Colin Fryer, owner of Red Cliffs Lodge and Castle Creek Winery, has a few reasons to buy local. First, it is good common sense. “I help you, you help me,” he said. Second, it is about economics, especially as transportation costs increase with gasoline prices. Third, it contributes to neighbors and the community as a […]
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Big box developer has contract on Moab property
It might not be a Wal-Mart. It might not even amount to anything in the end. But the possibility of Moab getting a Wal-Mart-like “big box” retail store grew significantly larger last week when the Moab City Council amended its large-scale retail ordinance in order to accommodate a Scottsdale, Ariz., developer that holds a contract […]
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Local group expands its adoption of shared-use trails
For nearly a decade, developing Sovereign Trail System was the primary focus of Ride with Respect, a non-profit organization that maintains trails and educates off-highway vehicle riders. Now, the group is strengthening ties with land managers to improve OHV opportunities further northwest of Moab. This past winter, Ride with Respect extended Sovereign Singletrack by three […]
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Recreating yourself
No one knows ogres like Eric. A few years ago this bearded academic got a grant from Harvard, his alma mater, to go out and study the morphology of ogre folklore across the Tibetan Plateau. Apparently they are quite a diverse group. An ogre may be snow-white and set on shattering you to bits with […]
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Uranium mill tailings project about 1/3 done
The U.S. Department of Energy has completed about one-third of a project to move 16 million tons of uranium tailings from the banks of the Colorado River, near Moab, to a permanent disposal site 30 miles north, near Crescent Junction. It’s long, slow work, but it’s getting done. The project, called the Moab Uranium Mill […]
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Chile Pepper Bike Shop
The Chile Pepper Bike Shop is located in the Kane Creek Shopping Center near the Moab Brewery. Summer hours are 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., seven days a week. Biking tours and trail shuttles offered daily. More information at www.chilebikes.com. Chile Pepper bike shop serves community for nearly 17 years
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20 Questions: Alex Meininger
At one point, Alex Meininger could have been voted most likely to drop out of high school and follow the Grateful Dead. But, instead – he found himself, like many of us, entranced by Moab’s beauty and lifestyle and recently moved here to join the Moab Regional Orthopaedic Center as a surgeon and sports medicine […]
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Colorado man buried himself in sand to stay warm overnight
A Parker, Colo., man who got lost after leaving his family to have a cigarette was found the next day on the mesa above Culvert Canyon. According to the Grand County Sheriff’s Office, the family of Jeffrey Rossi came to the sheriff’s office on June 13 to report that Jeffrey had left the area of […]
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Arty Farty lets kids explore shapes, art mediums
Christy Calvin didn’t hesitate when it came time to sign up her daughter, Sadie Groene, for Arty Farty. The 5 ½-year-old took the week-long class last year with her older sister, and both girls loved it. This year, Sadie’s sister was at another camp during the day, so Sadie had Arty Farty all to herself. […]