The economy, taxes, and controlled county spending are a few challenges that the new board of Carbon County commissioners will face in 2012.
During the annual swearing-in ceremony Tuesday morning, held in the Carbon County Courthouse, courtroom one, Republicans Wayne Nothstein and Thomas J. Gerhard were sworn into office for four-year terms. Commissioner Nothstein was accompanied by his wife, who held a Bible; while Commissioner Gerhard was accompanied by his wife and father, who held a Bible, as they took their oaths in front of President Judge Roger N. Nanovic II.