Wasatch County Health Department

Midway Boosters announced Saturday they will cancel Swiss Days this year. The club's announcement on its website said their decision was due to COVID-19 and came "under direction of the Wasatch Health Department." Swiss Days has been an annual tradition in Midway since the 1940's.  According to the state tourism website, visitutah.com, the festival is the second-largest in Utah after Pioneer Day, and 100,000 people come to Midway every September for the event.  The festival began as a harvest celebration, then turned…

The new order issued by the Wasatch County Health Department follows the Governor's directive issued Friday that state parks be open to residents outside of the county. While the health department has opened the state parks, they are not encouraging travelers to come into the county. Park playground equipment is closed but public lands are otherwise available for residents to use for recreation. The order also encourages residents to wear masks when they do leave their homes and go someplace such as the store where they…