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Charlene Vera Parker (Murray), 73, of Rifle Co, passed away peacefully at her home May 29, 2023. Born August 7th, 1949, to Chris Murray and Hilda Simmons. Charlie as she was known by friends and family, and Granny by her 3 grandchildren whom she loved dearly. She was also and amazing great granny to her 3 great grandchildren and had just learned of her 4th due in January 2024. Charlie was a loving Mom, grandma, sister, aunt, and friend, if she wasn’t enjoying a good cup of coffee with friends or family, she was doing what she loved, creating a craft, sewing a blanket, or baking, of course that is if there was not a NASCAR race on.

The Glenwood Meadows Rebuild project began Monday, which will block some of the entrance ways to the popular shopping center. The City of Glenwood Springs is beginning phase one of five of rebuilding the Glenwood Meadows roadway, and they anticipate the project to be complete by November. Phase one began...

The West Mountain Regional Health Alliance (WMRHA) was awarded a $2.7 million Transformational Homelessness Response Grant for the Valley Alliance to End Homelessness (VAEH), which will serve Eagle, Garfield and Pitkin counties in supplying shelter for those without a roof over their heads. A regional homeless response system collaborative, composed...

People packed into the Glenwood Springs Library on Monday morning after a Comcast/Xfinity outage caused many to be without WiFi or phone service. The outage happened at 7:50 a.m. after an excavator working for the Roaring Fork Transportation Authority severed some fiber optic cables at 27th Street and Grand Avenue, said Leslie Oliver, senior director of external communications at Comcast.

Everyone loves donuts and if you are looking for some of the best places to get your donut fix, you've come to the right place. I have had donuts from all over the country and some are leaps and bounds above the rest. Colorado's donut scene is always innovative with...

One person was flown to a hospital with serious injuries following a crash in Rifle on Wednesday morning, according to the Rifle Police Department. RPD Public Information Officer Angela Mills said the driver hit a tree in a parking lot while traveling eastbound on East 16th Street. The call came in shortly after 9 a.m.

A two-vehicle crash on Monday on U.S. Highway 6 just east of Silt resulted in the death of a New Castle male, the Colorado State Patrol said on Thursday. Near 9 a.m. on Monday, a 79-year-old Silt resident driving a Ford F-250 pickup truck eastbound on Highway 6 was taking a turn north onto Davis Point Road when his vehicle was struck by a 50-year-old New Castle resident driving a Harley Davidson motorcycle.

Investigators with the Special Problem Enforcement and Response Task Force in Garfield County made an arrest and seized a lot of drugs during an investigation on Thursday. Officers seized about 1,300 fentanyl pills, 45 grams of methamphetamine and $2,000.Anthony Toovey was arrested during the investigation. According to Garfield County, Toovey has been arrested four times this year by the SPEAR Task Force and a total of eight times in Garfield County since he was released from the Department of Corrections and placed on parole on Feb. 28.Investigators said additional arrests are expected in this case. 

Delta and Gunnison County Emergency Management in partnership with the Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (DHSEM) encourage businesses with financial losses caused by the CO Highway 133 closure which began on May 2, 2023 to complete the estimated economic damage impact worksheet from the Small Business Administration (SBA).

UPDATE 4:50 P.M. FRIDAY, JUNE 2: Interstate 70 is now reopened in both directions at the Canyon Creek exit west of Glenwood Springs. The eastbound lanes of I-70 originally closed at 3:21 p.m. following a wreck, a Garfield County emergency alert states. Support Local Journalism. Readers around Glenwood Springs and...

Missiles, bombings and a cacophony of small-arms fire suddenly erupted outside Isela Ventura’s apartment in Khartoum, Sudan. Incoming attacks sounded like an airliner taking off right next to her building, she said. Electricity off, running water nil, communications cut, airport bombed, the New Castle resident was told by her...

The Roaring Fork Transportation Authority’s $22.72 million project to add pedestrian underpasses to serve a major bus station in Glenwood Springs got off to an inauspicious start Monday. A contractor who was “clearing and grubbing” the site in preparation for the work severed a fiber optic cable resulting in...

With the summer season quickly approaching, human interactions with wildlife in Garfield County are sure to occur. As bears come out of hibernation and find themselves in the mountainous trees of Roaring Fork Valley, here’s what you need to know about wildlife interaction safety for the 2023 summer. Editor’s...

Editor’s note: This article previously misstated that the band named Dustin Elliot and The Broken Rodeo will be performing when really the band’s name is Dustin Elliot and The Broken Radio. The band is scheduled to play from 3:30-4:30 p.m. Saturday, June 17 on the festival’s main stage....

"Hopefully [we'll] be able to save someone's life whether it's a child or adult maybe it will open someone's eyes to the reality of what this drug does"

The City of Glenwood yet again lacks specific direction when it comes to building a “thriving downtown.” How, you might ask? By chalking tires of anyone who parks downtown and handing out a $40 ticket if the vehicle is in the same parking spot for more than two hours.

Early in the morning of Memorial Day, I went for a run from near the baseball diamond at Two Rivers Park, out to where the Rio Grande Trail makes a quick loop turnaround across the street from Alpine Bank. I then, as I always do, headed back to my starting point at the park. It’s a route that a friend and I call “The Home Plate Run,” because that is where the roughly 3.4-mile loop begins and ends.

Stacker compiled statistics about where people in Garfield County are looking to buy homes using cross-market demand and monthly inventory data from Realtor.com.

There are two things we can count on in this world: death and taxes, and while death still appears to be an absolute, Garfield County property taxes are somewhat negotiable until June 8. The thing is, the county reassessed property values at the height of the roller coaster that is the housing market (especially in our little kingdom), and while the price of homes may come back down, we all know the taxes won’t.

New audio unveils a distressing 911 call made by the son of Rep. Lauren Boebert in December, shedding light on an alleged incident where his father, Jayson, purportedly assaulted him by forcefully throwing him around their house. The teenager dialed the Garfield County dispatch twice, first at 6:46 p.m. and then at 6:53 p.m., providing harrowing details of the assault. In the second call, the young caller attempted to retract his accusations while the Colorado Congresswoman, heard yelling in the background, intervened, asserting that her son "doesn't need help."