Month: August 2016

TriCounty Health Department is joining the 21st century with a major upgrade to a digital filing system and other handy technological applications. 

Ashley Regional Medical Center announced Monday that movement is underway on their expansion project.

A south central Utah city is looking to Roosevelt as a model for making aquatic dreams a reality. The city of Richfield has an indoor pool that City Council member Richard Barnett told the Richfield Reaper is “on its last legs.” 

The low bid was awarded on the Ashley Valley Flood Control project during Monday’s Uintah County Commission meeting. Jones Demille/Sunrise Engineering received the bid at $49,800. The project is a revisit of the original Ashley Valley Flood Plan and will identify specific areas that are at risk of flooding. 

A program based in Roosevelt is changing lives for the better by getting assistive technology into the hands of locals who need it. Assistive technology is any item, piece of equipment or product that is used to increase, maintain or improve function of individuals with disabilities.

Visitors took advantage of free park entrance over the weekend as Dinosaur National Monument celebrated the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service. In the midst of the fun, the Monument issued a timely warning stating that Dinosaur’s Fire Crew has responded to multiple incidents of fires left unattended this year.

The State Veterinarian is urging vaccination after cases of West Nile Virus in Uintah County horses were confirmed last week. According to a release from the Utah Department of Agriculture, 80 percent of cases in horses occur in August and September each year and all Utah horse owners are advised to vaccinate their horses.

Crews are hard at work on a fire burning in the High Uinta Wilderness on the Ashley National Forest. The Falling Rock Fire, only accessible by foot, was first reported one week ago and has continued burning in subalpine fir and down timber approximately eleven miles north of the Rock Creek trailhead and one mile north west of Squaw Basin.

Charges have formally been filed against a Craig man suspected in a string of area burglaries. 37-year-old Jason Tracy was arrested last July after multiple stolen items were found on his property. Charges against Tracy include four counts of burglary, two counts of criminal mischief, five counts of motor vehicle theft, four counts of criminal trespassing, three counts of theft less than $2,000 and three counts of theft of less than $20,000.