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First day of school carries over our highest hopes
Today is the first day of school for thousands of kids across Tooele County, and that brings up a timeless mixture of emotions. Students are worried about moving up a grade, or perhaps entering a ...
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Gravel trucks: An accident waiting to be prevented
It’s a scene that plays out almost every day on SR-36: A double-trailer truck laden with tons of gravel comes barreling down the roadway towards a distant yellow light. A driver going the opposite...
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Robbery prompts vigilance in prescription drug fight
Last week’s robbery of the Tooele Walgreens would have been frightening enough were it an isolated incident. After all, a pharmacist being held up at gunpoint for methadone, police officers facing...
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County fair abides to fulfill our sense of community
To many newcomers, particularly those from larger urban areas outside of Utah, the idea of a county fair may seem like something from a bygone era — a quaint sort of event from a simpler time immo...
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Property owners should take fight to grasshoppers
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Last year’s grasshopper invasion was of almost biblical proportions. Vegetation in some rural areas was nibbled into nonexistence, and even in urban areas like Overlake homes were coated in swarms....
EnergySolutions made right decision about foreign waste
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It was reported in last Thursday’s edition of the Transcript-Bulletin that EnergySolutions has given up plans to import foreign nuclear waste and dispose of it at the company’s Clive disposal fac...
County made a timely play in power line appeal
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It’s been the burning question around town in recent weeks: Would Tooele County go to court to fight Rocky Mountain Power’s plan to string massive transmission lines along Tooele’s southeast benche...
We should all live life in style of Maxine Grimm
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Maxine Grimm was the honorary marshal in Tooele’s Fourth of July parade on Saturday, but she’s probably worthy of having a parade put on just in her honor. As chronicled in a profile in last Thursd...