Blanding

This spring, Blanding is reaping the benefits of a new Dry Wash Reservoir pipeline that was completed in the fall of 2018. It is the most recent advancement in a series of great strides the city has made in water storage over the course of recent years. The reservoir remains at 100 percent capacity...
Last year, then sophomore Katie Giddings surprised the 3A Track and Field world when she stole the 3A State Championship in girls discus. Fast forward one season and Giddings, now on everyone’s list of athletes to watch, joined some elite company as a two-time state champ. Giddings’s winning throw...
In a long-awaited and enthusiastically-supported move, the Blanding City Council unanimously approved plans for the Meadowlark Subdivision, a new residential development created by Windscape Development. The new branch of Tri-Hurst construction, established for residential development, includes...
Diplomas are set to be presented to 190 graduates of the San Juan School District at graduation ceremonies throughout the county this week. In addition to services at the five high schools, commencement services will also be held at elementary and middle schools. Photos of the graduates are printed...
After a loss to Manti last week in the second round of the 3A State Baseball Tournament, the San Juan Broncos found themselves facing a familiar opponent on Thursday, May 9 when they met up with the South Sevier Rams. Earlier in the season the Broncos and Rams split a pair of games in region play...
A new exhibit features two pottery vessels found by two groups of San Juan County residents. The Edge of the Cedars State Park Museum is inaugurating the “New to the Edge” exhibit with artifacts that are new or recent additions to the museum’s collections. On Easter 2014, Steve and Donna Jensen...
A pair of games with the Grand County Red Devils on Tuesday, April 30 signaled the end of San Juan High School’s 2019 Region 15 baseball schedule. A pair of wins in the doubleheader and the Broncos would have finished fourth in the region. But that wasn’t in the cards. San Juan blasted Grand 15-1...
The Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) will add three new wildlife passages under US-191 south of Monticello and fill in a wildlife fencing gap this summer. When completed, the wildlife fencing will fill the gap, extending the fence from just south of Monticello to south of Devils Canyon on...
The Blanding City Council continued their months-long discussion on Community Reinvestment Agency (CRA) policy revisions at their April 23 meeting. Blanding Mayor Joe B. Lyman reiterated his opinion that public funds be used only for public projects and private funds be used for private projects....
Heritage Language programs at Blanding Elementary dominated discussion at the April 16 meeting of the San Juan School Board. The board discussed at length the success (and challenges created by that success) of the Navajo Language (HL) Instructional program at Blanding Elementary School....

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