Ashley Regional Medical Center welcomed their New Year’s Baby on January 1st at 8:50am. Oddly enough, Uintah Basin Medical Center didn’t welcome their New Year’s Baby until the afternoon of January 4th. Baby girl Kennedy Lee Roberts was born to Morgan and Jazmyn Roberts on Monday at 1:02pm.
As of yesterday, Union High School is the new Uintah Basin site for the free COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Testing. The Utah Department of Health announced that this testing would be available at locations throughout the state and Union High was selected as the best location for northeastern Utah.
It’s official. Todd Massey and Tawnya McKee have been sworn in as the new Uintah School Board members. 8th District Court Judge Clark McClellan performed the ceremony during a special meeting of the Uintah School Board on Monday evening. Tawnya McKee is serving as the board representative over Uintah School Board District #4.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation along with the Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are warning the public of emerging fraud schemes related to the COVID-19 vaccines.
Now that we are in 2021 it is time to start the year off recognizing that the Basin offers some truly amazing things. We are very grateful to all our healthcare workers but we need to point a finger of attention to the Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine team of Uintah Basin Healthcare.
TriCounty Health Department has an upcoming public meeting for the Draft Cosmetology Rule. The state legislature asked the state health board to develop rules to ensure public health for services including barber shops, hair salons, estheticians, electrologists, nail salons, and beauty schools.
Fireworks will light the skies tonight above all 29 counties in Utah as part of the 125th anniversary of statehood. The fireworks shows will happen statewide at approximately 7:30 p.m. on January 4th, following a 30-minute TV special featuring performances from many of the state’s most notable musicians, dancers, and others.
Uintah County is now the proud owners of several snow machines. That statement comes with many follow up questions and Uintah County Commissioner Bart Haslem is eager to catch everyone up to speed on what for now is being called the Buckskin Hills Winter Park.
The TriCounty Health District is reporting the same COVID-19 Transmission Index Levels. Uintah County and Duchesne County remain at the High Transmission Level and Daggett County is in the Low Transmission Level. According to TriCounty Health’s press release on Thursday, this means Uintah County had been in high transmission for 62 days, Duchesne County for 69 days and Daggett County in the low transmission level for 78 days.
Travel publication MatadorNetwork.com has some high praise for the fun to be had in Dinosaurland naming Vernal #15 on the list of ‘25 coolest towns in America to visit in 2021.’ Vernal is the only town in Utah to make the list and is praised as a “basecamp for climbers, river rats, mountain bikers, and backcountry hounds seeking easy access to the goods they’ve spent their lives pursuing.”