School District 51 designated healthy business partner

Mesa County School District 51 has been recognized as a Health Links Certified Healthy Business Partner, a designation that reflects efforts to foster a workplace culture of health and safety. Health Links is a program of the Center for Health, Work and Environment at the Colorado School of Public Health. An online tool assesses participants […]

Commercial real estate firm announces sale of buildings

Bray Commercial has announced the sales of industrial and office buildings in Grand Junction in separate transactions totaling nearly $5 million. Theresa Englbrecht represented the seller and buyer of a nearly 35,000 square-foot industrial building at 2233 Sanford Drive. The seller sold the building for $2.5 million and leased back most of the space from […]

Pinnacle distributes $1.4 million in dividends in Mesa County

Pinnacol Assurance has distributed a total of $1.4 million in dividend checks to nearly 1,900 employers in Mesa County. Nearly 53,000 employers across Colorado received a portion of the $50 million dividend from Pinnacol Assurance, a workers’ compensation insurer in the state. Individual checks averaged $944 and were based on the premium size and performance […]

Family Health West updates branding and logo

Family Health West has updated its branding and unveiled a new logo to better reflect the range of services the Fruita-based health care organization offers. “Our first logo was created over 30 years ago and is a beloved representation of what Family Health West was at that time. Now, with the remarkable growth in services […]

Networks Unlimited expanding to keep pace with growth

Networks Unlimited has added five positions to its staff and plans to add three more in coming months to keep pace with record growth for the information technology services company based in Grand Junction. Mark Swain, president of Networks Unlimited, said the company experienced record growth in 2017, prompting additional staffing. Swain attributed growth to […]

Entrepreneurial stories offer important lessons

Entrepreneurship Day at Colorado Mesa University affords a remarkable opportunity for a business journal, a kind of one-stop shop for stories about successful entrepreneurs and the advice they offer other business owners and managers. The whole point of entrepreneurial stories with happy endings isn’t so much they make everyone feel good, but they offer important […]

Index: Small business optimism wanes, but still high

A monthly measure of optimism among small business owners has retreated but remains near the highest readings in the history of the index. The National Federation of Independent Business reported its Small Business Optimism Index fell 2.9 points in March,  But at 104.7, the latest reading remains high. “Although expected sales and expected business conditions […]

Symposium to explore collaborative efforts

An upcoming symposium in Grand Junction will offer information about how nonprofit organizations can join in collaborative efforts to achieve social changes. The collective impact symposium is scheduled for 8 a.m.. to 4 p.m. April 24 at the Mesa County Workforce Center, located at 512 29 1/2 Road. Admission is $75, which includes breakfast and […]

Study: Twitter users unaware researchers using their tweets

Most Twitter users remain unaware researchers collect and analyze their tweets — including deleted ones. Most Twitter users believe this shouldn’t be allowed without their consent and wrongly assume it would be a violation of Twitter’s terms of service, according to the results of a new study conducted by researchers from University of Colorado at […]