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Football season begins this week for local high school teams
The Monticello Buckaroos begin the 2013 football season with high expectations in 1A football and have the returning firepower to back it up. No less than eight returning starters will be back for ...
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Pioneer Day parade
Many participated in the 2013 Pioneer Day parade.
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The curious case of Leroy Taco
This is some correspondence between Monticello and a city resident.
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Lightning storms
Fred Snyder harvests wheat near Ucolo as a rain and lightning storm approaches on July 17. Cori Nielsen photo
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Busy Pioneer Day celebrations
It will be a busy weekend in Monticello beginning on Thursday, July 25. In addition to the annual Pioneer Day celebrations, the community will host the annual Blue Mountain Fastpitch Softball Tourn...
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Sisters face charges for armed robbery
Two sisters are facing serious charges after a July 2 robbery at gunpoint yielded just 30 cans of beer.
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San Juan High class of 1963
The San Juan High graduating class of 1963 had their 50th year class reunion on July 3, 2013. They met at the Tuscan Gardens Restaurant to enjoy good company and good food.
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School loses beloved tenured teacher
The Monticello community was rocked this past week by the sudden passing of long time teacher at Monticello High School, Judy Barton. Ms Barton was the tenured teacher in San Juan School District a...
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Members of the Blanding community gather in an iconic photograph by Ken Hochfeld, taken on July 4, 1973. Hochfeld will return this week, on July 4, 2013, to take an updated photo. Everyone is invited to join in the updated photograph, which will take place at 10 a.m. at the same location, the corner of Main Street and 100 South. Ken Hochfeld photo
Celebrate the Fourth of July at the gala celebration in Blanding
We will be able to remember the past and look to the future as Blanding celebrates American Independence on the Fourth of July with the theme Freedom Lives Forever.
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Smoke rises from the Lackey Fan Fire nothwest of La Sal on June 14. The lightning-caused fire had consumed nearly 1,000 acres and brought hundreds of fire fighters by the press deadline on June 17. Courtesy photo
Two wildfires burn out of control in SJ County
A dry-lightning storm on June 13 sparked a series of fires in San Juan County, two of which continue to burn out of control several days later.
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