The Bighorn Gallery at Dead Horse Point State Park will be exhibiting original artwork by Moab artists Robin Straub and Phil Wagner. “Sensual Scapes” is a collection of new oil paintings on exhibit Wednesday, July 4, through Aug. 29. Meet the artists at an opening reception Wednesday, July 4 at 4 p.m. Enter the park […]
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Drugstore will expand to include groceries
Walker Drug is a pharmacy and variety store. By next spring, it will also be a grocery store. The 17,000-square-foot retail space at 290 S. Main St. will undergo a full renovation, increasing by 3,000 square feet when it expands into the space that was occupied by Moab Family Medicine. Work began last month. Officials […]
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Grand County High students experience Costa Rica
For 12 days, eight Grand County High School students got to experience what it’s like not only outside of Moab but outside of the United States. Thanks to the high school’s “research trip,” the students and two chaperones spent nearly two weeks in tropical Costa Rica. “Experiencing a whole different country, climate, ecology, wildlife and […]
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Talking trash in Mill Creek Canyon
Kneeling beside the water, I listen to the trickling trill of Mill Creek as it weaves its way to falls below. I cup the water in my hands and let it gently spill back into itself, watching as it continues on in search of other, bigger waters. It is here that I begin to quiet […]
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At Weed ‘n’ Feed, people work in garden, then break bread with others
Kelly and Thatcher Vagts have been going to the Youth Garden Project’s Weed ‘n’ Feed dinners for longer than they’ve been parents. And when they became parents? They brought their son along. Now 4, Pierson Vagts has grown up at the garden. “The Youth Garden Project is very much a part of his life,” Kelly […]
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Local woman founded Adventure Tykes to bring outdoors to people traveling with children
Having a child changed Melissa Edge’s life but not her lifestyle. “When I was expecting my son, people were always telling me that my days outdoors were over,” said Edge, who would escape to the nearest mountain, river, lake, national park, anyplace outside with her husband every chance she could before having children. When her […]
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Friends, neighbors rally to clean up after fire: Artist lost studio in ‘terrifying’ May 26 blaze but is grateful damage wasn’t worse
Friends and neighbors came armed with hand tools Sunday morning, June 24. One brought a dump trailer. Another brought a dump truck. They gathered early – at 7:30 a.m. – to help a Castle Valley family rebuild after a May 26 fire. The home of Christy Williams Dunton and Michael Ford Dunton was spared in […]
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20 Questions: Sarah Barstow
Sarah Barstow – As reported to Meredith Mirrington Originally from Connecticut, Sarah Barstow came to Moab in 1997 to hike and never went home. Today, she still loves to hike and when not spending quality time with her family, she’d surely enjoy a dinner party with Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart. Read on to learn […]
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Letter to the editor
Dear editor, We need your help in exposing and correcting a scandal with the Department of Energy UMTRA Project in Moab, Utah, which is cleaning up uranium mill tailings by the Colorado River in Moab. I live in Moab and a lot of our citizens here and from the surrounding area depend on jobs at […]