ESCALANTE – This year birders everywhere are celebrating the 120th anniversary of the first Christmas Bird Count. On December 16th in Escalante, 31 people participated in the 22nd local count. Fortified by Terry’s life-giving doughnuts, twenty-five braved near-arctic conditions in the field, while six other, smarter folks censused their feeders and yards. As a group, we spent 21.5 hours driving […]
2020-01-02
Final Work Completed on Panguitch City Culinary Water Springs Rehabilitation Project
PANGUITCH – The Brian Head Fire began on June 17, 2017. Over the course of the fire, approximately 71,672 acres burned. The fire was started by Robert Ray Lyman, a cabin owner in the Brian Head area. The Brian Head Fire cost more than $35 million to fight, forced 1,500 people to evacuate, burned 21 buildings (including 13 destroyed residences), […]
Arnold Alvey
ESCALANTE – On Tuesday, December 24, 2019 Arnold Merrill Alvey, loving husband and proud father of three daughters, passed away in Panguitch, Utah. Arnold was born in Escalante on December 23, 1928, to Samuel James Sariah Haws Alvey. He was one of ten children, and he was second to the youngest. He married Deon Mecham December 23, 1952 in Richfield. […]