MARCH 26 - APRIL 2, 2025
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VOLUME 32, ISSUE 12
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In this issue n Market solutions for affordable housing Are there market-based options on the horizon to make homeownership more attainable?
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n Social Security changes with new act The Social Security Fairness Act will provide benefits to some people who were previously ineligible.
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n Mesa County gets $800K from GOCO The Great Outdoors Colorado board awarded $800,000 in grants for two Mesa County projects.
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n HopeWest hires new CFO HopeWest hired Carter Bair to be its chief financial officer.
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n New business: Rides Bar in Fruita Rides Bar and Grill plans to bring small town feel to the new bar in Fruita.
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Pizza and a Pour Wall
Palisade Pizza & PourHouse provides drinking options with 40 taps on its pour wall — See story, Page 2
Co-owner Russell McBreen stands next to the pour wall with 40 taps at Palisade Pizza & PourHouse, which is in a nearly 13,000 square-foot building that also is home to Deroco Cellars, which boasts it has the largest selection of Colorado wines in Western Colorado. “There’s such a wide selection, where if you were to bring your wife or a friend and they only wanted to drink wine, they can, or a mixed cocktail, and you can sip on whatever beer we have on the wall,” McBreen said. “And if the wall isn’t to your liking or there’s other things, we’ve also got the winery, you can bring wine over.” Photo by Tim Harty.
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