Fruita

A Fruita man who was found guilty of first degree murder last month was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Monday.

A lot of other places, like Fruita, Delta and so on, all have rec centers.

Among District 51 girls teams, Fruita Monument is ranked seventh in 6A and Central is 21st in 5A.

A strong defensive effort carried the Fruita Monument girls basketball team past Durango 30-28, with compiling two steals, one block and one deflection.

Fruita 8/9 School students staged a walkout Friday morning as a public response to the proposed closure of their school after the upcoming spring semester.

Fruita is a small town about halfway between Moab and Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park that’s best known as home to Mike, a local chicken that was able to survive without a head for 18 months in the 1940s.

Fruita Monument and Palisade competed in the eight-team Glenwood Springs Demons Invitational at the River Valley Ranch Golf Club.

Fruita Monument’s 4x800 relay team of Dylan Barney, Austin Strain, Drew Unfred and Max Unrein won with a time of 9:05.

Fruita Monument's Austin Reed scores on a layup in the Wildcats' 75-32 victory over Durango.

Fruita Monument starting pitcher Landon Hawk delivers a pitch on Friday in the Wildcats' 6-5 season-ending loss to Castle View in the Class 5A Region 2 tournament at Suplizio Field.

Fruita’s path to another league title runs through the Miners.

Geno Gallegos, Dylan Chelewski and True Tobiasson all took second for Fruita Monument, which finished third at the Davie Swensen Invitational in Hyrum, Utah.

Isabella Zastrow drives to the hope against Fruita Monument on Saturday in Edwards.

Joe Bernal works on his family’s farm near Fruita in the fall of 2022.

Leaving a legacy was probably the furthest thing from his mind when, in 1893, 17-year-old George Reed arrived in Fruita with his family, having left the Kansas prairies behind.

Maynes pinned DeCianne and also had a key pin in the Warriors’ 39-35 victory over Fruita Monument.

Nearly 80 students from Fruita Monument, Grand Junction, Palisade and Central high schools came together to make the nearly 10-minute short chronicling the journey of a sheet of paper through each of the schools.

Other schools that saw changes in principal in 2023 include Fruita Monument and Central high schools; Bookcliff, Orchard Mesa and Redlands middle schools; and Rim Rock, Scenic, Taylor and Thunder Mountain elementary schools.

The rusty red brick building in Fruita was nowhere close to being labeled amazing architecture.

Among the charges Peters faces is one that alleges she stole the identity of Fruita resident Gerald Wood, who she hired as a temporary tech consultant.