San Juan County
by Bill Boyle
San Juan Record Editor
A series of crashes resulted in the deaths of three people on the highways in San Juan County.
At around 1 p.m. on August 13, Rolland Lee, of Montezuma Creek, was killed in a head-on collision on Highway 162 east of Aneth.
Three hours later, a two-vehicle crash...
by Bill Boyle
San Juan Record Editor
Work crews will begin work soon on a massive road project in southeast San Juan County. Groundbreaking ceremonies on the 54-mile, $152 million project took place on August 13 in Montezuma Creek.
The road upgrade project, which will occur over the next 18 months...
by David Boyle
News Director
Members of the San Juan County Commission approved help for prosecuting homicide cases in the county, moved forward on improvements at the administrative building and updated agreements for bike trails in northern San Juan at their latest meeting.
Members of the San...
by David Boyle
News Director
Energy Fuels began and then paused its transport of Uranium ore from its Pinyon Plain Mine in Arizona to the White Mesa Mill in San Juan County last week.
The pause of transport of Uranium came after Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren issued an executive order requiring...
by David Boyle
News Director
San Juan County Commission selected Mitchell Maughan to serve as the County Attorney following the resignation of Attorney Brittney Ivins.
Maughan will serve for two years and four months through the end of 2026 when an election will be held for a four-year term for the...
by Sally Jack
Contributing Writer
A new book, titled “Bluff Fort, Historic Site— Home of the Hole in the Rock Pioneers,” has just been published by the Hole in the Rock Foundation.
The 330-page book, with over 100 pages of full color pictures, tells the interesting story of the rebuilding of Bluff...
by Bill Boyle
Editor
The San Juan County Fair is Country to the Core in 2024. The festivities started on July 27 and will run through Saturday, August 10, providing a host of fun opportunities at the county fairgrounds in Monticello.
County fair events include rodeos, livestock auctions, games, and...
A retired San Juan County Sheriff’s Deputy took his own life one week after being charged with 14 sexual abuse crimes.
The body of Grayson Redd, age 74 of Monticello, was discovered on July 28 by an employee at a building in Monticello owned by Redd.
In an appearance on Friday, July 26 before...
The San Juan County Sheriff’s Office executed an arrest warrant on 74-year-old Grayson W. Redd of Monticello on July 21. Redd has been charged by the San Juan County Attorney’s office with six counts of first-degree felony and eight counts of second-degree felonies alleged to go back two decades....
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