Lessons learned on a bike
The 2007 Moab Century ride was an event I will never forget. It started as a cold, overcast day. A light drizzle began falling as hundreds of colorful riders wound their way along…
Fire on the mountain
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) burned 29 acres of piles of cut trees adjacent to the road into Browns Hole south of Moab. This completes a BLM project to reduce flammable vegetation on…
Finding fossils
Ms. Eardley’s fifth grade class from Helen M. Knight Elementary visited Bloody Mary Wash at Arches National Park to find fossils in the limestone on Thursday, Jan. 31. Ranger Dove Luidhart told the…
Bike-friendlier Nat’l Parks
A National Park Service rule was passed in August 2012 to increase cycling within national parks. Ashley Korenblat, owner of Western Spirit Cycling, worked on the proposal that pushed for the national park…
Ode to a haggis
Haggis is on the menu in Moab once each year. The Scottish treat is a savory pudding of sheep’s organs minced with onions and oatmeal. The Moab Music Festival will feature haggis at…
Repairs to waterlines continue
It’s been a cold winter with January temperatures rarely rising above freezing. Jeff Foster, Moab’s public works director, has been working with several residents who have had frozen meters or waterlines, or who…
Spring hiring on the horizon
Businesses are now starting to gear-up for the coming season. Signs around town announce that businesses have begun accepting applications for the coming tourist season. Utah Department of Workforce Services held a job…
Night of music & action
David Rovics will share music and political activism at a special benefit concert at 6 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 12 at the Moab Arts and Recreation Center. Rovics is an internationally renowned, political folksinger…
20 Questions with Sean Hazell
Sean Hazell came to Moab for a college internship. But now lives here and loves to eat at Milt’s, swim in Mill Creek and get paid to ride a bike. Ask him how…