Eckert News

Cristobal Jaramillo, 22, and Michael Anthony Roybal, 23, are being held in the Delta County Jail on a $25,000 bond after an alleged assault June 27.

Jack Blacksher, 76, Grand Junction, died June 9, 2009, at Hospice Care Center. A service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Callahan-Edfast Mortuary.

More than 50 students and friends gathered last night outside Eastern High School to mourn and remember the victim of a Friday auto accident -- a senior set to graduate this coming Wednesday.

Loyalty Day observances on May 1 in Cedaredge were about country, heritage, history, freedom and flag.

The county commissioners decided to spur a local economic stimulus package by moving up a scheduled recpath maintenance project a full year.

The first ever art competition for youth by the North Fork Stock Dog Handlers Association took place on Saturday, April 2. According to co-chair Sandy Bliss, the members of the association pooled the monies they received for their sheep wool to sponsor the art competition.

A special display case has been completed to showcase a model of the Fairview School, and now work continues to enhance the exhibit at Orchard City Town Hall to include scrapbooks and news clippings.

Ridership figures through March 25 for the new senior transit service in Delta County will give Orchard City Town Board members information they have wanted on assessing the town's use of the new service.

The Cedaredge Library is offering classes for creative and crafty kids in the third, fourth and fifth grades.

Surface Creek Winery and Gallery, in conjunction with Eckert Crane Days, recently sponsored the third annual "For the Birds" art competition.

Surface Creek Winery and Gallery announces the third annual For the Birds Art Competition.

For many Christians, Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Lenten season - the 40 days prior to Easter.

The first event leading up to scheduled activities during the eighth annual Eckert Crane Days took place on Feb.

An Eckert woman and Cedaredge man are suspected multiple drug offenses after a Friday traffic stop, according to the Grand Junction Police Department.

Velda Geiger of Eckert died Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert.

It was wall to wall people and art at the Creamery Arts Center in Hotchkiss on Feb.

Kaya Tone, left, and sister Siena read a book outside Gold Hill Elementary on Thursday during recess.

An Orchard City couple facing homelessness after two house fires on their property - one on Christmas night and another a year earlier that took one life - have found a responsive community that has come to ...

The job of transporting the county's senior citizens safely to hot lunch meal sites, delivering hot meals to home bound seniors, and seeing to many other transportation needs of the senior community has since ...

Richard "Rick" H. Byers, Jr. , 61, Rifle, died Jan. 16, 2009, at St. Mary's Hospital.