Western Colorado

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Dorm will be named Garfield Hall

Colorado Mesa University’s 11th residence hall will open this summer as Garfield Hall. Garfield Hall will be the first of four residence halls that will be built around Cannell Avenue as needed to match enrollment. The four halls ...

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TABOR’s constitutionality at issue in appeals court

A bipartisan group of current and former lawmakers who are challenging the constitutionality of the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights is trying to get the courts to decide a political issue, attorneys for the state said last week in reply to ...

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Former White Hall site could become housing atop offices

As crews work to demolish the burned-out White Hall, the next phase is getting under way for the corner of White Avenue and Sixth Street. Associated Governments of Northwest Colorado recently awarded the city of Grand Junction a $5,000 ...

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Popular Hanging Lake causes parking dilemma

As is often the case in Colorado, scenic wonders are loved. A lot. Sometimes to the point that problems arise. Case in point: Hanging Lake, the popular hike in Glenwood Canyon that’s accessed from the Hanging Lake Rest Area. Its ...

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Drug probe taints eatery?

You can find great salsa at Grand Junction’s El Tapatio. And that’s no code for a drug deal, according to the ownership. “We have nothing to do with this and we’re against illegal stuff,” Francisco Espinoza, ...

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Driven apart after a divorce, Clifton father, son reunite 30 years later

So much changes in 30 years. Hairlines recede, waists expand, memories dim. And little boys grow from gangly 9-year-olds to 39-year-old fathers of six. And so on Feb. 3, his wife at work, his Clifton home relatively quiet, Fred Romero sat ...

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Graduate made the grade with baby in tow

While Rebecca Gatt was learning systems dynamics and design in her final year of the Colorado Mesa University-University of Colorado mechanical engineering partnership program, her daughter, Emma, was just feet away learning to crawl. Emma ...

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Indoor range developers give it their best shot

Like so many other local shooting enthusiasts, Shad Knowlton one day found himself literally dodging bullets in the north desert, where lead often flies in multiple directions and many times safety can seem more of an afterthought. But unlike ...

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Indoor range developers give it their best shot

Like so many other local shooting enthusiasts, Shad Knowlton one day found himself literally dodging bullets in the north desert, where lead often flies in multiple directions and many times safety can seem more of an afterthought. But unlike ...

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TABOR
 ruling 
may be 
Monday

Mesa County commissioners could decide Monday to change course, away from a 2007 decision in which the county began excluding sales tax revenue from its collection limitation calculations mandated by the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights. If ...

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