De Beque News

Jilliana Alderman, the lone 2013 graduate of DeBeque High School, stands in an empty hallway at the school.

Dilution should protect De Beque from benzene contamination in an upstream tributary of its water supply, the Colorado River, the town's manager says.

Snow is tapering off in the Grand Valley this morning, but not before several inches of heavy, wet flakes coated leafing trees and shrubs, closed school in De Beque and triggered several accidents around western Colorado, including a semi tractor-trailer that jackknifed on U.S. Highway 50.

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado - Garfield County commissioners want to work with federal land managers to ensure that access to public lands and road connections in the western half of the county are preserved.

Slade Connell, left, and Richard Overholt of Grand Junction take a core sample of the snowpack on Grand Mesa during a monthly survey.