Montrose County News

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An Olathe police officer was suspended without pay Wednesday after an ex-girlfriend claimed he regularly beat her under the terms of contracts he had with the woman.

Montrose County planners have vote unanimously to recommend a special-use permit for a proposed uranium and vanadium mill in southwest Colorado.

A controversial proposal to build a new uranium mine in Montrose County will be back on the table for the third time during a planning commission meeting Wednesday night.

Montrose County planners are expected to vote on whether to recommend a special-use permit for a proposed uranium and vanadium mill in southwest Colorado.

The Montrose Chamber of Commerce Cultural Development Committee and the Public Art eXperience Committee, in conjunction with the City of Montrose, enthusiastically invite artists to submit their artwork for consideration to be included in our Fourth Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit.

Scott Brown moved to Telluride in the summer of 1971 from Kansas via Aspen. He founded the Telluride Arts and Crafts Guild that summer, which in 1973 merged with the Telluride Council for the Arts and Humanities when it was chartered.

Congratulating Claire Hastings on her recent initiation into Delta Kappa Gamma, Chi Chapter, are Chi Chapter president Mary Morris and special guest, Omega state president Susan Denny.

The Wine Country Inn in Palisade and Tynan Szvetecz, executive wine sommelier and senior wine instructor with the International Wine Guild, will host a series of wine classes at the inn starting June 18.

The Montrose City Council and the Montrose County Board of Commissioners will hold a joint hearing concerning the South Townsend Avenue Access Plan on Tuesday, June 30 beginning at 6 p.m. The meeting will be in the City Council Chambers, located at 107 S. Cascade Avenue.

David Williams Faces Drug Charges A sting operation by a multi-county task force has resulted in the arrest of at least four people.

" Whether the county planning commission will approve a special use permit for a uranium mill in Paradox Valley is still up in the air.

No decision has been made on a uranium permit that would allow the operation of a mill facility in Montrose County.

Once a frightening monolith of a disease, lung cancer slowly is being recognized as not a single ailment, but several.

" Opponents to a proposed uranium mill in Paradox Valley plan a protest before a public meeting Wednesday in Montrose.

The National Weather Service in Grand Junction provides storm identification, spotter training and weather safety classes each spring.

" A Montrose property owner who hired the man accused of installing two-way mirrors in a vacant apartment said he had no idea the man was a registered sex offender.

Andrew Burke, a band teacher at Montrose High, who was arrested Wednesday on a warrant for sexual assault on a child by a person of trust, had been a teacher in the Montrose school district for almost eight years.

More details are emerging about an alleged relationship between a Montrose High School teacher and a high school student.

SAN MIGUEL COUNTY a ' Several weeks ago the San Miguel and Montrose county weed control programs announced that increased funding for whitetop control on Wrighta TMs Mesa was available.