Tabiona News

Labrum, Harrison lose primary races Geoff Liesik 01.JUL.08 Duchesne County voters failed to turn out in significant numbers during last Tuesday's primaries and it cost Roosevelt's David R. Labrum a chance to ...

Animal district's future uncertain Preston McConkie 27.MAY.08 The Duchesne County Animal Control District, now nearly 9 months old, may soon exist mostly in name or fade away completely now that Duchesne County ...

“Maybe I was wrong for sending him to the paper”

State to investigate teacher's conduct Preston McConkie 06.MAY.08 Tabiona English teacher Glenda Norviel, who said a student's status as a rape victim disqualified her to object to a school assignment, will be ... via The Uintah Basin Standard

“I still think they should go further and fire her”

A state commission has decided to investigate a Duchesne County teacher over allegations she reacted inappropriately to a student rape victim. via Salt Lake Tribune

“That's usually what I do with things like this with licensed professional teachers, if I think they're serious enough”

A certified teacher and a substitute teacher assigned to upper grades at the rural Tabiona School have been reprimanded for saying a teenage rape victim should not object to profane material in a reading ... via Deseret Morning News

“The girl is not an innocent . . . If she has just had a baby six weeks ago, is reading the f-word going to cause her emotional trauma for the rest of her life?”

A Duchesne County mother says her daughter's rape should have nothing to do with her request to pull a popular book out of a Tabiona school classroom. via Salt Lake Tribune

“I've instructed them if they encounter something, in reading or movies we watch, they should learn to skirt by those things without letting it ruin their day or do any negative things to them”

"Sometimes we don't know where we need to improve until something like this happens," Duchesne County Schools Superintendent John Aland said last week. via The Uintah Basin Standard

“Even as we speak we anticipate it will not need to be this drastic”

Duchesne County commissioners and more than 50 members of the public listen to Dick Timothy, one of about two dozen people who spoke during a Thursday night meeting on a proposal to increase property taxes. via The Uintah Basin Standard

“We took some time to go through some different scenarios and details, and by the time you take into account all the other factors, there would be no payoff from consolidation”

No benefit to combining schools Lacey McMurry 25.DEC.07 DUCHESNE CONDUCTS STUDY Despite disparities in operating costs between public schools in Duchesne County, an annual financial analysis conducted by ... via The Uintah Basin Standard

“There is one grazing plan that takes into account the health of the rangeland and the biodiversity, the plant and animal resources, the wildlife and the livestock”

The grandchildren of a Duchesne County sheep rancher have created a legacy that will forever protect the land he began acquiring in the early 1900s. via Deseret Morning News

“The sub-dividers offered much more - we had signed agreements in hand”

Roosevelt's Allan Smith stands in front of the property that has been in his family for three generation. via The Uintah Basin Standard