Bulletin Board – May 21, 2015
Tooele Senior Center The senior center is for the enjoyment of all seniors 55 and older. New and exciting activities include bridge, pinochle, bingo, exercise program, line dancing, wood carving, Wii...
View ArticleArea junior high students travel the ‘education corridor’
Eighth grade students in Tooele Valley went to college during the last two weeks of school. Clarke N. Johnsen, Grantsville, and Tooele Junior High schools sent their eighth grade students to Tooele...
View ArticleTwin sisters lead Wendover High graduates to next life stage
If the top students in Wendover High School’s class of 2015 shared memories of the school as though they were family, that’s because they are. The 30 WHS graduates were lead across the stage of the...
View ArticleMemorial Day events ready for Monday
Tooele County’s annual Memorial Day activities will return again as residents take time to remember the county’s servicemen and servicewomen. Tooele City will host its Memorial Day service at Veterans...
View ArticleDugway graduates 8 seniors
Dugway High School saw eight graduates transition into adulthood at the school’s Wednesday evening graduation ceremony. The ceremony, which honored the smallest graduating class in the county this...
View ArticleBlue Peak hits national news over missing special needs students in new year...
A change in Blue Peak High School’s yearbook disappointed at least one special needs student and triggered an avalanche of negative national attention for the small alternative high school. For the...
View ArticleStockton looks to add veterans memorial
This time next year, Stockton Mayor Mark Whitney hopes the town will prepare for its Memorial Day ceremony in a new veterans memorial park. A committee of veterans was formed last year to locate,...
View ArticlePRC panel: Prisons are good neighbors
The first of three Utah State Prison relocation open houses for the public was held Wednesday night in Salt Lake City and here is a summary of what attendees were told by a panel: • Prisons don’t lower...
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Exhumed body may be linked to missing man from Colorado
David Stack When Tooele County Sheriff’s Lt. Travis Scharmann attended a conference on cold cases a few years ago, he was reminded of a 35-year-old unsolved homicide near Wendover. A young man, in his...
View ArticleGrantsville sends off 157 graduates
Another year at Grantsville High School ended Wednesday night as 157 seniors crossed the school’s gymnasium stage to receive their diplomas. Principal Mark Ernst presented the 2015 graduating class to...
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After 40 years, my memory of high school graduation has faded
But he at least saved his cap and tassel — and his senior picture, too. Life and death. Beginning and end. Love and sacrifice. Originally this column was meant to run last week. It was high school...
View ArticleUncertain future of Clark Farm cemetery could appear in audit
Grantsville Mayor Brent Marshall said indecision on the future of the Clark Historic Farm property could lead to a finding in the city’s financial audit during a work session meeting on May 20....
View ArticleUTA eyes changes to bus route between Grantsville, Tooele
Changes are coming to the Utah Transit Authority’s F401 bus route between Grantsville and Tooele cities due to low ridership numbers. Ryan Taylor, the coordinated mobility manager for UTA, said a...
View ArticlePolice officer shoots dog after being attacked
A Tooele City Police Officer shot and killed a dog that bit him while responding to a domestic dispute Friday morning. The officer was responding to a home on East Broadway Street after dispatch...
View ArticleLocal cemeteries offer bargains despite some increased prices
Despite rising prices in Grantsville and Stansbury, cemetery burial costs remain low across Tooele County. Burial sites in the county average just under $300 for those who wish to be buried in their...
View ArticleNorth Tooele Fire District wants to pursue ambulance license
About 70 percent of incidents the North Tooele Fire District responds to are medical calls. That’s one reason the agency announced Wednesday it will pursue its ambulance licensure through the state...
View ArticleCensus: Tooele County growth slow, steady from 2010 to 2014
Tooele County is growing — but at a slower pace than a few years ago. Four years after the 2010 census, Tooele County has grown from a population of 58,218 to 61,598. That’s 3,380 new residents, a 5.8...
View ArticleReconstruction of SR-36 set to begin Monday morning
After months of talk and planning, the pair of state road projects called SR-36 Renewed are set to begin next Monday. Commuters will notice new traffic cones going up as two different contractors begin...
View Article‘One down, one to go’ says Marshall about prison sites
The Miller Family’s withdrawal of their property in Tooele Valley for a possible new Utah State Prison may have raised the odds of the facility landing in Grantsville. A 4,224-acre parcel of property...
View ArticleOne Last Ride with Bruce
Family and friends of former Tooele County Commissioner Bruce Clegg take one last ride with him after Clegg’s funeral services were held in Stansbury Park on Tuesday. With his casket carried by a...
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