MT. PLEASANT— A new exhibit is on display at the Mt. Pleasant City Hall Art Gallery this month to celebrate one of America’s greatest accomplishments in the state of Utah. The exhibit, entitled “A World Transformed: the Transcontinental Railroad and Utah,” celebrates the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, which happened in…
Two distinguished women in Fairview are being honored as grand marshals of the town’s Pioneer Days celebration. A man who had been chosen as a grand marshal but died April 20 is being honor posthumously. LuDene Hamilton LuDene Hamilton, a life- long residents of Fairview, is described as a woman of quiet strength, resilience and…
SPRING CITY—Tom Crisp, a lifelong Spring City resident who worked on major construc- tion projects around the state and once rescued 40 hunters who were stranded in the mountains above the town, has been named Spring City’s Citizen of the Year. He will also be the grand marshal of the Spring City Pioneer Day parade….
When Mayor Steve Anderson told 79-year-old Marvin Fox that the town wanted him to be grand marshal, he quipped, “Everybody knows that just means they picked you because you’re getting old.” On behalf of Mayfield City, Anderson has chosen Fox to lead the Pioneer Day parade on Saturday, July 23. He and his family have…
Sanpete communities are getting ready for Pioneer Day festivities. Fairview, Spring City, Centerfield, May- field and Fayette are holding Pioneer Day events, and since July 24 falls on a Sunday this year, many activities will be held on Saturday, July 23. Fairview An entire week in Fairview will be spent celebrating Pioneer Day, with plenty…
FOUNTAIN GREEN— Dorthy Swenson Ivory, more commonly known as “Dot,” will reign over the Lamb Days celebration as grand marshal this year. Dot was born and raised in Mt. Pleasant where she attended North Sanpete High School and met the love of her life, James Eugen Ivory. They were married in 1961 and have made…
‘A lamb in a pit is better than a pig on a spit’ FOUNTAIN GREEN—One thing people throughout Utah associate with Fountain Green is “Lamb Days,” with the traditional lamb dinner on a Friday evening and the assembly line of mutton sandwiches about midday on Saturday. Or as one chairman put it,“A lamb in a…
SPRING CITY—After only four months, a rancher who lost his right arm has made remarkable progress after a terrible farm accident. Mike Black, deputy treasurer for Spring City municipal government, sheep herder and retired teacher, is able to walk, drive and return to work. “He is a farmer who was raised by farmers,” said daughter…
EDITORS NOTE: The interviewer, Sonja Brown, worked several years in the film and entertainment industry as a publicist before moving to Spring City. She was personally acquainted with Jerry Bruckheimer, Producer and director of Top Gun – Maverick, and his wife, from her previous work in Hollywood. She was driving in Mt. Pleasant one evening…
MT. PLEASANT—A line of cars trying to get into the Basin Drive-in to watch “Top Gun- Maverick” that extended all the way into town has been noticed as far away as Hollywood. It’s not unusual to see a few cars lined up around sundown outside the Basin Drive-in at the north end of Mt. Pleasant…
PROVO— Sixteen young ladies from Sanpete County participated as Stadium of Fire dancers at the America’s Freedom Festival in Provo on Saturday, July 2. The girls signed up to be a part of this amazing experience as part of Just Dance in Mt. Pleasant, owned and operated by Brittany Dyches. Five of the girls, Maddie…
INDIANOLA—Neighbors in North Sanpete and representatives of Sanpete County fire and EMT companies gathered on Wednesday June 15 at dusk at the Indianola Valley Fire Station to honor the memory of Kari Foster, a member of the Indianola Fire Department. Foster passed away unexpectedly at her home in Fairview Ranchos on Saturday, June 11. The…
MT. PLEASANT—The North Sanpete Quilting Guild has presented an American Flag quilt, which many of the organization’s members worked on, to Mt. Pleasant City. The group presented the quilt to Mayor Mike Olsen during city council meeting in mid-June. The local group is assoiated with the Utah Quilt Guild and has approximately 30 members. They…
NAVAJO NATION, Arizona—What started as a simple fundraiser in the Moroni Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints turned into much more, including building a home for a needy, 89-year-old Navajo woman in just six and a half days. During COVID, the Moroni Stake conducted a fundraiser to ship basic living supplies…
Ever since moving to Spring City (nearly nine years ago), I have heard fanciful tales of a waterfall up our nearby canyon. And not some dribbling, piddling little thing that’s hardly worth a mention, but a roaring, honest-to-goodness fall that would take your breath away if you were to behold its majesty. So many neighbors…