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Customer at the La Sal Bear Buffet. Steve Deeter photo
The Buffet is closed
Sorry, the La Sal Bear Buffet is now closed. Out of food! Well, actually that’s a good thing, says a local rancher.
Sep 08, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 273 273 recommendations | email to a friend
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Firsts and lasts
Today is the first day of the 2010-11 school year. At least for the San Juan School District. Soon it will be the first football game at Monticello High School, the first volleyball match and cross...
Aug 18, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 234 234 recommendations | email to a friend
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Passing of a friend
La Sal was shocked and saddened with the passing of a dear friend, Sally Kyle, on Monday, July 19. She had been complaining of health problems for several weeks. She suffered a sudden, massive hear...
Jul 28, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 223 223 recommendations | email to a friend
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Three San Juan Eagles Special Olympics Athletes, including Richelle Redd of Monticello, receive awards at the Special Olympics event in Green River. Courtesy photo
La Sal happenings
We’ll start this week with a big THANK YOU to everyone who turned out Saturday to help with the spring cleaning at the community center. Enough folks showed up to get a lot of work done – though no...
May 05, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 225 225 recommendations | email to a friend
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
But, will it last? I was thinking last week that one of the best ways to preserve some things is to freeze them. So, thinks I, this Christmas card scene produced by last week’s snow should last as ...
Dec 16, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 229 229 recommendations | email to a friend
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I’ve fallen down...
Naw, not that kind of falling down – not the “I’ve fallen and can’t get up” kind. Rather, it is the falling down on the job falling. Seems I failed to go out and witness the “Trunk or Treat” on Hal...
Nov 11, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 224 224 recommendations | email to a friend
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Whoosh!  Here and gone!
That kind of describes our first winter snow of the season. One day there is three or four inches of white fluffy on the ground and two days later it is blue skies and “let’s go for a walk in the w...
Nov 04, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 234 234 recommendations | email to a friend
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Christmas frivolities soon underway in La Sal
NORTHERN NEWS by Maxine Deeter It was a beautiful weekend for doing whatever; great to be out putting up the Christmas decorations, crunching around in the leaves on the grass (I’m waiting for Ma N...
Dec 10, 2008 | 0 0 comments | 216 216 recommendations | email to a friend
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The end of the world! 
Well, that’s kind of what it looked and felt like last Wednesday, as a huge plume of smoke rose in the air above “The Mountain” a.k.a. the La Sals. My first thought – no, don’t ruin my camping week...
Sep 03, 2008 | 0 0 comments | 250 250 recommendations | email to a friend
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Another feast in La Sal
Monticello received a couple of nice showers last week. Not so La Sal. Mother Nature only sent a couple of teasers last week. Looks like rain, but no wet! Heck, we even had our Pioneer Day celebrat...
Jul 23, 2008 | 0 0 comments | 235 235 recommendations | email to a friend
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