Uinta County Herald Legals, February 19, 2025

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INVITATION TO BID – (CRF2025)

The board of Uinta County Commissioners is accepting sealed bids for the price per ton for supplying and delivering of liquid Magnesium Chloride and the use of portable frac tanks (20,000 gallon min capacity) for dust suppression on Uinta County roads for the 2025 year.

Sealed bids will be received at the Uinta County Clerk’s Office 225 9th St. Evanston, Wyoming up until the public opening of the bids at 11:00 a.m. local time, March 12, 2025.  The envelope must be marked as “MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE SEALED BID (CRF2025)”. 

Bid documents can be picked up at the Uinta County Clerk’s office. Primary contact for this project is Saralee Gross, Uinta County Road & Bridge Administrative Assistant (307) 782-3254. Bid prices must be good for the 2025 construction season.  In reviewing the bids received, Uinta County reserves the right to reject, for any reason whatsoever, any and all bids, and to waive any informality or irregularity in a bid.  Uinta County will not be bound to accept the low bid, but rather the bid that is in the best interest of Uinta County.

UINTA COUNTY, WYOMING

PUBLISHED: February 19, 26, 2025    02195

INVITATION TO BID (CM24306)

Notice is hereby given that the Board of Uinta County Commissioners are requesting bids for the 2025 Dust Suppression Project consisting of the following items:

2,272 TONS OF MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE FOR DUST SUPPRESSION

Bid Documents are available from the Uinta County Clerk’s Office within the Uinta County Complex, 225 9th St. Evanston, Wyoming 82930.  Sealed bids will be received at the Uinta County Clerk’s Office 225 9th St. Evanston, Wyoming up until the public opening of the bids at 11:00 a.m. local time, March 12, 2025.  Bids should be marked on the outside “Uinta County Dust Suppression Project CM24306” with the name and address of the bidder.  Primary contact for this project is Saralee Gross, Uinta County Road & Bridge Administrative Assistant (307) 782-3254.

This project is partially funded using Federal Grant Funds.  Therefore, all Federal Requirements associated with the use of these funds must be followed.

The Board of Uinta County Commissioners hereby notifies all bidders that minority business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, sex, creed, or national origin.

Uinta County reserves the right to accept or reject any items or all items, any part or all parts, any section or all sections, any bid or all bids as stated in the specifications to waive any irregularities or informalities, or to re-bid or re-advertise for bids if it is determined to be necessary or desirable and reserve the right to let the bid in any manner it sees fit. Uinta County will not be bound to accept the low bid, but rather the bid that is in the best interest of Uinta County.

UINTA COUNTY, WYOMING

PUBLISHED: February 19, 26, 2025    02196

NOTICE OF ABANDONED PROPERTY

To Dustin Sutton - Under Wyoming Statute 1-21-1210, this is notice of personal property that has been abandoned at a residence located 415 Crane Avenue, Evanston, WY 82930. Please be aware that the statute says “the owner (of the residence] may immediately dispose of any trash or property the owner reasonably believes to be hazardous, perishable or valueless and abandoned.” This is a description of the abandoned property: Personal Property.You have seven days to collect this property OR to notify me in writing that you plan to collect this property.  If you notify me that you plan to collect the property, you will have seven days from the time I receive your notification to collect the property.  If you do not notify me or collect the property before the time is up, the law allows me to keep, sell, throw away, or otherwise dispose of the property. The law allows me to charge you for storing the property and for moving the property to storage.  The property is being stored  415 Crane Avenue, Evanston, WY 82930. Additional information about when and how you can collect your property:  Contact Cindy or Rocky Wasson, P.O. Box 409, Evanston, WY 82931, 307-679-1543

