The St. Mary’s Hospital Foundation in Grand Junction has received a $200,000 grant to support speech and language therapy services for children. The Scottish Rite Foundation of Colorado, a nonprofit organization that supports child speech and language services, awarded the grant to the foundation. The grant will fund speech and language therapy services for children […]
A festival celebrating bees and honey is scheduled to return to the Grand Valley. The 13th annual Palisade International Honeybee Festival is set for April 9, returning after a two-year hiatus because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The festival will be located in a couple of blocks where Main and Third streets intersect at the Town […]
The City of Fruita is among the latest recipients of funding for tourism-related projects that enhance the experiences of visitors to Colorado. Fruita received a $20,000 tourism management grant from the Colorado Tourism Office, a division of the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade. Fruita plans to use the funding to construct 3 […]
More concerned about international conflicts, inflation and supply chain issues, Colorado business leaders are less optimistic heading into the next three months. The Leeds Business Confidence Index dropped to 53.9 for the second quarter. That’s 4.1 points lower than the reading for the first quarter and 10.5 points lower than the reading for the second […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Two trends continue to diverge in the Mesa County real estate market. While the number of transactions decreases, the dollar volume of those sales increases. Local industry observers attribute the drop in transactions to low inventories and the effects of higher interest rates on mortgages. But strong demand continues to […]
An increase in payrolls and decrease in unemployment has pushed the United States labor market closer to pre-pandemic levels. Nonfarm payrolls grew 431,000, and the jobless rate declined two-tenths of a point to 3.6 percent in March, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates. With the latest numbers, payrolls remain 1.6 million below […]
An economics professor is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at an upcoming event exploring issues related to economic development in Western Colorado. Nathan Perry, an associate professor of economics at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction, will present the luncheon address at the Western Colorado Economic Summit. The Grand Junction Economic Partnership has scheduled […]
The Junior Service League of Grand Junction has awarded a total of more than $50,000 in grants to the Community Hospital Foundation. A $31,229 grant will help support construction of a new medical office building and the James Pulsipher Regional Cancer Center, scheduled for completion in 2023. A $20,000 grant will support patient care for […]
A monthly measure of consumer confidence has rebounded on more optimistic assessments of current business and labor conditions. Expectations for the near future were less upbeat, however, as concerns mounted over higher gasoline prices and the war in Ukraine. “These headwinds are expected to persist in the short term and may potentially dampen confidence as […]
Grand Junction author Terri Benson has written a new novel titled “The Pickup Artist.” The novel, the first in the Bad Carma Mystery series, is scheduled for release April 1 in print and ebook through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other bookstores. A book signing is set for 2 to 4 p.m. April 16 at […]