20 Questions with Jeanette Kopell
Jeanette Kopell came to Moab to work at Allen Memorial Hospital. Now she is a Super Mom who has two daughters and 18 animals to feed each day. She loves to bike and…
Love your bus
Consider giving one more Valentine this year: Remember the bus driver. This week is Love Your Bus week. Twenty-six million schoolchildren ride buses each school day in the United States. In Grand County…
Engaging through nature
How do you start your work week? It probably isn’t in a group meeting that begins with an inspirational quote followed by your co-workers reports on what they noticed in nature over the…
Questar opens natural gas station
Moab has joined the ranks of American towns that offer drivers compressed natural gas (CNG) filling stations. Questar opened the areas first CNG fast-fill pump at a company facility just south of town…
County looks at OSTA park admin
The Grand County Council discussed the roles of management of the planned park near the Old Spanish Trail Arena at their Tuesday, Feb. 5 meeting. The Grand County Recreation Special Service District (GCRSSD)…
Moab holds 2013 ‘visioning’ meeting
The City of Moab staff gathered together in the city council chambers to review the previous year and set priorities at their annual visioning meeting held Thursday and Friday, Feb. 7 and 8….
Hit the wall
A driver was choking on food when he ran his GMC truck into the City Market on Friday, Feb. 1. His wife attempted to help him, when she accidently pushed on the accelerator….
Lucy Annette Nelson
Lucy Annette Nelson was born Oct. 16, 1929 in Tonkawa, Okla., during the dust bowl. She died Jan. 20, 2013. At an early age her family moved to Rosedale, Ill., where she attended…
The time Realtors saved Moab from the plague
In the early 1990s Moab had an outbreak of the bubonic plague. That’s the one that’s also known as the Black Death, which wiped out a third of Europe before the Dark Ages….
Ice, Ice, Baby
A hiker carefully traverses a portion of the Devils Garden Primitive Trail near Private Arch in Arches National Park. Winter hiking in Arches National Park can be a treacherous combination of ice, snow…