By Curtis Lundstrom LOGAN – Months of planning and physical labor is paying dividends. The Logan Canal Construction project presented a progress report to the Cache County Council Tuesday. “People have been good,” Councilman John White said. “(Whittaker Construction) is trying to do public relations work as they go, and there’s been lots of compliments.” […]
By Danielle Manley LOGAN — Sounds of amplified jazz guitar rang through the doors of the Bullen Center. Members from the community hustled around each other to see the finely crafted items at every table. Local artisans gathered for the 10th annual Winter Gift Market in early December. Becky Yeager, Joy Brisighella and Sharon Ohlhorst […]
Tags: artisans, Bullen Center, Cache Valley, Logan, Winter Gift Market
By Danielle Manley PROVIDENCE –Two items of business consumed most of the conversation at the Providence City Council meeting Tuesday — headstones and mosquitoes. Among an audit report and comments about voting for Christmas lights in the city, four new employees were introduced, the mosquito abatement representative position was updated and Randy Eck, the public […]
Tags: cemetery headsstones, city council, mosquito abatement, Providence
LOGAN—Aggie TV News for Dec. 5, 2012, starts with an update on Aggie basketballer Danny Berger, who collapsed during practice this week. He stopped breathing and his heart stopped. News of Berger’s collapse went viral through student social media as Berger was life-flighted to a hospital in Murray, where he was recovering late this week. […]
Tags: Cache Rendezvous, Christmas donatsion, Danny Berger, hill bikers, Sub for Santa
Story & Photos by D. Whitney Smith LOGAN—A little more than a year ago, a horrific traffic accident and heroic rescue to prevent a fiery death played out just yards away from the Quad at Utah State University. Chris Garff remembers it well. Many will remember the September 2011 motorcycle accident on Hwy. 89 that […]
Tags: ATV News, Brandon Wright, Brian Champagne, Chris Garff, JCOM, motorcycle accident
By Danielle Manley NIBLEY — In a difficult battle between community property rights and individual property rights, Nibley City Council held a public hearing Thursday to discuss rezoning approximately 20 acres of land at 1300 W. 2600 South. The owner of the land, Kevin Allen, wants to rezone it from agricultural to R2A, medium to […]
Tags: agricultural land, Barbara Willden, city council, Larry Jacobsen, Nibley, public hearing, rezone
By Brandon Fonda HYRUM — The Mountain Crest Mustangs women’s basketball team faced off against a tough preseason 5A opponent Tuesday night. It was a close game until the fourth quarter when a stubborn Alta Hawks team came from behind to seal their victory, 42-49. The Mustangs came out aggressive against a sluggish-looking Hawks team […]
Tags: Alta High School, Kelsey Kartchner, Mountain Crest High School, womens basketball
By Dani Hayes PROVIDENCE – The annual holiday food drive has been a tradition of the Youth Council for years but only recently has it turned into a vast holiday celebration for the whole city. Included in the celebration is the annual Reindeer Run sponsored by Runners North, a local athletic-equipment business, and Santa Day […]
Tags: food pantry, Providence, Reindeer Run, Santa day, youth council
By Brandon Fonda LOGAN – A Smithfield woman was sentenced to 0-5 years in the Utah State Prison Tuesday morning in 1st District Court. Bridget Hallmark, 40, was charged with possession or use of a controlled substance, a 3rd degree felony, after being arrested in May. Along with her sentence, Judge Thomas Willmore also added […]
Tags: 1st District Court, Bridget Hallmark, sentencing, Smithfield woman
Story & Photos by D. Whitney Smith LOGAN—Although the Cold War and the nuclear arms race have been over since the 1980s, ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction (WMD) are a primary source of new threats faced by the United States and its allies, the director of the U.S. Office of Missile Defense Policy […]
Tags: Bradley Thayer, missiles, Peppi DeBiaso, weapons, WMD
By Curtis Lundstrom WELLSVILLE — The City Council approved a Level 2 home occupation permit that will allow resident Peter Nielson to run his construction business, Accurate Homes, from his own home. Represented by his wife Amy Nielson at the meeting, Peter Neilson has been operating his business for four and a half years and […]
Tags: Accurate Homes, Peter Nielson, planning and zoning commission, Wellsville
By Curtis Lundstrom LOGAN — A Hyde Park man was sentenced to 60 days in the Cache County Jail, avoiding up to 15 years in the Utah State Prison – at least temporarily — Tuesday in 1st District Court. Musa Issa Abdullahi, 20, was charged with arranging distribution and distribution of a controlled substance, a […]
By Heidi Smith LOGAN—“Legally Blonde: The Musical,” which concluded its performances last week, made some Utah State University students uncomfortable. One scene in particular has caused some controversy on campus. Kayli Jackson, a USU student who is starring as the lead Elle Woods in the drama about a sorority girl in law school, kissed her […]
By Brandon Fonda MENDON – City Council members met to discuss what steps could be taken by the city to help raise revenue to pay for a well project. A future nuisance ordinance was also looked at. Both subjects were scheduled for public hearings in the coming months. Councilman Jon Hardman estimated that the cost […]
Tags: city council, cost of well project, Ed Buist, Mendon, noise nuisance ordinance, public hearings
By Katie Swain SMITHFIELD – One man’s dream of a first-class country swing dance center in Smithfield is one step closer to reality. Alan Peterson of Hyde Park said he has been searching for a location for his dance center, and has finally found an ideal 16,000-square foot building in Smithfield that just became available. […]
Tags: Alan Peterson, country swing dance venue, planning and zoning commission, Smithfield
By Brandon Fonda MENDON – Many local business owners were present at the Planning and Zoning Board meeting Wednesday, after receiving letters from the board saying that they were required to apply for a city business license. The letters went out after the board received a complaint about noise that a home business was making, […]
Tags: Burnis Skinner, business licenses, home businesses, Mendon Planning and Zoning Board
By Sherry King VANCOUVER, B.C. — A note to American secessionists: For several very good reasons, DO NOT come to Canada. First, Canadian Immigration does not recognize the need for anyone to be a refugee from the United States. So much time has been spent proving that you’re number one, no one believes there’s any […]
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By Katie Swain SMITHFIELD – Twenty-four found bicycles that have been kept at the Smithfield City Police Department will be sold at a silent auction, the City Council decided Wednesday. Bicycles that aren’t purchased will be donated to Aggie Blue Bikes, an organization on Utah State University campus. “I like the idea of giving the […]
Tags: audit, bicycle auction, Canal reconstruction, city council, Smithfield, water feature
By Dani Hayes LOGAN – A Logan man was sentenced to 120 days in Cache County Jail Tuesday morning in 1st District Court. Jimmy Willis, 24, was charged with burglary and obstructing justice, both third-degree felonies, for a crime he committed in 2010 when he and a friend broke into a house and stole an […]
Tags: 1st District Court, burglary, Jimmy Willis, Judge Thomas Willmore, sentencing
By Katie Swain LOGAN – A Nibley man caught a lucky break Tuesday and got another chance, after a probation violation that could have sent him to prison. “You’ve shown us you can’t follow the simple rules and we’re sick of it,” said 1st District Court Judge Thomas Willmore as he sentenced Tyrus Miller to […]
Tags: 1st District Court, probation violation, sentence, Thomas Willmore, Tyrus Miller