Nov 12, 2009 | The Uintah Basin Standard
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It's back to the drawing board for the Duchesne County School District following the voters' defeat of a $49 million bond-issue proposal to build three new schools.
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Voters reject school district's $49 million bond issue
Duchesne County voters spoke loudly against the school district's $49 million bond-issue proposal to build three new schools, defeating Tuesday's ballot item 58 percent to 42 percent, complete but unofficial results show.
Wide array of items on today's a
Tuesday, Nov. 3, is election day in Duchesne County and across the nation. Voters are reminded to bring government-issued identification to their designated polling places.
Voter registration deadline is a
Residents who are not registered to vote have until 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 19, to sign up to be eligible for the Nov.
The following individuals were arrested and had felony charges filed against them in 8th District Court last week.
Uintah County Library patrons have less than a week left to have their fines forgiven in exchange for donating canned food items.
Bud and Velda Young have been chosen to serve as the grand marshals for Tabiona's Fourth of July celebration.
Roosevelt doggedly pursues shelter a
Roosevelt City Animal Shelter Director Kim Farley comforts a puppy being held at the shelter on Friday.
Humane Society of utah takes in 30 poodles
The Humane Society of Utah has taken in 30 of 77 poodles that were found last week in squalid conditions in a Duchesne County home.
Colton Roberts from Tabiona High School stands by an airplane that he built as a Sterling Scholar project.
Tabiona High holds Dutch oven contest
Students at Tabiona School recently participated in a Dutch oven cook-off. NaDean Lewis, the school's consumer technology education and family consumer science teacher, held the contest at Tabiona in May after one of her students place second in an International Dutch Oven Society contest.
When a Tabiona man died over the weekend, he left behind nearly 80 dogs - most of them poodles - who had been living in what animal workers described as "horrific conditions." Volunteers said there was as much as 12 inches of feces in areas of the remote one-room cabin.
Deceased man discovered to be hoarding poodles
In the process of responding to a medical call at a cabin in Tabiona, authorities discovered an incident involving animal hoarding.
Tabiona High School will graduate nine students on Thursday at 7 p.m. in the school gym.