Johnson County Year-in-Review 2022: July-September

Today we look back at Johnson County’s top stories during the last year as we focus on July through September of 2022.

A man who attended a Buffalo City Council in July was arrested after the meeting in front of City Hall for his behavior and transported to the Criminal Justice Center to be processed.

Joshua Waits became agitated during the meeting, the conversation moved outside and escalated to the point that he was finally arrested.

Waits was later charged with Breach of Peace and Interference With a Peace Officer.

Former Buffalo City Attorney Dennis Kirven was sworn in as the city’s new attorney at a city council meeting in August.

Dennis Kirven was appointed to take the place of former city attorney Ben Kirven, who resigned that position to accept appointment by Governor Mark Gordon to be the new judge for the Fourth District Court.

The driver of a semi tractor-trailer was killed in a wreck on Highway 16 West of Buffalo in August.

Javier Cardoso-Reyes, 47, of Katy, Texas was driving the tractor-trailer down Highway 16 in Mosier Gulch and was unable to slow the truck and trailer down, and failed to negotiate a turn just past the runaway truck catch system.

The tractor-trailer rolled, tipped over the guardrail and continued down a rocky embankment into the bottom of Mosier Gulch coming to rest near Clear Creek.

Cardoso-Reyes was pronounced dead at the scene.

A 3,000-acre fire in Johnson County began on Sunday, August 21 off of Tipperary Road southeast of Buffalo.

The fire was burning in sagebrush and grass on lands owned by the Christians, Hepps, the Bureau of Land Management, and some state and federal lands.

The TW Fire southeast of Buffalo was listed as 100% contained, controlled, and out as August 25.

The Buffalo Chamber of Commerce hired Pam Day as the new membership coordinator over the summer.

Day said the chamber board continues to move forward with developing partnerships and keeping communication open with the Johnson County Tourism Association and JO CO First.

And those are the top stories in Johnson County from July through September of 2022.

We will have the top stories for the next few months tomorrow.