The Grand Valley Foot and Ankle Center has scheduled a free clinic for Oct. 28 at its facility at 2478 Patterson Road, Suite 1, in Grand Junction. The clinic is set for 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and will offer screenings and exams to nonestablished patients. Appointments will be scheduled on a first-come, first-served basis. […]
A Grand Junction brewery and restaurant operation plans to mark 10 years in business with a week-long celebration that will include a festival featuring seven regional breweries. “It’s hard to believe we have been Kannah Creek Brewing Co. for 10 years,” said Jim Jeffryes, co-owner and head brewer. “We thought, initially, that if we could […]
The Mesa County Workforce Center and Downtown Development Authority play important roles in the Grand Valley singularly in the resources they provide as well as collectively as part of collaborative local efforts to promote economic development. That makes the leadership of the workforce center and DDA just as important. Fortunately, the workforce center and DDA […]
The Mesa County Public Library is among eight libraries in Colorado participating in a pilot program in which people can check out passes for entrance into Colorado state parks. People can reserve and then check out a pass for up to seven days and then renew that time. The pass comes with a backpack filled […]
The City of Grand Junction has earned recognition for its efforts promoting the use of natural gas to fuel vehicles. The city received the 2015 Natural Gas Vehicle Achievement Award during a national conference in Denver. City efforts to use natural gas as a vehicle fuel date back to 2007. The city fleet currently includes […]
Applications will be accepted through 5 p.m. Oct. 30 for grants from the Grand Junction Lions Club. Applications are available on the Grand Junction Lions Club Web site located at www.gjlions.org. Applications also may be picked up at Brown’s Shoe Fit, located at 425 Main Street in downtown Grand Junction. All completed applications must be […]
An expert on global coal markets will share his outlook during a presentation planned for Grand Junction. Steve Doyle, founder and former chief executive officer of a research company that tracks coal from mines to markets across the world, is set to speak at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 5 in the south ballroom of the Colorado […]
A regional economic summit will offer information about branding and promoting communities as well as crowd funding, entrepreneurism and exporting. Utah State University Eastern has joined with the Carbon County Chamber of Commerce and Price City to present the Eastern Utah Economic Summit. The event is set for Nov. 5 and 6 in the Jennifer […]
Colorado Mesa University is moving ahead with plans to construct a computer science and engineering building, including relocating a math and science center to the new facility proposed for the Grand Junction campus. Under an expanded partnership announced by CMU and the John McConnell Math and Science Center, the center will occupy 19,500 square feet […]
A monthly measure of local hotel and motel stays has increased by double-digit proportions for a third consecutive month. According to the Grand Junction Visitor & Convention Bureau report for September, $154,543 in lodging taxes were collected. That’s an increase of 10.4 percent over reported collections for the same month last year. September reports reflect […]