Golden Spike—USU junior wins regional public relations competition

November 21st, 2009 Posted in News | No Comments »

By Kevin Mouritsen
LOGAN—She’s the best in the state, and Courtney Schoen Lewis has the Golden Spike Award to prove it.
The Utah State University junior from Texas won those bragging rights after being named Utah Public Relations Student of the Year this week at the annual meeting of the Salt Lake-area Public Relations Society of America [...]

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Boise State thunders past Aggies in Romney Stadium rout

November 21st, 2009 Posted in Sports | No Comments »

By Brendon Butler
LOGAN–Friday night the 6th-ranked Boise Broncos ran amok in Utah State University’s Romney Stadium to take an easy 52-21 victory over USU.
The game looked like a live one after Boise QB Kellen Moore’s first touchdown pass was quickly answered by USU’s Michael Smith when he rushed for a 22-yard goal. And just a [...]

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Tweeting? Blogging? New Cache club helps people use social media

November 21st, 2009 Posted in Arts and Life | No Comments »

By Rebecca Hansen
LOGAN–Walking into Club New York, your eyes have to adjust to the almost non-existent light. The only lights illuminating the corridor and snack area are blacklights, making any white surface glow. At the end of the hallway is a cozy room with a small stage where half a dozen people are setting up [...]

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Student pleads guilty to theft of friend’s camera, possession of drug paraphernalia

November 20th, 2009 Posted in News | No Comments »

By Cassidee Cline
LOGAN–A Utah State University student pleaded guilty to charges of theft and possessing drug paraphernalia Wednesday in 1st District Court. Jeremy Jase Torres, 20, admitted to stealing a bike and selling it on KSL.com, stealing a camera from a dorm on campus and possessing drug paraphernalia within 1,000 ft. of USU’s campus.
According to [...]

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Sub for Santa needs more Cache Valley helpers

November 20th, 2009 Posted in News | No Comments »

By Brendon Butler
LOGAN–The non-profit Sub for Santa program hopes to help nearly 1,500 needy children with gifts this Christmas, said director Connie Bodily, but now the program is almost out of sponsors and may have to refer needy children to the back-up Shopko “Sharing Tree” if new sponsors don’t volunteer before Dec. 9.
“We’re nearly right [...]

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Rwandan president honored by USU for rebuilding country after 1994 genocide

November 20th, 2009 Posted in News | No Comments »

By J.P. Rodriguez
LOGAN – Rwanda’s ambassador to the United Nations, Eugene-Richard Gasana, accepted the Presidential Merit Medal on behalf of Rwandan President Paul Kagame at Utah State University yesterday. He addressed an audience of faculty and students at the Taggart Student Center Auditorium about Rwanda’s efforts to recover from the 1994 genocide.
Gasana said the Rwandan [...]

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Search warrant results in arrest of three North Logan residents

November 20th, 2009 Posted in News | No Comments »

By Brendon Butler
LOGAN–Three young North Logan residents woke up Wednesday morning at their home on 395 E. 2700 North to a surprise visit from agents from the Cache-Rich Drug Task Force.
Edward H. Rutan, 22, Felix O. Parda, 19, and Tammy L. Augustus, 21, were asleep when detectives entered the home on a search warrant [...]

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Hyrum adopts NIMS as incident-management policy

November 19th, 2009 Posted in News | No Comments »

By Heidi Hansen
HYRUM—A resolution to adopt the National Incident Management System (NIMS) as Hyrum’s official incident code of conduct was unanimously approved by the City Council Thursday.
Blake Christensen, Hyrum city’s safety officer, who spoke in favor of the resolution, said adopting NIMS would be beneficial to Hyrum because it provides a way for everyone to [...]

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USU’s David Peak named 2009 Carnegie Professor of the Year

November 19th, 2009 Posted in Arts and Life | No Comments »

Aggie physicist ‘infects’ students with love of learning, passion for research
By USU Media Relations
Infect with passion. Decode the arcane. Encourage the unencouraged. Research is teaching.
These are among the “effective professor mantras” Utah State University physicist David Peak mutters to himself each day as he walks about campus.
“My colleagues might believe I’m nuts,” says Peak, who [...]

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An unwatched pot always boils—and sometimes catches fire

November 19th, 2009 Posted in News | No Comments »

By Kelly Greenwood
LOGAN–Someone’s been cooking up a storm—or a fire, for that matter.
Logan City Police and the Logan Fire Department responded to a call today at 11:55 a.m. at 755 E. 700 No. in Logan, where someone had left a pot on a stove, leaving the contents to overcook and smolder, Captain Jeff Curtis [...]

