(Left): Photo from 1944 Lamb Days celebration. (Top Right): Watching little kids hang on to rambunctious sheep is a staple of Lamb Day. (Bottom Right): Lamb sandwich preparation takes many hands at a previous Lamb Day in Fountain Green. This year’s celebration is Friday and Saturday, July 16, 17. FOUNTAIN GREEN—Once known as “Wool City”…
EPHRAIM—From the years 2014 to 2019, the Snow College Badger football team has seen 15 of their players earn the title of an All-American. This year, they blew that number completely out of the water. The National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) released their final roster of NJCAA All-America Teams last week via their website,…
LAS VEGAS—North Sanpete High School has a new wrestling coach and he’s not waiting to get his team ready for the upcoming season. Hawk wrestling coach Cheyne Christensen and assistant coach Kris King took seven wrestlers to the Rocky Mountain Nationals in Las Vegas on July 8 and 9. Coach Christensen is excited by the…
EPHRAIM—Snow College Athletic Director Rob Nielson announced that men’s and women’s wrestling will be added to their sports offerings next year. The wrestling programs will be located on the Richfield campus as a way to enhance the college experience for those who attend there, said Snow College President, Bradley J. Cook, in a prepared statement….
SPRING LAKE—A 19-year-old Fairview man died while swimming in Spring Lake in Utah County on June 25 around 6:45 p.m. Weston Lane Peterson was swimming in the lake with a friend when he began to struggle. A bystander on the shore noticed Peterson and the woman struggling and swam out to help them. The bystander…
As a sixth generation farmer and agriculture instructor at Snow College, Matt Goble is no stranger to the bumps in the road that farming for a living brings. Goble grew up over the mountain in Nephi on his family farming operation where they raised sheep, beef cattle and produced hay and grain crops. He, his…
MORONI—Finding a willing individual to oversee the Miss Moroni Pageant became a challenging task this year, according to Mayor Paul Bailey. In an April city council meeting, it was decided that the mayor, councilmember Jennifer Lamb and the 2020 Miss Moroni Olivia Larsen would work together to oversee the selection of the new 2021 royalty….
(Left): Sanpete’s local cowboys qualify for the National High School Finals. They are (from left to right) Riley Oberg, Jake Tree and Cade Denton. (Right): State champion cow cutting contestant Jake Tree, worked hard to earn the top spot in the state and nail down his spot on the national stage. HEBER—When going up against…
WALES—Delays on the construction of a new water well in Wales are disconcerting to some citizens during the drought that Sanpete County is currently enduring. In 2010, a second well, also known as the Edmund Well, was drilled to help provide enough water for the town. Recently this pump inherited a problem of pulling in…
FOUNTAIN GREEN- Fountain Green opened its new city hall on May 11 and would like the citizens to use it and enjoy all it has to offer. An open house will be held on Friday, June 25 from 5-9 p.m. The fire department will serve hamburgers and hot dogs in the parking lot. “The city…