Monumental restoration

Carbon County School District No. 2 has given the Hanna Basin Historical Society (HBHS), a non-profit corporation, permission to assume management of the World War I Monument situated on school property in Hanna at their board meeting on Oct. 15.

"We will be in charge of having it completely restored back to its original shape and we will be responsible for it and try to get it on the historical register," Diana Springsguth, president of the HBHS said.

The monument was vandalized in the summer of 2015 when the bronze plaque was taken off the stone monument. The plaque, dedicated to all those t...