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Monthly SUP meeting focused on pioneer history
James Bevan, past director of the Tooele Pioneer Museum, used visual aids, books and histories to remind meeting attendees of the ancestors who shaped the people of today. photo courtesy of Darrell...
View Article‘The Great Gatsby’: It’s overstuffed — but still you will want more
It doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence when a movie adaptation of a classic novel botches the first — and perhaps most well-known — quote of the whole book. Luckily, “The Great Gatsby” pulls up from...
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Savala Smith
Savala Smith will be graduating from Idaho State University on May 11. She has earned the degree of doctor of education in educational leadership. Savala is the daughter of Gary (Pat) Smith and the...
View ArticleSummer lunch program to begin at end of May
The Tooele County School District has announced its sponsorship of the Summer Food Service Program. Free meals will be made available to all children through age 18 starting on May 28 and running...
View ArticleMan tracked down by police for child porn is sentenced to prison
A Tooele man tracked down by police after a warrant was issued for his arrest from Kane County last fall has been sentenced to prison for possessing child pornography. William Gerald Smith, 49, was...
View ArticleNew study says in-house school custodians a bargain
Parents, staff and teachers from the Tooele County School District packed the district office at a board meeting last January to counter a presentation on outsourcing non-instructional staff. Tuesday...
View Article2013 fire season may get hot if it dries up
Local firefighters are busy preparing for another busy wildfire season, but they hope it will be far less flame-filled than last year. Teresa Rigby, fire information officer for the Bureau of Land...
View ArticleTooele City’s Utah Avenue is one of many streets that will get a fresh, new...
Say good-bye to the pothole-filled minefield on Tooele City’s Utah Avenue. Several road improvement projects, including one on Utah Avenue, make up the majority of the city’s capital projects for the...
View ArticleGrantsville OK’s new recycling program that includes curbside pickup convenience
The numbers are in — Grantsville residents will have curbside recycling starting July 1. More than 70 percent of citizens responded “yes” to the proposed program during an “opt-out” period this...
View ArticleTooele county’s unemployment falls to average
Despite a net loss of jobs, Tooele County’s unemployment rate for March has fallen to the average monthly unemployment rate for the last 23 years. Tooele County’s March 2013 unemployment rate was 5.4...
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Ryan Castagno
Elder Ryan Castagno has been called to serve in the Italy Milan Mission. He will be reporting to the Provo MTC on July 24. He will be speaking on July 14 at 9 a.m. at the stake center located at 115 E....
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Romero/Redington
Ronald and Kim Romero of Stansbury Park are pleased to announce the marriage of their daughter Marissa Romero to Dave Redington, son of LaMonte and Marilyn Redington of Stansbury Park. They will be...
View ArticleMourning Doves are familiar and peculiar
Coming from the family of Columbidae and the Order of Columbiformes, Mourning Doves are members of the dove family and are related to pigeons and the extinct “Dodo bird.” Mourning Doves can be seen...
View Article‘Pacific Rim’ beats its way through bad to be a monstrously fun film
The “Pacific Rim” preview has preceded every movie I’ve been to for the last two months, so I thought I had a pretty good idea of what to expect. Specifically, how bad it would be. How wrong I was....
View ArticleOpen house Monday for treatment plant
A ribbon cutting ceremony and public open house will be held Monday at Tooele City’s wastewater treatment plant, which is hailed by city officials as a model facility and the first of its kind in the...
View ArticleWOW woos typical drivers to test track
Krystal Jensen smiled as she sat in her idling TTRS Audi waiting for her chance to race on the world-class Miller Motorsports Park East track Wednesday afternoon. “It’s my first time,” she said. “My...
View ArticleMiss Tooele County raising money to pass on her crown
If Abigail McNeill can pull it off, she will crown her successor this year. McNeill, who was crowned Miss Tooele County nearly a year ago, is trying to bring back the Tooele County Scholarship Pageant...
View ArticleTEAD colors handed over to new commander
Two years after not being able to correctly pronounce Tooele Army Depot’s name, Col. Christopher Mohan reluctantly passed on the torch of commander of the installation Wednesday. Under the authority of...
View ArticleDCD closes its doors
Exactly 70 years after opening as a chemical depot, the book was officially closed on Deseret Chemical Depot today. In a ceremony filled with nostalgia and reminiscence, DCD’s last commander, Col. Mark...
View ArticleFire destroys 2 homes
A hot and fast fire devoured two Tooele homes Tuesday afternoon amid 90 degree-plus temperatures. The fire started in a garage at 794 W. 700 South at about 3:45 p.m. Assistant Fire Chief Bucky...
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