June budget debates prompt public input on community needs
A Utah community reflects on June as budget time for Uintah School District and Vernal City. Citizens are urged to engage with school board members and city councilmen to weigh services versus taxes, and to reflect on recent bond proposals for a hospital, schools, and an indoor pool. The piece stresses rising costs from inflation and technology, and the importance of timely planning.
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Uintah
Vernal City
Tridell Lapoint water project goes to voters
Tridell and Lapoint residents will vote in a special bond election on two proposals to fund a $1.138 million water system. Revenue bonds up to 250000 and general obligation bonds up to 150000 may be issued, with 49 year terms and up to 6 percent interest. Polls open 7 am to 7 pm at the Devon McKee residence and Lapoint School.
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Tridell-Lapoint
Tridell
Lapoint
TridelLspoint
Tridel
Devon McKee
Uintah Basin Junior Livestock Show Sells 4 Days of Judging
About 95 steers 80 lambs and 80 pigs are consigned for sale at the Uintah Basin Junior Livestock Show and Sale this week. Dr Ed Oscarson says the four day event features separate judging with events starting today fitting and showing from 12730 to 430 pm Junior judging 330 to 6 pm Friday fat animal judging 9 am to 3 pm Awards banquet 730 pm Friday Junior High School cafeteria Sale day Saturday 10 am until sold Highest bidders buy the best grade animals at Uintah County fairgrounds sale chart.
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Uintah Basin
Ed Oscarson
Vernal Area Chamber of Commerce
Oscarson
Chamber Agriculture Committee
Uintah County Fairgrounds
White River Dam Hearing Set Near Vernal
A public hearing to assess the White River dam project will be held near Vernal on Thursday June 9 at 9 a.m. Sponsored by the Utah Division of Water Resources, the hearing covers feasibility for a dam and 118000 acre foot reservoir to serve oil shale needs and Ute agricultural lands. Written statements are accepted until one week after the hearing.
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White River
Bonanza
Utah Division of Water Resources
Uintah County
Vernal
Core
Division of Water Resources
State Capitol Building
Salt Lake City
Daniel F. Lawrence
Seer
Stolen pickup rammed patrol car during Utah chase
A 1973 GMC pickup stolen from Midvale led to a highway chase near Myton Utah. Trooper Brent Boren and Officer Corliss Reed pursued at high speed as the suspect Wayne George Perry Jr of Rutland Virginia rammed a patrol car, causing damage and injuries. Perry is jailed on auto theft and evading an officer charges and faces an aggravated assault count.
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Jay Sorensen
Roosevelt
SPD
Brent Boren
Gusher
Trailways
Boren
Heed
Reed
Ft. Duchesne
Safeway
Midvale
Othe
Perry
Utah
Water use applications flood Uintah County office
Ninety nine applications to appropriate water were filed with the State Engineer in Uintah County over the past six weeks. Of these 27 were from the Bureau of Land Management for unnamed washes, while 72 came from individuals for small wells to irrigate gardens. Drilling requires Utah Division of Water Rights approval and all applications are advertised for three weeks. protests must be filed in Salt Lake City. Water well firms report booming business due to drought.
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Uintah County
Bureau of Land Management
Utah Division of Water Rights
Vernal State Engineer's Office
Salt Lake City
Pension checks rise in Ginlah County after July 1
Local residents receiving Social Security will see July 1 increases. Department figures show approximately 44 000 more receipts in the remaining half of 1977 and about 168 000 over the next 12 months, with nationwide shifts noted in SSI and general Social Security benefits.
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Ginlah County
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Pew
Sidothey
United States
Treasury Department
Nintth County
Tiggal
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