Western Colorado

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Board could vote on Glade Park school soon

The District 51 board of education could vote at its Nov. 25 business meeting whether to support a school in the Glade Park area, provided some key questions about the project are answered. An anonymous donor purchased 198 acres along DS Road ...

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Curtain to drop on Cinema at the Avalon

Most of the time, it didn’t matter what film was showing at Cinema at the Avalon — longtime friends Thelma Hughes and Janet Johnson were regulars at the Wednesday senior matinees. “We’re very sad,” Johnson said, ...

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Stabbing suspect was in GJ facility

A 17-year-old Montrose High School student whose throat was slashed by an attacker in a crowded school hallway was recovering at her home Wednesday, authorities said. Students held a vigil Tuesday night for Mallory Haulman, who had undergone ...

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Pipe crushes GJ man, 21

A construction worker from Grand Junction was killed Wednesday when a concrete pipe rolled over and crushed him at a new subdivision in north Grand Junction, police said. The 21-year-old man, whose name was not released, was pronounced dead ...

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Siblings get surprise call from mom serving in Iraq

Siblings Holli, Nolan and Batton Acree knew they were getting a surprise Tuesday morning, but the students at Wingate Elementary School never expected this. To the children’s delight, the face of their mother, Maj. Carrie Acree, a ...

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Preview of Night Vision concert to be at museum

Philanthropist Victoria Hearst on Thursday will preview her fourth Night Vision Christian music concert in a presentation at the Museum of the West. Hearst, the granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst, and Praise Him Ministries started the ...

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Judge sets bond for Morrow at $50,000

A Grand Junction man accused of collecting thousands of images of child pornography on his home computer was handed a $50,000 bond in Colorado’s U.S. District Court on Monday. U.S. Magistrate Judge Kathleen Tafoya said Michael J. ...

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Owners work to save historic school

Most visitors to the Colona School and Grange only have one thing to say upon entering the imposing historic landmark. “Wow.” “It’s just such an atmosphere,” Jane Bennett said. “You can almost hear little ...

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Carl Anderson, ‘good friend to community,’ dies at 81

A funeral for Carl Q. Anderson, who helped usher the age of broadcasting into western Colorado, will be at 10 a.m. Friday at the First United Methodist Church. Anderson died Saturday. He was 81. Anderson was “a very good friend of the ...

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Boy slashes girl’s throat at Montrose High School

MONTROSE — Samantha Squirrell had just walked through the front doors of Montrose High School with her older brother, Sheldon. Her friends, sisters Mallory and Mae Haulman, were a few feet in front of them in the school’s crowded ...

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