NORTHERN NEWSby Maxine Deeter
1. Friends – old and new.
I was speaking to a new friend this week – one I had just then met – who moved to Old La Sal a couple of years ago from Salt Lake City. She and her partner love it here.
I said, people either really love La Sal, or they don’t...
NORTHERN NEWSby Maxine Deeter
There is an old adage which says: Don’t wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty, and the pig likes it.
It was a quiet Friday night just before dusk, and my partner and I were vegging out in front of the TV. Our TV sits between two windows that look onto...
NORTHERN NEWSby Maxine Deeter
We are still getting used to the idea that it is 2014. How many checks have you written so far with the 2013 date on them? Fortunately, we don’t write many checks anymore with on-line bill pay, etc.
Many folks welcomed in the New Year with a get-together...
NORTHERN NEWSby Maxine Deeter
This week there is actual real news from our fair village. By the way, the population of La Sal had doubled as of Sunday evening with the arrival of a type II fire team for the Lackey Fan fire.
The last census put the population of La Sal and surrounding...
NORTHERN NEWSby Maxine Deeter
Every now and then we need to be reminded about our local unsung heroes. La Sal has a wonderful cadre of Emergency Responders who are called into action as the need arises.
They also find themselves coming upon a situation where their skills are put to...
NORTHERN NEWSby Maxine Deeter
Did you feel that? Me neither! We’ve had seismic activity in our area before and some feel the movement and other don’t. I did not feel anything Wednesday night, but seismic activity was definitely recorded east of La Sal.
As I’ve mentioned previously in...
NORTHERN NEWSby Maxine Deeter
It is good to see the world covered in winter white – especially “The Mountain”. Christmas Eve day was perfect with gentle snow falling all day. Kids were out and about sledding – or as they do in modern times, being pulled on sleds behind a four-wheeler...
NORTHERN NEWSby Maxine Deeter
Yep, it’s that time of year again – the epitome of redneck entertainment - the annual, bi-annual, no real schedule whenever we feel like it – La Sal dynamite shoot.
Even if you didn’t read the ad in this paper, local folks knew what was going on just from...
NORTHERN NEWS
We finished planting all the flowers in our yard last week. I think they are now growing in Moab. In our yard is now a goodly portion of the Navajo Reservation. Hope they planted something interesting in that soil before it blew to Sierra La Sal.
We can just be...
NORTHERN NEWS
I attended the uranium open house last Thursday so that I could give a report. No, there was not much seeing red at that meeting. It was very civil. More on that later.
No, here is the story of “red”. I ran into several friends and neighbors at the open house, one of...
