Orchard City News

The Orchard City Town board discussed the idea of establishing and supporting an adopt-a-street program for the town at the trustees' June 10 meeting.

The second, monthly Trustee Water Committee workshop meeting will be held in the Orchard City Community Room on July 7 beginning at 4 p.m. The committee's monthly meetings are being conducted now in an open workshop format due to the high interest in the subject of water shown by the public and other trustees.

The Orchard City Town Board of Trustees approved a bid for crack sealing and overlay work on the town's streets at their regular June 10 meeting.

Asked last week whether DMEA plans to close its Read service center, Dan McClendon, general manager, said the option is "on the table." McClendon was asked the question by Orchard City Mayor Don Suppes during the municipal quarterly meeting in Delta.

The staff and directors of Delta County Economic Development gathered for a group picture following the annual meeting Wednesday, April 22, at the Orchard City Town Hall.

The driving habits of Delta County motorists collected a stack of citations from speakers at an Orchard City town meeting on Wednesday, April 15.

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.

A home at 9288 2125 Road in Orchard City received "moderate to severe" damage, despite the homeowner's efforts to extinguish the blaze with her garden hose.

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.

Following its adoption of an ordinance setting a new water conveyance policy and making changes to its tap fee structure, the Orchard City Town Trustees passed a resolution which sets the actual amounts of both water and money the new policy will impose.

An ordinance which modifies Orchard City's policy on the issuance of water taps and effectively lowers the cost both inside and outside of the town, received final approval at the town board's March 11 meeting.

The Orchard City trustees are scheduled to look at two water policy issues during their regular meeting on March 11.

Al Spika grew up in a blacksmith shop, where raw metal was hammered into tools, utensils, agricultural implements and other practical items.

Francis "Grant" Minor, 33, of Orchard City was killed Sunday, March 1, when his pickup veered off a gravel road, collided with a phone box and rolled.

During the Feb. 11 regular meeting of the Orchard City Town Council, trustees responded to the first reading of Ordinance 2009-01 for making "certain modifications to the issuance of water taps for properties ...

A strong bid by Cedaredge town officials to find county-wide funding help for its animal control program has failed after almost a year to enlist any support.

The Orchard City town trustees agreed Jan. 14 to move forward with changes in the towna s tap fees and water conveyance policy.

Shareholders in the Butte Ditch Company, one of the largest private irrigation water companies in Surface Creek Valley, held their annual meeting at the Orchard City Community Room on Jan.

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 ...

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 ...