Duchesne County News

Bud and Velda Young have been chosen to serve as the grand marshals for Tabiona's Fourth of July celebration.

DUCHESNE COUNTY School District NOTICE OF VACANCY, ROOSEVELT MIDDLE SCHOOL. POSITION AVAILABLE: Full Time 4th Grade Teacher.

Basin residents have become accustomed to the unseasonably wet weather that has plagued the valley for several weeks.

Roosevelt City Animal Shelter Director Kim Farley comforts a puppy being held at the shelter on Friday.

The National Weather Service said partly sunny skies Sunday afternoon will likely be only a brief respite before a new band of wet weather moves into the Wasatch Front later in the day.

An increase in bear sightings in parts of Ashley National Forest has forced the forest service to close the Avintaquin Campground in Duchesne County to some overnight visitors.

Thirty of the 77 poodles rescued last week from an isolated one-room cabin in Tabiona were transported Thursday to the Humane Society of Utah, in hopes they will find homes much better than the feces-ridden one they came from.

The Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY - Authorities have discovered about 75 poodles living in squalid conditions in a Duchesne County home.

Animal rescue workers discovered 75 dogs in the home of a Duchesne County Poodle breeder who died over the weekend.

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.

But help arrived Saturday. ABC 4 viewers adopted two of the dogs. And animal rescue organizations from across Utah pledged to also take some of the dogs.

A Herriman man who authorities say tried to solve his financial problems by setting fire to a sport utility vehicle he owed money on now faces charges.

Duchesne County commissioners have agreed to pay a former public defender $10,000 to settle the sole remaining claim in the woman's lawsuit.

"We're not by any means going to start looking for illegal aliens because we've got plenty of other stuff that's keeping guys busy." - " Sheriff Travis Mitchell, Duchesne County In less than a month a controversial state law will take effect that's intended to crack down on illegal immigrants living in Utah.

Roosevelt City leaders took another step last Tuesday toward determining how much public support exists for the construction of a new municipal swimming pool.

The Duchesne County School Board has whittled away at most of its $1.7 million budget shortfall for the coming fiscal year but must still cut another $188,000 before mid-June. Dee Miles, the school district's business administrator, broke down the potential budget crisis for the board at a four hour meeting Thursday night.

Uintah Basin Medical Center CEO Brad LeBaron applauds as Dr. Keith Evans takes the podium Thursday to acknowledge his induction into the hospital's Hall of Fame.

In a special Carbon County Commission meeting on May 15, commissioners were told that the long ride toward being able to monitor and therefore get to the point of controlling dust in Nine Mile Canyon is getting closer to reality.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar was in Salt Lake City on May 1 to discuss his department's policy changes since President Barack Obama took office in January.

Duchesne County commissioners were asked last Monday for help with a grasshopper abatement plan for 2010.