Montrose Fresh

A 9,000 square foot building near the airport will soon be ready to serve as an annex for a library that is bursting at the seams. The price — an ouch-inducing $718,000 not uncommon in today’s hot real estate market — buys the library district space for four departments and streamlines critical functions.

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Centennial teachers rolled up their sleeves on Monday to prepare for students coming back from winter break in a few days — and to donate blood. For the second year in a row, Kim Hutchel, who teaches life skills courses at the school, organized the event for Centennial staff to donate blood to St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction.

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Governor Jared Polis and Dr. Eric France, the state’s chief medical officer, announced that Colorado updated its recommended quarantine guidelines. The update aligns with isolation and quarantine recommendations released by the Centers for Disease and Control earlier this week.

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As the new year draws closer, the city is looking at rounding off a stack of capital projects launched throughout the year. While many projects, such as the new Rotary Amphitheater, have recently tied up, a few others are well underway and are slated for completion in 2022. So here’s a quick overview of what’s going on...

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Viewed one way, a starting salary of $55,000, with a housing allowance between $800 to $1,000, is good money — and it ought to make hiring deputies for San Miguel County easy. Keeping them shouldn’t pose difficulty, either. But in Colorado’s exploding real estate market, particularly in the county that is home to tony Telluride, the pay does not keep pace with housing.

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Family and faith breathe life into the heart of many Hispanic traditions, particularly during Christmastime. Traditional Mexican-American Christmas pastimes can look different from American customs, celebrating beliefs rooted in Mexican culture.

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The Montrose real estate market is likely to sustain its recent robust activity if COVID-19 fears continue, according to a report from a local real estate agency. Local experts say the boom is fueled by people from Denver and highly populated West Coast markets moving to rural areas.

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Today - Montrose County School District is still waiting to hear back from the state about whether it will have to replace the Thunderbird mascot at Johnson Elementary School. But there are two other schools in Colorado with Thunderbird mascots: Sangre de Cristo High School in Mosca and Hinkley High School in Aurora.

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Today - 160 Montrose Regional Health employees have been granted exemptions to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate on religious grounds or sincerely held beliefs. Another 20 have gotten medical exemptions.

Also, Montrose’s Luke Hutto has made basketball history reaching 1,000 career points, further solidifying his status as one of the best scorers to play at Montrose High School. The moment was Hutto’s, and easily the most memorable one in a 64-38 win over Palisade on Saturday.

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Today -  As the mascot committees are met for the second time this week to discuss concrete discussions for the mascot replacement, a third-grade classroom at Oak Grove Elementary School has brainstormed ideas of their own for the new Montrose High School mascot.

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