A total of more than $750,000 in grants will fund the completion of a trail and a new schoolyard in Mesa County. The Great Outdoors Colorado board of directors awarded a $500,000 grant to the City of Grand Junction to complete the so-called missing link of the Redlands Loop. A $250,362 grant was awarded to […]
Tax collections, one measure of sales activity, continue to increase on a year-over-year basis in Mesa County. The county collected more than $4 million in sales taxes in May, a 3.4 percent increase over what was collected for the same month a year ago. May reports reflect April sales. Mesa County also collected nearly $400,000 […]
A total of nearly 50 presentations, workshops and other events have been scheduled as part of West Slope Startup Week. The free regional business conference is set for July 11 to 15 with virtual events throughout rural Colorado as well as in-person events in Grand Junction. The schedule and additional information about the 2022 West […]
The Area Agency on Aging of Northwest Colorado has scheduled what are billed as three community conversations in the Grand Valley to gather public comments on a four-year area plan on aging. The conversations are set for: 10 a.m. to noon June 24 at the Mesa County Libraries central library at 443 N. Sixth St. […]
The Colorado Workforce Development Council has joined with the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta and Kansas City to offer a new tool to help people make informed decisions about their careers. The Career Ladder Identifier and Financial Forecaster (CLIFF) provides information about: How changes in employment affect public assistance. How work force strategies help workers […]
The latest version of an annual publication is now available to offer information about farmers’ markets, wineries and other agricultural attractions in Colorado. The Colorado Department of Agriculture publishes the Colorado Farm Fresh Directory. The 2022 edition is also available in Spanish. “The Farm Fresh Directory gives Colorado locals and visitors a guide to the […]
A measure of optimism among small business owners has edged down on increasingly pessimistic expectations for the economy. “Small business owners remain very pessimistic about the second half of the year as supply chain disruptions, inflation and the labor shortage are not easing,” said Bill Dunkelberg, chief economist of the National Federation of Independent Business. […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Michael Ligrani pulls out his smartphone to make a point. He could use his phone to make calls, check his email or complete countless other tasks. But using the software Ligrani’s company has developed, he also could control a natural gas field located nearly anywhere in the world. As co-founder […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Speeches, a marching band and, of course, shovels scooping dirt ceremoniously launched construction of a new Grand Junction High School. Even as the groundbreaking took place on what was a baseball field, heavy equipment nearby already had broken ground on the $144.5 million project on the northeast portion of the […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Robinson Theater constitutes a special place for Doug Simons, who not only performed in musical and theatrical productions as a student at what’s now Colorado Mesa University, but also met there the woman he fell in love with and married. Returning to the stage more than four decades later for […]