By Candice Mattson LOGAN–Reggie Shaw wore a dark blue jail uniform as he tearfully addressed the camera from behind the glass. “You know, you leave for work every morning. People do it every day. Never ever do you leave with the intention to hurt someone, ever,” he said. But what Shaw did that morning changed […]
By Kade Delis MENDON—Mandy Powell lives in Mendon with her husband and two sons. She spends her days making sandwiches and reading stories to her children. In her spare time, she prepares her product for the downtown farmer’s market. There, she promotes her hand-made item to the community. For almost six years she has produced […]
Tags: home business, Mendon, thriving
By Kelly Greenwood LOGAN–Imagine going out to eat on a Friday night with your friends. You end up at Chili’s, and you sit down and look at the menu. You scan over the colorful, laminated pages, and you flip them back and forth in search of something to assuage your hunger. You soon realize your […]
Tags: Cache Valley, diet, lifestyle, vegan, vegetarian
By Catherine Meidell CACHE VALLEY–After yielding fruit for 100 years, the Zollinger Fruit Farm of River Heights is protected by a conservation easement that will ensure the land is not developed, keeping agriculture in Cache Valley for centuries to come. Linda Morse, one of eight children who grew up on the farm, lives in a […]
Tags: Cache Valley, conservation easements, Nature Conservancy, Trust for Public Land, Zollingers
By Seili Lewis The morning of her wedding a bride woke up feeling nervous enough because it was her wedding day. She didn’t feel like eating anything, she had that slight stomach upset that comes with nerves. The night before, the bride’s mother had a slight fit about the bride’s decision to marry outside of […]
Tags: compromises, interfaith marriage
By Amanda Pierce NORTH LOGAN–Green Canyon is a popular place for students to break away from the stress of school and maybe even discover a thrill. Jenele Vander Veur, a junior at Utah State University, has been camping and has built several bonfires in Green Canyon. She loves going there as opposed to other canyons […]
Tags: Green Canyon, haunted, North Logan
by Cassidee Cline LOGAN–Fall semester is winding down at Utah State University and the theater department kicked off winter break with their last production of this year, Issun Boshi. The Japanese children’s story of Issun Boshi, literally meaning “inch boy,” was adapted to the stage under the direction Nancy Hills, associate professor of costume design, […]
Tags: Issun Boshi, theater, USU
By Cassidee Cline LOGAN–Since childhood, Christmas has always seemed to hold a lot of meaning. From the story of St. Nicholas who braved the winter bringing children gifts to the biblical story of Christ’s birth, there are many different things celebrated during the Christmas season. Advent is a tradition that’s talked about a lot during […]
By Dana Ivins LOGAN–Ogden resident Marvin Lee Peterson was fined $200 Monday in 1st District Court for having a loaded firearm in his vehicle, a class B misdemeanor. Peterson’s guilty plea is being held in abeyance, meaning the court will dismiss both the charge and guilty plea if Peterson pays the fine to the court […]
By Cassidee Cline The art of dance has been around for centuries. From Renaissance elegance to the sheer independence and rebellion of the 1920’s solo Charleston, dance has been used to interpret and captivate the emotion of people. But let’s face the facts: dancing isn’t what it used to be. What happened to the nightclubs […]
Tags: Club New York, Dance United, Dancing, date night, Elite Hall
By Dan Fawson LOGAN–Jose Mateo Trevino of Logan was sentenced to one year in the Cache County Jail Monday, after pleading guilty to one felony count of attempted aggravated assault and one felony count of domestic violence in the presence of a child. Trevino, 24, will also pay a fine of $1,500, and will be […]
Tags: 1st District Court, Jose Trevino, sentencing
By Dan Fawson LOGAN–Trevor Maddock of Logan was arrested Thursday and later charged with two third-degree felony counts of protective order violation. According to Captain Jeff Curtis of the Logan City Police Department, Maddock, 22, was found in violation of the order when he and the order’s petitioner were involved in a car accident Thursday. […]
By Katie Krusi LOGAN – A 22-year-old Logan man has been arrested on suspicion of stalking and attempting to evade police. Samuel Pond was arrested Dec. 1 and is being held in the Cache County Jail. According to Logan City Police Capt. Jeff Curtis, Pond had been stalking his 24-year-old victim for months and had […]
Tags: arrest, evading, Samuel Pond, stalking
A controversial documentary film about gay rights in Utah by a USU broadcast journalism alumnus is slated for its world premier at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in Park City in January. Reed Cowan’s documentary, “8: The Mormon Proposition” (http://www.mormonproposition.com/), was picked Thursday for the prominent independent film festival. The movie examines the challenges of […]
Tags: JCOM alum, Reed Cowan, Sundance, Utah State University
By Cassidee Cline LOGAN–Time and again people talk about how things in life are taken for granted. The ability to do simple tasks may be very difficult to some people and very few people notice how fortunate they are. According to an estimate made in 2004 by the National Center for Family Literacy, 9 percent […]
Tags: Bridgerland Literacy, reading, tutoring
By Chelsey Gensel LOGAN–In a 22-minute meeting Tuesday, the Logan Municipal Council discussed changes to parking near the LDS temple and approved appropriation of more than $400,000 in grant monies. The discussion regarding parking along 300 North and 200 East streets where on-street parking is angled took the majority of the meeting. Public works director […]
Tags: Logan, Municpal Council, parking
By Chelsey Gensel LOGAN–Utah State University’s Dean of Agriculture and Vice President of Extension, Noelle Cockett, has acquired a $930,000 USDA grant toward a genome-mapping project to sequence and analyze the sheep genome. Labs at USU and in other parts of the country as well as in the U.K., France, New Zealand and Australia are […]
Tags: genome-mapping, Noella Cockett, USDA grant, Utah State
By Alice Bailey CACHE COUNTY–Chained to a post at the American West Heritage Center sits an old dairy farm milk can that resembles a pig. A hinge on its rear end will open to reveal a pink ammo box, also painted like a pig. If you are lucky enough to stop by on the right […]
Tags: Cache Valley, Geocaching, recreation
By Amanda Pierce NORTH LOGAN–Newly elected mayor Lloyd Berentzen said that in the first six months of his term he is interested in conducting neighborhood assessments in different parts of the city to better learn each area’s needs by holding community meetings. “I believe that as issues come up in the future, I can then […]
Tags: Lloyd Berentzen, new mayor, North Logan
By Kade Delis SMITHFIELD—A 20-year-old Smithfield woman was arrested and booked into the Cache County Jail on counts of burglary, theft and forgery. Loren Hansen was arrested by detective Wes Land of the Logan City Police Department on Nov. 19. She was released after posting bail. According to LCPD Captain Jeff Curtis, Hansen has a […]
Tags: arrest, burglary, Loren Hansen, Smithfield woman