DUST IN THE WINDby Bill Boyle
The future of the Cedar Mesa / Bears Ears area is uncertain as the clock ticks toward the end of the Obama Administration.
On one side, the massive Public Lands Initiative (PLI) Bill is painstakingly making its way through Congress.
The PLI was created by...
DUST IN THE WINDby Bill Boyle
Beginning this week, most readers of the San Juan Record will receive the paper one day later than normal.
The Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News have discontinued daily delivery and we have scrambled in the two weeks since the change was announced. The...
DUST IN THE WINDby Bill Boyle
The fact that 92 percent of San Juan County is owned by one government entity or another is a source of endless frustration to local residents.
As we continue to see, the frustration and conflict often results in San Juan County ending up in local, state or...
DUST IN THE WINDby Bill Boyle
SJR Travel recently returned from another wildly successful tour of the Holy Land. An adventurous group of 47 people (more than half are under age 30) spent two weeks exploring Israel and Jordan.
We climbed and hiked and swam while traveling the length and...
DUST IN THE WINDby Bill Boyle
I need to respond to San Juan County Commission Chairman Phil Lyman’s letter to the Editor (see letter here) regarding the San Juan Record coverage of legal issues related to the Recapture Canyon protest.
At an April 1 hearing, Federal Judge Robert Shelby...
DUST IN THE WINDby Bill Boyle
There continues to be a lot of interest in the downed airplane that was reported in San Juan County.
In December, 2014, Tim Mayer sent a letter to the San Juan Record stating he was searching on Google Maps and spotted a downed plane. He did not report the...
DUST IN THE WINDby Bill Boyle
The U.S. Postal Service recently approved some changes that could have a significant impact on mail delivery for the residents of San Juan County.
As part of a wide-ranging effort to cut costs, the USPS has decided to close the mail sorting facility in...
DUST IN THE WINDby Bill Boyle
The San Juan Record is pleased to provide a holiday gift for all of our print-edition subscribers.
Included in this issue of the newspaper is a copy of the 2015 Photo of the Week calendar.
The beautiful calendar features spectacular photos of San Juan...
DUST IN THE WINDby Bill Boyle
Catfishing, or creating a false identity on the Internet, is an international phenomenon and can also hit close to home. A possible case of catfishing has made the local elections even more interesting.
A supposed letter of endorsement, taken from social...
DUST IN THE WINDby Bill Boyle
Many readers were intrigued by our September 24 cover photo of a bear enjoying a dip in a local stock-watering tub.
David Ketron and Michael Lee captured the photographs with a motion-activated game camera on land north of Monticello.
David said he was...
