Brent Neil Brown, the suspect in the alleged kidnapping and assault on 19-year-old Snow College student Madelyn Allen, made an initial court appearance by video conference last Wednesday, Dec. 22, before 6th District Court Judge Wallace Lee.
Ephraim’s new all-abilities park, which will replace the park located behind the Ephraim Library, just received its final piece of funding last Wednesday in the form of a $50,000 check from T-Mobile.
Ephraim will receive $1.2 million from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) passed early in the Biden administration and will combine the money with other grants to do $12 million in culinary water improvements.
Snow College Theater Department is producing “A Tuna Christmas,” which opens tonight and runs through Saturday with curtain time at 7:30 p.m. at the Eccles Center for the Performing Arts.
One of the more popular assemblies at Gunnison Valley High School, the “Bulldog Talent Show,” was lively, inspiring and at times funny, as students shared their talents with classmates last Wednesday, Nov. 17.
A fixture in the North Sanpete School District, Darin Johansen, will retire at the end of December. He has handling district finances for more than 33 years.
Your holiday weekend doesn’t need to end when you pass out turkey leftovers to visitors and get the dishes into the dishwasher.
The Manti High Speech and Debate Team took second place in their first meet of the season at Emery last Saturday.
Manti High School will present the musical “Matilda” Nov. 18-20, 22 at 7 p.m. at the high school with a matinee Saturday, Nov. 20 at 2 p.m.
The Ephraim City Council discussed a couple of new construction projects on the northeast end of the town that have been drawing a lot of attention.
At the North Sanpete School District board meeting Tuesday, Oct. 20, the board learned that the North Sanpete High School counseling center, recently named the Dr. Emmitt and Verda Boyne Counseling Center, was a recipient of a $1 million endowed scholarship fund to the University of Utah.
Last September, Ephraim responded to a report that more than a dozen residents in the mobile home park on Ephraim’s Main Street had been without utilities for weeks after their homes were moved by the property owner. Eventually utilities were restored, but the council believes conditions in the park continue to deteriorate.
Thanks to a feasibility report from Victus Advisors at the city’s council meeting last Wednesday, the Ephraim City Council learned it would cost between $20 and $24 million to build its own sports facility.
After closing due to COVID more than a year ago, the former Dirk’s Restaurant at 115 N. Main Street is open under new management, and with a new name: Grandma Berta’s Kitchen. They opened last Monday, Sept. 20.
A bi-partisan committee traveling the state met in Ephraim on Saturday to get input from locals on their task of slicing up the state of Utah in exactly equal portions following the finally released 2020 census data.