Life in San Juan
Updated election results show that the race for Monticello Mayor is closing and still too close to call.
Results released on Wednesday afternoon show Kevin Dunn with 51 percent of the votes compared to 49 percent for incumbent Bayley Hedglin. The difference is just six votes. In preliminary...
Preliminary vote count shows Kevin Dunn leading Bayley Hedglin in the race for Monticello mayor. Dunn has 166 votes so far, compared to 140 to Hedglin.
In the race for Monticello City Council, Shane Brewer and Todd Westcott have an early lead. Westcott has received 189 votes, Westcott has 187,...
Alyn Mitchell has been nominated and recently received the 2025 Merlin F. Goode prevention award from the State of Utah.
Alyn’s contributions both locally and statewide are a testament to her dedication to substance use prevention.
Alyn is a proud preventionist and serves on many state training...
Blanding Library will be hosting its third annual Pumpkin Carving contest. Award categories include Scariest, Silliest, Most Creative, and Best by Child 0-12 years. Pumpkins may be dropped off Wednesday, October 29 from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., and Thursday, October 30 from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m...
by Sally Jack
If you want to create a little magic and put a smile on the face of a child experiencing medical baldness, come to the South Chapel of the Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints in Blanding on Saturday, October 25 to participate in the Magic Yarn Project.
Men, women, boys and...
The year 2025 will mark the 47th performance of Handel’s Messiah in San Juan County.
Since 1975, there have been many iterations, featuring hundreds of performers and several conductors, including Pete Henderson, Francis Lyman, Derryl Jack, Duane Lyman, Wayne Erickson, Jake Palmer, and now Tim...
By Janet Wilcox
Contributing writer
With temples of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints dotting the earth in these days, it’s hard to imagine the sacrifice that early members in foreign countries had as they traveled to a temple in the 1990’s.
Blanding dentist Andrea Twitchell recalls...
by Janet Wilcox
It may seem that life at the Four Corners Regional Care Center might be so-so, but for Becca Ivy, it’s sew, sew!
Becca has been happily residing there for several months and uses her sewing talents to make pillow cases for other residents.
She began sewing in 2007 when she lived...
By Courtney Tanner
SLC Tribune
Chasity Light was lost in thought, watching her clothes spin quiet circles at the laundromat during her regular Saturday errand in Montezuma Creek when a panicked woman’s voice broke through.
“Who lives to the north? Does anyone live to the north?”
Light thought the...
Monticello native Kirk Hoggard’s earliest memories of music date back to when he sung the Unicorn Song by the Irish Rovers and won accordion lessons at the age of seven.
During high school Hoggard was involved in music programs, was twice awarded all-state tuba player, and received jazz band honors...
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