PUBLISHED: February 19, 2025          02192

PUBLIC NOTICE

  1. Pursuant to the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act and the Wyoming Public Service Commission’s (Commission) Rules, notice is hereby given that a public hearing is scheduled regarding Rocky Mountain Power’s (RMP or the Company) request for authority to increase its retail electric service rates by approximately $123.5 million per year or 14.7 percent, to establish an Insurance Cost Adjustment (ICA) rider, to revise the Energy Cost Adjustment Mechanism (ECAM), to approve the Wildfire Mitigation Plan (WMP), and to approve a voluntary Renewable Energy Credit (REC) program. The public hearing is set to commence on Monday, March 10, 2025, at 9:00 a.m., in the Commission’s hearing room located at 2515 Warren Avenue, Suite 300, in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
  2. RMP is a division of PacifiCorp, an Oregon corporation, engaged in the business of supplying electric utility service to customers throughout its six-state service territory, including Wyoming. RMP is a public utility, subject to the Commission’s jurisdiction. Wyo Stat. §§ 37-l-101(a)(vi)(C) and 37-2-112.
  3. On August 2, 2024, RMP filed an Application requesting authority to increase its Wyoming retail electric utility service rates by 14.7 percent, or $123.5 million per annum; establish an ICA rider to recover excess liability insurance premium costs and support a self-insurance mechanism; revise its ECAM to develop separate cost categories and implement a symmetrical sharing band of 85/15 for Category 1 costs and 95/5 for Category 2 costs; implement a WMP; and implement a voluntary REC program. RMP has requested an effective date of June 1, 2025, for all requests except the proposed revisions to the ECAM, which has a requested effective date of January 1, 2025.
  4. Wyoming Industrial Energy Consumers (WIEC) and the Office of the Consumer Advocate (OCA) petitioned to intervene in this matter, which the Commission granted by Order issued on August 26, 2024.
  5. The Commission held virtual Public Comment hearings on October 29, 2024, and January 28, 2025.
  6. This is not a complete description of RMP’s Application. You may review the Application and its supporting testimony and exhibits at the Commission’s office during business hours or online at: https://dms.wyo.gov/external/publicusers.aspx (enter Record No. 17659).
  7. All interested persons are encouraged to attend the public hearing which will be conducted in accordance with the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act, Wyoming Public Service Commission Rules. All interested persons may appear and be heard, in person, by video or telephone conference, or through counsel appearing in person or by video or telephone conference.

Attend Zoom Meeting and actively participate at:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9933449233

Or by dialing: 1 669 900 9128 Meeting ID: 993 344 9233

  1. If you wish to attend the hearing and you require reasonable accommodation for a disability, please contact the Commission at (307) 777-7427 (Voice or TTY) in Cheyenne during regular business hours or write them at 2515 Warren Avenue, Suite 300, Cheyenne, Wyoming 82002, to make arrangements. Communications impaired persons may also contact the Commission by accessing Wyoming Relay (TTY) by dialing 711. Please mention Docket No. 20000-671-ER-24 in all correspondence with the Commission.

Dated: February 11, 2025.

PUBLISHED: February 19, 26, 2025    02193

NOTICE OF INTENT TO SUBDIVIDE

Micheli Ranch, LLC, P.O. Box 15, Fort Bridger, Wyoming 82933 intends to file an application for 1 acre subdivision, in part of the NW ¼   NW ¼ of Section 35, T16N, R115W, in Uinta County, Wyoming. The Subdivision is located 0.9 miles Northwest of the Town of Lyman, Wyoming. The final plat will be presented at the Uinta County Commissioners Meeting at approximately 2:00 p.m. March 04, 2025, at the Commission Meeting Room in the County Courthouse at 225 Ninth Street in Evanston, Wyoming.

PUBLISHED: February 19, 26, 2025 (UES)      01191

PUBLIC NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that Bryan Walker has applied for a Land Use District Change (Zone Change) and Subdivision Permit for certain lands in the NW ¼ NW ¼ Section 35, T16N R115W, 6th P.M., Uinta County Wyoming.  The application would allow a change from the Agricultural/ Resource/ Development (ARD) Land Use District to the Residential (R) Land Use District for the development of a one lot Residential subdivision entitled the B & D Subdivision.

A public hearing on this matter will be held before the Board of Uinta County Commissioners on Tuesday, March 4, 2025, at 2:00 p.m. in the Commission Chambers of the Uinta County Complex, 225 9th St. Evanston, Wyoming.

PUBLISHED: February 19, 26, 2025    01192

PUBLIC NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that the John Lowe and Melody A. Martin Trust has applied for a Land Use District Change (Zone Change) and Subdivision Permit for a parcel in Part of Block 2 and 3 and Vacated Streets and Alleys Carter Addition to Fort Bridger and Lot 3, Block 1, Melody Subdivision and Unplatted Lands E ½ SW ¼, Section 33, T16N, R115W, 6th p.m. Uinta County, Wyoming.  The application would allow a change from the Agricultural/ Resource/ Development (ARD) Land Use District to the Residential (R) Land Use District for the development of a two lot Residential Subdivision. 

A public hearing on this matter will be held before the Uinta County Planning and Zoning Commission on Wednesday, February 26, 2025, at 7:00 p.m. in the Mountain View Town Hall, Mountain View, Wyoming.

