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KNEU 1250The Uintah County Commission approved the vacation of a road that intersects Skinwalker Ranch during a November Commission meeting. The Hicken Ranch Road intersects the property that is known throughout the region and beyond for stories of paranormal activity with warnings to stay away heeded by many locals.
Local law enforcement will join many throughout the state at the funeral services for Trooper Eric Ellsworth who will be laid to rest in the Brigham City Cemetery on Wednesday. Trooper Eric Ellsworth was hit by a vehicle near Garland City in northern Utah while he responded to a call of low hanging power lines on November 18th.
More details have been released on the upcoming Uintah County Sheriff’s Office Citizens Police Academy. Two times a year, the academy will offer 12-weeks of classes held once a week for 3 hours.
The 2016 Mothers Against Drunk Driving report to the nation was released this month, ranking Utah high in drunk driving prevention efforts. Utah received a rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars receiving full points for having an all offender interlock law and expedited warrants.
Driving remains the most popular mode of travel for the Thanksgiving holiday with more than 89 percent of holiday travelers choosing road trips over other modes.
The users of the Buckskin Hills Shooting Range in Uintah County did not stand idly by when they received word that the facility had been severely vandalized with graffiti over the weekend. Instead, a group went to work without being asked and steam cleaned, scraped, sanded and painted everything the vandals had tagged.
The countdown has begun for a favorite local event. The annual Community Holly Days Festival is declaring that “It’s a Wonderful Life!” here in the Uintah Basin.
Adding historic bling to downtown Vernal is just the beginning of plans being brewed by the 5th to 5th Revitalization Committee. Working with the Regional History Center, the group helped spruce up downtown this week with enlarged historic photos put on display in existing and, in some cases, vacant store windows.
While Thanksgiving dinner will appease most folks hungry for turkey, it will likely only wet the appetite of the state’s avid turkey hunters.
The Utah Division of Water Resources released its latest update to the state water plan this month and the Uintah Basin is its focus. Over the last 26 years, the state has devised statewide water plans as well as individual plans for each of the state’s 11 major hydrological river basins, of which the Uintah Basin is included.
A Department of the Interior’s announcement last week on new methane regulations will have local impacts, especially in the area around Dinosaur National Monument.
The need to protect livestock paired with a year of a healthy bear population could mean more hunting opportunities in Utah next year. “Over the last three years, the state’s bear population has grown by about 4 percent each year,” shares DWR Wildlife Biologist Rusty Robinson.