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The Cedaredge High School track and field team had a dominating weekend with both the boys and girls finishing atop the team standings on Saturday during the Rangely Panther Invitational, plus finishing among the top five teams at the Coal Ridge Invitational the day before.

The City of Delta will host its free public Cinco de Mayo celebration from 6 p.m.-midnight this Friday on Main Street. Covered VIP seating is available at West Legacy Park.

Children are invited to explore their imagination with our Big Blue Blocks every Friday through May, from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. For more information, call the library at 970-874-9630 or visit deltalibraries.org.

It will soon be time for the season finale of another Pea Green Saturday Night concert at the Pea Green Community Center. The night promises to be one of bluegrass, cowboy and Cajun music and barnyard humor on Saturday, April 27 , from 7-9:30 pm.

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Six cooperative members are on the upcoming ballot for Delta-Montrose Electric Association’s 2024 Board of Directors election, which this year is open to online voting, as well as by mail or in person at the annual meeting. Three of the nine seats are up for election.

About 60 years ago on Little Corn Island, a tiny dot in the Caribbean Sea, 70 miles off the coast of Nicaragua, a cook named Maritza was born to a Colombian mother and Cuban father. She goes by “Bongui,” which means something in Creole, one of several languages spoken on Little Corn Island. The gringos call her “Granny,” thanks to a sign on a table set up in her front veranda: Granny’s Creole Cooking School.

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The common cold can strike at any time of year, but most people likely associate colds with winter. Colds tend to spread more easily in winter, when people typically spend more time indoors with windows closed, thus making it easier for colds and other viruses to spread.

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The U.S. Postal Service has decided to proceed with a controversial plan to move processing of outgoing mail from a Grand Junction facility to Denver, a cost-saving initiative that has raised concerns about potential delays in mail delivery.

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You might make it by boat — if you have one — but for the time being, you will not be getting across Blue Mesa Reservoir on U.S. 50 between Montrose and Gunnison by motor vehicle.

The Colorado Department of Transportation closed the bridge at Dillon Pinnacles due to cracking found during an inspection Thursday, April 18. The closure means an hours-long detour to reach Gunnison from Montrose or Delta, and vice-versa.

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At the tender age of 5 years old, Mary Pat Ettinger’s parents saw the artistic ability in their second oldest child. They believed so strongly in her talent that when she was in the 5th and 6th grades, they had her take art lessons with a local Italian artist. To make life easier, her father…

When we think of long term investments, we usually think of financial ones like stocks or CDs. But what about your landscape and more specifically trees? Did you know that the oldest living single tree in the United States is thought to be almost 5,000 years old? It is appropriately named Me…

My daughter sent me a picture she snapped of a great blue heron. The bird was entertaining her and the kids while they were fishing on the river. The big bird stood on a rock and watched the shallows for small minnows to swim past, oblivious to the fact that death is waiting just above the water’s surface.

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