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Soccer registration starts Saturday in Providence, River Heights

February 1st, 2013 Posted in Arts and Life, Sports |

Story and photo by Paul Christiansen PROVIDENCE—Each spring the South Cache Soccer League facilitates a recreational soccer program for youth of the southern part of the valley. Representatives of SCSL travel to each competing township for registration days where individuals can register and pay fees to join the program. The playing season is scheduled to […]

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

February 1st, 2013 Posted in Opinion |

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 … wait for it … Canvas! But first, ATVNews airs the first edition of […]

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Dave Grohl’s ‘Sound City’ rock-doc commemorates famed music studio

February 1st, 2013 Posted in Arts and Life |

Story & Photos by Ben Hansen Special to The Hard News Café “We are on a mission. We wanted to make something that will inspire kids to go to a yard sale and buy a crappy old guitar. Start a band with your friend, you do it in your garage … you sound like crap […]

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

January 31st, 2013 Posted in Opinion |

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 starts at 7 p.m. Friday in the Taggart Student Center Ballroom at USU. Tickets […]

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Sundance 2013 closes: What a great party!

January 30th, 2013 Posted in Opinion |

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, I’ve come to grips with the fact that there is no way I […]

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

January 27th, 2013 Posted in Opinion |

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 the strictly conservative and secluded life she chooses to live. “For me, it was […]

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Quadside concert series will continue this semester with local talent

January 27th, 2013 Posted in Arts and Life |

By Manda Perkins LOGAN—Aggie Radio and the Quadside Café will continue their Quadside Concert Series this semester, kicking off the string of performances on Thursday with local musician Riley Holgate. The half-hour sets, at 7 p.m. on the second and fourth Thursdays of each month, are designed to be a place for student musicians to promote their […]

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

January 27th, 2013 Posted in Opinion |

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). Specifically, much of northern Utah is buried under smoggy inversions that hold particulate matter (PM 2.5) in […]

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Providence Council says unanimous no to school district’s plans

January 26th, 2013 Posted in Opinion |

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 unanimously approved a resolution asking the Cache County School District to reconsider its […]

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

January 26th, 2013 Posted in Opinion |

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 want to build at 183 E. Center St. in Hyde Park. The Mansfields […]

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Paradise Valley Orchards will offer vegetables this season

January 26th, 2013 Posted in Business |

By Dawn Otterby PARADISE — Preparing for his third harvest season, Paradise Valley Orchard owner Lorin Harrison says the orchard is ready to expand. In addition to producing apples, eggs and apple cider, this summer the U-pick orchard will begin producing vegetables. Located south of Paradise, Utah, the orchard currently has nearly 250 apple trees […]

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

January 24th, 2013 Posted in Opinion |

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 was unable to answer several of the audience’s questions concerning his movie, he did […]

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

January 24th, 2013 Posted in Opinion |

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, delivered a 45-minute presentation outlining the district’s plan to build a new high […]

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The Eagles land at Sundance with new documentary of 41-year run

January 24th, 2013 Posted in Arts and Life |

Story & Photo by Ben Hansen PARK CITY—For more than a decade, the Sundance Film Festival has been a popular scene for concerts and movies featuring musicians, with artists and bands such as Sammy Hagar, Metallica, Slash and U2 headlining at the annual arts fest. Sundance 2013 continues that tradition, with the top-selling American band […]

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

January 24th, 2013 Posted in Opinion |

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 “Whispers of Silence,” a new sculpture by USU art professor Ryoichi […]

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Sundance 2013: ‘Don Jon’ paints grim picture of doomed romance

January 22nd, 2013 Posted in Arts and Life |

By Katie Swain PARK CITY—Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s directorial debut, “Don Jon’s Addiction,” premiered at Sundance Film Festival on Friday and was bought up by Sunday. Gordon-Levitt not only directed the film, he also wrote and starred in the racy and unique romantic comedy, which focuses on unrealistic expectations we have for our relationships, and how they […]

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Rejected by Sundance, moviemaker’s ‘Depression’ a sign of the times

January 22nd, 2013 Posted in Arts and Life |

By Dani Hayes PARK CITY—Unconventional director Marc Fignon marched up and down Park City’s Main Street Saturday holding a gigantic, yellow sign. “I’m Depressed,” it said. The Sundance Film Festival had not accepted his movie “The Great Depression,” but he was getting plenty of attention anyway with his protest against the “Sundance way of going […]

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

January 21st, 2013 Posted in Opinion |

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 tragic murder and culminates in Ginsberg’s essential role in the beat movement of the […]

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Sundance 2013: Kenny Loggins back ‘Home’ again with new band

January 21st, 2013 Posted in Arts and Life |

By Dani Hayes PARK CITY—Blue Sky Riders entertained a wall-to-wall packed ASCAP Music Café at Sundance on Friday. The band, featuring Kenny Loggins, Georgia Middleman and Gary Burr, performed songs from their debut album, “Finally Home,” set to release on Tuesday. Standing on stage, each with a guitar in hand, the three offered original compositions, […]

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Slamdance 2013 Q&A: ‘Rebel’ DJ LeCash as quirky as his film

January 20th, 2013 Posted in Arts and Life |

Story by Katie Swain PARK CITY—Josh LeCash is an eccentric, egocentric, Miami-born DJ who propelled himself to fame with his charm and charisma despite having a reputation as one of the worst wannabe DJs. After gaining success in Miami, LeCash went international as the official DJ for pop songster Katy Perry’s tour. Intrigued by the […]

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