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Ray K. Erku / Post Independent Downtown Rifle business owner Nick Beightel said business has decreased 75% since construction activity picked up in the area earlier this year. In fact, when asked if COVID-19 or construction has been more of a detriment to foot traffic, Beightel, who owns One Jewelers, said construction is worse “by far.” “The fact a lot of my customers are elderly people, they don’t want to walk a block or two to shop,” he said on Tuesday. “They want the convenience to pull up and leave. Where are they going to park? It’s hard for them.”

Ray K. Erku / Post Independent Rifle’s traffic congestion woes are likely to continue as the city recently agreed to extend the closure of Hospital Hill Road into summer. During an April 21 board meeting, FCI Constructors Inc, hired by Grand River Health to construct the new Grand River Care Center, notified the city that construction won’t be finished until August. Hospital Hill Road, which extends from Ash Avenue to U.S. Highway 6 at the south of the facility, was closed to traffic in 2018 when the project broke ground. Hospital Hill Road would be realigned, and the city contributed $25...

The "town square" inside the new E. Dene Moore Care Center in Rifle. Chelsea Self / Post Independent When nursing home residents were recently given a tour through what resembles a posh shopping mall, fashioned with various amenities like a spa, cafe and even a pub, they were taken aback. “You had residents who were just in tears for what it meant to them,” Grand River Care Center Administrator Chavien Paget said. “You had a resident who said, ‘I finally got my own bathroom.’” The new, state-of-the-art Grand River Care Center, set to welcome a transfer of residents from the next d...

Courtesy of Dr. Brooke Allen Throughout the Roaring Fork Valley, rates of new COVID-19 cases continue to rise. New cases transmitted over Thanksgiving are just beginning to trickle into county data, exacerbating virus rates that were already higher than any other point in the pandemic. Hospitals in the area are edging closer to capacity, especially Garfield County, and leaders in Pitkin County are hoping a new travel affidavit for visitors will help stem another rise in local cases as the busy holiday season picks up. A spate of deaths in Garfield County Garfield County reported 10 new COVI...

Glenwood Springs Post Independent A nurse walks to a car at the free COVID testing site on Monday, Nov. 23 in Glenwood Springs. Chelsea Self / Post Independent Garfield County now has 16 confirmed deaths attributed to COVID-19, including six newly confirmed deaths at two Rifle nursing homes where outbreaks have occurred. Two additional deaths also are pending a coroner’s investigation, according to the latest statistics posted Thursday morning to the county’s COVID-19 data web page . Outbreaks at the Colorado State Veterans Nursing Home and E. Dene Moore Care Center, both located in Rifle...