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Headline news: June 19, 2013
Starved for help?
Restaurants report difficulty hiring quality, trained workers
Will Shoemaker
For one sector of the local business community, hiring adequate labor has become a difficult proposition as those establishments are gearing up for a busy tourism season ahead.
Numerous owners and managers of local restaurants report having trouble finding reliable, experienced help in recent weeks
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Learning a lifetime sport
Dos Rios junior golf program in full swing
Chris Rourke
Skylor and Lily Wild are spending part of their summer just like their mother, Heather, did not too long ago. They’re learning the game of golf
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Local meat processing plant explored
Ag. leaders want to see USDA-certified facility in Gunnison
Will Shoemaker
Officials with the Colorado Department of Agriculture (CDA) hope to see at least three more federally certified meat processing plants on the Western Slope by year’s end.
That was the message delivered by Colorado Commissioner of Agriculture John Salazar, during a town hall meeting at the Western State Colorado University Center last week
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Rare plant target of ‘bioblitz’
Agency leaders, volunteers visit Hartman’s to spy skiff milkvetch
Will Shoemaker
As Russ Japuntich navigated his government-issued pick-up along a rocky doubletrack route at Hartman Rocks Recreation Area early last week, a signpost marking the intersection of a popular singletrack trail signaled the balancing act his agency is tasked to maintain.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) biologist was spending the morning laying transects in preparation for a visit by a group of vegetation-savvy volunteers the next day
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The walls came tumbling down
Larry Jensen
It’s unlikely that anyone alive today can remember when there wasn’t an automobile dealership at 231 W. Tomichi Ave
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