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Paradise council approves money for fire department radios

November 19th, 2009 Posted in News | No Comments »

By Seili Lewis
PARADISE–The fire department is getting ready to give up their old radios and trade them in for new, interoperable 800-megahertz radios.
Fire chief Troy Fredrickson brought a memorandum from Cache County to the mayor at the last Town Council meeting. The council needed to approve the money necessary to match the federal grant [...]

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Noise ordinance finally passed by Paradise council

November 19th, 2009 Posted in News | No Comments »

By Seili Lewis
PARADISE–The votes are in: The new noise ordinance with its alterations and a motion to purchase a sound meter passed on a 3-2 vote.
Town Council members discussed the proposed noise ordinance yet again last night and finally came to a decision to put it in the Paradise codes and ordinances book. Revisions [...]

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Utah State falls to Utah by 1 in final seconds

November 19th, 2009 Posted in Sports | No Comments »

By Dan Fawson
SALT LAKE CITY–Last Friday, Utah State won its basketball season opener despite committing an unusually high number of turnovers. Last night, not so lucky.
A career-high 27 points from senior guard Jared Quayle was not enough to help the Aggies overcome 17 turnovers and poor late-game execution, as they ultimately fell to in-state rival [...]

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H1N1 vaccine for toddlers now available at BRHD

November 18th, 2009 Posted in News | No Comments »

By Kara Kawakami
LOGAN–H1N1 vaccinations are available to children at the Bear River Health Department (BRHD) as well as through school clinics.
On Nov. 17, the health department started vaccinating 6-month through 35-month-olds and will continue to do so until vaccines run out. The vaccines are manufactured specifically for this age group, said Jill [...]

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Preston man sentenced for brandishing weapon

November 18th, 2009 Posted in News | No Comments »

By Benjamin Wood
LOGAN–Wesley Rich, 30, of Preston, Idaho, pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in 1st District Court Monday. The case involved an altercation near ICON Health and Fitness in August.
Rich received a $200 fine and has 60 days to enroll in either a hunter safety course, or a concealed weapons class. Rich was also originally [...]

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Owners of Richmond’s haunted mansion will work with city, try to bring building up to code

November 18th, 2009 Posted in News | No Comments »

By Dan Fawson
RICHMOND–The hotly debated future of the oldest living factory in the state of Utah remained undecided following Tuesday night’s City Council meeting.
Originally a cheese factory, and most recently home to the Haunted Mansion, the 106-year-old building at 130 S. 500 West has long failed to comply with county building codes, thus preventing its [...]

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Lee’s holiday food show lets customers sample foods, go bowling with frozen turkeys

November 17th, 2009 Posted in Business | No Comments »

By Katie Krusi
SMITHFIELD–What do turkey bowling, flying monkeys and heavy handbags have in common? Answer: Lee’s Marketplace Holiday Food Show. The event was filled with free samples, crazy games, and a lot of holiday food ideas.
Store director Pete Krusi said the show has been held for the last three years and has been very successful. [...]

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Hyrum Dam in November: Good season for fishing and quiet

November 17th, 2009 Posted in Sports | No Comments »

Story and photos by Heidi Hansen
HYRUM–Drive seven miles south of Logan with some fishing poles and a lawn chair, and then settle in for a relaxing day on the shore of the Hyrum Reservoir. This is how Jay Hoth, Logan resident and retiree. has been spending his afternoons, at least.
“The fishing is great this season [...]

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Liz Butcher’s Bunches: Thinking ‘outside the jar’ about jams

November 15th, 2009 Posted in Business | No Comments »

By Cassidee Cline
LOGAN–Jam has been the favorite toast and waffle topper for many years. One Logan resident has decided to turn the table on traditional jams by mixing the fruit with more than just sugar.
Liz Butcher has been canning and selling a variety of savory and sweet jams for over a year. Butcher started as a [...]

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Paradise museum holds treasures of Utah’s pioneer past

November 15th, 2009 Posted in Arts and Life | No Comments »

Story and photos by Seili Lewis
PARADISE–One of the first structures that catch the eye as a driver enters the town of Paradise is the old tithing office building, now used to house a museum run by the society of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers (D.U.P.). The building is a beautiful edifice of red brick, [...]

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