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Big election year kicks off Friday
Politically, much can be decided by March filing week and local caucus meetings The biggest local election year in the past four years will kick off at 8 a.m. Friday morning with the opening of ...
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Tooele Army Depot employee Joe Nelson works on inspection paperwork for a piece of a smoke grenade Monday afternoon. The depot was designated as a Center of Industrial and Technical Excellence on March 1. The designation is expected to allow it to better compete for government and private-sector projects.<br>- photography / Maegan Burr New designation could spur Army Depot’s business
The Tooele Army Depot has received a new designation from the U.S. Army that will allow it to better compete for government and private-sector projects, according to depot officials. On March 1, t...
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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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Snowpack means lean year for water watchers
by Sarah Miley
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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 ...
Gowans stands in for caucus
by Tim Gillie
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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...
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...
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FILE - In this Tuesday, March 9, 2010 file photo, driver James Sikes talks about his experiences in his Toyota Prius during a news conference held at Toyota of El Cajon in El Cajon, Calif. A law firm for the driver who says his Toyota Prius sped out of control in California doesn't plan to sue the Japanese automaker. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy, File)AP - Investigators with Toyota Motor Corp. and the federal government were unable to make a Toyota Prius speed out of control as its owner said it did on a California freeway, according to a draft memorandum obtained Saturday by The Associated Press that casts doubt on the driver's story.


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A storage shed rests, upside down, against a chain link fence in a parking lot adjacent to Showboat Atlantic City Hotel & Casino where wind gusted up to 60mph earlier in the day during a nor' easter storm Saturday, March 13, 2010 in Atlantic City, N.J. (AP Photo/Sean M. Fitzgerald)AP - Utility crews pushed through fallen trees and windblown debris to reach downed power lines Sunday, working to restore electricity to more than a half-million homes and businesses after strong winds and heavy rain wreaked havoc in parts of the Northeast.


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Christine Mott, 58, cries as she talks about her daughter Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, 31, at her home in Leadville, Colo., on Saturday, March 13, 2010. Paulin-Ramirez was the second American arrested in a plot to kill the Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks over a 2007 sketch depicting the head of the Prophet Muhammad on a dog's body.   (AP Photo/Chris Schneider)AP - Before her daughter disappeared last fall, Christine Mott recalls that the 31-year-old who had been held in connection with an alleged assassination plot announced she had converted to Islam and told her family they'd go to hell if they didn't follow in her steps.


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