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The La Junta Chamber of Commerce’s 120th Annual Banquet will be held on January 31st, 2022 at 6 pm in the Otero College Banquet Room.

LA Junta Tribune Dominos Pizza CEO Ritch Allison was among many outside the chains La Junta store at 1 Conley Rd. Thursday to celebrate the store being the 18,000th opened worldwide. Allison was joined by Executive Vice President of Operations Frank Garrido, La Junta Franchise Owner Brian Bailey, La Junta Mayor Jeffri Pruyn and several prominent members of the community to celebrate with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and an $18,000 donation to La Junta Associated Charities. "We are excited to un...

Alyssa Bullock and Shealie Schmidt helped bring new Bike Share Program to La Junta with help in writing the grant for CDOTs Main Street Program.

Jonathan and Kariane Amparan are all about the Arkansas Valley area and hope to connect to the community through tattoos and piercings.

LA Junta Tribune Three previous presidents of the La Junta Chamber of Commerce who passed away this year were honored at the Jan. 25 annual chamber banquet. They were William Glenn Parker, Ardith Sneath and Kirk Snyder. Past commerce presidents, local public figures and family friends appeared in a prerecorded video by SECO News’ Adrian Hart that played during the ceremony. Heres a look at each of the honorees: William Glenn Parker Linda Kroschel, the head elf of the annual Jay’s Community...

LA Junta Tribune When Board President Mickie Lewis introduced herself during Mondays La Junta Chamber of Commerce Annual Banquet, she reluctantly described herself as a "transplant," to La Junta and Colorado. Nonetheless, as she expressed, she loves being in rural Southeast Colorado. "I wish that I can say that I was from Colorado," said Lewis. "But its not fair, Im not. Ive been here my entire adult life, which is a pretty significant amount of time. I guess eventually, maybe Ill be allowed ...

LA Junta Tribune Colorado voters decided in November to charge the state with the task of reintroducing gray wolves to Colorado. With the deadline for reintroduction set at Dec. 23, 2023, Gov. Jared Polis wants to make sure Colorado Parks and Wildlife gets ahead of the deadline. Polis urged the Colorado Parks & Wildlife Commission during a Jan. 13 meeting to work toward reducing the deadline for the reintroduction of gray wolves to Colorado from Dec. 23, 2023, to sometime in early to mid-2022....

Past public servants honored at annual chamber of commerce banquet LA Junta Tribune The La Junta Chamber of Commerce was not dissuaded by the COVID-19 pandemic when it came to the question of whether or not its annual banquet would take place this year. Things were different, though, in that the banquet was held at 7 p.m. Monday virtually, as opposed to its traditional location in Otero Junior Colleges Rizzuto Banquet Room. Although COVID-19 was not a direct theme of the virtual banquet,...