PUBLISHED: Feb. 12, 19, 2025            02125

WYOMING DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

CHEYENNE, WYOMING

NOTICE OF ACCEPTANCE OF AND FINAL SETTLEMENT FOR HIGHWAY WORK

Notice is hereby given that the Wyoming Department of Transportation has accepted as completed according to plans, specifications and rules governing the same work performed under that certain contract between the State of Wyoming and Avail Valley Construction-WY, LLC, The Contractor, on Highway Project Number PEG2431 in Lincoln, Sublette, Sweetwater, Teton and Uinta Counties, consisting of salt/sand stockpiling work and the Contractor is entitled to final settlement therefore; that the Director of the Department of Transportation will cause said Contractor to be paid the full amount due him under said contract on March 18, 2025.

The date of the first publication of this Notice is February 5, 2025.

Pam Fredrick

Senior Budget Analyst

Budget Program

Wyoming Department of Transportation

PUBLISHED: Feb. 5, 12, 19, 2025        02053

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT

IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF UINTA, STATE OF WYOMING

In the Matter of the Estate of:            )           Docket No. 2025-CV-000001O

Dora D. Reed, )

      Deceased.  )

NOTICE OF APPLICATION

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on the 6th day of February, 2025, Penny Deanda filed an Application for a Decree Establishing Right and Title to Real Property seeking an establishment in the name of Penny Deanda, Lloyd L. Reed, William Reed, and Robin L. Reed of the decedent’s right, title and interest in and to certain real property located in Uinta County, Wyoming, and more particularly described as follows:

Parts of Lots 7 and 8 in Block 43 of the Union Pacific Railway Company’s First Addition to the Town of Evanston, Uinta County, Wyoming, according to the plat recorded August 21, 1885, in the office of the Uinta County Clerk, being more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at the Northwest comer of said Lot 7, said point being the intersection of the alley in said Block 43 with Fourth Street, running thence in a Southeasterly direction along the alley in said Block a distance of 100 feet; thence at right angles in a Southwesterly direction along a line parallel with and 100 feet distant from Fourth Street, a distance of 93 feet 4 inches; thence at right angles in a Northwesterly direction, a distance of 100 feet to Fourth Street; thence at right angles in a Northeasterly direction along said Fourth Street, a distance of 93 feet 4 inches to the PLACE OF BEGINNING.

TOGETHER WITH water rights, all improvements thereon and appurtenances thereto belonging; and subject to all reservations of record.

SUBJECT, HOWEVER, to all reservations, restrictions, exceptions, easements and rights-of-way of record.

If no objection to the Application has been filed within thirty (30) days of the first date of publication of this Notice, the applicant will request that the Court enter a decree establishing in them all right, title and interest in and to the above described real property.

Penny Deanda

PUBLISHED: February 12 and 19, 2025          02121

WYOMING DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

CHEYENNE, WYOMING

NOTICE OF ACCEPTANCE OF AND FINAL SETTLEMENT FOR HIGHWAY WORK

Notice is hereby given that the Wyoming Department of Transportation has accepted as completed according to plans, specifications and rules governing the same work performed under that certain contract between the State of Wyoming and Reiman Corp., The Contractor, on Highway Project Number B233073 in Lincoln and Uinta Counties, consisting of bridge rehabilitation involving structure, traffic control, guardrail and asphalt paving work and the Contractor is entitled to final settlement therefore; that the Director of the Department of Transportation will cause said Contractor to be paid the full amount due him under said contract on March 25, 2025.

The date of the first publication of this Notice is February 12, 2025.

Pam Fredrick

Senior Budget Analyst

Budget Program

Wyoming Department of Transportation

PUBLISHED: Feb. 12, 19, 26, 2025      02123

PUBLIC NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that Brandon and Lisa Eyre have applied for a Subdivision Permit for Lot 3 of the Breezy Meadows Subdivision located in the N ½  NE ¼ Section 30, T15N R115W, 6th P.M., Uinta County Wyoming, near County Road 260.  The application would allow for the subdivision of Lot 3 into a new two-lot, minor Residential (R) zoned Subdivision. 

A public hearing on this matter will be held before the Uinta County Planning and Zoning Commission on Wednesday, February 26, 2025, at 7:00 p.m. in the Mountain View Town Hall, Mountain View, Wyoming.

PUBLISHED: Feb. 12, 19, 2025            02124

PUBLIC NOTICE

Pursuant to the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act and the Wyoming Public Service Commission’s (Commission) Rules and Regulations, notice is hereby given of the Application of Questar Gas Company d/b/a Enbridge Gas Wyoming (Enbridge or the Company) for approval of the Piceance Development as a Wexpro II property, as more fully described below.

