Parachute News

It is difficult to see the remains of the chimney across the Colorado River at mile marker 51 in De Beque Canyon along Interstate 70 unless you know just where to look.

The deadline to register for Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday food baskets as well as Angel Tree Christmas presents is on Friday, Nov.

A Garfield County commissioner on Monday accused the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission of "not doing its job" with regard to the contamination of a spring, apparently from nearby gas drilling activities.

Harvest Fest for children Saturday Mesa State College Future Business Leaders of America Phi Beta Lambda will host a Harvest Fest for children from 4 to 9 p.m. Saturday in the new classroom building, 1400 Houston Ave.

Garfield County has begun the process of updating its Comprehensive Plan and the first set of public meetings will be held concurrently during the week of Nov.

Victoria Oswald, Joshua Chavez and Gavin Legg, students at Graham Mesa Elementary in Jo Kilmer's preschool class in Rifle, participated in the launch of this year's Raising A Reader program, which provides students with four books a week for their parents to read to them in the hopes of encouraging them to become readers.

A 20-year-old Parachute, Colo. man has pleaded guilty to driving drunk and causing a crash that killed a mother and her baby.

I would first like to address these jewelry people or these people that sit around and draw circles on maps, I guess they try to pick out places on a map for wilderness.

Of all the people I've met on this trip, Ben Robertson may have adopted the wisest and consequently most successful approach to finding new employment following a job loss.

The week of Oct. 5-9 was "Alternative Transportation Week" for many schools across the Roaring Fork Valley, an event to encourage students to ride the school bus, ride RFTA, walk or bike to school.

The 2008 contamination of two springs in Western Garfield County has been connected with nearby water pits used to hold toxic sludge from gas wells, according to a report filed with a state agency.

More than 400 people have signed a petition calling for an independent health study before oil and gas drilling in the Battlement Mesa community is approved.

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The Mesa County District Attorney's Office has reached a plea agreement with a man charged in a February drunken-driving accident that killed a Grand Junction mother and daughter, according to court records.

The Silver Club at 715 Grand Ave., advertised a display of paintings on loan to its establishment in 1892.

Like the legendary phoenix rising from the ashes, the town of Battlement Mesa has arisen from near-extinction to become a thriving community in the past 30 years.

It will cost the Garfield County Library District some $3 million to serve its customers in six towns next year, which is actually a decrease from the district's projected operating costs for 2009.

TULSA A new processing plant may enable Williams to boost its western Colorado natural gas liquids volumes five times when natural gas prices support such production.

A $258 million acquisition by Williams includes energy development holdings in the Garfield Creek State Wildlife Area near New Castle.

Gabe Brubacher held an unfinished clay pot in one hand as he made a point to his ceramics students gathered around - each one watching and listening intently.