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Rose Springs Elementary first-grade teacher Kristi Harms hands out tissues to clean off wipe boards while her class practices writing their names Tuesday morning. Rose Springs was one of 22 schools that made adequate yearly progress under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. East, Settlement Canyon and West elementaries, and Tooele Junior High, did not meet AYP requirements.<br>- photography / Maegan Burr Schools holding steady on NCLB
As in 2009, four fail to make adequate yearly progress
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Si Sarmienta, Piotr Runge, Sean Smith and Bailey Hewitt (l-r) warm up with their coach Chuck Smith before the first game of the season at England Acres Park in Tooele Wednesday. The park is the location of the city’s newest water well.<br>- photography / Maegan Burr Tooele expands water resources
New England Acres well adds more capacity for thirsty city
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Stansbury High School teacher Erica Hatch instructs an 11th grade English class Thursday morning. Hatch, a freshmen and junior English teacher, was recently hired because of the influx in freshmen at the school.<br>- photography / Maegan Burr Schools enrollment up again
Stansbury and Grantsville high schools log biggest initial increases
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Grantsville Junior High School algebra teacher Denise Bunyard goes over class rules by playing a game Tuesday morning with her third-period algebra class. Bunyard has been a teacher for 31 years, 19 of those in the Tooele County School District.<br>- photography / Maegan Burr Back to school, teacher-style
Three teachers at various stages of their careers share their hopes and concerns for the school year ahead
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District to emphasize instruction over testing
Standardized testing in the Tooele County School District involves plenty of alphabet soup, with CRT , DRA , DIBELS , UBSCT , UTIPS , IOWA , UALPA , NAEP , U- PASS , and NCLB all on the ...
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Man shot near Tooele library
A shooting on Vine Street in the early hours of Thursday morning left one man seriously injured in what police are calling an attempted murder. Neighbors overheard yelling from an argument near th...
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Tooele City puts legal breaks on power line project
by Sarah Miley
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Tooele City has temporarily blocked Rocky Mountain Power’s high-voltage power line project by getting a temporary restraining order against Tooele County. The restraining order, granted by 3rd Dis...
Crime drops 10 percent countywide
by Lisa Christensen
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Crime in Tooele County dropped 10 percent last year, according to the Crime in Utah 2009 preliminary report compiled by the Utah Department of Public Safety. The drop followed two consecutive years...
Family caught in immigration Catch-22
by Sarah Miley
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Yesterday was Mia Noerenberg’s first birthday — and perhaps the last she’ll celebrate in the country of her birth. Mia’s parents, Benny, 31, and Bianca, 26, moved from Berlin, Germany to Erda two ...
District gets federal grant for hands-on history teaching
by Tim Gillie
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The Tooele County School District has received $499,998 from the U.S. Department of Education’s Teaching American History grant program. A total of 124 grants were awarded to schools in 40 distric...
County’s new aging services director banks on longevity
by Sarah Miley
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Tooele County Aging and Adult Services has a new director. Joshua Maher has replaced Butch Dymock, who resigned following allegations he slapped a kitchen worker in June at the Tooele Senior Citiz...
Broadway redevelopment remains stalled
by Tim Gillie
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Developer and city say moving forward isn’t possible until economy improves
Stansbury Park boy dies in strangulation accident
by Lisa Christensen
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An 8-year-old Stansbury Park boy died Sunday evening in a strangulation accident at his home. Jacob McClatchy went up to his room to change his clothes before playing outside shortly before 6 p.m....
Despite turnover, Tooele retail space in high demand
by Tim Gillie
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Leasing agents say despite a weak economy, commercial space in Tooele remains in high demand, with a market defined by decreasing rates yet relatively high occupancy. At Tooele Tower Center, home ...
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AP - An offshore oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, west of the site of the April blast that caused the massive oil spill.
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Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio hands out trading cards of himself to people gathered at the Arizona Republican headquarters to watch primary election results Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)AP - The U.S. Justice Department sued Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Thursday, saying the Arizona lawman refused for more than a year to turn over records in an investigation into allegations his department discriminates against Hispanics.


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Sherwin-Williams paint store assistant manager Emily Venable takes precautions and duct-tapes the store windows as Hurricane Earl approaches the Outer Banks city of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.(AFP/Paul J. Richards)AP - Hurricane Earl packed winds near 140 mph as it blew toward North Carolina on Thursday, putting the Eastern Seaboard up to Maine on alert for a Labor Day weekend pounding by waves, gales and rain.


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