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By Mckenzie Moore
Mckenzie Moore
Staff Writer
The Pine Gulch Fire, a wildfire situated less than 20 miles north of Grand Junction, continues to burn as firefighters from around the state join with regional crews to battle the blaze. In all, nearly 800 personnel are involved in fighting the ever-growing fire. Hot, dry conditions with sin…
By Mckenzie Moore
Mckenzie Moore
Staff Writer
Allison Koehn, 5, stood in the doorway peering at the floor and walls as a smile spread across her face. Her pink house had been delivered and constructed by Make-A-Wish volunteers. Now it was time to move in.
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Staff writer and digital content coordinator
By Don Benjamin
Betsy Krager enjoys giving back. She found a way to give back and involve her hobby of quilting through the organization, Quilts of Valor.
A week ago from Friday, Delta County’s variance request was accepted by the state. With that, the county took another large step toward waking up entirely. Throughout the following week, numerous businesses in Delta County stepped up to take advantage of the loosened restrictions and to invi…
As far back as Don Benjamin can remember, he enjoyed writing. Now, he is getting ready to release his first novel.
By Mckenzie Moore
Mckenzie Moore
Staff Writer
A few years ago, Mary Bachran met Marjorie True.
It’s widely known by this point that restaurants and bars are not currently allowed to provide dine-in services, nor is any business supposed to hold more than 10 people. In addition to food and drink, the command, headed by Gov. Jared Polis, has since extended to beauty salons, massage parl…
Now that Betsy Shepherd, the program director and Delta County case manager, is retiring from Partners Mentoring Youth of Delta Montrose and Ouray, what she will hold dear to her heart is the relationships created and the lives changed.
The North Fork Community and Parade Band gathers in the Hotchkiss High School band room for rehearsal — a mixed group of musicians from all ages, backgrounds, and musical abilities. Directed by Jeanette Carey and David Alderdice and supported by The Learning Council, the band has been in ope…
Mckenzie Moore
Staff Writer
Towns that were established in the 19th century can’t avoid a certain amount of history and culture, and the City of Delta is no exception. Established in 1882, the city’s website has a page dedicated to just that, telling the story of Fort Uncompahgre, the Egyptian Theatre and the old ML&am…
Cedaredge’s Art Lindsey is a gentleman. Greeting visitors with a firm handshake, the 94-year-old radiates Western Colorado values, and it’s easy to understand that his long life has been distinguished by a history of business success and a legacy of military service. Recently the alert and a…
Optibike in Paonia doesn’t strive to be the biggest maker of electric bikes, they strive to be the best.
The Ariat World Series of Team Roping took place in Las Vegas from Dec. 5 to Dec. 17 last year. Among the nearly 500 teams was local team roping pair James Zeldenthuis, of Crawford, and Berdell Greenhalgh, of Delta.
Mckenzie Moore
Staff Writer
A marathon is approximately 26 miles and 385 yards. It is normally run by adults, reportedly with an average age of 38.7 years old. It takes months of training and requires approximately a month of recovery time after the fact. The marathoner is then in need of build-up time before he or she…
The photos are black and white, but the stories radiate with color according to Don Olsen author of “The North Fork in the 90’s,” a table book filled with articles, essays and photos recalling day-to-day life in the valley through the lens and pens of area reporters.
In a place like Delta County, the number of attractions and the amount of sales tax produced are normally lower than a place like Mesa County. The Town of Cedaredge is widely accepted as a “retirement community,” sometimes more specifically called a retirement community that doesn’t really f…
It’s difficult to say what creates the tapestry of a region’s social fabric. Certainly families and neighborhoods play an important role as do churches, schools and civic organizations. Not to mention politics. Then there is the coffee klatch.
The year was 2013 when Lee Tseng first saw her pitbull Roscoe.
Colorado Detours recently celebrated its first successful season of providing geological and other custom tours of the Delta County area and beyond.
Anita Evans and Lynea Schultz-Ela are on a mission to connect area youth with nature through their non-profit Friends of Youth and Nature (FOYAN) organization established in July of 2018.
You might say that Sandy Dix helped put Hotchkiss Riverside Cemetery on the map.
