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Guest Column: West trends toward super drought
Colorado’s southeast plains have turned into a swirling dust bowl. Nevada is relocating herds of wild horses and cattle off parched federal rangelands. The Wyoming Weather Modification Pilot Program...
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Rifle Police Department & Garfield County Sheriff’s Office Crime Report -...
Editor’s note: The Rifle Police Department and Garfield County Sheriff’s Office reports the following incidents and arrests. Summonses or arrests merely indicate an accusation, and the defendant is...
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Two pot growers get Rifle OK, seek state permits
Two new marijuana cultivation operations received approval from the Rifle Planning Commission on Tuesday, Oct. 29, and will now seek state permits before opening their new businesses. Conditional use...
View ArticleCitizen Telegram Calendar of Events - Oct. 31, 2013
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Photos: Halloween carnival fun at Wamsley Elementary School in Rifle
Wamsley Elementary School in Rifle held its carnival and family night on Thursday, Oct. 24. Students got to trick or treat at classrooms, with each treat containing a fun fact about the school’s goals...
View ArticleGuest Column: Amendment 66: not a windfall but good for Garfield School...
By now, you have likely seen advertisements for Amendment 66 on TV, in the paper and in your mailbox. Amendment 66 is the ballot initiative asking for an increase in personal income taxes to support...
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McKibbin’s Scribblin’s: Don’t mess with this werewolf (make-up)
Some say Christmas is for kids, but isn’t that even more the case with Halloween? As I’ve written before, it’s one of those gray areas to me. I seem to have a lot of them the older I get. I like to...
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Rifle doc talks real life medical experiences to students
From pulling a middle-of-the-night prank on his college dean, to helping provide medical care after natural disasters and while with a SWAT team, Grand River Health Dr. Michael Duerhssen told about 30...
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Rifle resident’s eyes opened by flood damage on Front Range
Kalina Granville of Rifle likely has many life experiences ahead of her. But the 20-year-old already has one that will probably be at the forefront of her memory for years to come, after spending...
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Photos: Cleaning out the photo files
Since snowflakes fell this week in Rifle and area environs, we thought it might be a good idea to let you enjoy some photos taken this past summer that didn’t make it to print. At the end of winter,...
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Citizen Telegram Obituaries - Oct. 31, 2013
Rollo “Bud” Meeks April 27, 1926 - Oct. 21, 2013 Rollo “Bud” Meeks, 87, was born the son of Alfred and Nellie Meeks on April 17, 1926 in Meeker, Colo. He passed away at his Cortez home on Oct. 21,...
View ArticleCitizen Telegram Letters to the Editor: Denomy the best, what the GOP should...
Best candidate We have known Mary Ellen Denomy both professionally and personally for more than 10 years. She is professional, intelligent, thorough and loyal. She has the best interests of the...
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From the publisher: I’m late, but getting around
Week two allowed me to begin to find the time to get around a bit in the community. It seems no matter where I go, I’m always a few minutes late. I fear I may earn the nickname, “A few minutes late.”...
View ArticleGarfield County Sheriff’s Office Crime Report - Oct. 31, 2013
Editor’s note: The Garfield County Sheriff’s Office reports the following incidents and arrests. Summonses or arrests merely indicate an accusation, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless found...
View ArticleShirley Parks anxious to start Garfield School District Re-2 work
A former longtime Garfield School District Re-2 employee won a close race for the District A school board seat in Rifle, according to unofficial final returns in the Tuesday, Nov. 5, general election....
View ArticleCitizen Telegram Calendar of Events - Nov. 7-13, 2013
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View ArticleGarfield County Sheriff’s Office Crime Report - Nov. 7, 2013
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Energy savings efforts earns award for Rifle sewer plant staff
Solar power supplies all the electrical needs – and then some – for the Rifle Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant in West Rifle, but it’s even more efficient now, thanks to the efforts of plant’s...
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