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Stansbury High School librarian Kim Foss helps students after school in the library on March 3. The school and district are looking at ways to open the library up to the public.<br>- photography / Maegan Burr SHS library to go public?
Stansbury High School staff and school district officials are looking at ways to open the library at the school for community use. Currently people in Stansbury Park and North Tooele County have l...
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An SUV drives down the Mormon Trail Road between Grantsville and Rush Valley Wednesday afternoon. The road is designed to carry light passenger traffic, but increased use by heavy trucks has caused the road to fall into disrepair.<br>- photography / Maegan Burr Gravel trucks taking toll on crumbling Mormon Trail Road
Heavy gravel truck traffic is taking a toll on Mormon Trail Road, leaving county officials to search for a way to fund repairs. The 19-mile road, which runs along the western edge of Tooele Valley...
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Tooele County Health department deputy director Jeff Coombs explains a slide in a presentation to the Tooele County Planning Commission Wednesday night at the conditional use permit meeting for Rocky Mountain Power. The commission denied the power company’s request for a high-voltage transmission line that would run through Tooele County.<br>- photography / Maegan Burr Planning commission says no to RMP route
Power company failed to prove it could mitigate negative impacts of proposed project, according to commissioners The Tooele County Planning Commission has denied Rocky Mountain Power’s applicati...
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Grantsville Elementary School Principal Jeff Wyatt talks to fifth- and sixth-graders at the end of lunch Monday afternoon at Grantsville Junior High School. Wyatt become the new principal of West Elementary as part of a district reshuffling affecting five schools.<br>- photography / Maegan Burr Principals reshuffled at five district schools
Linares says unusual move designed to ease administative transition in upcoming year Five schools will be under new leadership next week after an unusual mid-year reshuffling of principals withi...
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Melting snow feeds into the still-frozen Vernon Creek Reservoir Monday afternoon. Although snowpack levels are running well below average this year, the county’s reservoirs still hold ample water reserves.<br>- photography / Maegan Burr Snowpack means lean year for water watchers
Snowpack in Tooele County continues to be well below average as winter winds down, according to water officials. According to Randy Julander, snow survey supervisor at the Salt Lake office of the ...
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Bev White (left), a former Tooele County House representative, talks about foreign nuclear waste and depleted uranium at the Tooele County Caucus meeting at the state capitol Wednesday night. White praised Gov. Gary Herbert for preventing the nuclear waste from being stored in the county.<br>- photography / Maegan Burr Gowans stands in for caucus
Representative leads discussion on topics from budget cuts to DU A meeting between county leaders and the six state legislators representing the county instead became the Jim Gowans show Wednesd...
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Tooele High School principal assaulted during parent-teacher conferences
by Scott Spjut
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Tooele High School Principal Bill Gochis was assaulted by an angry parent Tuesday night during parent-teacher conferences, according to Lt. Paul Wimmer of the Tooele City Police Department. The co...
Governor Herbert derails DU trains
by Tim Gillie
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DOE agrees to halt shipments until regulators determine if EnergySolutions can safely store material at Clive The last two trains of depleted uranium from the clean up of the U.S. Department of ...
Judge Pitt set to step down after 19 years
by Scott Spjut
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On May 16, Judge William Pitt of the Tooele County Justice Court will turn in his robe after 19 years behind the bench. State law requires justice court judges to retire at the age of 75, although...
School district’s top salaries beat public officials pay
by Tim Gillie
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Tooele County School District’s top 10 salary list reveals that school administrators are the best-paid public sector employees in the county, ahead of Tooele County and Tooele City officials. The...
Dunlavy emphasizes fiscal restraint during State of City
by Tim Gillie
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While the recession has taken a toll on Tooele, the city’s finances remain sound and there are signs of a better future ahead. That was the message Tooele Mayor Patrick Dunlavy shared with the city...
Alleged drunk driver crashes into Tooele apartment complex
by Scott Spjut
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An alleged drunk driver crashed his pickup truck into the Tooele Gateway Apartments Sunday evening, causing structural damage to the building and displacing residents. Thirty-year-old Daryl Bratch...
Lawmakers’ scrap with feds may impact county
by Tim Gillie
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States’ rights bills have ambitious aims but will almost certainly face stiff legal tests Undeterred by the apparent costs of defending a slew of states’ rights legislation, state lawmakers have...
One-day count suggests homelessness rising fast among local families
by Sarah Miley
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by Sarah Miley staff writer The number of homeless people counted during a countywide, one-day homeless count last month was more than double the total counted the year before. This year’s count...
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This undated image courtesy of Fox News shows a photo from a website authorities say was maintained by terror suspect Colleen LaRose. The American woman known as AP - A suburban woman "desperate to do something" to help suffering Muslims has been accused of using the Internet to recruit jihadist fighters and help terrorists overseas, even agreeing to move to Europe to try to kill a Swedish artist, prosecutors said Tuesday.


Tue Mar 09 20:30:24 -0600 2010

FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2009, file photo, Chief Justice John Roberts sits for a new group photograph with other Supreme Court judges at the Supreme Court in Washington. For a short time Thursday, March 4, 2010, Washington buzzed over a rumor reported exclusively by an online gossip Web site with no particular Supreme Court expertise that Chief Justice John Roberts was considering stepping down. He is not resigning, as even the Radar Online site quickly concluded in backing away from its own story. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday the scene at President Barack Obama's first State of the Union address was "very troubling" and that the annual speech to Congress has "degenerated into a political pep rally."


Tue Mar 09 21:09:46 -0600 2010

Laborers hoping to help rebuild the World Trade Center site hold a rally  to urge for quicker action on the project, Tuesday, March 9, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - Hundreds of construction workers raised a rallying cry of "Build it now!" on Tuesday, gathering with elected officials at the World Trade Center site to urge a quick rebuilding of the complex.


Tue Mar 09 20:30:31 -0600 2010