EPHRAIM—How do you move a cabin—specifically, a pioneer cabin that’s at least 150 years old? That was the challenge the Fort Ephraim Camp of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers (DUP), Ephraim City, the Ephraim Public Works Department, the Ephraim Power Department, C.O. Building Systems and LDS service missionaries tackled over six months between about…
EPHRAIM—Ephraim City is about to step into the circle of medium to large public power operations in Utah that have their own natural gas-fired power plants. Within a month or two, the city expects to complete an $8 million project to repurpose its 50-plus-year-old Power Department Building, colloquially referred to as the “powerhouse,” as a power…
MORONI—A Moroni city councilwoman is leading an effort to combine the one-time Mudd Boggs arena and nearby trap shooting range into an attractive recreation facility. “We want to make it something the community can enjoy that can also bring in revenue,” says Councilwoman Cherrie Green. She outlined some of her ideas in a city council…
FILLMORE, Millard County—People involved in the sheep industry past and present will gather on March 7 (a week from Saturday) at the Utah Territorial Statehouse Park in Fillmore for the 23rd Old Sheepherder’s Gathering. For most of those years, the gathering was held at the Border Inn on U.S. 50, just west of the Utah-Nevada…
STERLING—The convenience store at the north end of Main Street in Sterling that has operated since 1989 is gone. Everything except the big Sinclair sign at the corner of the property and the roof that once protected the gasoline tanks was demolished and hauled away just over a week ago. The good news is that…
SPRING CITY—The key point in a proposed amended zoning ordinance presented at a Spring City Council meeting Feb. 5 was expressed by the first “whereas.” “Whereas, the Spring City Council has chosen to make amendments to Title 10 (of is municipal code) to restore 1.06-acre lots throughout the city and make certain other changes…be it…
EPHRAIM—The Utah State Charter School Board has approved a proposal by American Preparatory Academy (APA), which operates nine charter schools in Utah, to establish a K-6 charter school in Ephraim Crossing. The school will be built on a 5.2-acre site reserved for that purpose in the 300-acre planned community southwest of McDonald’s. According to a…
EPHRAIM—The Ephraim City Council has approved a 164-unit apartment complex, approximately 6.3 acres, in Ephraim Crossing—the largest non-student complex to date in the city. At a city council meeting last Wednesday, Feb. 4, Mike Ballard, managing partner in the Camino Verde Group-Ephraim South, the developer the Ephraim Crossing, said the apartment project “is specifically designed…
SPRING CITY—Lawsuits pitting opponents of zoning changes in Spring City against the former Spring City Council are over.Within three weeks after the first Spring City Council meeting of the year on Jan. 8, one suit was settled out of court; the plaintiff in a second suit withdrew it; and a third action filed with the…
SALT LAKE CITY—Sen. Derrin Owens and Rep. Troy Shelley, the Utah legislators representing Sanpete County, agree that “right sizing” state government, including requiring state colleges and agencies to cut lower-priority programs and reallocate the money to higher priorities, will possibly be the biggest focus of the 2026 Legislature.Meanwhile, in an interview Tuesday, Owens said the…