Deseret Industries offers alternative tax deductions
Christmas is over, but there’s still time to give in 2016. Nearly one-third of annual giving is done in December and 12 percent of all giving happens in the last three days of the year, according to...
View ArticleGrantsville City Hall receives clean audit
Grantsville City got another clean audit report with the result for the 2016 fiscal year presented during last Wednesday’s city council meeting. Spencer Hintze from Gilbert & Stewart, CPA, of...
View ArticleMidvalley Highway getting closer to becoming a reality
Just before Christmas, Tooele County closed on the last parcel of property for the first phase of the Midvalley Highway. Tooele County paid $1.8 million for eight parcels of land between Interstate 80...
View ArticleGrantsville Police Chief takes new job in Washington
Grantsville City Police Chief Kevin Turner has accepted a new job as chief at a police department in Washington, according to a news release from Ferndale City. Turner joined the Grantsville City...
View ArticleBenefit Fund brings $5K relief for Andersons
Christmas came a bit early for the Anderson family in Stansbury Park this year. On Friday, Eric and Brenda Anderson, and their son, Sean, had a visit from the Tooele Transcript Bulletin — and Santa...
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Marcellas Willard Lewis
Marcellas Willard Lewis passed away Dec. 25, 2016. He was born Oct. 31,1937, in Spanish Fork to Marcellas and Bliss Lewis. He was the first of five children. He died after a long battle with...
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Douglas R. Smith
Our husband and father, Douglas R. Smith, quietly slipped away from this mortal life on Christmas day into the loving arms of his son, and many family and friends who left this earth before him. He is...
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Benjamin Junior Peasnall
Benjamin Junior Peasnall (Benny) 67 of Grantsville, Utah, passed away in his home in Tooele on Dec. 22, 2016, after a long battle. Benny was born in Tooele Utah on March 27, 1950. As a young man he...
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Shirley Gates
Shirley Gates passed away peacefully Sunday, December 25, 2016, at her home at the age of 88. She was born Sept. 6, 1928, in Salt Lake City to Evan Bennett and Iantha Richards Arthur. Shirley married...
View ArticleTop 10 Stories of 2016 #8: Stockton man faces charges for trying to blow up...
A story that surprised many local citizens in 2016 was the June arrest of a Stockton man by the FBI in connection to a failed bombing attempt of a federally-owned building. William Keebler, 57, was...
View ArticleIn 1991, officials hear proposal for paramedic team
The Tooele Transcript Bulletin has published Tooele County news since 1894. Here is a flashback of local front-page news from 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago that occurred during the fourth week of...
View ArticleTop 10 Stories of 2016 #7: Police make arrest in 2011 murder of Evelynne...
For nearly five years, the Tooele City Police Department worked behind the scenes to solve the murder of Evelynne Derricott. The 69-year-old Tooele resident was found brutally killed inside her home on...
View ArticleTop 10 Stories of 2016 #6: Grantsville football coach arrested for sexual...
In an emotional press conference on Sept. 2, Tooele County School District officials revealed that Grantsville High School’s head football coach had been arrested the previous day in connection with...
View ArticleTop 10 Stories of 2016 #5: Tooele man charged with murder of his mother
Just days after a grass fire destroyed and damaged homes, Tooele City was rocked again, this time by a murder. Marcella Aragon, 66, was found murdered inside her Tooele home the morning of July 22. Her...
View ArticleTop 10 Stories of 2016 #4: Voters say ‘no’ to incorporation proposals, ‘yes’...
The 2016 General Election ballot asked voters in Lake Point and Stansbury Park whether they wanted to incorporate, and voters countywide if the Tooele County three-member commission form of government...
View ArticleTop 10 Stories of 2016 #3: Commissioners approve tax hikes and salary increases
Two Tooele County Commissioners decided 2016 was the year to again raise property taxes — and commission pay, too. Along with their 2017 budget, county commissioners Myron Bateman and Wade Bitner...
View ArticleTop 10 Stories of 2016 #2: Motorsports park sale stopped twice in 2016
Tooele County’s entanglement with the former Miller Motorsports Park continued in 2016. The year started with a judge’s ruling that pulled the plug on the county commission’s deal to sell the racetrack...
View ArticleTop 10 Stories of 2016 #1: July 19 fire devastates neighborhood
The night of July 19, a fast moving grass fire raced through the field south of Van Dyke Way in Tooele City. Firefighters from throughout the county responded to the blaze and battled it through the...
View ArticleSports Wrap – December 29, 2016
Utah Utes football In a game full of turnovers and missed opportunities, Utah beat Indiana 26-24 in the Foster Farms Bowl on Wednesday to finish the season 9-4. Utah kicker Andy Phillips hit a 27-yard...
View ArticleA big news story
The Tooele City neighborhood wildfire on the night of July 19 was, in our opinion, Tooele County’s top news story of 2016. We retold the details of that tragedy in last Thursday’s edition, along with a...
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