From the Scandinavian Heritage Festival running Friday through Saturday to the “Take-the-Oath” Xtreme Bulls Rodeo on Monday, there will be plenty to do in Sanpete County this coming Memorial Day weekend. Aside from those two “headliner” events, Friends of Historic Spring City will stage its annual Heritage Day on Saturday. And various towns will put…
EPHRAIM—A subcommittee of the Ephraim Cemetery Board is working to install a “fallen soldier’s memorial” east of the present gazebo in the Ephraim Park Cemetery. In fact, the Recreation, Arts and Parks Tax Committee, the panel that allocates proceeds from the city RAP tax, has already awarded $40,000 for the project. (A few years ago,…
SPRING CITY—The lot-size battle in Spring City isn’t over. In late 2025, after nearly two years of overflow meetings, multiple lawsuits and a raucous municipal election campaign, the Spring City Council approved an ordinance, known as Ordinance 2025-05, establishing an historic zone where 1.06-acre zoning would be preserved. Outside of the defined zone, the maximum…
EPHRAIM—This year’s class is graduating into uncertain times, especially with the advent of artificial intelligence, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing, Sydnee S. Dickson, former Utah superintendent of public instruction, told Snow College graduates last week. “Uncertain times are not the enemy of opportunity, they’re the birthplace of it,” Dickson told graduates Friday, May…
SALT LAKE CITY—Preservation Utah gave its 2026 Heritage Organization Award to Friends of Historic Spring City during an awards program Tuesday in Salt Lake City. The award was one of 10 handed out in the Community Stewardship category during the program at Memorial House, a restored event center in Memory Grove. The Heritage Organization Award…
MORONI—About 25 volunteers were able to clean up the one-time Mudd Boggs arena in Moroni in half the expected time during what was billed as Service Project Day April 18. According to Councilmember Cherrie Green, the volunteers picked up garbage, cut down weeds and removed aged barbed wire to launch an effort to convert the…
EPHRAIM—Northstar Compliance Services, a company offering drug, alcohol and DNA testing, has opened in Ephraim. The Sanpete Chamber of Commerce cut a ribbon on Monday, April 6 behind the Leavitt Insurance Building, 96 S. Main Street. The new company has an office on the first floor at the west end of the building. The phone…
MT. PLEASANT—About 800 people attended Community Night Out on April 27 at the 180 Fitness Fieldhouse, where more than 40 local vendors focused on safety, wellness and community connection. The family-friendly event featured music from Mid-Utah Radio disc jockey J.D. Fox and a range of activities and informational booths. Emergency medical services personnel offered CPR…
FAIRVIEW CANYON—About 25 people with an interest or stake in a potential Gooseberry Narrows State Park gathered at the site last Thursday, April 9, to look at, and talk about, what Utah Sen. Derrin Owens called the “Lazarus Project.” What did he mean by that? Essentially that a project that has been pending for 89…
EPHRAIM—Both the water and sewer systems in Ephraim are running in red, and substantial rate increases will be required to fix the problem, according to two consultants who analyzed finances of the two utilities. Rita Trick and Chad Busch, both small utility consultants with the nonprofit Rural Community Assistance Corporation of Sacramento, presented their somewhat…
SPRING CITY—The two Spring City Council members who voted “no” in a 3-2 vote in February repealing a compromise zoning ordinance (2025-05) permitting division of some 1-acre lots in the city and returning the city to 1.06-acre lots citywide have resigned. Replacements were chosen and sworn in at a Spring City Council meeting Thursday, April…
EPHRAIM—As in most years, Sanpete County high school students captured more than their fair share of honors at the Central Utah Sterling Scholar awards program on Monday, March 23, held in the Eccles Center at Snow College. The Central Utah Region takes in 12 high schools including North Sanpete, Manti and Gunnison Valley. Students competed…
SALT LAKE CITY—The No Kings rally at the State Capitol in Salt Lake City last Saturday attracted a mix of college-age young adults, parents with children, retired people and the elderly. At one point, rally organizers said the crowd numbered 20,000. But the Utah Highway Patrol estimated the crowd at 8,000, and the Salt Lake…
NEPHI—The R6 Regional Council has purchased 930 acres about 4 miles northwest of Nephi and is beginning to prepare a master plan for the long-anticipated Central Utah Agri-park. The goal of the project, says Shaun Kjar, the director, is to “help legacy agriculture,” or put more simply to “save the family farm.” An agri-park is an industrial park that specializes…
MORONI—The Moroni City Council has voted to contract with the North Valley Public Safety Department for police services and to discontinue its contract with the Sanpete County Sheriff’s Office. Based on the demeanor of council members at a meeting Thursday, March 19, the change was a big decision, but in the end the vote was…