By Katherine Taylor katherinedtaylor.com For Chase Peterson, inspiration came in the form of a Christmas song. “I was watching Ariana Grande and Michael Bublé sing a Christmas duet, and I was like, ‘I want to do something like this,’” said Peterson, a Utah State University student and musician. What began with a song will continue […]
By Morgan Pratt LOGAN — If you check out Chapter Doh on social media, he seems like your typical Utah State University computer science student. His Facebook wall is filled with selfies of him in USU T-shirts with spiky hair, attending Aggie football games. If you browse farther back on his timeline, you will discover […]
Tags: Burma, Cache Valley immigrants, Chapter Doh, refugees, Southeast Asia, Thailand
Story & Photos by Mekenna Malan HYDE PARK — The 4th annual Hyde Park tree lighting ceremony attracted families from throughout Cache Valley on Monday, offering cookies, Christmas carols, hot chocolate and tidings of joy. Hundreds of citizens gathered around a small pine tree planted outside the city office building as Mayor Bryan Cox led […]
Tags: Bryan Cox, Christmas tree lighting, David Hancey, Laurel Hancey, Rylee Fullmer
By Mekenna Malan HYDE PARK — Hyde Park officials will be applying to the Division of Wildlife Resources to implement an urban deer control plan in the city. Officials hope to gain permission to trap and harvest deer found in the yards of Hyde Park residents by installing metal traps throughout the city and euthanizing […]
Tags: Bryan Cox, Charles Wheeler, deer eradication program, Kim Hawkes, nuisance deer
Story & Photos by Rebecca Wheatley SMITHFIELD — Nearly 100 nativity scenes from 17 different cultures and countries were on display at the Smithfield Tabernacle last weekend as the city Historical Society’s second annual Nativities of the World event. Diane Esplin, president of the Smithfield Historical Society, said the event is unique because all of […]
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By Jillian McCarthy LEWISTON — Lewiston voters have elected one newcomer and returned two incumbents to the City Council. Top vote-getter Jonna Westover, the newcomer, and incumbents Stacey J. Prescott and Kim Bodily — who were separated by only one vote — will be sworn in for their four-year terms in January. Newcomer Westover received […]
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By Jillian McCarthy LEWISTON — After 10 minutes of pondering, Cathy Olsen and Julia Smullin finally came up with a name for their new craft business, Savvy Sisters. They had started on their homemade crafts only a month before Lewiston’s annual craft boutique, which was a way to launch Savvy Sisters, as well as weigh […]
Tags: Cathy Olsen, Julia Smullin, Lewiston Arts Council, Lewiston Christmas Craft Boutique
Story & Photos by Amanda Wray LOGAN — Dozens of community members filled the County Fairgrounds pavilion to get some early Christmas-shopping done at the Cache County Sheriff’s Office Pre-Black Friday Auction the Saturday before Thanksgiving. More than 200 lots — including tools, a trailer, Legos, bicycles, Fossil watches, household items and a dune buggy […]
Tags: Cache County Sheriff's Office, confiscated goods, Sgt. Pam Anderson, stolen goods
By Bo Lamb lambbo14.wix.com Utah State University professor David Law and his students will be teaching Uintah Basin couples techniques to reignite romantic love and strengthen relationships — just in time for Valentine’s Day. Law and his students Family Consumer and Human Development students will begin their six-week marital enrichment workshop in January. The research-based program is tailored to […]
By Nicole Cowdell nicolecowdell.wordpress.com The Friends of the Logan Library will have its first holiday book sale this Monday through Friday. Visitors will be able to fill a grocery bag full of books for $5. “We just want to give back to the community,” said Cindy Shupe, the Friends of the Logan Library bookstore manager. “It’s about keeping […]
By Melanie Fenstermaker LOGAN — City buses in Cache County will remain fare-free, the Cache Valley Transit District board of trustees has decided unanimously, with the stipulation that the zero-fare policy be reviewed every three to five years. The board first considered charging bus fares in 2014 rather than proposing higher sales taxes to fund […]
Tags: bus fares, Cache Valley Transit District, CVTD, Doug Thompson, free bus, Jeannie Simmonds, Ron Natalo, Shaun Bushman
By Jaesea Gatherum NORTH LOGAN — “North Logan should pat itself on the back” after its above-average efforts to conserve water reported in a recent water conservation survey, a Utah State University researcher told the City Council. Melissa Haefner, a sociologist at USU, collaborated with researchers at the University of Utah to find out how […]
Tags: drought, EPA, iUTAH, Melissa Haefner, water conservation
By Jillian McCarthy LEWISTON — “In Lewiston, we actually like each other,” said former Lewiston City Council member Paul King. “It’s a good community.” It’s also a community with some hidden attributes, as this profile of Lewiston by the numbers illustrates. 1,865 – Population in the current census.1 700 – Public water hook-ups.1 1 – […]
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By Rebecca Wheatley SMITHFIELD — How subdivision developers plan and apply for their project approvals in Smithfield is about to change. The City Council has created a new Subdivision Technical Review Committee, which will work with developers in the planning stages of their projects to make sure they’re meeting all regulations before they take their […]
Tags: Barbara Kent, Craig Giles, Dennis Watkins, planning, subdivisions
By Cassandra Solarte csolarte.wix.com Community members will perform acts of service on each day of December until Christmas Day as part of the Cache Valley Volunteer Center’s new project, 25 Days of Service. Sharilee Griffiths, the director of the center, said the project will impact the community in an important way. “If we have a […]
By Cassandra Solarte csolarte.wix.com Global Village Gifts, a non-profit store that supports artisans from developing countries by selling their crafts at a fair cost, has been invited to India with one of its wholesale groups to be introduced to the makers of its products. Representatives from the Logan-based small business will travel with Matr Boomie, […]
By Cassandra Solarte csolarte.wix.com Novemberfest, a two-day craft boutique fair put on by the Little Lambs of Utah, will take place today and Saturday in the Logan High gymnasium. Profits and donations will be used to make comfort kits for children who have recently been taken into protective custody by the Department of Child Protective Services, and […]
By Bianca Pahl biancapahl.weebly.com Utah State University will be welcoming the Canyon Connector Trail, which will connect the campus to hiking trails in the canyon and some urban areas in Logan within the next two years. “This is a critical connection between the university and the canyon,” said Jeff Gilbert, the transportation planner for Cache […]
By Haley Larsen haleylarsen5.wordpress.com On Dec. 12 the Providence City Youth Council will be hosting its annual holiday event, Santa in City Hall — but this year, the event will go without its usual preceding activity, the Reindeer Fun Run 5K race. In the past, local business Runners North teamed up with the youth council to put […]
By Jackson Wilde jacksahackreporter.wordpress.com When the Logan City School District began implementing its one-to-one program to provide every student a laptop computer, Chris Rasmussen knew one thing — computers would not be a fixture in his classroom. “I want them to hold a clarinet or a trombone, not a computer,” said Rasmussen when he recalled his […]