Brandon Leuallen, The Business Times Why was GJ Auto Sales selected as the site for the Colorado Department of Transportation’s Downtown Grand Junction Mobility Hub when other nearby options existed, including city and county-owned land? Neither CDOT nor the City of Grand Junction has answered that question, despite multiple requests by The Business Times. However, […]
United Way of Mesa County is expanding its United to Solve Homelessness initiative through a three-pronged approach to address the growing needs of the unhoused population and the community at large. The expansion includes the launch of a centralized homelessness hotline, a new mobile outreach van, and the release of the 2025 ALICE Report (Asset […]
HopeWest announced its hospice program achieved a deficiency-free result in its most recent Hospice Certification and Licensing Survey conducted by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. The unannounced survey included a thorough review of operations, patient care and compliance standards, HopeWest said in a news release. A team of CDPHE surveyors conducted the […]
Grand Valley Power announced the recipients of its 2025 scholarship and youth-leadership programs. Its selection committees chose nine students to receive college scholarships, three students to attend the 2025 Cooperative Youth Leadership Camp and Washington D.C. Youth Tour, one recipient of the CMU Tech Electric Lineworker Scholarship. Grand Valley Power awarded a total of $22,000 […]
An abandoned piece of land in Cedaredge is about to be transformed into a Veteran’s Monuments Park by the Support Our Soldiers Foundation. The foundation, founded by Cathy Meskel, secured the property at 100 SE Buffalo Ave. as the permanent home for the park, where it will display 13 marble monuments honoring the service and […]
RiversEdge West received a $19,998 grant from the Colorado Watershed Assembly Healthy Rivers Fund to support its Western Slope River Stewardship program. This funding will help RiversEdge West build on years of successful community-driven river restoration in Mesa County while expanding efforts to include Montrose County. “Our rivers are healthiest when we care for them […]
The Grand Mesa Arts & Events Center will host The Grand Mesa Writers’ Symposium on Aug. 8-10 at 195 W. Main St. in Cedaredge. The symposium will feature large and small group presentations by award-winning and best-selling writers who specialize in fiction, nonfiction and poetry. The featured writers are Colorado residents, including novelist Shelley Read, […]
ABC Storage Inc. signed on as a U-Haul neighborhood dealer to serve the Grand Junction area, U-Haul Co. of Colorado announced in a news release June 12. ABC Storage, 2546 W. Pinyon Ave., will offer essential services such as U-Haul trucks, trailers, towing equipment and moving supplies. Normal business hours are 8 a.m. to 4 […]
The Palisade Chamber of Commerce said the 2025 Palisade Peach Festival is looking for volunteers to work the event Aug. 14-16. Volunteers are needed for jobs such as helping with festival logistics, greeting guests, supporting sustainability efforts and assisting at events around town. All volunteers will receive: a weekend festival ticket; commemorative festival cup; a […]
Tim Harty, The Business Times You can find ColoradoCool Apparel’s T-shirts, hoodies, ball caps, beanies, stickers, magnets, tapestries and posters in more than 200 stores in Colorado. Plus, ColoradoCool leases 10-foot-by-10-foot consignment booths inside seven stores inside malls on the Front Range. That’s pretty good growth for a Grand Junction-based wholesale company that CEO and […]