( Joe Lohmuller) From the left, Clark Robinson, Joe Lohmuller and Alex Knaub won Nationals in 2025 and advanced to the World Championships. Comment Add as Preferred Source Less than two years after an accident left him with a broken pelvis and sacrum, Moab wingsuit pilot Joe Lohmuller is heading to represent the United States on one of the sport’s biggest stages.
Grand County’s sheriff candidates debated public safety priorities and their records at an Oct. 5 forum, while clerk-auditor candidates differed over financial management and election leadership. Grand County Sheriff Jamison Wiggins, right, speaks as Jim Winder, his challenger in the Nov.
Meeting at a Glance is a Moab Sun News summary of public meetings based on official agendas and corrected transcripts. Watch the full meeting above or read the official agenda. See something that needs correcting? Grand County Commission — meeting video, October 6, 2026Autoscroll: ENLanguage English Good.
A proposal to require a public vote before outgoing Grand County commissioners travel on county money stalled Oct. Hedin, McCandless and Winfield on the travel proposal and the Washington trip. Clips from the Oct. 6 Grand County Commission meeting recording.
Grand County will apply for a state grant to fund a shop-local business program that would include digital ad screens inside the Arches shuttles and at shuttle stops, if the National Park Service allows ads inside the shuttles. Commissioners approved the application 6-1 on Oct.
Grand County commissioners on Oct. 6 turned down an agreement that would have paid up to $8,600 in expenses for the recruiting firm behind the county’s last planning director hire to search for his replacement. Whoever gets the job next will be the county’s fifth planning director since 2021.
The Moab City Planning Commission will host a public hearing on Oct. 22 to discuss proposed Ordinance 2026-21. This ordinance involves updates to the city's annexation policy plan and future land use maps.
About 100 people attended the League of Women Voters of Grand County’s event at the Moab Arts and Recreation Center. KZMU broadcast the forum, which also featured candidates in other races ahead of the Nov. 3 election. About 100 people attended the League of Women Voters candidate forum Oct.
Jeremiah and Jennifer Perkins will be sentenced on Nov. 17; and agree to have no contact with the victim until he’s 18. (Times-Independent file photo) Nurses at the Children’s Justice Center, pictured here, encountered a boy who had been fed a sparse diet and was routinely tortured when Moab Police brought him there last October.
On Sept. 22, the Grantsville High School cross country team boarded a bus and headed toward Moab, Utah, for the Red Rock Invitational race. The trip was an overnight experience and one of the best bonding opportunities available all year. The trip started nicely with the first stop made at Pizza Pie Cafe.
This edition of The Times-Independent also includes voter guides for the three Grand County Commission races. Guides for the sheriff and clerk/auditor races will be published in the next edition. House District 69, the largest district in the Utah House by area, covers all of Grand, San Juan, Garfield, Wayne and Kane counties, along with part of Emery County.
District 5 covers the Grand County portion of Spanish Valley generally west of Pack Creek and south of Holyoak Lane. McCurdy, who grew up in Grand County, seeks a second term after winning election in 2022. He works at Walker’s True Value lumberyard.
Voters in Grand County Commission District 4 will choose between Shalee Holland and Diego Velasquez in the Nov. 3 election. Both are running unaffiliated with a political party. Shalee Holland, left, and Diego Velasquez are running for Grand County Commission District 4 in the Nov.
Grand County voters will choose between Neal Herbert and Rory Paxman in the Nov. 3 election for an at-large seat on the county commission. Both candidates are unaffiliated with a political party. Neal Herbert, left, and Rory Paxman are running for an at-large seat on the Grand County Commission in the Nov.
Less than two years after an accident left him with a broken pelvis and sacrum, Moab wingsuit pilot Joe Lohmuller is heading to represent the United States on one of the sport’s biggest stages. Alex Knaub, dark suit, films Joe Lohmuller and Clark Robinson at the 2025 National Championship.
On Tuesday, Jeremiah pleaded no contest to attempted child torture, amended down to a second-degree felony. Jeremiah and Jennifer Perkins enter no-contest pleas on Oct. When asked by the judge, both Perkins acknowledged they were entering the plea because there is a risk that they would be convicted of child torture at trial.
