UIPA board OKs Castle Country port project

Brice Wallace 

Officials in Carbon and Emery counties are hoping a new Castle Country Inland Port Project Area will spur companies to put operations there and reverse the flow of young people out of the area.

“Green River’s greatest export, and you can find it riddled in our city minutes, is its children,” Green River Mayor Ren Hatt said before the Utah Inland Port Authority board approved the project area’s creation at a recent meeting. “The median age continues to go up, per census, without there being any real change in population, and so we’re losing more and more of our young people, and the primary reason for that is there is no Please log in to see the rest of this story.