St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction has deployed a new imaging system that makes less invasive spinal surgery possible for more patients. The O-arm Imaging System create three-dimensional images as it rotates around a patient during a procedure. “With O-arm technology, more patients undergoing spinal procedures may experience less invasive surgeries, faster recovery times and […]
Applications will be accepted through June 30 for the latest series of grants from the Wells Fargo Community Assistance Fund. The fund was launched in 1993 to offer support to small, nonprofit groups that don’t have the resources to compete with larger organizations for grants. Since then, more than 3,600 grants worth a total of […]
Rib City Grill has enrolled its 50th participant in a rewards program that benefits nonprofit organizations. The Rib City Grill Show Us Your Colors Program awards tokens to customers who purchase food from the barbecue restaurants in Fruita and Grand Junction as well as Glenwood Springs, Montrose and Rifle. Customers give their tokens to enrolled […]
Pinnacol Assurance has scheduled a risk management symposium in Grand Junction as part of efforts to help businesses keep their employees safe and avoid workplace safety enforcement fines. The symposium is set for for June 29. Courses will cover such topics as basic safety management, claims management, fall protection, fraud and worksite wellness programs. The […]
Timberline Bank, a locally owned operation with branches in Grand Junction as well as Montrose and Aspen, has been accepted into the U.S. Small Business Administration Preferred Lenders Program. “Lenders are carefully selected for PLP status based on their successful track record as an SBA lender. As a PLP partner, Timberline Bank will be able […]
I can still remember the day and the feeling. I was sitting in the board room of a local bank about three months after my brother died and I moved to town to take over the Business Times. In a meeting with my family, our business banker and the bank president, the president spoke these […]
Informed people can disagree over whether or not to change the Colorado National Monument to a national park. But it’s difficult to argue the monument doesn’t deserve national park designation — or at least a serious consideration of that possibility. Regardless of how familiar the experience, a trip over Rim Rock Drive as it snakes […]
An up and down measure of consumer confidence is down again on more pessimistic assessments of present and future business and labor conditions. The Conference Board reported that its Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) dropped more than five points in May to 60.8. The index has seesawed between gains and losses since February, but now stands […]
A monthly index tracking business conditions in Colorado has rebounded to its highest level in nearly a year on continued growth in the energy sector and exports. The Business Conditions Index jumped more than nine points in May to 62.9. That’s the highest reading since the index stood at 68.4 in June 2010. The index […]
Sales and use tax collections continue to rise in Mesa County and the latest reports from county and municipal governments indicate collections remain ahead of last year’s pace. Mesa County reported $2.96 million in sales tax collections in April, a nearly 6 percent increase over the same month in 2010. So far for 2011, the […]