Gas price falls below $3 a gallon in Colorado
Average retail gasoline prices in Colorado have fallen 2.0 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.97 a gallon this weekend.
In Cortez, prices were $3.03 a gallon along U.S. 160, from the Maverik on the east to the Chevron on the west.
In Durango, prices were just under $3 a gallon. Peerless Tyre Co. appeared to have the cheapest gas Friday, at $2.979, while several other stations offered unleaded gas for $2.989 and $2.999.
Gasoline prices have been in a free-fall for weeks. Locally, regular unleaded gas has fallen 25.5 cents during the past month to an average of $3.07 by early Friday, according to AAA’s Fuel Gauge Report.
GasBuddy surveyed 2,158 gas outlets in Colorado. This compares with the national average that has fallen 1.7 cents per gallon in the last week to $2.89.
Locally, regular unleaded gas has fallen about 25 cents during the past month.
Salt Lake tourism office, Colorado ski resort settle
Salt Lake City tourism officials and a Colorado ski resort have settled a legal fight over a marketing slogan.
Utah marketers dropped ‘USA’ from their new Ski City advertising campaign a month after Steamboat Ski Resort sued over its decades-old trademark on the nickname Ski Town, U.S.A., for Steamboat Springs. Utah replaced the letters on a logo with red and white stripes.
The campaign has also removed the online tagline, “Once you’ve stayed in Ski City, you’ll never stay in another ski town.”
Both parties declined to say whether any money changed hands in the settlement announced Friday, less than two weeks before the ski season typically begins.
Region 9 receives $60K from USDA for SCAPE
The Region 9 Economic Development District of SW Colorado has received a Rural Business Enterprise Grant through USDA for the Southwest Colorado Accelerator Program for Entrepreneurs (SCAPE).
Region 9 has been awarded $60,000 from USDA and is the only Colorado organization to receive RBEG funds in this fiscal 2014 cycle.
The grant funding will help support the SCAPE program, which offers mentoring, office space and an equity investment to help ventures enter markets and raise capital. Since 2013, the program has graduated six business ventures, creating eight jobs and leveraging $465,000 in investment. The goal is to create and develop high growth, job creating companies in Southwest Colorado.
Business proposals for the next SCAPE program, which starts in January 2015 are being accepted until November 23rd. For more information about SCAPE, go to www.goscape.org or contact SCAPE Director, Elizabeth Marsh at emarsh@goscape.org.
Dolores district plans presentation on water plan
The Dolores Conservation District will host a presentation on the Colorado State Water plan as a part of their Annual Meeting on Friday, Dec. 5 from 5:30-8 p.m. at the First National Bank in Cortez.
April Montgomery, chairwoman of the Colorado Water Conservation Board, and Mike Preston, chairman of the Southwest Basins Roundtable, will help explain how the 2015 plan will impact the water available to us and how we can comment.
Dinner will be served. There is limited seating, so RSVP to the Dolores Conservation District at 565-9045, ext. 118, or doloresconservation@gmail.com.
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