July 2008
Pioneer Day celebrations
A shiny and almost good-as-new Big Four Tractor led the way at the annual Pioneer Day parade in Monticello on July 26. Volunteer leaders Winn Westcott and Steve Young led an exhausting effort to re...
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SJC Fair Schedule
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Pioneer Day celebration photos

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Treading water with local swimming pools in San Juan County
Swimming pools are on the minds of community leaders in San Juan County, with recent developments in Monticello, Blanding and Montezuma Creek. This may be the last summer for operation of the Monti...
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Big 4 sports at Pioneer Day and nine days to Olympics
With a resurgent Big Four tractor providing motivation, the Pioneer Day celebration crowned many champions last Saturday, including the other Big Four: softball, basketball, golf, and running.
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Monticello hosts Pioneer Day celebrations this week
In 2004 a tractor pull was added to the Pioneer Day Celebration in Monticello to raise money to restore the Big 4 tractor. Four years later, the restored tractor is now at the center of this years’...
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Natural gas exploration and production skyrockets in San Juan
During the past year, while the resurrection of the uranium industry in San Juan County has been grabbing most of the headlines, another energy boom has been quietly growing. There have been new na...
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Father H. Baxter Liebler
Harold Baxter Liebler was born, raised and educated in Brooklyn, New York. In his youth, he very much wanted to go west to Montana and become a sheepman. His parents and family pleaded with him to ...
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Another feast in La Sal
Monticello received a couple of nice showers last week. Not so La Sal. Mother Nature only sent a couple of teasers last week. Looks like rain, but no wet! Heck, we even had our Pioneer Day celebrat...
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Summer baseball leagues finish season
The Dodgers and the Red Sox from Monticello concluded a competitive summer with respective trips to Pinto league state tournaments. The Dodgers, coached by Steve Draper, finished in third place in ...
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