News last week that Grantsville City will finally pass its senior citizens center over to Tooele County was welcome -- albeit long in coming. Grantsville officials say they don't have the funds to expand and renovate the center, which has become cram ...

by Ann HerronGUEST COLUMNISTIt is part of your American freedoms to express your feelings how you best see fit. You can make public statements -- or draw a public memorial to a friend -- as long as those actions do not interfere with the law or the f ...

by Corey GruaGUEST COLUMNISTAre charter schools a good idea, or a dangerous boondoggle? Recently, an editorial appeared in our newspaper supporting a charter school for our valley [see "Charter school will help boost educational diversity," April 22] ...

See that arid hillside covered in sagebrush? Looks pretty ordinary, doesn't it? Now try seeing it through the eyes of a developer. Voila! An 18-hole golf course, McMansions with RV parking garages, equestrian trails, fishing ponds, spouting fountains ...

by Julynn TanakaGUEST COLUMNISTThis summer, I will have lived in Grantsville 30 years. Because one of the things I most love about Grantsville is the country atmosphere, I have chosen to live on Deseret Circle, a quiet street both close to the city c ...

by Ann HerronGUEST COLUMNISTLet's all call the Utah State Board of Education officials and beg them to approve the proposed Excelsior Academy. It could be Tooele County's first charter school. The proposed academy would educate students in kinde ...

It was reported in last Thursday's edition of the Transcript-Bulletin that Tooele City's celebration of Cinco de Mayo this year has been canceled because people just aren't interested. The celebration that was funded by donations from local busi ...

The movement to create a charter school in the Tooele Valley cleared another hurdle yesterday when the Utah Charter School Board recommended the project for approval. The proposal now goes on to the Utah State Board of Education for final approval ne ...

by Mark KourisGUEST COLUMNISTI was angered and offended by an April 18 article that ran in the Salt Lake Tribune that baselessly alleged the Tooele County Courthouse was a "less desirable location among judges." Nothing could be further from the trut ...

by Ann HerronGUEST COLUMNISTLots of times citizens don't think about public affairs until something happens that they really do not like. Then they complain. The major point of concern here is in Grantsville, where the city planning commission r ...

by Ann HerronGUEST COLUMNISTIt might just be too much of a good thing at the Tooele City Library. The new building, all 19,500 square feet of it, houses about 60,014 books, magazines, CDs and other items. More than 380 people a day go to the lib ...

For most of us, Stansbury is not a place that invokes visions of stallions running wild and free. Then again, Tooele makes few people imagine migrating herds of buffalo. Still, both nicknames continue in a proud American tradition of schools looking ...

by Clark LarsenGUEST COLUMNISTHome ownership is the American dream. There are few things in life quite as rewarding as owning your own home with your own yard, living room, kitchen and bedrooms. It can be your own little piece of heaven where many ch ...

Although many people have contributed to Utah State University's rise in Tooele from a small extension service to a full-fledged regional campus, few have been more instrumental in recent years in directing that growth than Kathleen Robinson. Ro ...

by Ann HerronGUEST COLUMNISTIn a few days, I am going to work with a group of Boy Scouts on their communications merit badge. If you don't know about scouting, merit badges are a recognition that a Scout has learned about a particular topic, done a v ...

by Kari Scribner GUEST COLUMNIST Holly Corporation, in partnership with Sinclair Oil, have proposed the Utah Nevada Pipeline, or UNEV, which will run through Tooele and Tooele County to transport gas, diesel and jet fuel to Southern Utah, and more ...

by Clark Larsen GUEST COLUMNIST As a new resident of Tooele City, I enjoyed the opportunity to meet with a few of my neighbors and discuss issues important to us and our community during our neighborhood caucus meeting last week. State ...

The bad news is Tooele County remains the pollution capitol of Utah -- a place famous for not only creating its own waste but cheerfully accepting the waste of others. The good news is less pollution was generated in the county in 2006 than 2005, con ...

An article in last Thursday's paper reported on the recent closures of several restaurants over the past year. But had we gone back several years further, it's likely the trend would still have held up. New Tooele Valley restaurants failing after onl ...

by Ann HerronGUEST COLUMNISTLeatherby's Family Creamery, Scrappily Ever After and Jo-to-Go Deli are all local stores that have closed recently, due ultimately to lack of customers. And these are only the business closures I personally can think of th ...