Appeal reveals price of water rights for Tooele developers
Water rights can cost Tooele City developers upwards of $15,000 per lot, but the city rarely charges the full fee, according to documents collected as evidence from an appeal that took place earlier...
View Article2014 Stansbury High Serling Scholars
Fourteen seniors represented Stansbury High School in the 53rd annual Wasatch Front Sterling Scholar competition. The program publicly recognizes high school seniors from 68 high schools along the...
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Fight leads to killing of SHS student
A Stansbury High School senior was killed in a fight early Saturday morning, sending a school — and a community — reeling in shock. Jesse Horowitz, 17, of Stansbury Park, had attended a midnight fight...
View ArticleSteam engine will make short stop in Stockton
One of the largest steam locomotives ever built is scheduled to make a rare, brief stop in Stockton this Friday. The Big Boy No. 4014 was one of 25 large steam engines built exclusively for the Union...
View ArticleThere is much to explore in the high bench east of Stansbury Park
In Tooele Valley, we are blessed to have mountains and undeveloped bench lands near every community that are a nice place to recreate and shed the everyday burdens of life. We often take these places...
View ArticleElvis made his first movie when I was born
This column is for those in the 55-85 year-old demographic. At 57, I’m the oldest in the newsroom here at the Transcript-Bulletin. I’m more than twice the age of our two superb young reporters who...
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Ronald Eugene Hewett
Ronald E. Hewett, age 66, passed away from cancer on April 29, 2014. He departed this earth peacefully in his home, surrounded by his loving family. He was born September 13, 1947, the third child of...
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Barbara Ann Barnes Gillespie
1924 – 2014 Barbara Ann Barnes Gillespie, 89, passed away peacefully in her home in Green Valley, California April 27, 2014. She was born October 22, 1924, in Salt Lake City to Herbert James and Eva...
View ArticleThe family of Leslie B. Chadwick
The family of Leslie B. Chadwick would like to thank all who expressed their love and sympathy to us during our time of heartache and loss. We want to especially thank Dr. Charles Holt and his entire...
View ArticleCounty told to use PILT for municipal costs
A crowd of taxpayers have told Tooele County Commissioners to keep their hands off federal money that has been historically directed to the county’s municipal services fund. Furthermore, the crowd that...
View ArticleProject started to expand city cemetery’s size
The Tooele City Cemetery will soon have more room than ever before for residents who wish to stay “forever and forever in Tooele.” The city has begun work to retrofit a previously vacant field in the...
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Beach charged in Horowitz murder
Larry Gene Beach The man accused of killing a Stansbury High School student last weekend has been charged with murder. Roy Gene Coffey Larry Beach, a 20-year-old San Antonio, Texas, man, was charged...
View ArticleCounty to add 100,000 people by 2050
Look out. Here they come. In 2010 the US Census put Tooele County’s population at 58,218. In about 35 years from now, state planners expect that number to hit nearly 160,000. That’s an additional 1.6...
View ArticleTooele man facing criminal charges for sexual abuse
A Tooele man is facing criminal charges after allegedly telling police he sexually abused a 2-year-old boy. According to a police report, an officer from the Tooele City Police Department went to a...
View ArticleTooele couple that robbed local bank ordered to federal prison
A Tooele City couple who robbed the local branch of Wells Fargo a year ago with their children in the getaway car have each been sentenced to federal prison. William Parker, 28, and Michelle Parker,...
View ArticleSalt Lake man dies in crash near Wendover
A Salt Lake City man died after crashing his car near Wendover early Saturday morning. Abraham Majok, 34, was found dead in his black 2001 Chevrolet Malibu at about 6 a.m. Saturday, according to the...
View ArticleCounty’s environmetally friendly recycling sort line may be for sale
Despite its ongoing desire to adopt environmentally-friendly practices, Tooele County officials will discuss plans to sell and outsource the county landfill’s limited in-house recycling operation. The...
View ArticleArea victim advocates honored for fight against sexual assault
Cheri Parish and Lynne Smith have worked together so much they can literally finish each other’s sentences. It’s only fitting, then, that the two gladiators in the fight against sexual violence in...
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Transcript welcomes new community news editor
Tavin Stucki Tavin Stucki is the new community news editor for the Tooele Transcript-Bulletin. He took over the position from Richard Briggs, who left the Transcript on April 17 to take a job with a...
View ArticleNew economic development initiative may pull community together
It may be nothing more than some ideas on paper for now, but Tooele County’s economic future may be in the hands of a more united effort between local entities. A group of over 50 local business,...
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