Emery County News

At first blush, the proposal to build a nuclear power plant on the Green River was a cockamamie concoction that ignored Utah's shrinking water resources, sensitive vegetation and wildlife, and the state's grieveous experience with radioactive uranium, waste storage and weapons testing.

To the valued customers of the Sun Advocate and Emery County Progress : Early Tuesday morning a number of our advertising customers started receiving calls from a woman named Melissa that claimed she was a representative of the Sun Advocate and Emery County Progress and told them that they owed money for their ads.

Emery County voters went to the polls on Nov. 3 to decide a number of mayoral and city council races.

Peter Simon Sharp, DOB 11-1-1982, appeared on Oct. 27 in the Seventh District Court before Judge George M. Harmond in his initial appearance.

The loss of two of our Emery County residents this week, William and Charmaine Sharp has been very tragic.

The Emery County Commissioners met in their regularly scheduled meeting with the absence of Commissioner Jeff Horrocks due to illness.

When we think of domestic violence, we often think of it as someone else's problem.

The Emery County Attorney's Office has filed an information in the Seventh District Court charging Kaylene Pearson, Huntington, with misuse of public money, a third degree felony, and forgery, a third degree felony.

Still Fighting the Power Katharine Biele's article "Power Mad: How Sen. Bob Bennett Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Nuclear Power Plants" [Oct. 8, City Weekly] contains an important factual error.

When a pickup truck overturned on a central Utah road years ago, the accident caused brain damage to the man accused of murdering his parents this week, an uncle said.

A controversial bill that could change how sex education is taught in schools was abruptly pulled from the Utah State Legislature's Health and Human Services Interim Committee on Wednesday, but that did not stall the debate.

A man and a woman were shot dead in their home Wednesday morning and their adult son has been taken into custody, the Emery County Sheriff's Office said.

The Republican Party of Emery County recently hosted their fall breakfast at the senior center in Castle Dale.

Perkie Travel of Active Re-Entry, transports anyone from Emery County, Carbon County, and East Carbon, everyday five times a week who needs transportation to the cancer treatment centers.

Utah health officials say three people with swine flu have died in the last week.

The Emery County School District has made the decision to close Cleveland Elementary School until Monday Oct.

An elementary school in Emery County will be closed for the remainder of the week.

An Emery County school will close for the rest of this week after about half of its students called in sick Tuesday, many with flulike symptoms.

The Olsen Ranch has a long and colorful history in Emery County. Before taking the Emery County Historical Society to the Olsen Ranch, Henning Olsen of Price, stopped by the place where the old Olsen home is standing, where Art Olsen and Henning Olsen were raised by their father Delon and mother Argene in Castle Dale.

The new nursing home construction started mid-August and is progressing nicely. The windows are in and the building is enclosed.