Manti appears close to a decision to replace the central air conditioning system on the Manti City Annex at a cost of about $150,000, although the city council would still have to vote on the expenditure.
North Sanpete High School will be the scene of multiple mock disasters, including a bus crash and earthquake, on Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon.
MORONI—The Moroni City Council discussed capital improvement projects ranging from replacing valves in the culinary water system to reviving a plan to turn the one-time Mud Bogs property into a horse practice arena at its last meeting on Aug. 19. Councilman Troy Prestwich reported that Moroni will receive about $184,000 from the American Rescue Plan,…
Emotions 20 years ago ranged from shock, to calls for normalcy, to patriotism and national unity I had been in Sanpete County for six months when, on Sept. 11, 2001, as I was getting ready for work, an anchor on one of the morning news shows reported something strange was going on at the World…
MANTI—The caseload in the Sanpete County Attorney’s Office is on track to nearly double this year compared to 2020. Kevin Daniels, the county attorney, attributes the increase to a more aggressive approach to combating crime at the Central Utah Correctional Facility (CUCF), legislative action reducing penalties for many crimes, offenders committing new crimes while out…
MANTI—The Manti City Council approved the second phase of a 18-lot subdivision and discussed a potential 60-lot subdivision at its meeting Aug. 18. “Manti is growing. We understand that,” Mayor Korry Soper told a representative of the proposed 60-lot project. “Make it a nice neighborhood, a beautiful neighborhood. That’s what I think we want.” Of…
City anticipates increasing water supply by one-third MORONI—Drilling a test well, the first step in a $3.54 million water project in Moroni, is expected to begin about Oct. 1, Mayor Paul Bailey said last week. The main features of the project are a well in the southwest corner of the city, a 500,000-gallon water tank…
Reign as ‘paper terrorist’ coming to end, Daniels says SALT LAKE CTY—The man who pleaded guilty to murdering Kammy Mae Edmunds in Mt. Pleasant in 2017 has lost an appeal of a separate conviction for assault by a prisoner. On June 28, the Utah Court of Appeals rejected Anthony Christensen’s appeal of a jury verdict, rendered…
The Sanpete Messenger ran a story in this space last week about North Sanpete High School coaches that did not live up to our usual standards of journalism. In fact, it was exceptionally poor journalism. The embarrassing thing is that I, the publisher and the person who has by far the most education and journalism…
Editor’s note: This article appeared in the Messenger 8/18/2021. It contained journalistic and factual errors. A follow-up article was published 8/25/21 with corrections and additional information. Additionally, several corrections have been made to this digital version since the print version was published (noted below). This article does not stand alone and must be read in…
MORONI—Moroni City will be operating a $923,000 General Fund budget between now and June 30, 2022. That represents a $225,000 drop in the budget from the previous year. In contrast, the 2021-22 budget for the total city, including utilities and other self-contained funds, is $5.38 million, up nearly $3.7 million from the 2020-21 budget. The…
An envelope containing Manti City Councilman Darren Dyreng’s home address as the return address and a fallacious letter, supposedly signed by Dyreng, saying that if he is elected mayor, the city won’t need businesses any more. MANTI—A fallacious letter, supposedly signed by Darren Dyreng, a Manti City councilman and candidate for mayor, was sent to…
IMAGES COURTESY SANDY NEILL, SANPETE COUNTY CLERK Election night results for all the municipalities in Sanpete County who held a primary election. The final results will be announced when the cities hold their canvass of the election which will be sometime between August 17th and August 24th. Incumbents led the pack in three out of four mayoral…
MT. PLEASANT—A fundraiser will be held at the ConToy Arena in Mt. Pleasant Saturday to help the family of Aleesha Stuart Bailey, 43, a mother of four, who died earlier this week of cancer. She had also been diagnosed with dermatomyositis (DM), a rare autoimmune disease that causes muscle weakness, skin rashes, fatigue and pain….
AXTELL—Karl and Debra Humphrey, the winners of this year’s Axtell Walking Stick award, met as children, but in a way no one would expect. Debra, a fourth generation resident of the town, is the daughter of the late George and Arva Lee Bertelson and a graduate of Gunnison Valley High School. Karl is the son…