  1. Enbridge is a division of Enbridge, Inc., a Canadian corporation, engaged in the

business of supplying energy services in several states, including Wyoming. Enbridge is a public utility subject to the Commission’s jurisdiction. Wyo. Stat. §§ 37-1-101(a)(vi)(D) and 37-2-112.

  1. On January 24, 2025, Enbridge filed its Application requesting an order approving

the inclusion of the recently acquired properties located within the Piceance Development as a Wexpro II property pursuant to the Wexpro II Agreement. The Commission approved the Wexpro II Agreement in Docket No. 30010-123-GA-12 The Piceance Development is outside the existing Wexpro I Development Drilling Area. The Company seeks authority to include the relevant portions of the Piceance Development within the Wexpro II Agreement and voluntarily offers the remaining portions for inclusion as a Wexpro II property.

  1. Enbridge acquired the Piceance Development at its own risk and pending the

Commission’s decision whether this acquisition should be included as a Wexpro II property under the agreement. If approved, the acquisition and drilling costs will be passed on to customers. The Company contends that approval of the Piceance Development as a Wexpro II property will provide an opportunity for customers to receive lower cost gas for many years. Additionally, the Company states that Wexpro will continue to manage its current production and future drilling programs at or below the 5-Year Forward Curve and to manage combined cost-of-service production from Wexpro I and Wexpro II properties to Dominion at or below the thresholds established in the Canyon Creek Acquisition in Commission Docket No. 30010-145-GA-15.

  1. This is not a complete description of the Application. Any interested person may inspect the Application at the Commission’s offices in Cheyenne, Wyoming or at the Company’s business office in Rock Springs, Wyoming, during regular business hours or at https://drns.wyo.gov/extemal/publicusers.aspx (enter Record No. 17748).
  2. Anyone desiring to file a statement, intervention petition, protest or request for a hearing, in this matter must file with the Commission in writing on or before March 4, 2025. A proposed intervention or request for hearing must set forth the grounds, the position and interest of the petitioner. Please mention Docket No. 30010-232-GA-25 in your communications.
  3. If you wish to participate in this matter, and you require reasonable accommodation for a disability, please contact the Commission at (307) 777-7427 or at 2515 Warren Avenue, Suite 300, Cheyenne, Wyoming 82002. Communications impaired persons may also contact the Commission by accessing Wyoming Relay by dialing 711.

Dated: February 4, 2025.

PUBLISHED: Feb. 12, 19, 2025            02122

FORECLOSURE SALE NOTICE

(For Publication)

WHEREAS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a default in the payment under the terms of a secured and perfected Note has occurred.  The Note is secured by a Mortgage dated April 6, 2023 and recorded on April 6, 2023 at REC # 1138462 Book 2052, Page 257  in the records of Uinta County, Wyoming from Alex Narvel Montoya and Eden Casidy Montoya, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as mortgagee, as nominee for Guaranteed Rate, Inc. for the amount of $258,282.00.  The Mortgage having been assigned to and now in possession of Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC, through an assignment recorded on January 3, 2025 at REC# 1166388 Book 2076, Page 726-726 in the records of Uinta County, Wyoming.

WHEREAS the Mortgage contains a power of sale, which by reason of the default that has occurred, the Mortgagee has declared to become operative, and no suit or proceeding has been instituted to recover the debt secured by the Mortgage, or any part thereof, nor has any suit or proceeding instituted and the same discontinued and:

WHEREAS written Notice of Intent to Foreclose by Sale and Advertisement has been served upon the record owner and party in possession of the mortgaged premises at least ten (10) days prior to commencement of the publication, and the amount due upon the Mortgage at the date of first publication of this notice of sale being the estimated total sum of $277,081.40 which consists of the unpaid principal balance of $256,237.47, plus outstanding charges, attorney fees, costs expected, accruing interest and late charges after the date of first publication of this notice.

WHEREAS this property being foreclosed upon may be subject to other liens and encumbrances that will not be extinguished at the sale and any prospective purchaser should research the status of title before submitting a bid.

NOW, THEREFORE Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC as Mortgagee, will have the Mortgage foreclosed as by law provided by having the mortgaged property sold at public venue by the Sheriff or Deputy Sheriff in and for Uinta County, Wyoming to the highest bidder for cash on February 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM at the front door of the Uinta County Courthouse located at 225 9th Street, Evanston, Wyoming 82930.  For application on the above described amounts secured by the Mortgage, said mortgaged property being described as follows, to wit:

ALL OF LOT 112 OF THE BROOK HOLLOW SUBDIVISION - PHASE 4, BEING LOCATED IN THE CITY OF EVANSTON, UINTA COUNTY, WYOMING, FILED APRIL 18, 1983 AS INSTRUMENT R6336, IN THE OFFICE OF THE UINTA COUNTY CLERK.

