New Castle News

The New Castle Lions Club will sponsor a pie and ice cream booth at the Burning Mountain Festival, July 17-18. Come out and enjoy a big slice of homemade pie and support your local Lions as they raise funds to support vision needs of local youth.

Libraries are learning and entertainment institutions, not necessarily in that order, and we tend to focus on our young persons when it comes to special programs.

Higher bus fares might be another way that the recession hits Roaring Fork Valley residents in the pocketbook this year.

Pete Mattivi wasn't a household name on the Front Range, but in Garfield County the name stood for public service.

Pete Mattivi, former Garfield County commissioner and mayor of New Castle, died at the age of 103 on Saturday and was buried at Highland Cemetery on Thursday.

A man who held elected office in Garfield County for parts of four decades has died.

Bring your best ribs and compete against a KCBS competitor during the 36th Annual Burning Mountain Festival in New Castle.

Steve Higgs is offering a delicious new event for this year's Burning Mountain Festival, to be held Saturday, July 18th.

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.

About 1,000 dogs will come to Eagle, Colorado for the Roaring Fork Kennel Club Dog Show.

SILT, Colorado - Two local teenagers made a Rifle woman very happy last weekend, when they found her wallet containing hundreds of dollars, all her identification and other valuable documents, and turned it in.

The New Castle Branch Library wants to thank Linda and Tyler Carson and the Roberts Ranch for a special summer reading program for preschoolers and toddlers.

An autopsy is underway in Grand Junction on a body found in an apple orchard in the Canyon Creek area outside of New Castle.

Heidi Moss, a 2004 graduate of Rifle High School, graduated May 16, 2009, with scholastic honors from Colorado State University College of Agricultural Sciences with a Bachelor of Science in landscape horticulture with a concentration in design and contracting and a minor in business administration.

Laurel Dewey, author of "Protector", will be signing her exciting new book, "Redemption", at the Book Train book store on Friday, June 19th from 5 to 7 p.m.. The Book Train is located at 723 Grand Ave.

From the family of Ivan Bishop, Thank you, everyone, for the food, flowers, cards and phone calls.

During Strawberry Days the Ride Glenwood buses have extended their hours of operation from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. with buses scheduled to make stops every 30 minutes throughout this time.

The Wild Wild West is coming to New Castle this summer during the annual Burning Mountain Festival! There's still time to join in the fun of planning this historical event.

PARACHUTE, Colorado - Funding for new library facilities in Rifle, Silt, New Castle and a possible land purchase for a new library in Carbondale will be up for discussion when the Garfield County Public Library District Board of Directors meets tonight.

Steve Groom, left, and son Drake, in the arena at last year's Carbondale Wild West Rodeo series.