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…
MORONI—Completion of what has become a $4.6 million culinary water expansion project in Moroni is still about a year out, the project manager told the Moroni City Council recently. Moreover, based on the amount of a contract awarded recently to Terry R. Brotherson Excavating (TRB) of Mt. Pleasant for $4,144,018, which covers 90 percent of…
EPHRAIM—Threats a Snow College student made during a computer game to shoot up a school were picked up in Finland, transmitted to an international police agency in Washington, D.C., and passed on to the Ephraim Police Department, leading to the student’s arrest last week. According to Michael Lee, acting Ephraim City attorney, Maximus Johnson, 18,…
MORONI—The Moroni City Council has agreed to give a special $200 payment to public works employees when they close a grave at the cemetery on a Saturday or holiday. “These guys have to come in on a Saturday or holiday, and if they know there’s a burial, they can’t go out of town,” Mayor Paul…
MANTI—What better way to get important health messages to families than a health fair, especially when the fair is paired with an opportunity to make sure immunizations required for the new school year are current? That’s the approach the Central Utah Public Health Department (CUPHD) took last Friday, Aug. 12 when it staged a health…
MANTI—How was one family able to buy a 5,000-square-foot bed-and- breakfast inn that had gone out of business and restore it as a single-family residence in nine months? “Literally, it was divine intervention that we were able to purchase it when we did and have the money to restore it,” says Tari Van Tassell, owner…
MT. PLEASANT—Safety and wellness will be the main focus areas in the North Sanpete School District this year, Superintendent Nan Ault says. Most of the elementary schools in the district, along with the middle school, already have “secure-entry” systems. Ault says, where a visitor pushes a buzzer at the front door. A camera projects a…
GUNNISON—Good managers who win the respect and support of their employees are hard to find. But based on comments at a retirement party on Saturday, Aug. 6, at the Gunnison City Park, Devin Blood, who stepped down as warden at the Central Utah Correctional Facility (CUCF), significantly exceeded the description of a good manager. Top…
MANTI—The Sanpete County Fair, this year with the theme “Cowboy Boots and Buckin’ Chutes, is still more than a week away. But it’s none too soon to decide what you want to see or do, to buy tickets and to get exhibits ready. The fair opens a week from Friday, Aug. 19 with a big…
EPHRAIM—“This is so cool. I love it.” That was one youngster’s comment at a “reveal party” Saturday marking completion of a mural to kindness at the back of the Ephraim Family Park at 210 E. 300 South. “That’s what we love, creating art that people respond to,” said Amy Jorgensen, executive director of the Granary…
MORONI—The Moroni City Council has approved a general fund budget for 2022-23 of $1.3 million, up more than $372,000 from the previous year. But the general fund, which pays for city government services, started out a lot higher. The first draft showed a police budget of $274,000, which would have funded a full-time chief and…