Phil Castle, The Business Times Kathi Pewters has experienced the difficulties and frustrations of meeting single people in the Grand Valley. Dates set up by well-meaning friends haven’t worked out for the active woman in her 50s, and she’s reluctant to try to meet people in night clubs. She’s not impressed with online dating sites, […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Tim Loncarich has been involved in the procurement process from both sides in searching for government and business contracts and compiling information about those contracts for others. But the serial entrepreneur and former Grand Junction resident hopes to expand the process to a far larger scale in making bid leads […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times John Nelson was looking for a Web site platform that could meet the varied needs of the varied companies he operates — not only in building and hosting Web sites, but also handling commerce, e-mail marketing and social media sharing. What’s more, he wanted something that was affordable. In other […]
The City of Grand Junction has joined more than 90 cities across the country in an initiative to ensure the availability of fast and reliable Internet services. Membership in Next Century Cities is part of efforts to explore options for improved broadband communications following passage of a ballot measure restoring local authority to provide high-speed […]
Four public meetings have been scheduled to hear comments about a plan to transfer land to relocate the primary runway at the Grand Junction Regional Airport. The meetings are part of the process to conduct an environmental assessment of acquiring 188 acres of public land administered by the Bureau of Land Management to move the […]
The farmers’ market in downtown Grand Junction has launched a program designed to involve young entrepreneurs in the weekly event. “There are some great stories within the local community of creative kids launching really cool businesses and we think the downtown farmers’ market, which focuses on local food and art, is a great place for […]
The League of American Bicyclists has recognized the City of Grand Junction with a bronze-level Bicycle-Friendly Community (BFC) award. With the announcement of 42 new and renewing BFCs, Grand Junction joins a group of 350 communities across the United States. “This recognition is timely with the recent re-establishment of the Urban Trails Committee as an […]
The U.S. Small Business Administration has changed a microloan program to increase access and expand the pool of recipients as well as offer more flexibility to nonprofit intermediaries. Among other things, the changes also will make small businesses that have an owner who is on probation or parole eligible for microloan programs, helping individuals with […]
Nearly 50 health and human services programs will receive support from United Way of Mesa County this year after the latest fund-raising campaign raised almost $885,000. “The need in our community is great. We are so thankful for both our loyal donors and new ones. We believe each of the nonprofits receiving funding is worthy […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times The unemployment rate in Mesa County has begun to slip even as summer temperatures and the employment that goes with it increases. Seasonal hiring in landscaping and construction helped pull down the monthly jobless rate a tenth of a percent in May, the beginning of what’s usually a downward trend, […]