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School district hopes to cut electricity costs with system that runs on discarded vegetable oil
District is seeking donations and grants to cover cost of $560,000 Cogengreen system
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Canyonlands Field Institute’s new field camp will be located on the former Joe Taylor Ranch located off state Route 128 just east of Castle Valley. Courtesy photo
County approves permit for new CFI education center
Canyonlands Field Institute’s environmental education center will soon have a new home. The Grand County Council voted 6-0 on March 4 to approve a conditional-use permit for the seasonal project, w...
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Behavioral health services benefit many in local community
Karen Dolan thinks about behavioral health care the same way that a cardiologist might look at a patient in the early stages of heart disease. The executive director of Four Corners Community Behav...
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Cyclists with the Moab Skinny Tire Festival pose for a photo during a ride through scenic Arches National Park in 2013. Courtesy photo
Skinny Tire Festival to raise money for cancer charities, MRH treatment center
Hundreds of road cyclists will converge on Moab March 8 to 11 for the 2014 Moab Skinny Tire Festival. The event brings together local riders with bicyclists from around the country for four days of...
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A paddler navigates a turn in the film “Cascada,” one of nine adventure films featured in the Moab Banff Film Festival event. Photo by Tim Kemple
Banff Mountain Film Festival brings high-adrenalin adventure experience to Moab
The 37th annual Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour is coming to Moab on Monday, March 10, bringing a slate of nine short films to be screened at the Grand County High School auditorium.   Acco...
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<b><i>New airline takes over...<br></b></i> Greg MacDonald (front) is one of SkyWest Airlines’ first passengers to arrive at Canyonlands Field Airport on Monday, March 3. Approximately 50 people turned out Monday morning for a ribbon-cutting ceremony event organized by the Moab Area Chamber of Commerce. “It’s exciting to see this support from the Moab community,” said Wes Horrocks, a communications manager for SkyWest. “It’s awesome ... We really appreciate it.” Photo by Lisa J. Church
New airline takes over...
 Greg MacDonald (front) is one of SkyWest Airlines’ first passengers to arrive at Canyonlands Field Airport on Monday, March 3. Approximately 50 people turned out Monday morning for a ribbon-cutting ceremony event organized by the Moab Area Chamber of Commerce. “It’s exciting to see this support from the Moab community,” said Wes Horrocks, a communications manager for SkyWest. “It’s awesome ... We really appreciate it.” Photo by Lisa J. Church
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  • Care center to pursue lease negotiations with hospital
    by Rudy Herndon
    Staff Writer
    02.27.14 - 09:32 am
  • Public invited to RSVP appreciation day
    by Rudy Herndon
    Staff Writer
    02.27.14 - 09:43 am
  • New community radio station expected to rock Moab airwaves soon
    by Jeff Richards
    Contributing Writer
    02.20.14 - 09:29 am
  • Bus service to link Moab with SLC
    by Rudy Herndon
    Staff Writer
    02.20.14 - 09:13 am
  • LDS missionary from Moab robbed in Russia
    by Jeff Richards
    Contributing Writer
    02.20.14 - 09:17 am
  • County opposes commercial development at transit hub
    by Rudy Herndon
    Staff Writer
    02.20.14 - 09:15 am
  • Moab Job Fair connects employers and potential workers
    by Lisa J. Church
    Staff Writer
    02.06.14 - 10:46 am

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    Vietnam says it cannot find object thought to be jet door

    A Chinese relative of passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane, center, cries as she is escorted by a woman while leaving a hotel room for relatives or friends of passengers aboard the missing airplane, in Beijing, China Sunday, March 9, 2014. Planes and ships from across Asia resumed the hunt Sunday for the Malaysian jetliner missing with 239 people on board for more than 24 hours, while Malaysian aviation authorities investigated how two passengers were apparently able to get on the aircraft using stolen passports. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)Searchers on ships worked throughout the night but could not find a rectangle object spotted Sunday afternoon that was thought to be one of the doors of a missing Boeing 777.


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    Pope Francis wants church to study civil unions, Cardinal Dolan says

    In this picture provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis arrives for a meeting with Roman priests at the Vatican, Thursday, March 6, 2014. Pope Francis confessed Thursday that he took the rosary cross of his late confessor from his casket and wears it to this day in a fabric pouch under his cassock. He said he did so telling the late priest, “Give me half your mercy.” Francis made the revelation Thursday during an informal chat with Roman priests about the need to be merciful to their flocks. He told the story of the “great confessor” of Buenos Aires who had heard confessions from most of the diocesan priests as well as from Pope John Paul II when he visited Argentina. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, ho)Pope Francis wants the Catholic Church to study same-sex unions, Cardinal Timothy Dolan said on NBC's "Meet The Press" on Sunday.


    2014-03-09 16:31:31 -0600
    Libyan rebels warn of 'war' if navy attacks oil tanker

    LIBYA THREATENS SHIPBy Ulf Laessing and Ayman al-Warfalli TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Armed protesters in eastern Libya traded threats with the government on Sunday in a tense stand-off over the unauthorized sale of oil from a rebel-held port. A North Korean-flagged tanker, the Morning Glory, docked on Saturday at the port of Es Sider and local daily al-Wasat said it had loaded $36 million of crude oil. Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has said the military will bomb the 37,000-tonne vessel if it tries to leave. The rebels said any attack on the tanker would be "a declaration of war." The escalating conflict over the country's oil wealth is a sign of mounting chaos in Libya, where the government has failed to rein in fighters who helped oust veteran ruler Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 and who now defy state authority.


    2014-03-09 14:22:32 -0600