Closing Reception for Yust Show is Friday at NJC

Submitted by Northeastern Junior College

For more than 40 years, Dave Yust has been a distinguished artist and professor of art at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. He is best known for large circular format canvasses featuring both geometric and biomorphic abstract images. Over his long and distinguished career, he has participated in more than 50 prestigious group and invitational exhibitions and has had over 20 one-person shows at recognized galleries and museums. His work is in numerous permanent collections at museums, including the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Wichita Art Museum, Portland (Oregon) Museum of Art and the Denver Art Museum.


And for the past month, students and visitors to Northeastern Junior College have enjoyed his work on display in the Peter L. Youngers Fine Art Gallery located in E. S. French Hall on campus. This Friday, at 4 p.m., a closing reception will be held for his show at the gallery. The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

Gallery Reception at Fort Morgan Museum

Submitted by the Fort Morgan Museum

 

The Fort Morgan Museum is hosting a Gallery Reception!

What: Gallery Reception for Modern Morgan: Three Modern Artists from Morgan County. 

When: Thursday Nov. 5th, from 6:00 to 7:30

Where: At the Fort Morgan Museum, in the Lower Level Gallery

Who: Meet the artists and learn more about what influences their individual voices. 

     The Fort Morgan Museum is hosting a gallery reception for Modern Morgan: Three Modern Artists from Morgan County.  Join us this Thursday, Nov. 5th, from 6:00 to 7:30 in the Lower Level Gallery at the Fort Morgan Museum.  Meet with two of the artists whose works are on exhibit now in the museum, and learn more about what influences their work and how they came to be artists.  The show will be on exhibit at the museum, now through the end of the year.  Don't miss your chance to discover how these unique works were created.  For more details or to schedule a group tour of the gallery, contact Andrew Dunehoo, Museum Educator at 970-542-4014.   

Police Round Up 11 Alleged Drug Dealers

Submitted by the Fort Morgan Police Department

Eleven drug dealers who were suspected of Distribution of Methamphetamine and Marijuana in Morgan County were targeted to be arrested Wednesday morning in coordinated drug raids.

The suspects were arrested on Morgan County District Court warrants from cases put together by the Fort Morgan Police Department, Morgan County Sheriff’s Department, Brush Police Department, and the Eastern Colorado Drug Task Force from investigations during the last six months. They were taken to the Morgan County Detention Center to await arraignment. More arrests are pending.

About 15 law enforcement officers from Morgan County and the Eastern Colorado Drug Task Force participated in the early morning roundup.

Arrested were:

• Luis Morales-Alvarez, 52, of 601 S. Sherman Street #27, Fort Morgan, for Distribution and Possession of Schedule II Drug (Methamphetamine).
• Daniel Wells, 31, 710 Cameron Street, Brush, for Distribution and Possession of Schedule II Drug (Methamphetamine).
• Rey Gonzales, 21, of 14530 Hwy 34 #25, Fort Morgan, for Distribution and Possession of Schedule II Drug (Methamphetamine).
• Randy Meza, 49, of 2911 Mill Street, Brush, for 2 (two) counts of Distribution and Possession of Marijuana.
• Dorothy Aileen Munoz, 40, of 720 Edison Street, Brush, for 2 (two) counts of Distribution and Possession of Marijuana and Schedule II Drug (Methamphetamine).
• Miguel Angel Munoz, 40, of 720 Edison Street, Brush, for Distribution and Possession of Marijuana.
• Rex Allen Rucker, 44, of 19606 Virginia Avenue, of Fort Morgan, for 4 (four) counts of Distribution and Possession of Schedule II Drug (Methamphetamine).

We executed two search warrants which netted small quantities of marijuana, drug paraphernalia and cash. Illegal drug distribution is an ongoing rural problem that has resulted in citizens having their quality of life affected. These kind of multiple law enforcement arrests are a continual process in the effort to clean up Morgan County. We want to go after the people who are responsible and we were successful today in rounding up a number of them. The message we want to send out is to identify these individuals so that they are known in Morgan County by each citizen.

Ft. Morgan Police Chief Talks About Murder Case

Updated information concerning the murder of a woman last night in Fort Morgan,a nd the man who is now jailed in conneciton with her death. The audio clip is an unedited interview with Ft. Morgan Police Chief Keith Kuretich:

Woman Stabbed to Death in Ft. Morgan

Fort Morgan Police have already made an arrest in connection with the community's first murder in three years.
A disturbance was reported shortly after 11:30pm at a home in the 400 block of Kiowa, according to police officials. They have not released the name of the woman. According to a department news release, she was stabbed to death. While investigators are not releasing the name of the victim, they say she was of eastern African descent. Officers arrested the suspect int he killing, 25-year old Ahmed Abdi of Greeley, and charged him with second-degree murder along with two assault charges. He is being held in the Morgan County Detention Center.

Read the complete release from Fort Morgan Police here

Fort Morgan, Greeley SBDCs Merge

Small business owners in the 12 counties of northeast Colorado will soon be served by a unified Small Business Development Center. The SBDC in Fort Morgan is merging with the Greeley/Weld County SBDC. The merged organization will now be known as the Northeast-East Central Colorado Small Business Development Center. Greeley/Weld SBDC director Richard Pickett says the new organization will be more active in outlying cities and towns throughout the region.

Colorado Springs Soldier Dies in Iraq

A Colorado soldier has died while serving in Iraq. The Defense Department said early this morning that Spc. Jonathon Sylvestre of Colorado Springs died Nov. 2nd in Kut, Iraq. He was injured in a non-combat incident, which the military says is still under investigations. He was assigned to the 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team at Fort Benning, Ga. Funeral arrangements are pending.