Sports/Outdoors
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Mountain bikers enjoy Abajo Enduro
On Saturday, August 1, mountain bike enthusiasts took to Monticello’s local mountain range for the second annual Abajo Enduro Race.
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A racer checks the spectacular course of the Abajo Enduro.
Abajo Enduro race is Aug 1
Saddle up shredders. August 1 marks the Second Annual Abajo Enduro Mountain Bike Race. Last year, 26 riders began near the towers on Abajo Peak and finished at Foy Lake.
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This horse, owned by Dennis Guymon of Blanding, is the winner of the inaugural San Juan Horse Sale Futurity. Dennis and the horse split the $800 award. Courtesy photo
SJ Ranch Horse Sale celebrates tenth year
If you’re a horse enthusiast the place to be last Saturday, July 11 was the San Juan Ranch Horse Sale held at the San Juan County Fairgrounds in Monticello.
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Nearly 150 race in the Blanding Firecracker 5K
The 2015 Blanding Firecracker 5k race started and ended at Centennial Park on July 4. The race saw nearly 150 participants run the course to begin the Independence Day festivities.
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Hole-in-One recorded on #11 at the Hideout Golf Course in Monticello
Hole-in-One!  Nope, it wasn’t me… yet.  One would think one would have a hole-in-one by now, what with 55 years of hitting the old hickory sticks. 
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Eddie Boyle flying through flack on a World War II bombing run over Germany. Scott Boyle used the date of the photo and the tail marking on the airplane to identify this as his father’s plane.
A ride on the B-17 Sentimental Journey
It was strikingly more cramped than all the pictures depict, the pint-sized ball-turret gunnery placement perched like a pimple under the Sentimental Journey, a World War II B-17 bomber.  
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Trophy deer and elk poaching case adjudicated in San Juan County
During the spring of 2014, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources Officers began investigating the unlawful taking of a trophy buck in San Juan County.
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Devin Wright Courtesy photo
Academic All-District honors
Utah State track & field athlete Devin Wright was named to the Capital One College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-District VIII track & field/cross country first-team.
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Whitehorse High track brings home first place trophies
The Whitehorse High School Raiders boys and girls track brought home the first place trophies from the Region 19 track meets on May 6. The last time Whitehorse High School won the Region 19 Track C...
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The Monticello Buckaroo golf team finished eighth at the 1A state tournament. Team members include: (left to right) Justin Cecil, Jared Wells, Tanner Holt, Jens Brewer and Bryson Chamberlain. Coach Nathan Chamberlain is in front. Not pictured is McKade Maloy. Courtesy photo
Buckaroo Brewer second at state golf
You know what they say about golf, don’t you?   If a man comes home with sand in his cuffs and cockleburs in his pants, don’t ask him what he shot. 
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