You may wonder why, on some Tuesdays, around 100 students turn out to be waiting at the front doors of Fruita Middle School before 7 a.m. The cause of this phenomena is called reading. Yes, these students are turning up early so they can get a ticket to enter the library.
The library, by 7:15 […]

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First place Yard of the Year winner.
The Fruita Tree Board recognizes two outstanding yards for Yard of the Year awards. This is a difficult job because there are many beautiful, well-maintained yards in the city, all deserving recognition. Thank you to the Yard of the Month sponsors and to all of the citizens […]

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In light of the fact that reading is essential to nearly everything a child learns in school, this skill was found to be well stressed in Fruita’s local elementary schools, Loma, Shelledy and Rim Rock Schools.
While the teachers are doing a terrific job at getting kindergartners ready to meet their expectation of begin able […]

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In my previous article, I stated that I no longer supported John McCain because of his easily provable campaign lies and because of “some decisions he’s recently made that are just as much a betrayal of what I thought he stood for.” In this article, I will discuss some of those decisions.
John McCain, famously, was […]

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Times photos by Vera Mulder.

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