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…
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…
MORONI—The Utah Department of Agriculture and Food (UDAF) has confirmed that Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) has affected several thousand turkeys at a North Sanpete turkey farm and is looking to see if the disease has spread. “So far, our findings have been confined to just one farm,” Bailee Woolstenhulme, a UDAF spokesperson said. She…
MORONI—Leonard Blackham, former state senator and Utah Commissioner of Agriculture, and his wife, Laura, will be the grand marshals of the Moroni July Fourth celebration. Leonard has lived his whole life in Moroni, and Laura came to Moroni at age 14. Both say they grew up in wonderful families and still enjoy their association with…
Four Sanpete communities are preparing Fourth-of-July celebrations that will include everything from pickleball tournaments to free concerts and fireworks. Here’s a roundup. Gunnison Gunnison City will be holding its celebration on the Friday and Saturday prior to the official holiday. The celebration starts on Friday with a freestyle motorcross show, auction and concert at Gunnison…
MORONI—Three young women from Moroni competed for the spot of Miss Moroni over the past week with Caylee Nesbit receiving the title at the Miss Moroni program on Monday at the Moroni Dance Hall. Nesbit is that daughter of Dennis and Natalie Nesbit. She will be joined by her two attendants: Abby Bench,…
To one of my best friends Steven “Wink” Cloward: Wink was a man that did not like a lot of people around him as he liked his quiet time, but he loved being a part of a big picture that required hard work and integrity. Wink prided himself on his work ethic and…
Sunrise on Good Friday, April 15, 2022, found Nanalee Larsen Cook peacefully “walking the rainbow” to be embraced by a welcoming party of heavenly hosts celebrating her arrival. We look forward to a glorious family reunion ahead because because of Christ’s great Easter gift to all. Nanalee was born to Merrill and…
Two people were seriously injured while six others received moderate to minor injuries in a three-car accident on Duck Spring Drive in Moroni last Saturday afternoon, April 16.
Dixie Nielson, 86, of Moroni, Utah, passed away at her home on April 5, 2022 surrounded by her loving family. She was the daughter of Bernard Edward and Enid Prestwich Nielson and was born in Moroni, Utah, on March 12, 1936. Dixie attended local schools in Fountain Green and graduated from Moroni High…