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Automotive festival to benefit county youth program
The Gateway Canyons Resort is the home to one of the finest collections of American automobiles in existence today.
Area businesses honoring veterans with freebies
With Veterans Day Wednesday, wea ve got a check in for you on all the special events going on in the Grand Valley.
Center offers counseling, readjustment help for veterans
Julie Fuller is a counselor and team leader at the Vet Center, a Department of Veterans Affairs program designed to help veterans and their families deal with readjustment issues.
Kids voting: The Nov. 3 election
Longer term limits and three school board members were the big winners in both the Nov.
Las Vegas Man Indicted for Two GJ Robberies
Douglas Edward James was arrested by the FBI in Las Vegas last week for robbing the Redlands Wells Fargo at gunpoint.
Grand Junction bank robbery suspect arrested after Vegas heist
A Grand Junction man is facing federal charges in connection with a bank robbery on the Redlands last summer.
Boy, 17, faces adult charges in burglaries
One of three juveniles arrested last week when authorities busted a burglary ring will be prosecuted as an adult.
City, couple make amends on trail's land
The city of Grand Junction and a Redlands couple apparently have settled a dispute over ownership of a piece of land where the city intends to build a trail.
Religion briefs, Oct. 17, 2009
The Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 1022 Grand Ave., will show "The High Cost of Coal" at 6 p.m. Monday, Oct.
It is officially poverty awareness month here in the Grand Valley and dozens of people turned out to raise awareness and money for the less fortunate in Sunday's "Crop Walk." The 23rd annual Crop Walk got underway in the Redlands Sunday afternoon hosted by the Church World Service.
Relatives in American Samoa OK after tsunami
Kim Bartz's eyes filled with tears Wednesday afternoon when she spoke to her sister, Tisha Petelo, speaking from the opposite side of the world in tsunami-hammered American Samoa.
Vail Mountain hosts college day Sunday
Vail Mountain School is hosting its 14th annual College Open House, Sunday from 4:30-6 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.
Couple disputes city's claim to land for Riverfront Trail spur
Carl and Sharon Pellam thought they were moving into their retirement home when they bought their nearly five-acre spread where Rosevale Road dead-ends on the eastern edge of the Redlands.
Couple wants to share scenic wealth
Step through the front doors of Ed and Ruth Ehlers' home and your eyes immediately are drawn to floor-to-ceiling windows that afford a sweeping view of the Colorado National Monument.
Police Blotter, Sept. 13, 2009
The Mesa County Sheriff's Department said 25 tickets were issued Friday during Rock Jam to minors in possession of alcohol, nearly topping total tickets issued for the same offense for the entire festival last year.
Faith Matters Briefs September 4 09
Women's Bible study Explorer's Bible Study invites women to an in-depth Interdenominational Bible Study.
Homestead cabin built with borrowed $25
Final in a two-part series on Redlands pioneer Agnes Honecker. In the first part of the series, the 28-year-old Honecker, from Indiana, visited relatives in Grand Junction and decided to stay and homestead.
Clifford Guill, 44, was arrested and booked into Mesa County Jail on Tuesday after his release from St.