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Monticello City Council discusses need for transparency in City matters
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Transparency seemed to be the public’s focus of the June 13 Monticello City Council when Tom Wigginton addressed the Council during Public Comments.
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The condition of the cabin was quite precarious, with many of its walls crumbling and its front entrance lost to the cutback embankment of Recapture Wash.
Volunteers and archaeologists stabilize historic cabin in Recapture Wash
Volunteers, archaeologists, family members, and the State of Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA) came together this past spring for a remarkable restoration project of ...
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Jackalope Trading Company newest addition to the local business scene
The Jackalope, aka The Warrior Rabbit, was first encountered by John Coulter, the first white man to set foot inside what is now known as the State of Wyoming.
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Posing in pearls, Marie Ogden led a socialite’s life in New Jersey before her husband died in 1929. Devastated by his death, she experimented with a variety of religious beliefs, then formed her own spiritual colony and moved to Dry Valley, UT where she felt her followers would be safe from coming floods and earthquakes. Scholars now consider her one of the first New Age spiritual practitioners. San Juan Historical Commission photo
Marie Ogden and San Juan County’s Home of Truth
In 1933 in the depths of the Great Depression, 49-year-old Marie Ogden, a spiritualist and millennial Christian, moved to Dry Valley in San Juan County, UT to establish a religious colony and to aw...
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Orchids of San Juan County, Utah
Local photographer and retired botanist Kay Shumway has identified a number of spectacular orchids in San Juan County.
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Secretary Zinke recommends reduced size of Bears Ears National Monument
The US Secretary of the Interior is recommending that the boundaries of the Bears Ears National Monument be cut back.
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Car seat safety checks at SJ Public Health
San Juan Public Health director Kirk Benge announced this week that the San Juan Public Health office at 196 East Center Street in Blanding is once again offering car seat checks to the public.
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From the June 21, 2017 issue
  • Family Dollar grand opening Thursday, June 22 in Blanding
  • Grayson Country Quilters anual quilt raffle
  • DUP prepares for July 4 celebration
  • New”Little Library” in Monticello
  • Public Health Office addresses epidemiology
  • Six tips for staying hydrated this summer
  • Letters to the Editor:
    • Love and preserve the past and present
    • Facts about tourism in Blanding
  • Tied to the Post: A Bluff Bohemian lifestyle
  • ‘Round the Region
  • Weddings announced
  • 65th wedding anniversary
  • Shumway graduates
  • Missionary news
  • Northern News: Those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer
  • Birth announcements
  • From the Past
  • Public Open Houses on Forest Plan Revision

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Car seat safety checks at SJ Public Health
Jun 13, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 164 164 recommendations | email to a friend
San Juan Public Health director Kirk Benge announced this week that the San Juan Public Health office at 196 East Center Street in Blanding is once again offering car seat checks to the public.
Upward Bound announces local food drive
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The Upward Bound (UB) program is in full swing this summer at USU Eastern – Blanding Campus. Sixty students stay on campus to take high school and college prep classes as a bridge for the upcoming ...
A root on me
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It was a hot Saturday afternoon, and I was in the yard pulling, chopping, hoeing, and raking weeds.
Sec. Zinke to make Bears Ears recommendation
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Saturday, June 10 is the deadline for Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke to issue a recommendation on Bears Ears National Monument.
Cheryl Bowers named to Blanding City Council
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Cheryl Bowers was sworn in as councilwoman to the Blanding City Council on May 30. She will fill Trevor Olsen’s vacant seat after Olsen resigned in May. Bowers will fill his seat until January, 201...
Sheriff to appear July 25
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A July 25 initial appearance is scheduled in Seventh District Court in Monticello in the case of criminal charges brought against San Juan County Sheriff Eldredge, Chief Deputy Alan Freestone, and ...
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