By Caitlin Switzer REGIONAL—Ten years ago, the 30-year-old Region 10 League for Economic Assistance & Planning was in decline, desperately struggling to maintain staff and services in the face of vanishing grant revenues. At 40, Region 10 is now in the black, and the organization’s four core programs are...
By Caitlin Switzer MONTROSE—Thanks to additional flows from Ridgway Reservoir, local growers will be able to get more water to thirsty crops as summer’s heat sets in. However, it will take more than careful management to eliminate percentage rationing and supply next year’s water...
By Caitlin Switzer MONTROSE—Expect a boot-stomping, ride-em-cowboy good time complete with staged gunfights and old –fashioned fun and games for the whole family on June 9, when the Museum of the Mountain West (68169 Miami Road) hosts its third annual Tribute to Western Movies...
By Caitlin Switzer REGIONAL—Ralph Donner of Grand Junction can remember attending local concerts as a young fan during the oil shale years of the early 1980’s. “All of these bands would play, and they were limp, boring and lackluster—like they were afraid to hurt...
By Caitlin Switzer DELTA–Twenty years ago, the Delta County School District started a backpack program to help parents prepare their children for learning success, supplying parents of preschool aged children with takehome backpacks filled with books, art supplies and developmentally-appropriate educational toys and games....
By Caitlin Switzer MONTROSE—In a world that operates largely through computerized networks, the Information Technology department of any organization is essential to its smooth functioning and operation. To step into the Montrose County IT Office is to step into another world, the nerve center...
By Deb Barr Olathe Mirror Reporter OLATHE–The Montrose County Sheriff’s Posse. You read their name in the news and see them around town often. Sometimes they’re assisting in the recovery of a body. Sometimes they’re searching the Uncompahgre Plateau for a missing hunter or...
Special to the Mirror MONTROSE–A new business has opened on Main Street Montrose -Papa Wheelie’s Bicycles. The bike shop, located one block west of Townsend on Main (207 E. Main), is owned and operated by Montrose native Kent Schmidt, and will offer bikes, accessories...
Special to the Mirror MONTROSE–One of the City’s “favorite” annual traditions returns with the opening of the Summer Montrose Farmers Market in Downtown Montrose at First and Uncompahgre. The Montrose Farmers Market opened for the season May 12, and will be open every Saturday,...
