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The Uintah County Republican Party 2023 organizing convention was held on Thursday evening. Retiring Chairman Brian Gorum gave an emotional presentation encouraging party members to get involved in fighting against the degradation of party values, attacks on the constitution, and trends moving away from the Constitution and family values. Outgoing Vice Chair Marianne Spainhower, Secretary […]
What are Community Standards and how are Community Standards governed? Court rulings regarding Community Standards do exist and generally determine whether an act resides with or against the average person’s moral judgment on decency within a community. The topic of Community Standards is at the heart of the opposition brought forward by a group of […]
Uintah School District celebrated employees and their service at their end of the year banquet Thursday evening at the Uintah Conference Center. Retirees were recognized and those with over 20 years of service included Shary Hill, Kaleen Millecam, Alisa Thacker, and Dirk Collett. Employees that reached 20, 25, 30, and 31+ Years of Service benchmarks […]
Utah’s nonfarm payroll employment for March 2023 increased an estimated 2.7% across the past 12 months, with the state’s economy adding a cumulative 44,100 jobs since March 2022. Utah employment currently stands at 1,705,400. Daggett County employment reported at 332. Duchesne County employment reported at 8,354 and Uintah County employment reported at 13,968. “During the […]
The Ute Indian Tribe has again filed a federal lawsuit against a Tridell farmer over water rights. In 2015, the Ute Indian Tribe brought a suit before the Ute Tribal Court against Greg McKee, a non-tribal member who the Tribe alleged was unlawfully using water from Deep Creek Canal. On August 3rd, 2015, the Ute […]
Crowds gather every year to literally feel the majesty of stampeding horses in western Colorado as part of the Great American Horse Drive taking place this weekend. The unbelievable event is put on each year by Sombrero Ranches where cowboys and cowgirls work for a week rounding up all the horses from the ranch’s vast […]
A program for 17- and 18-year-old high school students has returned to the USU Uintah Basin Vernal Campus and the application deadline has been extended for interested candidates. The Utah Conservation Corps has partnered with USU Uintah Basin to re-launch the Youth Conservation Corps program during which students work with local public land managers over […]
Daniel Mauchley, the director of the Duchesne County Library System, recently reported on the opening of the new Roosevelt Branch Library. The move upgraded services from a 4,300-square-foot building to a 16,700-square-foot library on one level that increased their collection space by 50 percent. Mauchley said that the design was influenced by Uintah County Library’s […]
This Saturday locals will gather for a scholarship concert and dinner in remembrance of a young lady gone too soon. Lauryn Reynolds passed away in December 27th, 2022 when she was only 20 years old. Lauryn was adopted at 2 years old, along with her twin brother Levi, from their birth country Haiti by Brett […]
Some Wyoming lawmakers have responded to a situation in which a Rock Springs couple is suing Sweetwater County School District No. 1 after learning that allegedly the District actively and without their knowledge helped their daughter socially transition to a boy. Cowboy State Daily published an article on Wednesday stating that Wyoming Senator Dan Dockstader […]
Vernal City Council approved on Wednesday evening an Interlocal Agreement for Municipal Legal Services. City Manager Quinn Bennion shares that the concept is the sharing of a municipal attorney with other local entities to save on costs and to increase availability of legal counsel. The Interlocal Agreement for Municipal Legal Services states that it is […]
Even with snow still in place, work has begun on the East Fork Emergency Watershed Protection project in Duchesne County that aims to address issues caused by the 2020 East Fork Fire burn scar. The Natural Resources Conservation Service has awarded funding for the project as part of the federal Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) program. […]