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A Family of the Land: The Texas Photography of Guy Gillette
“A Family of the Land: The Texas Photography of Guy Gillette” by Andy Wilkinson (University of Oklahoma Press, $29.95) Reviewed by Larry Cox Nothing can capture a time and a place quite like a...
View ArticleThe snow’s/feet slip
As a writer and reader, there’s hardly anything I enjoy more than coming upon fresh new ways of describing things, and here’s a sparkling way of looking at an avalanche, by Marty Walsh, who lives in...
View ArticleWeek of November 17, 2014
• On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivers what will become one of the most famous speeches in American history at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Using just 272 words, Lincoln articulated the...
View ArticleDiscuss your diabetes with your provider
I will be blessed to celebrate 50 years of living with diabetes and on insulin on Tuesday, Dec. 2. I invite friends to come celebrate that evening with me at the Stockton Miners Cafe from 5-7 p.m....
View ArticleHow disappointing
I completely agree with Mr. Rouska (Students Deserve Recognition) about equal recognition for all three county high schools. I was very disappointed with the lack of coverage for GHS football. Four of...
View ArticleDon’t sell out
It’s easy to forget that all of Tooele Valley was once at the bottom of Lake Bonneville. When the ancient lake was at its greatest depth some 20,000 years ago, waves lapped near the mouth of Settlement...
View ArticleRunner crosses US to raise funds for Navy SEALS Foundation
There are bucket lists, and then there is Christina Lee’s bucket list. The 23-year-old spent the last four days of October running across Tooele County. She covered nearly a full 26.2-mile marathon...
View ArticleHickory Grill brings back down-home barbecue to Grantsville
A few months after Grantsville lost its barbecue restaurant, the smokers in the same building are running again, with a new eatery aiming to provide down-home cooking. Jim Hoover remembers growing up...
View ArticleProgram hopes for holiday charity to help homeless get back on their feet
Volunteers with a new community coalition are banking on holiday spirits to boost their efforts to start a new program to lift the less fortunate in Tooele County out of homelessness. Family Promise,...
View ArticleHospital earns top honor as one of the best in US
Patients who come to Mountain West Medical Center for surgery or to be treated for pneumonia receive some of the best care in the nation, according to the top U.S. accreditor of health care...
View ArticlePermit OK’d for new gun shop with indoor range
A Wasatch Front chain of firearm and ammunition stores has been granted a permit to open a shop in Tooele. Get Some Guns and Ammo was granted a conditional use permit at the Tooele City Council meeting...
View ArticleCountry Explosion seeks more money for next year
Backers of July’s four-day country music festival at Deseret Peak Complex have asked the Tooele County Commission for more tourism tax money for a concert in 2015. The agenda for tonight’s county...
View ArticleTrailer park residents worried about losing their community
Residents of a tight-knit trailer park community are worried about the future now that their park has been bought by a developer. Saddleback Partners, L.L.C. purchased the S&W Trailer Park in Lake...
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Rebecca Harding Wickham
Rebecca Harding Wickham (Becky) was born March 12, 1924 to Josiah Frank Harding and Maime Taylor Harding in Magna, Utah. She passed peacefully with her husband at her side November 17, 2014 after a...
View ArticleGHS to stage popular, opera-based, rock ‘n’ roll musical
Coined originally as the “The Timeless Love Story,” Aida first premiered as an opera in Egypt and, centuries later, as an award-winning Broadway musical modernized by Elton John. Grantsville High...
View ArticleTooele council sets conditions for Green Meadows annexation
Tooele City is set to grow 38 acres larger with the city council’s unanimous approval of the Green Meadows annexation agreement. The city council has voted twice in favor of the annexation located at...
View ArticleTooele High students to display art and serve hot soup for local families in...
The Tooele High School commons area will turn into an art gallery that serves hot soup on Friday night. Artwork by THS pottery, photography and art students and faculty will be displayed while students...
View ArticleRunning club aims for donated food at Thanksgiving sprint
The Tooele Running Club will gather early Thanksgiving morning for its second annual Side Dish Sprint in an all-out effort to collect 1,000 pounds of food for the Tooele County Food Bank. Winners of...
View ArticleGrantsville man gets sentenced for having sex with teenage girl
A Grantsville man has been sentenced to a partially suspended jail sentence for having inappropriate sex with a teenage girl. Daniel Evans, 36, was sentenced Tuesday in 3rd District Court to three...
View ArticleNominations accepted for annual Benefit Fund
Nominations are being accepted for the annual Tooele Transcript Bulletin Christmas Benefit Fund. Each nomination should include a thorough description of the hardships the person or family is facing,...
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