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UTAH – What would $28 million buy for the people of Uintah County? Fire trucks, flood control and road construction projects for starters. Ditto for Duchesne County residents, and throw in a community center, baseball fields and sewer lines. Utah’s Permanent Community Impact Board has dedicated public funds to support these much-needed projects, but in recent years the board has taken a wrong turn. It’s handed over nearly $28 million in public money to the Seven County Infrastructure Coalition in hopes of ramming an 88-mile railroad through these rural counties and significantly increasing fossil-fuel extraction in the Uinta Basin. Now that wrong…

UTAH – The Utah track & field team wrapped up its first indoor track event in nearly a year on a banked track Saturday at the Aggie Invitational with Brooke Manson leading the way while three other Utes recorded personal besets inside Gilliam Indoor Track Stadium. “Overall, just very proud of this group,” head coach Kyle Kepler said. “They are the first in our program to compete in almost 11 months. I think they set a great tone, not only in how they competed but the way they approached competing again in this new environment and in a building none of them have…