- The executive director of the Cortez Cultural Center, Jeff Weinmeister, is moving on to head the Cortez Chamber of Commerce, but will join Center board.
- Environmentalists are hailing Tuesday’s purchase by nature writer Terry Tempest Williams of an energy lease near her home in Grand County, Utah.
The executive director of the Cortez Cultural Center, Jeff Weinmeister, is moving on to head the Cortez Chamber of Commerce, but he is not really leaving the center because he plans to join the board after he takes the reins at the Chamber April 11th. Board Lee Bergman tells KSJD the center will advertise the position next week. Weinmeister is the center’s fifth director in four years. The center has a history of upheavals and financial struggles, but board members are optimistic about its current direction, which includes new programs and a revamp of the gift shop and gallery to emphasize its historical-museum aspect.
Environmentalists are hailing Tuesday’s purchase by nature writer Terry Tempest Williams of an energy lease near her home in Grand County, Utah. A hundred activists protested at the Bureau of Land Management lease auction in Salt Lake City. The Salt Lake Tribune says after one 1200-acre lease did not attract the minimum $2-an-acre bid, Williams bought it at a post-auction sale for $1.50 an acre. An activist who disrupted a 2008 auction with spurious bids was sentenced to federal prison, but the difference is that Williams has the money to pay for her purchase. She says her company Tempest Exploration will manage the lease and the BLM cannot define what “energy” means to her.
