The Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce has been recognized by the Western Association of Chamber Executives with the Outstanding Chamber Program Award for Large Chambers for its regional workforce initiative, WestSlope Works. The award goes to chamber programs that demonstrate measurable impact, strategic leadership and the ability to be replicated by chambers across the […]
United Way of Mesa County stayed in house for its next executive director, hiring Cassidy Lujan. The Board of Directors of United Way of Mesa County announced the move in a Feb. 19 news release. Lujan has three-and-a-half years of experience with the organization and most recently served as donor and grants manager. The board […]
Brandon Leuallen, The Business Times The Mesa County Board of County Commissioners will hold a public hearing March 10 on an appeal involving a previously approved solar project near Palisade. It’s a case residents say could influence how fire-protection requirements are applied to future industrial development outside established fire districts. The appeal concerns administrative decision […]
Brandon Leuallen, The Business Times A $600,000 school-finance “glitch” that temporarily threatened Mesa County Valley School District 51’s funding has been corrected through a supplemental bill at the Colorado Capitol, but longer-term budget uncertainty remains, according to the district’s lobbyist. Amy Atwood, who represents District 51 at the state legislature, told the school board during […]
Tim Harty, The Business Times Space has been leased for classrooms. A headmaster has been hired. Students are being sought. Money is being raised. And come August, Grand Junction will have a Catholic high school: Chesterton Academy of St. Carlo Acutis. Brian Sargent, currently a math teacher at Palisade High School, will be the high […]
Fruita Family Dental needed more space, and Lybrook Dental wanted to sell to a dentistry that needed it Tim Harty, The Business Times When Dr. Dane Christensen started thinking about expanding his dental practice, Fruita Family Dental, about a year-and-a-half ago, he experienced something reminiscent of the adage: “When the student is ready, the teacher […]
Colorado Mesa University recently demolished the building that formerly housed Roper Music at 912 North Ave., and the lot will become 23 parking spaces. When the building was there, it had 11 parking spaces. CMU Community Relations and Communications Manager Haley Hahn said the lot now “is a designated Resident Hall Reserved lot to support […]
Don McIntosh, chief technology officer at Grand Junction-based Sky Peak Technologies, was inducted into the Academy of Electrical and Computer Engineers (AECE) at Missouri University of Science and Technology, formerly the University of Missouri-Rolla, during the academy’s annual meeting. The AECE honor represents one of the highest forms of recognition from Missouri S&T, honoring alumni […]
A national program that promotes the work of local authors arrived this week in Grand Junction. The featured author this month is Western Slope novelist and cartoonist Don Benjamin, who is selling and signing his fantasy novel and three cartoon collections Feb. 17-18 at the 24 Road City Market from 1-6 p.m. each day. Benjamin’s […]
Resource navigators with Grand Valley Connects are adjusting their in-person availability at Mesa County Libraries to meet community needs, according to a Feb. 11 news release from the county. While many community members connect by phone or through the website, walk-in services at centralized locations are valuable to those without reliable technology or transportation. “We […]