Grantsville council OKs watering restrictions
Grantsville residents face new restrictions as to when they can water their lawns after a water conservation ordinance was approved by the Grantsville City Council Wednesday night. The new ordinance...
View ArticleCity council approves fines for repeated false fire alarms
Tooele City businesses and homeowners can now be fined for repeated false fire alarms. The city council passed an ordinance Wednesday night enacting Tooele City Code Chapter 3-7 regarding nuisance...
View ArticlePlat amendment clears way for charter school to plan for growth
The Tooele County Planning Commission gave its approval to a plat amendment that will clear the way for Excelsior Academy to purchase a five-acre lot for school expansion. Property owners in the area...
View ArticleHot Soup-Warm Hearts event to help local families thru art
Kirkland Nielson initially took a hand pottery class at Tooele High School to get a graduation credit out of the way. Now a senior at THS, he fell in love with creating three dimensional art pieces...
View ArticleIn light of growth, does Grantsville have an identity crisis?
Whether Grantsville is a rural community or suburban bedroom community was a topic of debate during a joint meeting between the city’s council and planning commission Wednesday night. Members of both...
View ArticleSubstance abuse by local teens still on decline
In 2009 the Tooele County School District launched a media campaign called “Most Don’t,” aimed at letting people know that most local students don’t use alcohol. With the results of a recent survey of...
View ArticleRegistry helps residents avoid fines for using stoves on no-burn days
With the temperature inversion season nearing and the smog it brings, few people are exempt from state penalties for burning solid fuels during mandatory no-burn days. The Utah Department of Air...
View ArticleVoter turnout was up for election 2017
Voter turnout in last week’s municipal election was both up and down. The voter turnout rate in 2017 exceeded the turnout rate for mayoral elections in Grantsville and Tooele in 2013. In Stansbury...
View ArticleNew president for Tooele Technical College announced
Tooele Technical College has a new leader. The Board of Trustees for the Utah System of Technical Colleges announced Thursday the selection of Paul Hacking to serve as the president of Tooele Technical...
View Article‘Superstar’
The latest Utah Student Health and Risk Prevention Survey of sixth- through 12th-graders in the Tooele County School District brings encouraging news. As reported in Thursday’s edition under the...
View ArticleIssuing respirators
We pick up the paper and read about pollution. We have elections and all the politicians talk about growth. The planning commission and politicians we elect are issuing building permits for houses 30...
View ArticleRunners to gather on Thanksgiving to collect food and burn calories
While most families will be preparing the turkey and all its fixings Thursday morning, many Tooele Valley families will be running in the 5th annual Side Dish Sprint. Runners will gather Thursday at 8...
View ArticleDonations and nominations being accepted for annual benefit fund drive
The 40th annual Tooele Transcript Bulletin Christmas Benefit Fund is now accepting nominations and donations. Each nomination should include a description of the person’s or family’s challenges, as...
View ArticleRV catches fire on 500 North in Tooele
A dog perished in a recreation vehicle fire on 500 North in Tooele on Monday morning. The driver of the RV was heading southbound on Main Street when he noticed something was wrong with the vehicle,...
View ArticleHeavy traffic expected on Utah roads for holiday
Thanksgiving travelers should plan to leave early Tuesday and Wednesday if they want to avoid the heaviest holiday traffic, according to the Utah Department of Transportation. Traffic is expected to be...
View ArticleGrantsville cracks down on commercial handbills
Grantsville City is cracking down on unwanted mailings, including the mailers arriving in green bags every week at residents’ homes, after the city council approved a new ordinance on commercial...
View ArticleSchool board ‘not a big fan’ of city’s RDA
The Tooele County School District may be a hard sell when it comes to deferring property tax revenue from a proposed retail center in Tooele City. The Tooele County School Board had a discussion about...
View ArticleNew president chosen for Tooele Tech
Tooele Technical College has a new leader. The Board of Trustees for the Utah System of Technical Colleges announced Thursday the selection of Paul Hacking to serve as the president of Tooele Technical...
View ArticleAfter life-changing accident, Hinton appears on stage in ‘The Nutcracker’
Propelling his wheelchair on stage, Josh Hinton performed in the First Act of “The Nutcracker” ballet on Friday and Saturday at Stansbury High School. “It was more of an acting role than a dancing...
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