Local News Hour | October 23, 2026
Local News Hour

Local News Hour | October 23, 2026

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 23, 202648 min
  • Politics

Wasatch County Manager Dustin Grabau recaps this week's council meeting including the acceptance of sheriff's Jared Rigby's offer to go on leave, Park City Mayor Ryan Dickey talks about Thursdya's council meeting, incluidng a dicussion of options for repairing or replacing the Chin Bridge garage and Park City Toastmasters Karen Stone and Gregg Davison preview the ToastX 2026 event happening Saturday.

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Happy Friday, KPCW listeners. I'll tell you what, it's time for your forecast and it's going to be a cooler day today as we're on the back side of a cold front moving through. That's going to keep things a little unsettled as well. So we'll call it mostly cloudy skies as we go throughout today. A chance of a few scattered showers rolling through from time to time. Not going to be a heavy rain event or a washout, but there will be a few scattered showers moving through.

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Good morning. You're listening to the local News Hour. Let's find out what we've got in store for our weather this weekend. Here with a report. We've got Cedric Haynes with the ABC for Weather Center. Happy Friday, KPCW listeners. I'll tell you what, it's time for your forecast and it's going to be a cooler day today as we're on the back side of a cold front moving through. That's going to keep things a little unsettled as well. So we'll call it mostly cloudy skies as we go throughout today. A chance of a few scattered showers rolling through from time to time. Not going to be a heavy rain event or a washout, but there will be a few scattered showers moving through. scattered showers moving through the area. Now you get to areas above about 8,000 feet in the higher elevations and that could be in the form of some snow showers. We could

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pick up about 3-6 inches of snow from the upper cotton woods in places like the high Uintas, but we may see a little rain-snow mix at times in portions of the Wasatch back. Otherwise, as we go throughout tonight, we'll see that scattered shower activity tapering

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