Parachute News

Most people feel Garfield County is moving along nicely in terms of growth rates and other measures, according to a survey released this week.

Since she was 2 years old, Randi Lenard of Rifle has been helping her mother cook.

For more than a year, Parachute Mayor Roy McClung watched the exodus of workers that followed the sharp reduction in natural gas development in western Garfield County.

A man pleaded guilty Wednesday in the 2005 fatal beating of an oil and gas worker and received a three-year prison sentence.

The Saint Mary of the Crown 32nd annual elk dinner will be held Saturday, Nov. 14, from 4-7:30 p.m. Dinner includes elk, turkey and this year pork, potatoes, rolls, Jell-O salad or cole-slaw, vegetables and homemade dessert.

Brittany Roselle's apartment complex doesn't quite bustle with people the way it did a few years ago.

Emergency management officials are continuing to hammer out the details for providing an emergency ambulance system for the area around Silt and New Castle next year.

The horse was found in a Garfield County pasture between Parachute and Rifle. Someone shot a horse in the head and left the animal to die in Garfield County pasture between Parachute and Rifle.

If you're looking for a place to rent, you can sign up from now until Thanksgiving for a 25 percent reduction in rental rates from the Battlement Mesa Company.

Immigrant Stories is a project of the Community Integration Initiative. The initiative is gathering the recollections of immigrants and their families from Aspen to Parachute.

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.