits for a new temperance and agricultural community in Colorado Territory, appeared in The New York Tribune.

Summit County Government's Open Space and Trails Department held its sixth annual Volunteer Recognition Evening on Oct.

Molly, owned by Jim Swift of Grand Junction, tests her skills during sheep dog trials Friday morning at the Strang Ranch in Missouri Heights.

Oct 13th 2009 at 9:01AM Golfer Greg Norman hasn't sold off the real estate from his last marriage but he seems to already be facing divorce and some more real estate transitions.

Fourth-generation Colorado native, born and raised in Glenwood Springs, graduating from Glenwood Springs High School.

The U.S. Forest Service is facing chronic turnover in the White River National Forest and needs to provide affordable housing to ease the problem, according to the new forest supervisor.

The Old Cardiff Schoolhouse hosts musicians Melody Hartman and Ashton Taufer, playing folk, bluegrass and R&B, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept.

The Utes are expected to return to northwestern Colorado in substantial numbers this weekend - to dance, feast, share their culture and food with visitors who attend the Smoking River Pow Wow, and to remember their ancestors, who for so long called this part of Colorado home.