Watch For Sanpete Messenger 16th Home & Garden magazine to be mailed to every household in Sanpete County on Friday
This is a part of the Home & Garden 2025, a yearly supplement to the Sanpete Messenger. To view the rest of the articles, click this banner. Peggy Layton of Manti, a former home economist for a food-storage company and author of books on food storage, in her own food storage area. MANTI—Whether by bottling,…
Members of the Sanpete County Chapter of Youth Education in Shooting Sports (YESS) display some of their plaques and medals. In front (L-R) are Zariah Willden, Zander Willden and Jaxon Johnson. In back (L-R) are Richard Nielson (coach), Lilly Nielson, Chase Anderson, Kasch Willden and Kyan Mickelsen. The youth and their coaches visited with the…
EPHRAIM—Based on a presentation by the Power Department director at the last city council meeting, Ephraim is getting serious about developing its own natural-gas power generating plant, a project that could cost $7.5 million up front but save the city much more than that down the road. Ephraim owns hydroelectric plants in Ephraim Canyon that…
MORONI—The Moroni City Council has passed an ordinance designed to make its sewer charges more fair for people who are forced to use culinary water or irrigation. Presently, sewer charges are based on culinary water consumption. But people who water their lawns with culinary water obviously consume more water than people who are hooked up…
“If they go belly up, what does Ephraim City lose? Zero. We’re getting some infrastructure it would take years for the city to create.” Councilwoman Margie Anderson EPHRAIM—The Ephraim City Council has voted unanimously to support creation of The Crossing Public Infrastructure Districts (PIDs), Nos. 1 and 2, with all council members saying the PIDs…
SARATOGA SPRINGS, Utah County—Mia Love, who represented north Sanpete County in Congress from 2014-2018 and whose final message, “My living wish for the America I know” ran in last week’s Sanpete Messenger, died Sunday at her home in Saratoga Springs. She was 49. The daughter of Haitian immigrants who settled in Norwalk, Conn., she converted…
Matthew Lundeberg, MHS, Drama Landon Sorensen, GVHS, Ag Science Calder Bailey, NSHS, Computer Science Rebekah Stewart, GVHS, Science RICHFIELD—Versatility, perseverance and resilience were once again on display Monday night in high school students from throughout Central Utah who participated in the regional Sterling Scholar awards program Richfield High School. Sanpete County students were the winners…
Developer, attorneys answer questions during city council A diagram of arterial roads the Camino Verde Group plans to build in Ephraim Crossing with financing from what is known as a public infrastructure district. Plans have been scaled down from nine roads to six. But current plans call for adding curb and gutter to the roads…
MANTI—Wes Mangum joined the Sanpete County Attorney’s Office as a deputy county attorney in 2018, six-plus years ago. One of his first cases was a child sex abuse case in which Peter L. Howard, now 60, of Spring City, was accused of inappropriate touching of a young relative, who was between 10-13 at the…
Bennions go to court to fight claims of Satanism, ritualistic sex abuse Since Joe and Lee Bennion moved to Spring City as newlyweds in 1977, they’ve been involved in almost every aspect of community life. Both are BYU graduates and working artists. They were among the founders of Friends of Historic Spring City, the group…
I find many of Donald Trump’s statements to be vile and offensive. But what upsets me most is the way he vilifies immigrants, legal and illegal. A few examples: Undocumented immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.” “These are the worst criminals in the world… These people are the most violent people on Earth.”…
After 26 years, Astes have sold Manti Family Dental practice MANTI—In the mid- 1990s, Dr. Leonard Aste was working as a dentist for the U.S. Public Health Service. During seven years with the Public Health Service, he had been assigned to work in various federal penitentiaries. At their home in Oregon, “I made sure every…
MORONI—The Moroni City Council has taken steps to approve an additional loan from the Utah Drinking Water Division (DWD) to cover escalated costs of its culinary water project. At a council meeting Thursday, Sept. 15, the council held a public hearing on a proposal to ad a net $1.22 million from DWD to its current…
MANTI-EPHRAIM AIR- PORT—The Sanpete County Fly-in last Saturday had no shortage of people, activities or excitement. The event included at least a dozen activity stations or things to see, ranging from the University of Utah Air Med Helicopter, to a group from Southern Utah University showing off their flight training program, to a station staffed…
MORONI—Moroni City will soon work on not one, but two major water projects. The city is a little more than a year into a $4.6 million upgrade of its culinary water system. Moroni was recently one of 70 applicants, mostly cities, to be approved in the first round of state funding for money to put…