The USU-Uintah Basin nursing program has some impressive stats to brag about. The 2017 graduates completed the registered nurse licensure exam with a 100 percent pass rate for the second consecutive year. This year’s graduating class also achieved 100 percent job placement.
Five Michigan men are now in jail on drug charges after a traffic stop on I-80 Tuesday afternoon. According to Sheriff Mike Lowell, a deputy was patrolling around 4:00pm and pulled over an eastbound 2017 Dodge van with Kentucky license plates for following too closely and making unsafe lane changes.
The 2017 general rifle deer hunt has come out of the gates a bit slow. According to the Division of Wildlife Resources, northern Utah including northeastern Utah is among the areas that have seen the biggest change. A total of 144 deer came through the check stations on Saturday and Sunday, shares northern Utah wildlife manager Randy Wood, while a total of 282 deer came through at the same stations last year during the first two days of the hunt.
Ashley Regional Medical Center is the latest recipient of the Quality Award from HealthInsight, an independent quality organization. The award was presented to hospital representatives at a banquet on October 19th in St. George with Ashley Regional as one of ten hospitals in the state of Utah to be recognized. The HealthInsight Quality Award program was launched in September 2004 in order to promote transparency in health care. The award is for providers in nursing homes, hospitals, home health agencies and physician offices. HealthInsight uses national rankings in determining the award recipients. Congratulations Ashley Regional Medical Center on being recognized for delivering quality care.
The Seven County Infrastructure Coalition is exploring the possibilities of running a railway that would connect the Uintah Basin to the national railway network, which currently ends in Craig, Colorado. According to Coalition Executive Director Mike McKee, Jones and DeMille Engineering recently analyzed the feasibility study for rail out of the Basin that was performed several years ago, looking at the alternative options, and found that the Craig rail line was worthy of consideration.
Smoke clouded the air on Sunday in west Duchesne County due to multiple wildfires that had taken off in Wasatch County near Strawberry Reservoir in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest. Those fires, the Soldier Creek Fire and Trout Creek Fire primarily, threatened cabins and resulted in evacuations of campgrounds and hunters in the area.
Thanks to the quick thinking of a group of junior rangers, two vandals are being held accountable for their decision to deface a historical site within Dinosaur National Monument on Friday. According to monument staff, “a 23-year-old female and a 30-year-old male thought it would be fun to carve their initials on an area with 1,000 year old Fremont Petroglyphs at a site known as Swelter Shelter.”
The Daggett County Athlete of the Week is Manila High School cross country runner Ethan Clegg. Ethan is a senior this year and competes in both cross country and track and field.
A Basin man is the recipient of a rare award from the Boy Scouts of America. A. Lynn Snow is among the few to be named an Outstanding Eagle Scout during the Celebration of Eagles award ceremony in Provo this Thursday.
The Utah Association of County Recorders has selected Duchesne County Recorder Shelley Brennan as the 2017 County Recorder of the Year. Since 1998, the Association has selected one Recorder who stood out among the rest each year.