It all started last Wednesday when students, parents, the faculty of La Sal Elementary School, and others gathered for an assembly where local deputy Rhett Adair gave a presentation on bicycle safety. 

Search and rescue crews have recovered the body of a Monticello man who was caught in a massive avalanche in the La Sal Mountains on January 25. The body has been removed from the mountain.

Search and rescue crews will soon be onsite in the search for a Monticello man who was apparently caught in a massive avalanche in the La Sal Mountains on January 25.

by Maxine Deeter
At approximately 10 a.m. on August 2, a highway construction worker employed by LeGrand Johnson was involved in a one-vehicle accident on Highway 46 east of La Sal. 
Kayonnie Rodriquez, 43 of Blanding, was the sole occupant in a large dump truck when it tipped. 

NORTHERN NEWSby Maxine Teeter
It is the goal of my partner and I to spend as much time on The Mountain as possible in the summer. 
Folks ask me what we do there.  Well, the last two summers I spent a lot of time chanting, “I want to see a bear!”
Last week we were camped at Medicine Lake.

NORTHERN NEWSby Maxine Deeter
Our local volunteer fire folks were called to the Mountain Shadows Subdivision, aka Hangdog, late last Saturday night. 

by Maxine Deeter
Two-year-old Adonijah Foster passed away Saturday at his home in Hatch Rock on Hatch Point due to an accidental fire that started in his bedroom while he was sleeping. 
Adonijah was burned and inhaled too much smoke to continue breathing.  His mother and sister were taken to the hospital after inhaling smoke while attempting to save him. 

NORTHERN NEWSby Maxine Deeter
Christmas and New Year’s have come and gone.  It’s on to a new year.  Hopefully, for most the holiday season was a good one. 
La Sal received a surprising White Christmas.  Although, returning home from the “north”, we noticed that the heaviest depth of snow was in Moab!  That’s unusual.  And, it’s still there in big piles here and there. 

NORTHERN NEWSby Maxine Deeter
Folks are still busy, busy, busy with summer activities.  And, it is still hotter than the Fourth of July! 
That holiday recently behind us, it must be time for the 24th of July, aka Pioneer Day, aka “This is It Day!”  The La Sal annual celebration of this holiday will be this Friday, July 14. 

Lifelong La Sal resident and craftsman Shane Deeter has a pair of handmade boots on display at the Chase Home Museum of Utah Folk Arts.  The museum had two handmade saddles in their collection but no cowboy boots.  An administrator of the museum approached Shane to make a pair of boots for the museum.  The only stipulation was that they have a Utah theme. 

NORTHERN NEWSby Maxine Deeter
Word was received last week of the passing of a former La Salian, Jo Ellen Attwood.  Jo passed away Tuesday, May 2 at her home near Price, UT. 
She and her husband and son moved from La Sal about three years ago after living here for several years.  Her husband, Clay, passed away a year ago. 

NORTHERN NEWSby Maxine Deeter
Several locals, mostly the ladies at La Sal Elementary School, chose this year’s annual school holiday program to acknowledge the decades of work in the community by one of its citizen.
Karry Lynn Bradshaw Deeter received a big thanks for all her dedicated efforts for the town of La Sal.