TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…Jim Stiles ‘SUSTAINABLE’ MOAB— A Reality Check SOWING CLOVER…Tonya Stiles WHO CAN KEEP YOUR SECRETS?BEFORE & AFTER Southeast Utah…Then & Now THE DEVILS CANYON/US 191 ROAD PROJECT… 2004-05 MOAB ‘GROUND ZERO’…Kara Dohrenwend NOVEMBER: IT’S ALL…
Among many Moabites who instinctively label themselves “progressive environmentalists,” the collective vision for a better future in Southeast Utah is frequently and inextricably linked to one word— it’s almost a rallying point: ‘Sustainability.’ I see the word enthusiastically bandied about…
Jerome Arkansas Mom, her mother and father, two sisters and six brothers, and the other Fresno Fairground horse stable inmates left Fresno on October 20, 1942. My uncle Ken, then 16, recalls the very long train that carried them from…
ELECTIONS – ALL OR NONE November started with a bang here in Moab. With four major events in town the weekend of November 7th, there was not a hotel room to be found in town. It is plain that the…
Paul Vlachos is a New Yorker who understands The West. And he is a New Yorker who understands New York. Wherever Paul goes, he finds signs of life… This was the issue where I was going to tell the story…
THANKS to Tom McCourt & the Tibbetts Family. For years, I have been watching Moab move farther and farther away from its roots, to the point where it seems few people even know the history of the place anymore. Some…
Editor’s Note: This article, originally published in 1995, was written in response to a U.S. District Court ruling on Pelt v. Utah, which stated that the members of the Navajo Nation could not sue the state of Utah for mismanaging…
“….there have been some, even in the Park Service, who advocate spraying Delicate Arch with a fixative of some sort — Elmer’s Glue perhaps or Lady Clairol Spray-Net.” -E. Abbey Desert Solitaire When I first read that passage by Abbey,…
EDITOR’S NOTE: When Verona Stocks died in June 1993, she left a big hole in Grand County. Born on April 1, 1905, Verona watched southeast Utah transformed…from a pioneer town at the turn of the century, to a uranium mining…
Over the last 30 years, many sections of US 191 between Crescent Jct and the Utah/Arizona state line have undergone upgrades and reconstructions. A four mile section of highway between Monticello and Blanding, however, remained much the way it was…