This Week in Moab: Candidates Forum and Buffalo Soldiers, October 5–11 - Moab Sun News
Ballots go out this month, and Monday night is the one chance to see nearly everyone on yours in the same room. House District 3 and State House District 69 — free, with KZMU carrying it live for anyone who can't get there. The rest of the week is unusually full: a Buffalo Soldiers panel at the museum, a blood drive, the Arts and Ag Market, a costume sale and a seed-to-table garden dinner.
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Grand Canyon swim comes to life on Moab’s stage
“When We Were Boats,” a play based on two men’s 1955 swim down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, sold about 750 tickets during its Oct. 1-4 run at Moab’s Star Hall, according to writer and director Sam Van Wetter.
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Chip Thomas, artist behind Moab murals, named MacArthur Fellow
Chip Thomas, the physician-turned-public-artist whose black-and-white photo murals went up on two Moab buildings in 2023, was named a MacArthur Fellow on Sept. He’s back in town Oct. 8 for a Moab Museum panel on the Buffalo Soldiers. Nearly 1,200 people have been named MacArthur Fellows since the first awards in 1981, according to the foundation.
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Freshman QB Corbin Black leads Red Devils football to two homecoming-week wins - Moab Sun News
Grand County High School's football team beat Monument Valley 54-6 on Thursday, Sept. 24, then came back the next night and shut out Whitehorse 45-0 in the homecoming game. The two wins in two nights put the Red Devils at 4-2 and on a three-game winning streak.
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Ken Sleight, the river guide who inspired Abbey's Seldom Seen Smith, dies at 97 - Moab Sun News
Ken Sleight, the river guide and activist who inspired the character Seldom Seen Smith in Edward Abbey's novel "The Monkey Wrench Gang," died early Friday morning, friends said. He was 97. "We'll miss him — because there was no one else like him," friend and writer Stephen Trimble wrote on Facebook.
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Enterprise tops Grand County 3-0 in 2A girls volleyball
Enterprise beat Grand County (Moab) 3-0 in 2A girls volleyball on Friday, Oct. 2, according to the Utah High School Activities Association (UHSAA) scoreboard.
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