Nathan Deal

2 days ago | gjsentinel.com | Nathan Deal

Grand Junction U.S. Postal Service worker Dan Workman died on May 30 while completing his mail route. He was 59 years old. Workman was delivering along his route, including Elm Avenue and 21st Street, when he passed unexpectedly around 4:13 p.m.Amid online speculation that heat was a factor in his death — as temperatures locally soared to 95 degrees on the afternoon of May 30 — Mesa County Coroner Dean Havlik told The Daily Sentinel that this was not the case.

2 days ago | gjsentinel.com | Nathan Deal

1 of 13 Larry Robinson/The Daily SentinelThe colors are presented Tuesday just behind the new POW/MIA Chair of Honor (Prisoner of War, Missing in Action), dedicated by the local Steadfast Valor Foundation to save a seat for all soldiers who can’t join the Grand Junction Jackalopes and their fans this summer at Suplizio Field, as over 81,500 American service members are still unaccounted for since World War II.

3 days ago | montrosepress.com | Nathan Deal

Seven members of western Colorado Indivisible groups, including Montrose and Ouray Counties Indivisible, visited U.S. House Rep. Jeff Hurd’s Grand Junction office Friday morning to air their grievances about Hurd’s vote to pass President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. kAm%@A:4D :?4=F565 |65:42:5[ :>>:8C2E:@? 2?5 E96 E2I 3C62<D :?4=F565 :? E96 3:==]k^AmkAm“|2?J @7 FD 2C6 5:D2AA@:?E65 E92E 96 G@E65 J6D[” D2:5 |:496==6 y@?;2<[ H9@ C625 2 ?@E6 7C@> 2 ?FCD6 E92E H2D HC:EE6?

5 days ago | gjsentinel.com | Nathan Deal

The Mesa County housing market continues to surge year-over-year through the first half of 2025. Bray Real Estate’s residential report containing data through the end of April shows that home sales haven’t slowed down from a scorching start to the year. Through the first four months of 2025, 866 properties were sold — up 11.3% from 778 through April 2024 — for a volume of $390.7 million, up 18.8% year-over-year from April 2024 ($328.8 million).

6 days ago | gjsentinel.com | Nathan Deal

In early 2024, Jill Layton sat in on the Grand Junction Business Incubator Center’s Circular Economy Roundtable with Gov. Jared Polis, then hoping for her own future in business. Less than a year and a half later, Layton welcomed the governor to her own business at the center, demonstrating her work to Polis as well as State House District 54 Rep. Matt Soper (R-Delta) on Friday. Layton’s business, SURPStone, repurposes single-use, non-recyclable plastics into durable concrete pavers and planters.