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Opinion: A Colorado curse
Can you imagine setting out to leave your Colorado hometown multiple times, but then coming back after every attempt? Leaving for college, completing your degree, and then reluctantly moving back...
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Out West Books has some reading suggestions for April
Each week as part of SunLit — The Sun’s literature section — we feature staff recommendations from book stores across Colorado. This week, staff from Out West Books in Grand Junction recommends some...
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This Grand Junction company makes the “world’s best sleeping bags” — but you...
GRAND JUNCTION — Put your hand right here, says Kok Bou, holding out a 12-inch square of insulated fabric that will soon be part of a Wiggy’s sleeping bag. “It’s hot, isn’t it?” he asks. This story...
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BLM shifts green on 2 million Western Slope acres, setting up Colorado clash...
Two million acres of Colorado’s most scenic Western Slope lands would see stronger protections and less oil and gas leasing under a draft Bureau of Land Management proposal, in what would amount to a...
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From particle accelerator to Mr. Bubbles: A 92-year-old Colorado physicist...
GRAND JUNCTION — Gears are whirring. Bells are dinging. Levers are snapping. Air is whooshing through pressure tubes. Plastic bottle “rockets” are blasting off. Bubbles are piling up. And magnets are...
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Out West Books has some conservation titles for September
Each week as part of SunLit — The Sun’s literature section — we feature staff recommendations from book stores across Colorado. This week, the staff from Out West Books in Grand Junction recommends...
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Colorado’s newest historical treasure was nearly demolished to become a...
A half-century-old Basque handball court that was nearly knocked down to make way for a parking lot is Colorado’s newest historic treasure. The History Colorado Board of Directors on Wednesday...
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Colorado cities accelerate turf wars with new construction bans, public...
Broomfield has joined a swelling wave of Colorado communities sharply limiting thirsty turf grass in new development, with more communities about to follow, while other cities and parks departments...
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Human head and hands found in Colorado freezer during cleanup of recently...
GRAND JUNCTION — People who were cleaning out a recently sold home in western Colorado found a human head and hands in a freezer, authorities said. The remains were found in a home in Grand Junction,...
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Tent meant for festivals and galas used to put services for Grand Junction’s...
GRAND JUNCTION — The temperatures had barely climbed into the 20s on a recent morning as a squadron of volunteers, trailing clouds of frosty breath, hustled into a portable pavilion carrying boxes and...
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Postal Service floats idea of driving Western Slope mail to Denver and back...
GRAND JUNCTION — The U.S. Postal Service faced a rowdy, critical crowd Thursday in Grand Junction, a city that has yet to suffer the same delivery problems that have bedeviled smaller towns across...
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A Western Slope program is helping older Coloradans maintain independence
Sandra Dee Powell is in a wheelchair. She suffers from a blood clotting problem in her legs. Cerebral palsy has twisted her right hand since birth. But the 74-year-old widow and retired day care...
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Leaving Colorado foster care is a fraught time for young adults
Natasha Fox was 9 years old when she entered the foster care system. She recalls being emotionally, mentally and physically abused by her mother as early as kindergarten. She used to show up at her...
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When you gotta go, where to go? The crappy state of Colorado’s public restrooms.
Story first appeared in: Nature calls. But what if there is no answer? Colorado’s public outdoor bathrooms are vanishing. Where once there might have been inviting brick-and-mortar restrooms, the...
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