Lewiston City Council endorses plan to offer community classes
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on Lewiston City Council endorses plan to offer community classesBy Kristi Ottley LEWISTON -- Ballroom dance, sign language, bread making, landscaping, and quilting are a few of the classes residents will have the opportunity to take, with the offering of community classes right in their own city. No longer ...
Federal dollars to buy fire engine equipment for Richmond department
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on Federal dollars to buy fire engine equipment for Richmond departmentBy Rouchelle Brockman RICHMOND -- The city’s firefighters will have something new to smile about this fall. A $21,774 federal grant to enhance the city’s firefighting equipment was announced at the City Council meeting Tuesday. The Federal Wildland Fire Department awarded the ...
Wanted: Historians, media pros for Providence quarry project
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on Wanted: Historians, media pros for Providence quarry projectBy Mitch Figgat PROVIDENCE -- The city's Historical Preservation Commission is looking for historians and media specialists to help produce an educational packet they are preparing for elementary school classes about the Johnson Quarry. The commission plans on presenting the idea for ...
Senator-astronaut tells students: Space travel could eliminate war
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on Senator-astronaut tells students: Space travel could eliminate warStory & Photo by Heidi Hansen LOGAN—Answers to some of the world’s most intractable problems—things like war, poverty and inequality—can be found in outer space, says a former U.S. senator and astronaut who spoke at USU Friday afternoon. The occasion was Constitution ...
School board honors Providence teacher, passes concussion policy
Friday, September 16th, 2011 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on School board honors Providence teacher, passes concussion policyBy Allee Evensen LOGAN -- Standing in front of a sparsely populated room in the Cache County Board of Education building Thursday, Kim Mills sported an ear-to-ear grin as she was presented a Teacher of the Year award. Mills, who is in ...
Providence will seek residents’ input before changing subdivision rules
Friday, September 16th, 2011 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on Providence will seek residents’ input before changing subdivision rulesBy Mitch Figgat PROVIDENCE-- The City Planning Commission will not recommend changing the subdivision ordinance until a public hearing is held to garner public opinion and ascertain future risks. City resident Sean Christianson, a contractor, came before the commission Wednesday night asking ...
Chickens may live in River Heights yards now, roosters still outlawed
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011 Posted in Opinion | 1 Comment »By Lindsay Nemelka RIVER HEIGHTS--A new city ordinance prohibits roosters but allows citizens to keep hen chickens on their property. The City Council passed the ordinance Tuesday to deal with problems concerning chickens within city limits. Keeping chickens was not previously ...
Don’t rezone for landfill, northwest Cache residents tell County Council
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on Don’t rezone for landfill, northwest Cache residents tell County CouncilBy Rachel Kenley LOGAN--The atmosphere was tense Tuesday when the Cache County Council heard public testimony on the proposed rezoning of land in Newton and Clarkston from agricultural to public use, to allow for construction of a landfill on Stink Creek ...
Investigation of Mendon house fire continuing; cause unknown
Monday, September 12th, 2011 Posted in Opinion | 2 Comments »By Storee Powell CacheValleyDaily.com Special to The Hard News Café MENDON—The cause of the fire that left a newly built home in Mendon in ashes Sunday night is still unknown after the Utah State fire marshal’s investigation. “The investigators can tell where the fire ...
Sunday night fire destroys vacant home in Mendon
Monday, September 12th, 2011 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on Sunday night fire destroys vacant home in MendonStory & Photo by Storee Powell Special from CacheValleyDaily.com MENDON—A brand new house in Mendon was a total loss after being engulfed in flames Sunday night. The fire was called in at about 9 p.m. The owners had not yet moved into the ...
USU students play disaster victims, help emergency responders learn
Monday, September 12th, 2011 Posted in Opinion | 1 Comment »Story and photo by April Ashland LOGAN--Logan Regional Hospital hosted a disaster drill Saturday morning, simulating an explosion at an LDS ward house on the southeast side of the hospital. On scene were Logan City Fire Department, Cache County Sheriff's Office, ...
New reporting prof brings real-world standards to the classroom
Sunday, September 11th, 2011 Posted in Opinion | 1 Comment »Story & Photos by Cassidee J. Cline LOGAN—Some see him as a loud, in-your-face, reporter. In fact, Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly called him “an ideologue who’s out to hurt you.” To Matthew LaPlante, this review from the conservative commentator is nothing ...
Ten years later: Everyone remembers where they were on 9/11
Sunday, September 11th, 2011 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on Ten years later: Everyone remembers where they were on 9/11By Heidi Hansen Gruesome video footage that once seemed to play on an endless loop marks its return to cable news this week, stimulating our memories to remind us of that first day we sat transfixed and confused by a screen ...
DUI arrests, license suspensions double in Valley since 2010
Saturday, September 10th, 2011 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on DUI arrests, license suspensions double in Valley since 2010By Todd Hamann LOGAN—Drunken driving hearings in Cache Valley have doubled compared to this same time last year—from 13 in August 2010 to 24 this year—Stephen Bevan, supervisor of the Logan Driver License Division (DLD), said Thursday. Given such an increase, ...
Movie review: ‘The Debt’ is two spy thrillers in one
Saturday, September 10th, 2011 Posted in Opinion | 1 Comment »By Todd Hamann A movie within a movie is the best way to describe this summer’s box office hit The Debt. The movie focuses on the ethics behind truth and heroism, and emphasizes that sometimes it is harder to be the ...
Column: Safety at the deep end of the pool
Saturday, September 10th, 2011 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on Column: Safety at the deep end of the poolBy Cassidee J. Cline One of the most frightening things for any parent surely would be their own child drowning. I’m no parent, but the idea of anyone drowning is enough to put you on edge. Yet there are still parents ...
Explosive! USU student space team wins $5,000 for rocket initiative
Friday, September 9th, 2011 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on Explosive! USU student space team wins $5,000 for rocket initiativeBy Allee Evensen and Rhett Wilkinson PROMONTORY POINT, Utah—Standing in a plume of smoke and dust, members of the Utah State University student launch initiative team were all smiles Thursday as they watched the final leg of their two-semester project explode ...
Wellsville Council passes $3 monthly fee for firefighting equipment
Thursday, September 8th, 2011 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on Wellsville Council passes $3 monthly fee for firefighting equipmentBy Allie Jeppson WELLSVILLE--Residents of Wellsville will now be paying a monthly fee of $3 for the purpose of purchasing new fire equipment. After much deliberation by the City Council Wednesday, the vote was 3-1 in favor of the fee. Cache County ...
Cache school board adopting new policy on sports-related concussions
Thursday, September 8th, 2011 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on Cache school board adopting new policy on sports-related concussionsBy Allee Evensen LOGAN -- Next week, the Cache County Board of Education will vote on a policy that has the potential to change the face of high school sports in the valley. House Bill 204, passed by the Utah Legislature last ...
Pet pot-belly pig gets thumbs up from Richmond planning commission
Wednesday, September 7th, 2011 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on Pet pot-belly pig gets thumbs up from Richmond planning commissionBy Rouchelle Brockman RICHMOND -- Pet pig permits, water and sewer models and private property concerns were discussed at the city's Planning and Zoning Commission meeting Tuesday. Cameron Sparrow, a Richmond resident, asked the commission for permission to keep his 80-pound ...