With a combined 51 years of service and 127 children served, three CASA volunteers are being recognized for their extraordinary dedication to children in foster care. Dawn Dillon, Bonnie Allison and Dorothy Rinderle have each given more than a decade of their lives to ensure that children in foster care have a voice in court […]
With cooler weather and transition into fall, the City of Grand Junction closed two popular outdoor amenities for the season: the Dos Rios Splash Park and portions of the grass, off-leash dog park at Las Colonias. The Dos Rios Splash Park closed at the end of September after a busy summer that welcomed hundreds of […]
Treasurer technician Arna Hoffman is the new Mesa County treasurer after being appointed by the Board of Mesa County Commissioners to fill the vacant position, according to a Sept. 30 news release from the county. Hoffman succeeds Sheila Reiner, who resigned as county treasurer and public trustee on Sept. 9 to serve as Mesa County’s […]
The City of Grand Junction will host the fourth annual Water Lights at Night on Oct. 11 from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Butterfly Pond at Las Colonias Park. Admission is free. “Water lanterns have been used in many different cultures for thousands of years, and their meaning can be a very personal one,” […]
The Grand Junction Regional Airport was awarded a $38 million grant from the Federal Aviation Administration’s Airport Improvement Program to fund the first phase of pavement construction for a new primary runway, the airport said in a news release. With this grant, the airport has been awarded more than $53 million in AIP grant funding […]
Hawaii Street Food brings its trailer to GJ – to stay Tim Harty, The Business Times Cue Johnny Cash’s “I’ve Been Everywhere” to play in the background before you ask Dante Tripi, a chef who is French classically trained, to list the cities where he has worked in fine-dining restaurants during the past 20-25 years. […]
After weathering adversity, Twisted B’s Soda & Teas soon will operate inside Pinspiration store Tim Harty, The Business Times This spring brought the high of getting a food trailer and what it would allow Twisted B’s Soda and Teas owner Beth Dobyns to do with her new business. Two-and-a-half weeks later, an accident totaled the […]
Brandon Leuallen, The Business Times A new City of Grand Junction task force is taking a closer look at how the community can produce lower-priced, market-rate homes and increase housing inventory. During its first two meetings, the Housing Affordability Task Force defined its roles, elected a chair and vice chair, and began identifying top priorities. […]
Brandon Leuallen, The Business Times The Mesa County Landfill has become the first site in Colorado to test a new technology that automatically monitors and adjusts landfill methane gas wellheads. Developed by Grand Valley Instrumentation of Grand Junction, the Meerkat Monitoring System takes hourly samples, balances wellfield pressure in real time and promises to boost […]
Mesa County and the Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management are inviting local non-agricultural producers and supplier businesses that were impacted by the Turner Gulch Fire to complete a Business Impact Survey to help local, tribal and state authorities better understand the fire’s economic and physical effects on the business community. The survey […]