Northern News

Well, such a springtime in the Rockies can be spring-like. “When it’s springtime in the Rockies, there’ll be six feet of snow or it’ll be 40 below.”  We do take spring a day at a time in this part of the world, where Ma Nature gives us a spring day here and there. We’ve had more than a few nice...
I’m not talking about high school seniors either, although we do have several of those in our village this year. Gauge Johnson, Tyler Beshoner, and Macy Badger are all – or were – seniors at Monticello High this year.   The guys finished their school requirements by the end of the winter quarter...
 And you know I am not talking about tile squares either.  Nope, it’s the TP. No more large, fluffy luxurious wades of whiteness with which to do the job. Now I’m trying to judge the minimum for completing the task.   I’m also still trying to figure out a lot of things in the current, unprecedented...
I often tout the greatness of our community of Sierra La Sal. Also, I think I mention from time to time that “it takes a village...” in this case, not only to raise a boy, but evidently to help a young man complete his Eagle Scout project.  If you drive into La Sal from the west, you will now...
NORTHERN NEWS Sing along with me: “See them tumbling down, pledging their love to the ground, lonely but free I’ll be found, tumbling along with the tumbling tumble mustard.” The elements came together this Spring to provide the perfect conditions (whatever those are) for a bumper crop of tumble...
by Maxine Deeter At approximately 10 a.m. on August 2, a highway construction worker employed by LeGrand Johnson was involved in a one-vehicle accident on Highway 46 east of La Sal.  Kayonnie Rodriquez, 43 of Blanding, was the sole occupant in a large dump truck when it tipped.  First...
NORTHERN NEWSby Maxine Teeter It is the goal of my partner and I to spend as much time on The Mountain as possible in the summer.  Folks ask me what we do there.  Well, the last two summers I spent a lot of time chanting, “I want to see a bear!” Last week we were camped at Medicine Lake...
NORTHERN NEWSby Maxine Deeter Our local volunteer fire folks were called to the Mountain Shadows Subdivision, aka Hangdog, late last Saturday night.  As often happens, someone was burning debris in the area to protect property and structures against fire when this control burn got out...
by Maxine Deeter Two-year-old Adonijah Foster passed away Saturday at his home in Hatch Rock on Hatch Point due to an accidental fire that started in his bedroom while he was sleeping.  Adonijah was burned and inhaled too much smoke to continue breathing.  His mother and sister were...
NORTHERN NEWSby Maxine Deeter Christmas and New Year’s have come and gone.  It’s on to a new year.  Hopefully, for most the holiday season was a good one.  La Sal received a surprising White Christmas.  Although, returning home from the “north”, we noticed that the heaviest depth of...

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