Some organic farms emphasize the concept of “Farm to table.” At Healing Greens Farm, where hemp is cultivated to produce CBD products, it’s more a matter of farm to label.
Whether or not a person believes in spirits, internet websites and local investigators allege that ghosts and other paranormal phenomenon are active locally.
Several sources say that police officers either retire from the police force or move up in rank to a desk position after 20 years on the job. This is due in large portion to the unpredictability and high stress of the job. It’s also due to the fact that a majority of pensions are available a…
For the last five years, every fourth grade student in the North Fork area has been offered a unique learning opportunity. Each fourth Friday in September, buses full of students, teachers and adult and student volunteers travel to Lost Lake in the Gunnison National Forest for a day of outdo…
Fifty-three years ago, Irvin and Miriam Hartig purchased a small dairy in Austin and — thanks to their youngest daughter Polly Jo and her high school sweetheart — the enterprise has been in the family ever since. Andy Wick and Polly Jo Hartig met at Cedaredge High School. The couple married …
When Sandy Wilt and Phil Berghauser ended up as neighbors in Eckert, the two photographers seemed destined to cross paths. Even when Sandy moved up Highway 65 to the metropolis of Cedaredge, they’ve remained friends and colleagues with a shared love of capturing visual images.
It was a cool, crisp morning when Gary Jensen II, pulled onto the dirt runway of the Westwinds Airport in Delta with his powered parachute. It was 6 a.m., Sept. 19, and though most would still be in bed, Jensen II was ready to take off.
Delta resident Cherie Plant developed a love for language, words and spelling as a young girl. She earned a degree in elementary education from City University of New York, where she minored in Latin. Twelve years of Catholic schooling in Brooklyn included a heavy dose of Latin, but her daug…
Isaac Daye has faced many trials in his life and through it all he still has a heart for helping others in his country. His home? Monrovia, Liberia, Africa. He thanks God that he and his family survived living in a war-torn country and later during the Ebola outbreak.
A Back Page subject should generate a thousand words and half a dozen photos and Katie Greenwood and the Future Farmers of America (FFA) certainly meet those requirements. Greenwood is a Cedaredge High School (CHS) teacher who serves as agriculture (ag) instructor and FFA advisor. Asked to i…
Cheryl Hartter started baking at the age of 4, and she's never stopped.
Growing up in Olathe, Ron Pottberg never dreamed he'd leave. But for the past 33 years he has been a teacher for the international World Bible School traveling the globe, meeting ambassadors, dignitaries and community leaders.
George and Sandra Barrie share distinctive Scottish accents, as well as a love of music, but their forms of expression are wildly disparate. Sandra is a vocalist who sang with the Del-Rose Chorus of Sweet Adelines International for 25 years. When the local female a cappella group joined forc…
Asked a few years ago to create a personal mission statement, Cedaredge resident Phyllis Hoffman knew just how to begin. "I have known ever since I was a child," she wrote, "that God gave me a special purpose."
To many Delta County residents, Don Chapman is the pharmacist in the white coat who not only fills prescriptions, but also offers helpful advice about possible side effects and how a new prescription might interact with other medications.
With summer heating up and the Fourth of July imminent, thoughts of patriotism inform the holiday alongside the parades and the fireworks and the ice cream. In the North Fork Valley there is an ever-increasing group of dedicated workers who show their regard for country and home by donating …
This Friday, "My Western Life: Paintings of a Tree Hugging Cowgirl," opens at The Cirque Cyclery in Paonia. Featuring paintings by Paonia artist Cedar Keshet, the show takes its viewers on a journey of the west's landscapes, but not in a typical, beautiful landscape-painting way.
Hundreds of Delta County kids have already registered for the 2019 Summer Reading Program "A Universe of Stories."
The list of Virginia Blackstock's creative accomplishments and honors are nearly as tall as the petite artist herself. In addition to her considerable talent as an internationally-recognized watercolorist, she has a background of performance in dance and theater, plus she's an extensive trav…
On the shore of the Gunnison River in Confluence Park, Antoine Robidoux's fur trading center of the early 1800s has been recreated by the City of Delta.