Fruita News

MESA COUNTY, Colo.- Mesa County officials have been working to complete the Riverfront Trail stretching from Grand Junction to Fruita, for years, and now they're one phase closer to finishing it.

The man shot and killed by three Fruita police officers over the weekend fled an attempted traffic stop, later emerged from a home and pointed a handgun at the officers, police announced this afternoon.

The Mesa County Coroner's Office has completed its examination and identified the man who was shot and killed by Fruita police early Saturday morning.

MONTROSE Two weeks ago, at its regular board meeting, the Montrose Recreation District voted unanimously to create a Master Plan for its recently acquired 26-acre parcel at Woodgate and Ogden roads in southeast Montrose.

Three Fruita Police Department officers were involved in a shooting overnight that left one man dead.

Mesa County Sheriff's spokeswoman Heather Benjamin tells The Denver Post three officers stopped the man for a traffic violation at about 12:40 a.m. Saturday.

A routine traffic stop takes a turn for the worse. According to the Fruita Police Department around 12:40 Saturday morning a man involved in a routine traffic stop fled his car and went to the intersection of 17 1/4 Rd & Holly Berry Way.

Artist Jozan Kirk paints a dragon on the face of Matthew Poitras, 6, of Fruita on Thursday's opening night of this season's Downtown Farmers Market in Grand Junction.

The Colorado Meth Project is launching a state-wide teen advisory council to further empower young adults in their fight against meth.

For the third straight day, most of Colorado is under a red flag warning, with weather forecasters cautioning that gusty winds, low humidity and dry fuels have created prime wildfire conditions.

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.- Continuing to live up to their "We Serve" creed, the grand Junction Lion's Club passed out some hefty grants on Tuesday.

Brian Breault of the Grand Junction water department shuts off the sprinkler system that blew water like a geyser at the Grand Valley Transit building Sunday on South Avenue.

Calvin Pearson, professor and research agronomist at the Colorado State University Fruita Agricultural Experiment Station at 1910 L Road, focuses on converting grass to biofuel.

Instead of eating them, the Mesa County Sheriff's Office will be selling the delicious round treat from Daylight Donut for $1.

FRUITA, Colo.- Fruita is kicking off summer the right way by starting their weekly concert series that runs for 11 weeks.

Survivors include his wife Myrna of Grand Junction; two sons, Joe of Grand Junction and Jim of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; one daughter, Linda Foster of Arvada; one sister, Merlina Heighes of Loveland; and three grandchildren.

Two contracts for phase two of Riverfront Trail were approved on Monday, making that connection from Grand Junction to Fruita that much closer.

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. On Saturday exotic cars collided with zoo animals, fundraising for a nature center in Fruita.

Survivors include one son, Bill of Grand Junction; one daughter, Ellie Morris of Grand Junction; two grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Visitation will take place from 10 to 11 a.m. today, followed immediately by services, at Callahan-Edfast Mortuary Chapel.

Fruita is the place to be on Thursdays nights this summer during the Thursday Night Concert Series that goes from June 6 through Aug.