Delta County News

Four rafters failed to notice a sign warning of a roller dam on the Gunnison River and were separated from their rafts Saturday, June 27, near the Delta Trap Club.

These cyclists teamed up on a tandem bicycle to participate in the Bike Tour of Colorado, which came through Delta County in late June.

LISA FAIRBANKS of Liliputian Winery pours a sample of her 2008 Chardonnay, one of two types of wine she bottled this year.

The Delta County Fairgrounds entrance has been restored by the Hotchkiss-Crawford Historical Society.

All three lie within the West Elks AVA, one of two federally-designated grape growing regions in Colorado.

The 15th annual Bicycle Tour of Colorado will be hosted by Hotchkiss on Sunday, June 21.

HOTCHKISS, Colo. - Even by the standards of Delta County's North Fork, the regional epicenter of conscience farming, Lance Hanson is taking his farming practices to another level.

The mountains and rivers of Delta County. The front page of the Denver Post declares, " Hard Times Getting Harder for Coloradans " -- and Delta County, located in a particularly beautiful part of the state's Western Slope, isn't immune from such problems.

Geographic Technologies Group, Inc. announces that Delta County, Colorado has selected GTG to implement both intranet and Internet GIS software solutions.

Since the early 1980s, when it led a fight against a massive powerline proposal, to its more recent work on natural gas issues, Western Colorado Congress has been able to make an important claim: It is truly a regional grassroots group driven by concerns from residents of the Western Slope, not by agendas formulated in faraway headquarters of ...

The 24th annual Denver Post Ride The Rockies Bicycle Tour presented by Wells Fargo will arrive from Glenwood Springs into Hotchkiss via Paonia on Sunday, June 14.

The North Fork of Delta County is an emerging wine region, featuring more than a dozen vintners.

It is not the current state budget crisis, but a move toward greater efficiency, that is driving a plan to consolidate three Colorado State University agricultural research facilities on the Western Slope, the man in charge of the facilities said.

On his way out of town, Nick Berling stopped into HCN 's headquarters in Paonia, Colo.

If All American Resources can land the bid to supply asphalt paving for the Highway 92 improvements project, owner Kent Cotten has county approval to set up a batch plant in his gravel pit at H75 and Horn roads.

Don Petersen, who passed away Sunday, May 31, has left a lasting legacy in Cedaredge, Delta County and the Western Slope with his philanthropy and community involvement.

Delta County Joint School District will deal with aging roofs - its largest maintenance issue - this summer.

Mrs. Rhodes was born April 1, 1934, in New York, N.Y., to Troy and Sarah Snider.

Friends and family of the 56 members of the Cedaredge High School class of 2009 i lled the CHS gymnasium on Saturday afternoon, May 23, to take part in the 2009 commencement ceremony.

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.