The Moab City Council, at a meeting on Tuesday, July 14, gave unanimous approval for a proposed water tank storage site location on the southeast corner of Spanish Valley Drive and Spanish Trail…
The last thing that Moab needs, according to Mayor Dave Sakrison, is another planning document that sits on a shelf somewhere gathering dust. Instead, he said, it should be possible for city and…
What do Moab-area residents want their future to look like? Robert Grow is still waiting for a definitive answer from the community. The president and CEO of Envision Utah is encouraging Grand County…
In Grand County’s earlier days, the local economy was based on farming and ranching. But today, high land prices and a reliance on a recreation- and tourism-based economy that make agriculture less important…
The proliferation of second homes, nightly rentals and Moab’s status as a resort town are causing a dearth of affordable housing opportunities in Grand County. The problem, according to former Grand County Council…
The current economic health and future growth of Grand County is directly tied to its scenic public lands and the diverse range of recreational opportunities they afford, according to a new study from…
“Brilliant” is one of the adjectives that Grand County Council Administrator Ruth Dillon uses to describe Zacharia Levine, the county’s new community development director. “We were looking for someone with leadership skills; a…
When visitors approach downtown Moab’s central core from the north, one of the first things they see is a huge vacant lot near the northeast corner of Main St. and 100 North. A…
The quiet residential neighborhood around Arches Drive is not the right place for a bed and breakfast business, a majority of Moab City Council members said last week. By a 3-1 vote on…
Nineteen-year-old Alicia Harry said she never pictured herself as a single mother. Neither did she ever dream she would become a homeowner at such a young age – being a mother, however, has…
