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 […]
Brandon Leuallen, The Business Times Plans to finalize protected bike lanes on Fourth and Fifth Streets this summer could cost the City of Grand Junction additional money in curb cut work and remove more downtown parking spaces. That raises a broader conversation about the cost of implementation and the city’s downtown parking system, including the […]
Tim Harty, The Business Times Seeking permanence and a place where its therapists and clients can thrive led Thrive Marriage & Family Counseling to say good-bye to leasing and hello to owning. Thrive Marriage & Family Counseling’s founder Chantel Landeros bought the building, a 117-year-old house at 827 Grand Ave. in downtown Grand Junction, renovated […]
Teresa Mays put Hedge Company up for sale in October last year, knowing she will retire once her precious-metals brokerage at 225 N. Fifth St., Suite 514, gets sold. That was a tough decision to make, because: She loves the work she does as a bullion broker, selling and buying gold, silver, platinum and palladium […]
Colorado National Monument Association announced a new collaboration with Denver-based distillery Leopold Bros. The distillery has crafted a special whiskey called “Monument Canyon Trail,” with 10 percent of every bottle sold benefiting CNMA and its work supporting Colorado National Monument. Monument Canyon Trail whiskey will soon be available in stores across Colorado and for online […]
Local nonprofit Foundation for Cultural Exchange will make cultural delegation trips Aug. 1-9 and Dec. 4-9 to Grand Junction’s sister city in El Salvador, El Espino. The focus of the August trip is promoting cultural understanding and building relationships between Western Slope travelers and residents of El Espino and is geared for a more adventurous […]