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1 week ago | 
stgeorgeutah.com | E. George Goold
Over 70 young soccer players from Southern Utah were treated to a summer camp taught by some of the best futbol pros in the world, Italian style. NextGen Soccer Utah, a business which provides elite-level coaching to players of all ages and abilities, teamed with the Italian Federation of Coaches to run the Italian Soccer Camp at Little Valley Soccer Fields.
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1 week ago | 
stgeorgeutah.com | E. George Goold
The only Juneteenth celebration in Washington County took place Thursday night at Veterans Park in Washington City. “Think of it as a family reunion,” Juneteenth Southern Utah organizer Stephanie Carter told St. George News. “Every year, this is the place where anyone can come to learn about culture, eat food you've never tried before. Maybe, meet new people.”Booths were set up around the park, with a DJ working the music, a raffle, and a food truck from Papa’s Got Jerk.
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2 weeks ago | 
ksl.com | E. George Goold
GUNLOCK, Washington County — Author Eddie "Mac" Jones gets right down to it when asked why he wrote his self-published book, "You Are A Downwinder.""Here's the whole point of the book," Jones said while visiting with St. George News recently. "People either don't know that they were exposed, or they've forgotten that they were exposed or they don't care," he added.
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2 weeks ago | 
stgeorgeutah.com | E. George Goold
A mountain biker riding east of the Hurricane Hill Trailhead was taken by helicopter to a hospital on Wednesday afternoon after suffering a “heat-related illness,” Hurricane Valley Fire & Rescue Battalion Chief Tyler Ames said. Ames told St. George News that the call came in a little after 1:30 p.m.Search and Rescue personnel from Hurricane Valley and Washington County Sheriff’s Office responded to the call, Ames said.
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2 weeks ago | 
cedarcityutah.com | E. George Goold
Author Eddie “Mac” Jones gets right down to it when asked why he wrote his self-published book, “You Are A Downwinder.”“Here’s the whole point of the book,” Jones said while visiting with St. George News recently. “People either don’t know that they were exposed, or they’ve forgotten that they were exposed or they don’t care,” he added. “Sad to say, there’s those who don’t care.”Jones was talking about exposure to radiation from nuclear bomb testing in Nevada in the mid-20th century.
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3 weeks ago | 
stgeorgeutah.com | E. George Goold
For the softball team at Desert Hills High School, it seems like only yesterday that the Thunder played for their first 4A state championship. Desert Hills stayed with Bear River pitch for pitch over the course of the series at Brigham Young University before falling to the Bears 3-2 in the eighth inning of a decisive Game 3 on May 16. Desert Hills is the 4A state runner up for the second year in a row. Bear River, a perennial power in Region 11, won their 12th overall state softball championship.
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3 weeks ago | 
stgeorgeutah.com | E. George Goold
The Huntsman World Senior Games has a brand new home base and headquarters. Fittingly, it’s in St. George. Government officials, community members, athletes and volunteers all gathered Friday morning for the ribbon cutting at a new headquarters facility located at 1572 South Dixie Drive #103. Huntsman World Senior Games CEO Kyle Case told the large crowd gathered in the parking lot that the facility became a reality over the course of 38 years of effort.
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3 weeks ago | 
stgeorgeutah.com | E. George Goold
No one was injured Wednesday night after several hay bales being carried on a trailer driving on Interstate 15 spontaneously combusted. “That happens this time of year,” St. George Fire Department Battalion Chief Rick Nelson told St. George News. “The heat the bale internally puts off as it’s drying.”When fire teams arrived, Nelson said, they detached the tractor from the trailer and moved it forward, giving water hoses better access to the hay and removing the tractor from the area of the flames.
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3 weeks ago | 
stgeorgeutah.com | E. George Goold
Animal lovers of all kinds were treated to a fashion show Saturday at the Hilton Garden Inn, featuring the latest summer trends. While they were at it, they raised some money for RSQ, a nonprofit animal rescue service in St. George. “This is one of our favorite things to do and we are thrilled to be able to do this for RSQ today,” Elizabeth Groves, president of Southern Utah Ladies Society, told St. George News.
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3 weeks ago | 
stgeorgeutah.com | E. George Goold
Search and rescue teams from Santa-Clara Ivins Fire Department and the Washington County Sheriff’s Office used ropes to rescue a fallen hiker in Snow Canyon State Park on Saturday. “Inside lava tubes in one of the caves,” SCI public information officer Ryan Moore told St. George News. “It’s dark and cold down there, the hiker tripped and sustained injuries to the lower leg," he added.