Gabriel Woytek and Kenneth Minor answered questions at the League of Women Voters of Southeast Utah’s candidates forum on Oct. 5 at the MARC in Moab. Each gave a 90-second opening statement, answered three questions drawn from community input the League collected over the summer, and gave a closing statement.
Commissioner Mike McCurdy and Everett Hildenbrandt answered questions at the League of Women Voters of Southeast Utah’s candidates forum on Oct. 5 at the MARC in Moab. Each gave a 90-second opening statement, answered three questions drawn from community input the League collected over the summer, and gave a closing statement.
The League of Women Voters of Southeast Utah held its candidates forum Oct. 5 at the MARC in Moab, a nonpartisan event the moderator said the League has hosted for 46 consecutive years.
Karla Vander Zanden, who co-founded Moab’s Canyonlands Field Institute in 1984, is one of the Utah Nonprofits Association’s 2026 Hall of Fame honorees. The association recognized this year’s honorees Sept. 30 at its annual conference at the Davis Conference Center in Layton.
Moab residents are getting another place to go for health care. Two Rivers Community Health, a nonprofit health center based in Green River, plans to start seeing medical patients in Moab in January. Over time, it plans to offer primary care, mental health care, substance use treatment and dental care in one place, according to a Sept.
Meow and greetings, my fellow raconteurs! It’s Cosmo the Library Cat, writing from my cozy nest in the Moab Library. Today I’d like to share an excellent opportunity for those of you who enjoy telling stories or listening to stories, and that’s pretty much all of us, I believe!
Rory Paxman and Neal Herbert answered questions at the League of Women Voters of Southeast Utah’s candidates forum on Oct. 5 at the MARC in Moab. Each gave a 90-second opening statement, answered three questions drawn from community input the League collected over the summer, and gave a closing statement.
The Moab Red Devils finished second in Division 2 at Mud Springs on Sept. 26, in the team's first home race in four years. Highland won the division again, 2,313 points to Moab's 2,288, according to league timing results. It was the third race of the Region 3 season for the high school team and the last of the year for the Junior Devo middle school squad.
Outerbike drew nearly 500 attendees each day to the Moab Brands trails north of Moab Oct. 2-4, giving riders a chance to test mountain bikes on area trails, according to organizer Mark Sevenoff. An attendee, left, gets help with a mountain bike at an exhibitor’s booth during Outerbike, a mountain bike demo event held Oct.
SkyWest Airlines returned to Canyonlands Regional Airport on Oct. 1, restoring commercial flights between Moab and Salt Lake City. Year-round Denver service is scheduled to begin Oct. 7.
Tuesday, Oct. 6, Grand County Commission Chambers, 125 E. Center St. Times are approximate. 191 would add about 7,263 trips a day and finds the roads can handle it through 2040. Read the documents → Housing loan: The Giv Group presents a request for a $200,000 county loan toward Amasa Arroyo Apartments, 70 units for households earning 25% to 50% of the area median income.
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.
Rim to Rim Restoration is helping Moab residents understand how wildfire, flooding and vegetation interact – and what they can do to reduce risks on their properties. Clark Maughan, left, discusses the importance of shaded fuel breaks in the Matheson Wetland Preserve on Sept.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
Candidates in all five contested Grand County races answered questions at KZMU's candidate forum on Sept. Here's a closer look at the factual claims they made, checked against county budgets and audits, state law, tax data and meeting minutes.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project recently achieved a milestone by removing 17 million tons of uranium mill tailings from the banks of the Colorado River near Moab.
Published October 2, 2026 at 12:00 AM MDT Set KUER as preferred source The debate features incumbent Republican Rep. Celeste Maloy, the current 2nd District representative, and her Democratic challenger, Kent Udell, a Utah-born mechanical engineer who lives in Moab.
Parowan beat Grand County (Moab) 3-0 in 2A girls volleyball on Thursday, Oct. 1, according to the Utah High School Activities Association (UHSAA) scoreboard.
Beaver beat Grand County (Moab) 4-3 in 2A girls soccer on Thursday, Oct. 1, according to the Utah High School Activities Association (UHSAA) scoreboard.
Moab Sun News is checking claims candidates made at this forum. We’ll link our fact-check here when it’s published. KZMU hosted a forum on Sept. 28 with the candidates in all five contested races on Grand County’s Nov. 3 ballot: sheriff, clerk/auditor and three county commission seats.