With an address of 123 Citation Ln, Evanston, Wyoming 82930.  Together with all improvements thereon situated and all fixtures and appurtenances, thereto.

Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC

Scott D. Toebben, Wyoming State Bar No. 7-5690

Aricyn J. Dall, Wyoming State Bar No: 7-6499

Randall S. Miller & Associates, P.C. - CO

216 16th Street, Suite 1210

Denver, CO 80202

Phone: 720-259-6710

wyoming@rsmalaw.com

PUBLISHED: Jan. 29, Feb. 5, 12, 19, 2024       01292

FORECLOSURE SALE NOTICE

Default in the payment of principal and interest has occurred under the terms of a Promissory Note (the “Note”) dated November 27, 2013, executed and delivered by Lloyd W. Reed and Dora D. Reed (“Mortgagors”) to AMCAP Mortgage LTD. dba Major Mortgage Co., and a real estate Mortgage (the “Mortgage”) of the same date securing the Note, which Mortgage was executed and delivered by said Mortgagors, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Mortgagee, as nominee for AMCAP Mortgage LTD. dba Major Mortgage Co., its successors and assigns, and which Mortgage was recorded on November 27, 2013, at Reception No. R165019, in Book 1005, at Page 149 in the public records in the office of the County Clerk and ex-officio Register of Deeds in and for Uinta County, Wyoming.

The Mortgage was assigned for value as follows:

Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

Assignment dated: June 20, 2024

Assignment recorded: June 20, 2024

Assignment recording information: at Reception No. 1158049, in Book 2068, at Page 357

All in the records of the County Clerk and ex-officio Register of Deeds in and for Uinta County, Wyoming.

The Mortgage contains a power of sale which, by reason of said default, the Mortgagee declares to have become operative, and no suit or proceeding has been instituted at law to recover the debt secured by the Mortgage or any part thereof, nor has any such suit or proceeding been instituted and the same discontinued.

Written notice of intent to foreclose the Mortgage by advertisement and sale has been served upon the record owner and the party in possession of the mortgaged premises at least ten (10) days prior to the commencement of this publication, and the amount due upon the Mortgage as of January 17, 2025 being the total sum of $68,653.73, plus interest, costs expended, late charges, and attorney fees accruing thereafter through the date of sale.

The property being foreclosed upon may be subject to other liens and encumbrances that will not be extinguished at the sale. Any prospective purchaser should research the status of title before submitting a bid.

If the foreclosure sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of his/her/its money paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagee, Mortgagor, Servicer, or their attorneys.

NOW, THEREFORE, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Mortgagee, will have the Mortgage foreclosed by law by causing the mortgaged property to be sold at public venue by the Sheriff or Deputy Sheriff in and for Uinta County, Wyoming to the highest bidder for cash at 10:00 o’clock in the forenoon on February 26, 2025 at the information desk at the Uinta County Courthouse located at 225 9th Street, Evanston, WY 82930, for application to the above-described amounts secured by the Mortgage, said mortgaged property being described as follows:

Part of Lots 7 and 8 in Block 43 of the Union Pacific Railway Company’s First Addition to the Town of Evanston, Uinta County, Wyoming, according to the plat recorded August 21, 1885, in the office of the Uinta County Clerk, being more particularly described as follows:

Beginning at the Northwest corner of said Lot 7, said point being the intersection of the alley in said Block 43 with Fourth Street, running thence in a Southeasterly direction along the alley in said Block a distance of 100 feet; thence at right angles in a Southwesterly direction along a line parallel with and 100 feet distant from Fourth Street, a distance of 93 feet 4 inches; thence at right angles in a Northwesterly direction, a distance of 100 feet to Fourth Street; thence at right angles in a Northeasterly direction along said Fourth Street, a distance of 93 feet 4 inches to the Place of Beginning. 

With an address of 237 4th Street, Evanston, WY 82930 (the undersigned disclaims liability for any error in the address). Together with all improvements thereon situate and all fixtures and appurtenances thereto.

Mortgagee shall have the exclusive right to rescind the foreclosure sale during the redemption period. In the event that the sale is rescinded or vacated for any reason, the successful purchaser shall only be entitled to a refund of his/her/its purchase price and/or statutory interest.

Dated: January 15, 2025         Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

By: Brigham J. Lundberg

Halliday, Watkins & Mann, P.C.

376 East 400 South, Suite 300, Salt Lake City, UT 84111

801-355-2886  |  HWM File # WY21825

PUBLISHED: Jan. 29, Feb. 5, 12, 19, 2025       01291