Historic Stories

This weekend, visitors to Bluff will be awed, amazed, and amused as once again the Annual Bluff International Balloon Festival takes off for a weekend of fun.

The body of Christina Reyes, a 16-year-old student at Whitehorse High School, was found near Montezuma Creek on January 6.

Navy Nieves, the daughter of Mandy and Ronnie Nieves of Blanding, is the 2011 New Years Baby at the San Juan Hospital in Monticello. Navy was born at 9:32 p.m. on Thursday, January 4.

In May of 1880, Nephi Bailey, his young wife and three children arrived in Bluff just months after the Hole-in-the Rock pioneers had settled there.