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Blue Goes Green seeks on-campus student sustainability projects

Sunday, February 3rd, 2013 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off

By Seth Merrill LOGAN—What started as an idea to help on-campus residents become environmentally conscious may soon be a full-fledged project for two Utah State University resident assistants. Rene Hernandez and Wendy Sticht say they’ll try to bring more sustainability projects to ...

What to believe? Confronting crises of faith

Saturday, February 2nd, 2013 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off

By Katie Feinauer LOGAN—Laura Simons is worried. Born into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Simons raised her children in the same religious tradition. But recently two of her kids and one of her sons-in-law have begun to struggle ...

Ammo shortage in valley stores frustrates customers

Friday, February 1st, 2013 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off

Story and photo by Jonathan Larson NORTH LOGAN - For more than two months, the sporting goods department at Walmart has been inundated with calls every morning from customers asking about the latest shipments of firearms and ammunition. To the customers’ ...

To beer or not to beer? Hyde Parkers will vote on that

Friday, February 1st, 2013 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off

By Zach Dau HYDE PARK - Come November, residents of Hyde Park will vote to see if the local Maverick, located at 675 W. Center St., will be allowed to sell beer or not. City Council members passed an ordinance that allowed ...

Aggie TV News—freezing pipes, chili, snowmen, and a new sports show

Friday, February 1st, 2013 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off

By the ATV News Staff LOGAN—This week’s Cache Rendezvous news magazine program on Aggie TV News featuring freezing pipes, a snowman gallery, mystery meat in the College of Ag chili cookoff, and YouTube fame for Utah state and its use of ...

Comedy group to perform in benefit for USU student injured in motorcycle crash

Thursday, January 31st, 2013 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off

LOGAN—Logan Out Loud, Utah’s slightly irreverent comedy troupe, will perform a benefit show Friday for a USU public relations student who was injured in a November motorcycle accident that led to emergency brain surgeries and facial reconstruction. The David Grange benefit ...

Sundance 2013 closes: What a great party!

Wednesday, January 30th, 2013 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off

By Ben Hansen Special to the Hard News Café PARK CITY—As the blizzard blew snow sideways, Sundance 2013 blew out of Park City almost as quickly as it came in. After a whirlwind 10 days that concludes my sixth year of Sundancing, ...

Review: A glimpse inside the ultra-private Orthodox Jewish world

Sunday, January 27th, 2013 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off

By Dani Hayes PARK CITY—Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Hasidic communities have practically been invisible to the world. Rama Burshtein, a Hasidic Jew herself, wanted to give her people a voice and the result is “Fill the Void,” which offers outsiders a look at ...

Cough! County to impose emissions testing, but inversion will remain

Sunday, January 27th, 2013 Posted in Opinion | 1 Comment »

By Curtis Lundstrom LOGAN—With a dense smog covering Cache Valley, many residents are concerned about the health effects of air pollution—the worst air pollution in the United States in recent weeks, according to federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). [caption id="attachment_8803" align="alignright" width="362"] ...

Providence Council says unanimous no to school district’s plans

Saturday, January 26th, 2013 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off

Story and photo by Paul Christiansen PROVIDENCE — Mayor Ronald Liechty was recently informed by Superintendent Steven Norton of Cache County School District’s plans to close Providence Elementary and relocate its students to Spring Creek Middle School. Tuesday the Providence City Council ...

No decision yet by Hyde Park on request to build ‘green home’

Saturday, January 26th, 2013 Posted in Opinion | 1 Comment »

By Zach Dau HYDE PARK - City Council members debated the possibility of approving the first green home in Cache Valley. If approved, this would be the third house in all of Utah to be a green house. Christian and Jennifer Mansfield ...

Review: More like the unnecessary death of a good cast in a bad movie

Thursday, January 24th, 2013 Posted in Opinion | 1 Comment »

By Katie Swain PARK CITY—Fredrik Bond, director of “The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman,” walked onto the Eccles Theater stage at Sundance Film Festival on Tuesday, frazzled and confused, half-eaten apple in hand, admitting he was very hung over. While Bond ...

North Logan parents give school board an earful on new high school

Thursday, January 24th, 2013 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off

Story and photo by Jonathan Larson NORTH LOGAN—As Mike Liechty stood in front of more than 100 parents Wednesday night in the North Park elementary school gym, faces turned from curious to furious. Liechty, deputy superintendent of the Cache County School District, ...

Aggie TV News: Worst air in U.S., Dillard’s closing, guns, dogs & sports

Thursday, January 24th, 2013 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off

By the ATV News Staff LOGAN—In the first newscast of 2013, ATV News reports on: • Dillard’s closes at the Logan Mall. • Local response to possible moves toward gun control, and the Sandy Hook school massacre. • It’s Arts Week at USU, and ...

Sundance 2013: Radcliffe excels in daring, poetic ‘Kill Your Darlings’

Monday, January 21st, 2013 Posted in Opinion | 1 Comment »

By Katie Swain PARK CITY—“Kill Your Darlings,” which premiered Friday at Sundance, follows the true events of poet Allen Ginsberg’s transformation from emotional and sexual repression to the realization of his unorthodox genius and homosexuality—a process that is sparked by a ...

Sundance crowd panics at film premier when fire extinguisher explodes

Saturday, January 19th, 2013 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off

By Katie Swain PARK CITY—An explosion in the Eccles Theater ticketholder’s tent caused mass panic Friday at the Sundance Film Festival premiere of “Kill Your Darlings” Friday. A fire extinguisher was knocked off the wall and burst open on impact, spreading ...

Sundance 2013: ‘Crystal Fairy’ is a trip . . . literally

Saturday, January 19th, 2013 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off

Story & Photo by Ben Hansen Special to Hard News Café PARK CITY—The 2013 Sundance Film Festival opened with a handful of films on Thursday night. Perhaps the most anticipated of the bunch, “Crystal Fairy” promised star power (Michael Cera), an eccentric ...

Advocate-journalists: How suffering in India changed our worldviews

Friday, January 18th, 2013 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off

Story By Dani Hayes Photos by Brian Champagne LOGAN—It was during a photo assignment in India that she felt drawn to something more personal and powerful than traditional journalism. After more than 35 years as a photojournalist for National Geographic and other ...

USU Eastern science prof headed to be Legislature’s ‘father figure’

Friday, January 18th, 2013 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off

By Nathan Manley USU Eastern Eagle Staff Writer PRICE—Many dreams and goals are never achieved in a lifetime. Priorities and responsibility overshadow that which is most wanted. However, being the first Republican representative elected in House District 69 in Carbon County is ...

USU Eastern closes residence hall as enrollment woes continue

Friday, January 18th, 2013 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off

By Seth Richards USU Eastern Eagle News Editor PRICE—Because of a nearly 6 percent drop in enrollment at USU Eastern between fall and spring semesters, there are no longer enough students at the Price campus to justify use of four residence halls. [caption ...

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