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The Montrose Veterans Memorial will take another major step toward completion Sept. 26, when veterans, families and community members gather to place more than 600 personalized tribute bricks along the memorial’s walkways. The brick-laying ceremony will begin at 9 a.m. at the memorial site, 1800 Pavilion Drive, adjacent to the Montrose Botanic Gardens. Participants laying […]
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Montrose City Manager Bill Bell’s 15-year tenure with the city ended Tuesday night after he and the City Council agreed to an immediate mutual separation. The council unanimously accepted Bell’s written proposal following an executive session during its Sept. 1 meeting. Deputy City Manager Ann Morgenthaler, who has served since 2018 as Bell’s deputy, was […]
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Montrose Business Times The Gold Mountain Fire remains 87% contained at 39,718 acres as firefighters continue working pockets of lingering heat, while federal land managers have reopened some areas that had been closed for weeks because of the fire. The Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests reduced its closure area this week, reopening access […]
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Montrose Business Times Delta-Montrose Electric Association has announced a series of leadership changes, including the retirement of a longtime executive and the promotion and reassignment of several senior staff members. Chief Safety Officer Chad Sticker will retire this fall after 34 years with DMEA. Sticker began his career with the electric cooperative as an apprentice […]
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Edgar Quiroz was still a teenager when he got his first look at the music industry from the inside. The Guadalajara-born, Western Colorado-raised hip-hop artist had been making music since his early teens when he signed with a record label. The experience wasn’t what he’d imagined, and after leaving the label, Quiroz said he nearly […]
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A collection of mismatched letters has found its way into 19 downtown Montrose businesses. Some are large and lighted. Others are small enough to be tucked beside a cash register — or hidden somewhere inside a store. Finding them all is the challenge at the center of the Downtown Letter Hunt, a scavenger hunt created […]
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When the business that would become El Rinconcito Restaurant struggled to attract customers, Estela Fernandez and her husband found another way to keep going. Beginning around midnight, they baked hamburger and torta buns along with Mexican sweet breads such as conchas and puerquitos. They worked until about 5 a.m., when her husband left to report […]
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The jokes started almost as soon as Adam Combs settled into the barber chair at Classics Barber Shop. Kodie Coblentz, who has cut Combs’ hair for about eight years, pointed out the increasing amount of gray. Combs said he regularly lies about having gray hair, but his barber never goes along with the lie. “I […]
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PRUF proved there was an appetite for its New York-style slices when customers lined up around the corner during its opening weekend in January. Now, seven months later, the owners are ready to find out what the business can do without being constrained by a small kitchen and dining room. PRUF opened Wednesday in its […]
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Well over 100 people gathered in the parking lot outside City Market’s south Montrose store Wednesday morning as the company celebrated the completion of an $18.5 million expansion. Customers stood alongside store employees as City Market handed out door prizes, recognized workers and cut the ribbon on a project that added 20,000 square feet and […]
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