Mesa News

Stone Cottage Cellars has a total of 4 1/2 acres of grape producing vineyards. Getting there Take I-70 west to Glenwood Springs.

The Vail Nature Center's family fun nights take place every Wednesday in July and the first week of August from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in Vail, Colorado The series is designed to introduce kids to various nature topics.

Harold Smith, of Grand Junction, will celebrate his 100th birthday Saturday. He has lived in Grand Junction since 1954 and is a Colorado native.

BATTLEMENT MESA, Colorado - Residents here are likely to use an established play book in their efforts to deal with planned natural gas drilling in the neighborhood - the same play book used to create a 2006 drilling plan for the Silt/Rifle/New Castle area.

Betty Barr, 86, Grand Junction, died June 22, 2009, at Hospice Care Center. Services are pending.

Federal stimulus dollars will arrive in Mesa County as early as next month. That's when Judy Thornburg, School District 51's director of student services, expects to see more than $4.3 million roll in to pay for new special education and program services for the district.

The fight was over in a matter of minutes, but 22-year-old Carl Torrez of Clifton will spend the next 18 years in prison for his actions.

Once a frightening monolith of a disease, lung cancer slowly is being recognized as not a single ailment, but several.

The Mesa County commissioners have passed a resolution opposing federal regulation of a drilling technique that uses liquids to fracture rocks to release oil and gas.

Garfield County Sheriff's investigators are still trying to find out what happened to the person found dead in an apple orchard near Glenwood Springs.

An Orchard Mesa man whose home was searched by federal agents maintains a Web page where he seeks to buy, sell or trade artifacts collected from across the region.

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.

Ethel L. Easter, 82, Grand Junction, died June 2, 2009 at Hospice Care Center. Visitation is noon to 2 p.m. Friday at Callahan-Edfast Mortuary.

It was a carnival of animals Tuesday at the Palisade branch of the Mesa County Library.

Two victims of a Friday night shooting in Orchard Mesa were both upgraded to good condition Sunday night, according to an official at St.

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado - A Denver contractor appears poised to get the job of designing a new administration building for the Garfield County Sheriff's Office near Rifle.

When Mesa State College professor Thea Chase starts her seminars next week in Saudi Arabia, there will be no men in the audience, per Muslim tradition.

Woman claims gas company tried 'to pull a fast one' GARFIELD COUNTY, Colorado - A woman whose family is embroiled in a dispute over the closure of Garfield County Road 306, west of Battlement Mesa, said on Friday that the underlying cause of the dispute has nothing to do with irrigation, despite statements to that effect by her sister.

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado - A Garfield County loop road west of Battlement Mesa has been closed for eight months due to a series of problems involving a gas pipeline project and a property rights dispute mixed up with a family quarrel and charges of trespassing, among other things.

Mesa State College is hoping a mixture of more students and an 8.5 percent hike in tuition will outweigh reductions in state funding for colleges and universities.