Wind is creating jobs for Leitner-Poma Regarding the recent Daily Sentinel article, ?Jobs report a bit of a Stretch,? I feel that clarification is required.

The Colorado Department of Transportation says that if all goes well, it expects to bring down a pesky boulder in Glenwood Canyon early this afternoon, possibly leading to the opening of Interstate 70 to limited traffic.

It?s never too early to get excited about fishing Lake Powell, says the one man who probably knows more about fishing that lake than anyone. Utah fisheries biologist Wayne Gustaveson has made a career of the 186-mile long lake and popular fishery that attract more than 3 million visitors a year.

Clean, drain, dry. Following those three tips may save you and thousands of other boaters untold headaches at Lake Powell and other Western waters.

This week, instead of the usual Outside Connection in which we offer free or low-cost events to do and activities to share, we have something you shouldn?t do. Officials with the Grand Junction Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management are asking hikers, mountain bikers and off-highway vehicle to stay off trails and back roads until they dry out.

A recent article on two Colorado wineries headed this month to the U.S. Ambassador?s tasting in France brought a response from Rick Turley, owner and winemaker at Colorado Cellars, one of the oldest wineries in the state. One of the wineries, Varaison Vineyards and Winery in Palisade, mentioned it made a Colorado Champagne and Turley was quick to take ownership of that label name.

Scenes from along the I-70 rockslide in Glenwood Canyon

When rockfall started out the workweek by closing Interstate 70 through Glenwood Canyon Monday morning, it cut off about one-fifth of the American Gypsum workforce from the company?s plant. The wallboard maker, located in Gypsum east of the canyon, runs on 12-hour shifts.

The rockfall damage that shut down Interstate 70 Monday and Tuesday sent some travelers scrambling to find alternatives to driving the state?s two lengthy detours. The best advice for frugal travelers who want to head east or west across the state in the next couple days by bus, train or plane: Act quickly.

Monday?s closure of Interstate 70 in Glenwood Canyon resulted in the first use of a new system designed to notify the public of emergencies and issue other community alerts. Garfield County sheriff spokesman Phil Strouse said the system goes beyond emergency notification systems that just call home phone numbers. Instead, it can notify any participant via a cell phone call, text message or e-mail.

The town of Palisade moved quickly to buy nearly an acre of land north of downtown, with town officials saying the purchase was a good deal that would give them control over an important piece of property. Town trustees voted 4-0 Tuesday night to purchase three vacant parcels on the west side of Main Street north of the Union Pacific Railroad tracks for $125,000. Mayor Dave Walker and trustees David Hull and Michael Krueger were absent from the meeting.

Three months of studying and spelling words for 30 to 45 minutes a night paid off last weekend for Holy Family Catholic School seventh-grader Sam Cyphers. Cyphers placed second in the Colorado State Spelling Bee on Saturday in Denver. He spelled words such as ?pickelhaube? and ?allargando? correctly to climb to the top, but fell short of first place when he misspelled ?impetus? in the 16th round of the oral competition.