Fruita News

Jenette Stanley, a local Grand Junction woman, was tired of missing the birthdays and anniversaries of her friends and loved ones so she created a solution - Snail Mail Greetings, a Web-based greeting card service that will send the cards for you.

In Utah, there is so much awesome mountain biking that it's hard to justify traveling to a different state to ride.

Police say a man robbed a Fruita bank and told those who didn't comply, he would remotely detonate a bomb outside.

The people who saw the 23-year-old landscape worker after a freak accident Oct. 21 thought he was a goner, from the neighbors who raced across the street and used a chain saw to remove a tree branch from his neck and helped him breathe, to the paramedics who raced him to the hospital, to doctors who placed Gill in an experimental treatment.

If you havena t turned in your ballot yet therea s still time, but youa ll have to drop it off in person.

De Beque Fire Chief Nick Marx was standing in line recently at the Mesa County Health Department to get vaccinated against the H1N1 virus when he received a page.

Open house on roads CDOT, Mesa County, the City of Fruita, and the City of GJ are inviting the public to the final open houses regarding the US 6 West/SH 139 Access Plan currently being developed.

A road rage case against a former Fruita Police officer and Mesa County Sheriff's Deputy has been dropped.

Scientists say fossil bones housed at a Los Angeles museum belong to the smallest dinosaur discovered in North America.

University of Colorado President Bruce Benson is bracing for the worst, expecting that Gov.

George Callison could use a dinosaur to pose for him. That old cliche about good things coming to those who wait is certainly true in George Callison's case.

A Grand Junction man remained in custody Sunday after he was arrested a day earlier on suspicion of stabbing another man.

The Fruita Community Center groundbreaking event scheduled for today Wed., Oct. 21, has been postponed.

While H.I. Mencken once said that "Those who can - do; those who can't - teach," he failed to take into account those who are able to both do and teach, and do them well.

It laid underground for nearly 150 million years, and now the smallest dinosaur to every roam the North American continent has been identified.

A model of the smallest species of dinosaur ever discovered in North America, juxtaposed with a T-rex skull.

The new Fruita Community Center groundbreaking ceremony will be held October 21, 2009 at 6 p.m. at the construction site at N. Cherry Street.

It's not country, it's not city. The address, 1216 18 1/2 Road, is kind of in between.

Suzanne Overholt has a dream in which all her husband's Denver Broncos paraphernalia goes in a room that has nothing to do with her home.

Ken Henry "gets it." Henry is the Fruita mayor. He entered politics because a mayor and city council were, maybe inadvertently but systematically, wiping out Fruita's history.