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Wine barrel, iron craftsman turns hobby into biz
Each Wednesday the Free Press profiles a local business who used the services of the Business Incubator Center, a nonprofit organization that provides entrepreneurial assistance to new and expanding businesses in Mesa County. more...
  10/06/2009 8:41pm
Keynote speaker: Teachers can't do it alone
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — The job for schools used to be simpler — teach the basics of arithmetic, reading and writing.
  09/17/2009 10:05pm
Meet Your Neighbors: Glade Park woman not afraid to speak her mind
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — A river brought Anne Landman to Grand Junction.

A job allowed her to stay.

And a murder is why she left her hometown of Los Angeles.
  09/05/2009 10:31pm
GJ Mensa group takes first place nationally - two years in a row
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Grand Junction is on the map for being smart.
  07/24/2009 10:02pm
Meet the Highbrow Mensans
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Twenty-one years ago Judy Easter found herself 43, newly single with two kids, with not much of a social life.
  07/23/2009 10:14pm
Meet Your Neighbors: Episcopal church welcomes minister
The Rev. Hollis Wright, the new minister at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, used to be the vice-president of consumer products at the Bank of Hawaii before she was called to the ministry 16 years ago.
  07/06/2009 11:31am
Meet Your Neighbors: GJ man spends winter rafting, exploring Lake Powell
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Meeting Matt Dible stirs longings for the outdoors, freedom, and memories of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer tales.
  06/28/2009 5:01pm
Meet Your Neighbors: GJ man dedicates life to conservation
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Studying botany is like eating ice cream, said Eric Rechel. That's because he loves it.
  06/08/2009 12:10pm
Meet Your Neighbors: Ron Wilson - the man behind the local music scene
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Seemingly chance encounters are sometimes indictors of what’s to come.
  05/31/2009 4:50pm
Latimer House to add transition house for battered women
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Julie Solis had been with her high school sweetheart for 10 years before he started hitting.

“He was stressed about getting work; and what we needed and couldn’t afford to have,” Solis said.
  05/21/2009 8:52pm
Meet Your Neighbors: Ed Harris views the wide world from a narrow chair
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — For three years Ed Harris couldn’t talk.

But he listened.

“I could hear the doctor say to my parents I’d be a vegetable” and to not bring me home, said Harris, then 10.
  05/10/2009 5:30pm
Meet Your Neighbors: GJ writer finds inspiration in all aspects of life
GRAND JUNCTION — Rebecca Davis Winters said she was a “blues nerd” at 19.

While other teenagers were rocking out to Nirvana, Winters was literally chasing the blues.
  05/03/2009 3:58pm
GJ nurse finds niche with Hospice Care Center
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Patti Ackley helps people who are dying and those who love them.
  04/30/2009 8:20pm
Some turn to ancient practice in uncertain times
GRAND JUNCTIION, Colo. — Writing poetry, creating art or reading tarot cards — it all springs from the same source, said Wendy Videlock.
  04/21/2009 7:13pm
GJ teen posts adventure videos on You Tube
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Thirteen-year-old Dillon Ragar is an amateur filmmaker.
  04/02/2009 9:01pm
Car for sale: $1; Read on for the strings attached
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — A deserving person in the community is about to get “A Hand Up” from Blake Brueggeman, owner of Integrity Auto Repair, and a handful of his friends in the business.
  03/19/2009 8:56pm
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