Sigurd News

Critics of an electric plant planned for the Sevier Valley are gearing up for another battle now that state regulators have signaled their intention to approve the plant.

ST. GEORGE - A tripped circuit breaker at a main transmission station left about 200,000 Southern Utah residences and businesses without power Tuesday morning, but only for about five minutes.

In the dry heat of September, it is easy to imagine that the gently sloping valley in southwestern Utah looks much as it did in 1857 when 120 men, women and children of an Arkansas wagon train headed for California were slaughtered there by Mormon settlers and their Paiute allies.

To mar a meadow Visit the site of the Mountain Meadows Massacre in late summer and you get a haunting sense of stepping back in time.

Cheri Walker, center in red, treasurer of the Mountain Meadows Descendants group, with Patrica Norris to her left president of the group.