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Teen shelter upsets Grand Junction neighbors

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Unhappy with his neighbors at The House, a shelter for homeless teens near Seventh Street and Patterson Road, John Henry shows a sprinkler he has just had to have replaced for the third time after being broken by cars making U-turns.  Area residents have signed a petition outlining their complaints and asked the city of Grand Junction to close the shelter.

Some neighbors in the block that houses a homeless shelter for teenagers want their quiet cul-de-sac back.
Neighbors on a street in the area of Seventh Street and Patterson Road worry that property values will decline on their block of mostly well-kept brick homes now that one of the homes — a shelter called The House — has been operating on their street for the past year.

Conservatives gather to protest IRS

More than 30 people, many of them hiding behind fake glasses, rhetorically thumbed their Groucho Marx noses at the Internal Revenue Service on Tuesday, joining other conservatives around the nation in protesting the agency. Participants in Grand Junction got an extra snicker, though, as organizer Kevin McCarney reminded them that the defunct Western Slope Conservative Alliance had received an unsolicited shout-out from “Saturday Night Live.”

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Lee Gagne, a 71-year-old blacksmith volunteer at Cross Orchards Historic Site, can’t bring himself to retire from blacksmithing just yet.

Lee Gagne can’t bring himself to retire from blacksmithing just yet. Because he wants to keep the art of blacksmithing alive. When Gagne, 71, was four years old, he began blacksmithing in Massachusetts. He said that his whole family was involved with it. “We would work on farms and … more

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