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History of the Transcript partly written by past editors
I’ve always been fascinated by history. Not so much in the scholarly sense of trying to untangle the genealogy of the House of Windsor from the House of Wettin, but more in the sense of standing a...
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Transcript puts shy elf on rocky road to becoming a writer
About eight or nine years ago, when I first began playing the flute, I joined the Tooele Junior Marching Band. On the first day we were informed that the band would, after our last parade, spend a...
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Power lines charged with much more than electricity
These days as I drive around, I always notice something I never paid much attention to before: power lines. When I got this job, I never knew it would lead me to being versed in high-voltage trans...
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Flipping through old photos creates movie of a lifetime
Over the last few weeks, I’ve gone through at least a thousand photographs from my youth. Some evoked laughter in the memory of the moment, others a few tears — such as my maternal grandfather, wh...
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Work world reminds me what I should have learned in college
One of the more arbitrary graduation requirements at Utah State University is to pass a barrage of computer literacy tests. The idea is to have incoming freshmen take them first thing, but most st...
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Rebellion, fireworks light up Fourth of July memories
Hot-dogs, hamburgers, picnics, hot weather, swimming, parades, fireworks and patriotic music — these are the things that combine to make up Fourth of July memories. There probably is no other holi...
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After nearly three decades, I’ve finally seen a play
by Jake Gordon
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I am a person who likes to learn as much as possible in life in just about any area. I like to learn about other cultures and even spent two years serving an LDS mission in Venezuela and learned pl...
Don’t get the World Cup? Relax, there’s still hope for you yet
by Jeff Barrus
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Devoted readers of the “Out and About” franchise will know that this is the space wherein Transcript staffers are given unbridled license to discuss their personal lives, often in painstaking detai...
Life lists, like dreams, should be revised every so often
by Sarah Miley
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A few weeks ago a letter came in the mail to my parent’s home with the return address of my AP English teacher from when I was a senior in high school. I recognized the chicken-scratch handwriting ...
Cheering at Superbikes for the man from the Land Down Under
by Mark Watson
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Unfortunately, I’m starting to realize I’m about to reach the senior citizen stage in life when you start getting discount prices on food and receive other perks. I realized how ancient I am as I...
The secret art of liking meetings
by Tim Gillie
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Perhaps I have stumbled across a second career that is more suitable to me than I had thought. I like writing and I enjoy going to meetings. The writing part is obvious and journalists, at least ...
Road trip follies make best memories
by Jake Gordon
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Summer starts at different times for different people. For students it is that last day of school, but for me summer starts as soon as the last high school sporting event ends, which is this week. ...
Is the golden age of books drawing to an end?
by Jeff Barrus
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I took my son to see “Iron Man 2” over the weekend and afterward, curious about how faithful the film had been, we dug into a box of my old comic books in the basement of our home. I fished out a y...
Ag beat comes with a different set of characters
by Sarah Miley
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I’m not much of a farm gal. Before working at the Transcript-Bulletin, I hadn’t ever really known real-life farmers and ranchers. When I was growing up, people told me I lived on a farm — thanks t...
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