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KNEU 1250A Uintah High School student is in custody after making a threat that he had a firearm on campus. According to the Uintah County Sheriff’s Office, the incident occurred on Monday morning when the student announced to a classroom of fellow students that he was leaving the room and that he had a gun in his backpack.
It was another successful year for Shop With A Cop in Roosevelt over the weekend. Roosevelt City Police Department shared that there were about 75 children who participated this year.
Uintah County Attorney Mark Thomas resigned from public office this week. The Uintah County Attorney’s Office confirmed to NewsTalk KVEL on Thursday that Thomas submitted his letter of resignation to the County on Monday, effective immediately. The Uintah County Attorney’s Office also explained that state law provides continuity in situations like this.
Thanks and appreciation have been extended to Coach Gregg Stensgard by the Uintah School District’s Team Uintah. Stensgard was recently named the 2018 – 2019 4A Coach of the Year by the Utah High School Athletic Association having served as the head wrestling coach at Uintah High School since 1994 as well as working as a teacher of physical education and health at Uintah High School.
The trial is wrapping up for the Moffat County High School teacher and coach who was charged in 2017 with 10 felony counts of Sexual Exploitation of a Child over a sexting relationship with a student that allegedly included sexual images and videos. 36-year-old Justin Folley was teaching high school in Craig and coaching the boys varsity baseball team when he was placed on leave in 2017 from both teaching and coaching.
Roosevelt City has partnered with the National Park Service’s Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance (RTCA) Program and is in the earliest stages of designing a trail close to downtown Roosevelt. The area for the proposed trail is a section of Cottonwood Creek between Lagoon Street and 800 South.
What do you get when the worst kids in the school get selected to represent the best Christmas pageant ever? A night of memories filled with laugh-out-loud moments and Christmas spirit that melts hearts.
Uintah County Library is getting ready to have its event that has become a Uintah Basin holiday tradition 14 years strong. The Oh Fudge! fun is taking place on Saturday, December 8th. There will two different sessions for two different age groups with two different themes. A wonderful double dose of fudge. The first session is for children 12 and under (with an accompanying adult) and will go from 10am to 12pm.
The Roosevelt Junior High School hosted a Career Fair for its students on Wednesday, December 5th. Over six hundred and fifty students were signed up to attend. Students attended sessions based on an interest profile to determine what kind of job would fit their profile, be it social, artistic, conventional, enterprising, investigative, or realistic.
Calling all kids, both boys and girls that are ages 8-13(as of April 1, 2019). The Vernal Elks Lodge 2375 is hosting the National Hoop Shoot Free Throw Contest on Saturday December 8th at the Uintah Recreation Center. This event will go from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. There will be three age brackets for both boys and girls.
Unfortunately, many people in the Basin understand the struggles that come when cancer becomes a part of your life. Recently one of our residents discovered that she would start her battle with breast cancer. Corinne Wilkins Ketterer lives in Duchesne and is a newly single mom of two young kids still living at home. On top of that, she is a nurse.
The runaway juvenile reported missing in Lapoint on Tuesday has been found safe. The Uintah County Sheriff’s Office asked the public on Tuesday night to be on the lookout for a missing 11-year-old that had been last seen in Lapoint around 6:00pm. On Wednesday, it was reported that the child was located and found safe. According to the Uintah County Sheriff’s Office, a tip came in on Wednesday morning and the child was found at a home less than a mile away and had been there for the duration of the search that had lasted about 16 hours. Multiple agencies assisted the Sheriff’s Office in the search through the night and morning until the child was located including Uintah County Search and Rescue, Ute Tribe Search and Rescue, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and even the Classic helicopter that flew over the area in the morning. The search included checking sheds, properties, and anywhere the child could have been. The location where the youth was eventually found had been among the properties searched for over 30 minutes, shares the Sheriff’s Office, and the adults there never indicated that the youth was in the home. After the child was located, Laura Moore and Jared Ekke were both arrested and booked into Uintah County Jail. Significant manpower and resources were utilized in the 16-hour search but in Sgt. Brian Fletcher’s words, “The amount of time spent is well worth it and getting the child home safe is worth it. Still, it clearly could have been resolved much more quickly and wasn’t.” Moore and Ekke were booked for Harboring a Juvenile and Obstruction of Justice.