Month: March 2017

Unemployment rates are heading the right direction locally, though they are still among the highest in the state.

Signs, whether homemade or professionally printed, can be found throughout almost any City, sprinkled on posts, grass strips and in front of residential homes. Vernal City clarified the Vernal City Temporary Sign Ordinance during their last City Council meeting.

A grant program through the State of Utah will now be available to more local businesses in Uintah County. According to Economic Development Director Sylvia Wilkins, a temporary adjustment has been made to the requirements for small businesses to apply for the Rural Fast Track Grant Program.

Local young men and women are shining as they hone their technical skills learned at the Uintah Basin Applied Technology College. 

Local Utah Highway Patrol is upping the focus on drug interdiction on Basin roadways as marijuana from neighboring Colorado is often transported on Highway 40.

A recent job posting has contributed to buzz on the streets of increased job demand in the oil and gas industry. Elwood Staffing listed a posting and held a job fair to hire over 150 positions for oil field company Slumber J, providing the opportunity for local men and women who have been out of work in the oil industry to apply for this new opportunity.

Vernal City is onboard with an energy efficiency program offered by Rocky Mountain Power that is available to businesses in the community at large. 

A bill sponsored by the Basin’s local representative could make Utah the first state in the nation to make drone harassment of livestock a crime. HB 217, sponsored by Representative Scott Chew, moved onto the Senate floor this week after unanimously passing in the House.