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KNEU 1250The road construction season isn’t quite over. Skyview Excavation and Grading Inc. is spreading the word that Mountain Home Road will be closed starting on Monday, October 11th, and running through Friday, November 19th. Travelers are asked to please follow all detour signs.
As of Thursday, October 7th, TriCounty Health Department reported 7,672 total COVID-19 cases in the tri-county area to date, an increase of 55 new cases from the day before. According to Thursday’s data, there are currently 1,037 active cases which is down from last week, ending the multi-week upward trend and hopefully starting a new trend that will keep heading down.
Halloween time at the Uintah County Library is also a celebration of a world famous wizard. "Have you noticed a parliament of owls gathering outside your window, strange figures transforming right before your eyes, or maybe even the whispers of a snake?
Dominion Energy announced on Tuesday the sale of Questar Pipelines to Southwest Gas Holdings Inc. The all cash transaction is valued at $1.975 billion dollars and the sale is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2021. "We are pleased with the result of our sale process for these high-quality assets,” shares Dominion Chairman, President, and CEO Robert M. Blue.
Area leaders are making a final push to get locals involved in the redistricting process currently underway that has the potential to really hurt representation of the Uintah Basin. Among them is Senator Ron Winterton who is strongly urging citizens of the Uintah Basin to attend the final redistricting public hearing for our area that is taking place tomorrow morning at the Uintah Conference Center.
Vernal is now home to an elite amateur hockey team with its premier season kicking off this month. The Vernal Oilers will participate in the Western States Hockey League playing teams in the western United States and Canada. As of Wednesday, the Oilers roster included 13 players coming from as far as Moscow, Russia and Fairbanks, Alaska to as close as Colorado and Vernal.
Ashley National Forest has plans for fall prescribed burning on the Duchesne-Roosevelt Ranger District but when will depend on weather and fuel conditions. “Prescribed fires only occur when a specific set of conditions are met,” explains Ashley National Forest.
Its national Fire Prevention Week and Uintah County Fire Marshal Jeremy Raymond is spreading the word. This year’s theme is ‘Learn the Sounds of Fire Safety’ but what does that mean? Raymond explains: when you hear the smoke alarm going off what do you do?
A fatal auto pedestrian crash took place early Wednesday morning near Duchesne.
A fossilized marine reptile found on the shore of Flaming Gorge Reservoir in May will soon be on display at the Utah Field House of Natural History museum in Vernal. Alan Dailey, a boater from Hooper, Utah first spotted the fossil and decided to send pictures of it to state paleontologists while leaving it where he found it.
Technology made possible an informative presentation at the Vernal Chamber luncheon on Tuesday as members of the Legislative Redistricting Committee remotely joined the group of local business owners.
It is the final week for the public to officially submit input on the Vernal Downtown Plan, a process that has compiled the community’s hopes and ideas for downtown Vernal. Grants were obtained a year ago to work on the downtown concepts and a public process ensued.