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Grand Lake fire hosts wildfire meeting GRAND LAKE — Grand Lake Fire Protection District invites residents of the Grand Lake area to a Wildfire Preparedness meeting at 5 to 7 p.m. on June 6, in the Community Room next to Town Hall. Learn how to be prepared for a wildfire with topics presented on Home Defensible Space, personal preparedness and emergency notification methods. This meeting is presented as part of Wildfire Awareness Week, June 3-93. For more information visit GLFPD website at,www.grandlakefire.org or contact Paul Mintier at, pmintier@grandlakefire.org, 970-531-3287. …

A report of a stolen rental car in the Granby area was resolved by a Fraser-Winter Park Police officer, who located the car on YMCA Snow Mountain Ranch property. The car’s driver allegedly had attended a wedding at the YMCA the night before. It was suspected the man had indulged in too many wedding toasts, forgetting where his car had been parked. The officer ended up giving the man “a courtesy ride, and a lecture, to his vehicle,” according to a police calls log. The fox and the hound. A dog in Grand Lake allegedly was injured by a fox …

Eight-graders focus on higher education GRANBY — East Grand Middle School Students worked the entire year on a service learning project to make Grand County a better place to live, and this year’s winning idea was to bring a community college to Grand County. Students worked independently to research the needs and benefits of having a community college in our area. They also listened to guest speakers and found out the Grand Foundation is promoting the pursuit of attracting a college to Grand County, with 26 local organizations and individuals having signed a letter of support. The eighth-graders are now …

On May 10, The Department of the Interior announced the start of the 2013 “Share the Experience” contest, giving amateur photographers the chance to join the ranks of Ansel Adams, Thomas Moran, and others who have found recognition for their photographs of the nation’s public lands. The “Share the Experience” photo contest showcases our nation’s public lands, including national parks, wildlife refuges, forests and recreation areas - and draws entries from all across the United States. It is the largest national park and public land photo contest for amateur photographers. “Photography has the power to make the great outdoors accessible …

Nancy Gold was on the phone in her kitchen in Tabernash when she noticed that two burners on her fairly new smooth-top stove were on high. She thought it was odd, as she couldn’t remember turning them on. When she went to turn them off, she noticed the knobs were both turned off. “I thought I had lost my mind! Even on high there’s a (heat) limit, but the burners kept getting hotter and hotter!” said Gold, who tried to unplug the stove but it was too heavy for her to move alone. She finally turned it off through the …

The Grand Lake Area Chamber of Commerce plans to host its first signature Golf Tournament at the Grand Lake Golf Course on Saturday, June 8, with a shotgun start at 9 a.m. The tournament was previously the Independent Sport Club’s (ISC) golf fundraiser; the ISC will no longer host a golf tournament. The chamber is honored to inherit the golf tournament from the ISC, according to statements. The Chamber will use it as one of its key fundraising events of the year. All proceeds from the tournament will be used by the chamber to support chamber members and effectively market …

WINTER PARK – Winter Park Resort mechanic Justin Jarzynka has been named Mechanic of the Year by the Ski Area Vehicle Maintenance Institute at its annual Conference and Trade Show held this week in Grand Junction, Colorado. In addition to Jarzynka, the entire Winter Park mechanic shop was singled out by the Institute for its annual Safety Award, acknowledging the overall commitment to safety by each of the resort’s mechanics while keeping Winter Park’s vehicles in pristine shape throughout the difficult winters. Jarzynka, a native of Nebraska, is celebrating his 10th season with Winter Park after joining the resort in …

CDOT will be completing routine maintenance throughout Grand County this summer with crews fixing potholes, guardrails and other small projects. CDOT is also planning to fix an area of Highway 40 just west of the junction with Highway 14, which continues to Walden. The section of Highway 40 — called Muddy Pass — that will undergo construction has seen damage from an ongoing landslide. This section of highway has received regular fixes due to the active landslide state of the area. A contractor will build a retaining wall that will hopefully prevent slides from happening, according to CDOT Spokeswoman Ashley …

On a Saturday in 1981, 60 miles northeast of San Diego, three brothers were hiking a half-mile from the campsite where their parents were preparing lunch. Two of the brothers thought the third brother, 9-year-old Jimmy Beveridge, was racing them back to the campsite, but he never returned. After a short search by the parents, which turned up no Jimmy, a large-scale search for the boy was started. After four days of searching by 400 searchers, including 200 marines, the boy’s jacket and one shoe were recovered and his direction of travel was finally established. Wednesday morning Jimmy’s body was …

Can you imagine your own superhero? That's the question author and illustrator Jarrett Krosoczka posed to kids on a recent afternoon at a school in Washington, D.C. Krosoczka also described how he overcame a difficult childhood to become the author of the beloved Lunch Lady series.

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In June, NPR's Backseat Book Club will read Katherine Applegate's tale of Ivan, a gorilla who lives in a shopping mall. Ivan enjoys watching TV and painting, but a newcomer to the mall — a baby elephant — forces Ivan to face his own past.

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The author of “Where’d You Go, Bernadette” calls Franzen her “big daddy” — “My favorite kind of book is a domestic drama that’s grounded in reality yet slightly unhinged.”    

Also: Amazon to begin publishing fan fiction; Paul Ryan and Elizabeth Warren are writing books; Keith Richards' exorbitant library fines.

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A poor father sells his daughter to a wealthy, childless couple, dividing her from her beloved brother and setting a chain of stories in motion in Khaled Hosseini's And the Mountains Echoed. Moving and morally complex, this is the most ambitious book yet from the author of The Kite Runner.

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A Manhattan judge upholds a lower court ruling that $210 million worth of unredeemed gift cards from the defunct book chain are no longer valid.

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After years trying to conceive, novelist Jennifer Gilmore and her husband decided to adopt. What they thought would be a relatively simple process was instead a long and painful one. In her latest novel, Gilmore channels these autobiographical experiences into fiction.

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DOTSERO — Interstate 70 was closed for about eight hours Wednesday after a fatal head-on collision between a car and semi truck that morning. A Mazda sedan was traveling eastbound, while the truck was traveling westbound in a construction zone at mile marker 126.5. Due to construction, eastbound and westbound traffic were traveling in the lanes normally used for westbound traffic. The Mazda crossed into the path of the semi and struck it head-on, according to trooper Nate Reid of the Colorado State Patrol. Both cars were engulfed in flames after they collided. The adult female driver of the Mazda …

DOTSERO — Interstate 70 is now open in both directions in Glenwood Canyon after being closed for nearly six hours due to a fatal head-on collision between a car and semi truck early Wednesday morning. A Mazda sedan was traveling eastbound, while the truck was traveling westbound in a construction zone at mile marker 126.5. Due to construction on that stretch of the interstate, eastbound and westbound of traffic are traveling in the lanes that normally used for westbound traffic. The Mazda crossed into the path of the semi and struck it head-on, according to Trooper Nate Reid of the …

Local groups and governments are emptying their piggy banks trying to find any available money to contribute to a 10-mile safety-improvement project on Highway 9 in Grand County. Their cash is crucial to getting the plan approved. High Country stakeholders have to put up 20 percent of the project’s $46 million bill to qualify for Colorado Department of Transportation funding. The owner of the Blue Valley Ranch near Kremmling, billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Jones, last month contributed $4 million to the match, leaving a local citizens’ group with $4 million left to raise from the public and local stakeholders …

Also: shameless book blurbs; new plays from Ayad Ahktar; and a first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone draws a record price at auction.

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