MT. PLEASANT—Two high-profile Mt. Pleasant City employees who have been fired in the past month will both be able to appeal their terminations, the city attorney said Monday. Kevin Daniels said Jack Widdison, former manager of ConToy Arena, was a part-time, at-will employee and as such wasn’t entitled to a hearing. But “in the interest…
General fund down 14%, total city expenditures drop 20% MT. PLEASANT—The Mt. Pleasant City Council has adopted a $3.4 million general fund budget for fiscal year 2023, down about $550,000 from the $3.95 million in fiscal 2022, a drop of 14%. Mt. Pleasant is projecting total expenses for everything the city does (that’s the general…
MANTI—A Gunnison man who allegedly threw a crowbar off the roof of a house onto the head of a man who had become a rival in a ro- mantic relationship will face a charge of attempted murder, Judge Marvin Bagley ruled last week in 6th District Court in Manti. Besides the attempted murder count, a…
GUNNISON—A man who got state- wide attention in 2018 for engaging in a shootout with police on I-15 in Utah County and now is in the Central Utah Correctional Facility (CUCF) has been charged with a vicious attack on another inmate that caused permanent injuries. Atruro Ray Gallemore-Jimenez, 42, originally of Clearfield and serving a…
MANTI—An ATV accident near the top of Manti Canyon last month claimed the life of the rider, forest service officials have reported. Forest Ranger Devan Chavez from the Palisade Region reported that Donald J. Nicewander, 61, of Kearns, Utah was operating an ATV on June 23rd, riding on the Manti Trail near the top of…
MT. PLEASANT—A second high-profile firing by Mt. Pleasant city officials is roiling city government. Lynn Beesley, a city council member also works for the Mt. Pleasant Public Works Department, has been terminated and is appealing that action. His appeal hearing was scheduled to be open and be part of the Mt. Pleasant City Council meeting…
Despite public support, no word has come out about potential reinstatement MT. PLEASANT—A dispute over a door resulted in Mt. Pleasant Mayor Mike Olsen firing ConToy Arena manager, Jack Widdison, precipitating a flood of angry citizens showing up at a city council meeting last Tuesday, July 12. Not a seat was left empty in the…
MORONI—The Utah Department of Agriculture and Food (UDAF) has confirmed that Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) has affected several thousand turkeys at a North Sanpete turkey farm and is looking to see if the disease has spread. “So far, our findings have been confined to just one farm,” Bailee Woolstenhulme, a UDAF spokesperson said. She…
MT. PLEASANT—A Mt. Pleasant man who drove a pickup down a dirt road toward a group of law enforcement officers at more than 70 mph last year has been sentenced to prison. Sixth District Judge Marvin Bagley sentenced Kevin Ray Otteson, 60, to 1-15 years for aggravated assault on an officer, a second-degree felony, and…
FAIRVIEW—Logan Ludvigson has been sworn in as a Fairview police officer, giving the city a second police officer for the first time. Mayor Brad Welch said that the city determined some time ago that it was time to add a second officer. When the opening was announced, Ludvigson, who was an employee of the Water…
MT. PLEASANT—A line of cars trying to get into the Basin Drive-in to watch “Top Gun- Maverick” that extended all the way into town has been noticed as far away as Hollywood. It’s not unusual to see a few cars lined up around sundown outside the Basin Drive-in at the north end of Mt. Pleasant…
FOUNTAIN GREEN—A 26-lot subdivision proposed on the east side of S.R. 132 about 2 miles south and a half-mile east of Fountain Green is awaiting final approval by the Sanpete County Commission. The subdivision, which would be approximately 150 acres, will contain 26 lots ranging from 5 to 8.55 acres each. The land, owned by…
EPHRAIM—Friends and colleagues lined up at a reception at Founder’s Hall in the Noyes Building on Wednesday, July 6 to honor outgoing Snow College President Brad Cook before his departure to become president of the American University of Bahrain. Although the new position might sound exotic, not so to Cook. Although he was born in…
Jacqueline Faamanatuga, 28, pleaded guilty to a single count of giving false personal information with intent to pose as another person, a class A misdemeanor. Faamanatuga was a passenger in a vehicle that was pulled over for not making a full stop at the intersection of S.R. 117 and U.S. 89 (Strait Junction). When Deputy Dallin…
MANTI—Daniel John Stutz, 54, of Indianola, who was arrested on January 31, 2020 on four first-degree felony counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, is scheduled for a jury trial in November. Judge Marvin D. Bagley set the trial date June 8 during a pre-trial conference by videocam. The case involves two young women…