Popular Pumpkin Walk returns to gristmill after 1-year hiatus
After a year of scraping together scarce resources and volunteers, the Benson Gristmill is set to restore a popular Stansbury tradition this weekend. The gristmill’s abrupt closure in 2013 canceled...
View ArticleChoir hopes to find past participants for 30-year anniversary of ‘Messiah’
It’s a holiday refrain familiar to many local musicians: Come join the Messiah chorus and give a gift to the community. This year, however, organizers behind the community choir that puts on Handel’s...
View ArticleSchool board candidates answer questions
There are three positions on the Tooele County School Board that are up for election this fall. In two seats, the candidates are unopposed. Carol Jensen, who has served on the school board since 2006,...
View ArticleDeer hunters head for the hills Saturday
More than 3,000 hunters are expected to head for local hills this Saturday for the 2014 General Deer Hunt and the chance of taking a buck has improved, according to wildlife officials. In the last few...
View ArticleLiason helps homeless students excel
In her first week on the job, Christy Johnson headed to the domestic violence shelter in Tooele County where she found a young mother with three children. As the new homeless liaison for the Tooele...
View ArticleScammer using sheriff deputy dupe
Tooele County Sheriff’s deputies warn that if anyone gets a call from them demanding money, it’s a scam. Over the last couple of weeks, the office has had more than a half dozen reports from county...
View ArticleTooele beefs up nuisance statutes
The Tooele City Council has approved a revamped nuisance abatement ordinance aimed at making the mayor’s call to “clean up the community” easier on both the city and the public. The ordinance does not...
View ArticleCounty off list for new prison
Tooele County is off the list of potential Utah State Prison relocation sites. Last week the state legislature’s prison relocation commission dropped the two undisclosed sites that they were...
View ArticleStansbury residents told to boil their water
The Tooele County Health Department is testing samples from Stansbury Park’s public water system to determine if bacterial contamination detected earlier this week is still present. The Stansbury Park...
View ArticleBoil water order lifted for all Stansbury Park residents
A boil order issued for the Stansbury Park culinary water system has been lifted after lab tests confirmed that coliform contamination detected earlier this week is no longer present. Myron Bateman,...
View ArticleTooele man arrested for alleged sexual abuse of a child
A Tooele man has been arrested and charged for allegedly exposing himself and inappropriately touching a neighbor’s young daughter. According to a probable cause report, the 48-year-old man, whose name...
View ArticleLack of water rights threatens to leave proposed residential area high and dry
Although the Green Meadows annexation proposal has generated enthusiastic responses from the Tooele City Council, a question of water rights acquisition could keep the plan from moving forward. The...
View ArticleTooele County Commission candidates answer key questions
With no incumbents in the race for Tooele County Commission, two new commissioners selected by voters in November’s general election will be seated on the three-member board of county commissioners in...
View ArticleCowboy Express delivers petition
The Grass March Cowboy Express rode into Washington, D.C., last week and delivered a satchel full of petitions to Congress. Included in the group of protesting cowboys was Tooele County Commissioner...
View ArticleMan cited for running mom’s car into a home
An 18-year-old Grantsville man was cited and released after allegedly driving drunk into a home early Thursday morning. Lt. Steve Barrett of the Grantsville City Police Department said Ray Lewis took...
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Radio journalist to moderate debate
Dan Bammes, KUER radio A public radio journalist will moderate a debate this Thursday that features candidates for Tooele County Commission and Tooele County Sheriff. Dan Bammes, reporter and host of...
View ArticleGrantsville moves forward to annex business park
Deseret Peak Complex could soon be within Grantsville City’s limits. A petition to annex roughly 3,200 acres east of Grantsville’s current city limits, including Deseret Peak Complex and Miller...
View ArticleHarmless boxelder bugs infest area
Tooele City’s friendly red-and-black beetle residents have been a little too friendly this year, but experts say pesticides aren’t likely to solve the problem. Boxelder bugs have built up in large...
View ArticleUDOT makes new plans for Tooele City’s Main Street
The gears of a long-planned $25.5 million redesign for Tooele City’s Main Street are finally in motion. Surveyors for the Utah Department of Transportation have descended on Main Street to gather data...
View ArticleStudents can use smart phones in class
Instead of covertly using smart phones to text, tweet and make posts to social media, students in Katy Challis’ science class use their cell phones to do research and perform “app labs.” After a short...
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