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Fruita resident wins Cantor Poetry Prize

On Thursday, the Telluride Institute’s Talking Gourds Poetry Program announced Fruita resident Alicia Rebecca Meyers as the ...
Located in the high desert climate of western Colorado, Fruita may be a small town, but it has a big reputation for its outdoor recreation. Located on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains, around ...
A Fruita poet has won a western Colorado poetry prize and, in a poetic twist, her husband was a finalist for the same award.
(FRUITA, Colo.) — A festival that celebrates the life of a “world-famous headless chicken named Mike,” is back for its 25th year this spring, and the event is expected to bring thousands of people to ...
The Fruita Monument Wildcats Football Team was on the wrong end of a Front Range Program asserting themselves as one of the ...
Coffee lovers in the 13,000-person town of Fruita are in luck: USA Today this week named Bestslope Coffee Co. the best in Colorado — and one of the top five independent shops in the U.S. The ranking, ...
Fruita, Colo. — This town with a population of just 6,000 is hardly a poster child for sprawl. Its five-square-mile area nestles beside the Colorado River between the dramatic sandstone cliffs of the ...
The Fruita Monument Wildcats and Rifle Bears both battled, but ultimately took losses from a pair of high powered teams in ...