FEBRUARY 25 - MARCH 4, 2026
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Catholic high school coming to Grand Junction Tim Harty
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pace has been leased for classrooms. A headmaster has been hired. Students are being sought. Money is being raised. And come August, Grand Junction will have a Catholic high school: Chesterton Academy of St. Carlo Acutis. Brian Sargent, currently a math teacher at Palisade High School, will be the high school’s headmaster, and he hopes to get 10 to 15 students for the first year. That sounds meager, but other Chesterton academies around the nation have grown enrollments to several hundred students within five to six years from such humble beginnings. Sargent and Katie Jones, a member of the Chesterton Academy of St. Carlo Acutis Board of Directors, said that is one of the most appealing elements of Chesterton high schools. Existing schools mentor new schools, because they can share what they learned. “They have the experience to help get a new school started, and that was kind of a huge selling point,” Sargent said. “This is our first rodeo; it’s not theirs.” “When we came on,” Jones added, “I think they’d already started 58, maybe 60 (high schools in the United States). … And mind you, they don’t go out and seek people to start schools. People come to them to start the schools.” See story Page 5
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Doubling up the dentistry
Fruita Family Dental more than doubled its space and staff when it bought the dentistry across the street, Lybrook Medical Center— See Page 2 Dr. Dane Christensen sits in a chair in an operatory at Fruita Family Dental’s new building, which he bought along with the Lybrook Dental Center practice. Moving to the new space required a short walk kitty-corner across Kokopelli Boulevard to the building that Drs. Scott and Carol Lybrook built in 2006. Similar to Christensen today, the Lybrooks back then needed more space for their growing dental practice. Photo by Tim Harty.
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