Montrose Regional Airport director earns 2024 Economic Development Award
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Montrose Regional Airport director earns 2024 Economic Development Award
By Justin Tubbs 
March 8, 2024
Montrose Regional Airport's director of aviation, Lloyd Arnold, was awarded the 2024 Economic Development Award Thursday at the Montrose Economic Development Corporation's annual luncheon. Sandy Head, the Montrose EDC's executive director, cited Arnold's leadership and the airport's growth for why h...
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Suit to block Kroger/Albertsons merger filed by FTC
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Suit to block Kroger/Albertsons merger filed by FTC
By Tonya 
February 28, 2024
Less than a week after the Colorado Attorney General filed suit to block a proposed merger between Kroger and Albertsons, the two largest supermarket chains in the country, the Federal Trade Commission has joined the party by filing a suit of its own. Montrose’s two major supermarkets ­— City Market...
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First-ever St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Brewfest coming up in March
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First-ever St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Brewfest coming up in March
By Justin Tubbs Montrose Business Times 
February 22, 2024
In less than a month, Montrose will be getting down for St. Patrick’s Day, and for the first time, there will be a public event to celebrate the holiday. The Black Canyon Homebrewers Association, in coordination with Horsefly Brewery, will hold the first-ever St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Brewfest on...
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Attorney General Phil Weiser has filed a lawsuit in an attempt to block the Kroger/Albertsons merger
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Attorney General Phil Weiser has filed a lawsuit in an attempt to block the Kroger/Albertsons merger
By Justin Tubbs Montrose Business Times 
February 22, 2024
Editor's note: Not familiar with this story? Read our previous coverage here and here. After a yearlong investigation, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser today filed a lawsuit in Denver District Court to block the $24.6 billion proposed merger between Kroger and Albertsons, two of the largest sup...
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Developer behind Colorado Outdoors Fairfield hotel has plans for a second
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Developer behind Colorado Outdoors Fairfield hotel has plans for a second
By Justin Tubbs Montrose Business Times 
February 14, 2024
The developers currently building the Fairfield Inn & Suites at the Colorado Outdoors project on the north end of town have plans for a second hotel, across the street from the one being constructed now. At a Montrose Urban Renewal Authority meeting on Wednesday, the developers described their plans...
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Music venue and art gallery gets new life in Montrose
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Music venue and art gallery gets new life in Montrose
By Tonya 
February 7, 2024
Montrose has a new art gallery and music venue. Well, kind of. Healthy Rhythm is a name that likely sounds familiar to anyone who has spent time in Montrose over the past 10 years. But the venue, launched by Ken Vail in 2016, left for about a year. It is officially back, in a new, bigger space and p...
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Popular Farmers Market vendor purchases permanent digs in Colona
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Popular Farmers Market vendor purchases permanent digs in Colona
By Justin Tubbs 
January 24, 2024
For those not from around here, Colona is a blink-and-you-might-miss-it community, but for those who have spent any amount of time in our part of the Western Slope, the few buildings in the tiny community are very familiar. Those who lived here before the COVID-19 pandemic will specifically remember...
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The Hydrant is coming up on a year as a new-in-town doggie daycare
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Playtime is going to the dogs
The Hydrant is coming up on a year as a new-in-town doggie daycare
By Gunnison Clamp for the MBT 
January 24, 2024
A relatively new business in Montrose started with the idea of a dog daycare and decided to take it to the next level, with large spaces both indoors and outdoors for canines to hang out and play in. The Hydrant Doggie Playcare takes a unique approach to caring for man’s best friend and is primed to...
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A marijuana retailer showed interest in getting recreational on city ballot
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A marijuana retailer showed interest in getting recreational on city ballot
By Justin Tubbs 
January 18, 2024
Tuesday’s Montrose City Council agenda had plenty of interesting items on it. But maybe the most interesting was an ordinance related to retail marijuana sales. The wording: “Consideration of... an ordinance of the City of Montrose, Colorado, authorizing the submission of a ballot question to the vo...
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HotWorx offers sauna workouts; set to open March or April
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HotWorx offers sauna workouts; set to open March or April
By Justin Tubbs 
January 11, 2024
A new business that hasn’t even officially opened yet in Montrose has been making the rounds the past couple weeks, drumming up interest at local hot spots, as well as on social media. But HotWorx (stylized HOTWORX), a new 24-hour fitness center, plans to open sometime in March or April. The company...
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Kevin Saff offers Montrose an Un-Garnished menu
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Kevin Saff offers Montrose an Un-Garnished menu
After two decades managing kitchens across the country, chef and Ridgway resident Kevin Saff is introducing his own mobile kitchen, Ungarnished Kitchen and Catering Limited.
By Cassie Knust | MBT 
November 12, 2024
Kevin Saff was only 15 when he worked his first kitchen job washing dishes at a local bar and grill in Bradenton, Florida. While the now-chef and Ridg...

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