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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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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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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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A new festival celebrating punk music, skateboarding and local art is set to make its debut in Montrose this fall. KVNF Community Radio will host the inaugural Punk on the Unc from noon to 7 p.m. Sept. 19 at Riverbottom Park and the Montrose Skatepark. The free, all-ages event will feature eight punk bands from […]
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There are businesses that sell things, and then there are businesses that ignite a love for something bigger than themselves. Ed’s Fly Shop, tucked right in the heart of downtown Montrose at 432 E. Main Street, is unmistakably the latter. Owner Ed LeViness has spent more than two decades chasing trout on some of the […]
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Three years after losing the contract to operate the food and beverage concession at Montrose Regional Airport, The Coffee Trader is back. The longtime Montrose-based coffee company recently reopened its airport café after successfully bidding to reclaim the concession contract, replacing San Juan Coffeehouse, which had operated the space since 2023. For Dee Coram, who […]
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One of fly fishing’s most recognizable names is officially calling Montrose home. Mayfly Outdoors announced Tuesday that it has relocated Renzetti’s manufacturing operations from Titusville, Florida, to the company’s Colorado Outdoors campus, bringing production of the high-end fly-tying vises and tools alongside fellow heritage brands Ross Reels and Abel Reels. The relocation comes nearly two […]
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Two additional hotels are planned for the Colorado Outdoors development in Montrose, where developers expect to break ground on a previously announced Hampton Inn & Suites before October. The Hampton would be followed successively by a Home2 Suites by Hilton and a SpringHill Suites by Marriott, representatives of Lamont Companies told the Montrose Urban Renewal […]
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The notes from an antique Becker Brothers piano drift through The Rye & The Rose, where saddles sit on wooden shelves and cocktails with names like Saddle Leather and The Outlaw’s Prayer are served alongside oysters, small plates and grazing boards. The piano, dating to around the turn of the 20th century, is not just […]
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