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Telluride, Aspen extend plastic-bag competition to help environment
Telluride and Aspen are waging a friendly competition to help the environment by reducing the use of disposable plastic bags in grocery stores.
Turn to the right and pull out your wallet
Arrestees booked into the Garfield County Jail can expect more than ink-stained fingertips, a change of clothes and a visit with a photographer.
New rules in effect for sex offenders in group homes
Rules and regulations designed to protect the community from sex offenders were put into effect Monday by the Mesa County Commission.
Some residents evacuate homes after gas scare
Reports of natural-gas leaks across Durango inundated authorities on Monday but were attributed to an over-injection of mercaptan - a harmless chemical that smells like rotten eggs - into natural-gas supplies.
Commissioners give approval to new gas well
Chevron's efforts to drill a new well near the Fruitland outcrop moved a step closer to fruition with an agreement approved Tuesday by La Plata County commissioners.
UCCS Grad Overcomes Prison To Earn Degree
Out of a sea of University of Colorado Colorado Springs graduates, it wasn't so long ago that you could pick out one by his ankle monitor.
City to sell parking lot to builders of GJ hotel
The city of Grand Junction will sell a Main Street parking lot to two brothers who plan to build a hotel there.
Barry Noreen: He's learned the hard way: Ex-con earns 2 degrees
“I still pee in a cup every three weeks.”
The future's so bright, Alex Matheson can put his shady past behind him. On May 23, the twice-convicted felon paroled after spending a couple of years in prison will join about 700 others in a cap-and-gown ... via The Gazette
Restaurant idea will simmer for a year
“Because it's real, not just a trend.”
Beerdrinker of the Year Matt Venzke won beer for life, but he has to leave Virginia to drink it. via Denver Post
Funny, this doesn't taste green
“There's more excitement to me in having relationships (with farmers)”
Next month's Sunset magazine gives a four-page shout out to The Kitchen in Boulder, declaring it "The West's Greenest Restaurant." Of course, this includes spending time on the farms near Boulder. via Denver Post
“All the Pretty Horses"). Case No. 2 of pairing up movie tickets with a copy of the original book. The current movie "Boewulf”
By WENDY KALE Colorado Daily Sunday, December 16, 2007 8:28 PM MST These days many Hollywood blockbusters are coming out of the world of books. via Colorado Daily
Smith's 'Legend' grows with $76.5M debut
“He is just the No. 1 box-office star in the world today.”
For the last man on Earth, Will Smith sure has a lot of friends. The Warner Bros. via Denver Post
Drilling execs are 'excited' about potential on the Roan
“You can see forever once you get up here”
As Blake Roush navigated his white extended-cab Ford F-250 on Monday along a new private road teetering on the side of the Roan Plateau, a smashed water truck at the entrance gate served to remind service truck ... via The Grand Junction Sentinel
County moves to lease 130 vote machines
“We are just expanding our inventory with the very same equipment we have.”
Mesa County moved ahead Monday to obtain 130 touch-screen voting machines in time for the 2008 general election. via The Grand Junction Sentinel
Residents' worries put well-drilling plan on hold
“This is not all about us as a neighborhood throwing a fit”
Plans to seek a permit to drill up to 20 natural gas wells within several hundred feet of homes near the Rifle Village South subdivision have been put on hold by the company after residents raised concerns. via The Grand Junction Sentinel
Rifle man called 911 moments after crash
A 911 call may be the saving grace for a Rifle man who had been charged with two counts of felony hit and run after an accident in which he hit and killed a man on Interstate 70 with his pickup. via The Grand Junction Sentinel
Two plead guilty in shooting attack
“Now I'm trying to get back to the way I was”
A 14-year-old shooter and his 16-year-old accomplice pleaded guilty Thursday in the September attack on a 19-year-old man as he answered his door in Clifton. via The Daily Sentinel
Town to get control of old school
“I think there's plenty of space on the site for everything”
Long closed since construction of a new Palisade High School, the old high school could get a new lease on life under town management. via The Daily Sentinel