October 21 From the Past
90 years ago
Mayor C.A. Burr tenders his resignation to the Monticello Town Board which, after some reluctant deliberation, was accepted. • Margaret Anderson sponsors a party in honor of Mrs. Annie Bailey on her 81st birthday.
80 years ago
The attractive home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur S. Wood is sold to Mr. and Mrs. Platte Lyman. • Road project to connect Johnson Creek road with Indian Creek and North Creek roads on the Blue Mountain is complete. • At long last the street improvements promised a few years ago are getting underway. Curbs will be laid the entire length of Main Street in Monticello, with Claude Foy in charge.
70 years ago
Aneth Road is designated to state highway system. The need for access to oil fields prompts the designation.
60 years ago
Mary Foushee reports, “Bluff folks are proud of their old neighbor, Rusty Musselman, for winding up the $25,000 wire theft.” • “The Turquoise Café is wearing a new coat of (you guessed it) turquoise paint and so is Dickie Arthur, who did the painting.” • A newly constructed nine-mile loop road to Natural Bridges National Monument is opened.
50 years ago
Bob Hosler and Mark Ewart announce the opening of their second store, The Big Bear, south of Blanding. • Montezuma Creek girl scouts meet with leaders Debbie Little and Mary Jane Benally.
40 years ago
Utah Senator Orrin Hatch presents an award to the Utah Navajo Development Council for their efforts to improve life for Navajos in southeastern Utah. Representing UNDC are Tony Dayish, Herb Clah, and Travis Parashonts. • Vee Carroll, librarian at the Monticello Library, completes the Utah Public Library Institute for Training.
30 years ago
San Juan Health Care Center is granted $27,200 under the Rural Health Care Transition Grants Program. • MacTech, the new contractor at the Monticello mill tailings site, donates chemistry textbooks to Monticello High School.
20 years ago
The swinging bridge over the San Juan River near Bluff is neither swinging nor over the river after torrential rains damaged the bridge and its footings. • Recent rainstorms contribute to a massive washout of the Hole in the Rock trail as it passes through Lake Canyon. No longer passable, the jeep trail now has a 100-foot drop in one section.
10 years ago
Monticello High School has two Region 19 individual cross county champions. Kendall Harris took first for girls cross county and Adam Bunker for the boys. The Monticello boys took the Region team championship and will head to the state cross country meet at Sugar House.