Life in San Juan
Local author Bob McPherson has recently published the history Traders, Agents, and Weavers: Developing the Northern Navajo Region (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020).
The book centers around the story of Navajo economic and cultural development through the testimonies of traders,...
The Utah Shakespeare Festival is hitting the road with one of the world’s most popular and tragic love stories, William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
Blue Mountain Entertainment will present the show on Wednesday, March 4, at 7 p.m. in the Monticello High School Auditorium. Admission will be by...
The efforts of outstanding youth in area communities have been honored with the “Making A Difference” Community Youth Award campaign.
The campaign is the work of a variety of law enforcement, city, county, and federal agencies, along with local businesses.
They are all members of the San Juan...
Risa Shimoda has been collecting bits and pieces of her father’s history for 20 years and is requesting additional help from San Juan County residents.
Her father, Midori Shimoda, was living in California during WWII when the Japanese living on the west coast were suddenly under suspect after...
Whenever I hike in Bears Ears National Monument, I think about how it almost became an Indian reservation.
Over a century ago Durango businessmen actively campaigned to remove the Southern Utes to San Juan County, UT. Most of that county would have become a new 2.9 million-acre Ute Indian...
“Operation Save the Koalas/Australia” began early in January of this year after some heartbroken fourth-graders had a conversation on the playground at recess.
They had just heard about the devastating wildfires in Australia and the huge loss of Koalas. They decided instead of just feeling sad,...
San Juan County is the focus of marketing efforts that recently won a prestigious award for the Utah Office of Tourism.
The Voices of Bears Ears, a four-part video series, earned an Adrian Award for marketing excellence on January 21 from Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International (...
The life of Jens Nielson will be honored at Bluff Fort in 2020 for the 200th anniversary of his birth date. Nielson was a key figure in the Hole in the Rock Expedition and in the subsequent settlement of Bluff in 1880. He was born in Denmark on April 26, 1820 and passed away in Bluff in 1906....
For years we’ve learned that Ancestral Puebloans depended upon corn, beans, and squash, nicknamed The Three Sisters, for sustenance. Well, move over sisters. Little brother spud is about to take the stage.
With a $225,000 National Science Foundation grant, researchers at the University of Utah hope...
by Mary Cokenour
“I hear a wind, whistling air, whispering in my ear.” (Roam, by the B-52s)
Surrounded by majestic Ponderosa Pine, sailing upon a one-track trail and the breeze whispers into ears a blessed silence.
Welcome to mountain biking in the Abajo Mountains with Roam Industry. Opening its...