Face the fact: Sanpete County is growing and needs to prepare NOW
The biggest story in 2021 in Utah, including Sanpete County is growth. Utah has been declared the fastest growing state in the nation.
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Kudos to Manti City
Manti City property taxes on my home, collected by the county, have risen by six dollars in the last six years…six dollars. Wow!
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We should renovate courthouse, not build new one
Letter to the Editor about renovating, rather than building a courthouse.
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We need to demand action to fight global warming
Climate change spares no one, including us here in Sanpete County. Already we are experiencing higher temperatures, drier soils, and more wildfires, flash floods, and struggling farms and ranches. This summer, smoke from climate-change-fueled fires elsewhere hung thick in our air for days and even weeks at a time.
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Global warming is not opinion, it is scientific fact
Is recent climate change real and, if so, is it human-caused? Pre-eminent scientific organizations in the U.S. and the world have definitely answered those questions: yes and yes.
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Utah legislators all vote ‘Nay’ on American Rescue Plan
I enjoyed reading the article about the American Rescue Plan Act and the resultant significant investment in Sanpete County. There has been a lot of talk about supporting rural Utah, and this is actually doing something about it. However, I would have liked to have seen some coverage of how our Utah…
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Getting vaccinated against COVID-19 will help save more lives than just your own
Pharmacist David Call urges individuals to get the COVID-19 vaccine, and tells of stories while working at a hospital in Wisconsin during the pandemic.
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Is climate change human-caused and can humans do anything about it?
Is climate change real? If so, is it human-caused? If it is human-caused, what can and should the United States, in concert with other nations, be doing about it?
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Letter to state reps about “gerrymandered” redistricting plan
I’m your constituent. I live in Ephraim. I am writing to protest the House of Representatives proposed gerrymandering of the Utah congressional Districts by splitting Salt Lake City into all four congressional districts and again combining our rural communities with urban communities, meaning that the needs of Ephraim, Sanpete County, and all the rural…
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Bad experiences in Ephraim trailer park
I bought one of his trailers a year ago, paying cash for the home and 13 months of lot rent upfront. After being there a few days I realized my home was full of black mold. I told Kolby about it and was ignored.
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October 27 Word on the street
We asked residents of Sanpete County to provide their perspective on a question.
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Believes Spring City candidates stifled, not allowed to respond
The “Meet the Candidates Night” on Oct. 21 was not informative for the voters of Spring City.
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Debt ceiling should continue to require vote of Congress
Is it time to eliminate a statutory ceiling on the debt altogether so no vote of Congress is required for the government to take on more debt? Is there the political will to attack the root problem, the debt itself?
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Where would the water come from for a new lake?
I read the article last week about the new subdivision in Indianola now in the works. I was especially interested to read about the 2-acre lake as deep as Utah Lake [that is part of the project plans]. Where are they getting the water? Sanpete, as we all know, has very little…
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Michael Olsen should remain as Mt. Pleasant’s mayor
I covered the Mt. Pleasant City Council as a journalist for a year. My experience in doing that has helped me understand that Michael Olsen should stay on as the mayor and Bull Keisel shouldn’t be elected to the seat. In city council meetings, Olsen demonstrated incredible knowledge of Mt. Pleasant and local government policy,…
