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4 days ago
Maybe it’s cold outsideIf you thought the last few days have been colder than normal — you weren’t wrong. The official daily low temperature of Tooele County dropped a few degrees after Saturday, Jan. 28, reaching single digits for a couple days. The low temperature at the National Weather Service’s Tooele Valley weather station in Erda on Jan. […]
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Members of the Tooele County Chamber of Commerce and Tourism along with other community members gathered at Tooele High School on Friday evening, Jan. 27 to give out awards and install the Chamber’s 2023 officers and board members. Chris Sloan, broker/owner of Group 1 Real Estate was recognized as the Tooele County Chamber of Commerce’s […]
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Along with the awards presented by the Tooele County Chamber of Commerce on Friday night, the Chamber provided time for Tooele County, Tooele City and Grantsville City to recognize an individual or group for outstanding community service. Tooele County recognized Stansbury Park resident Patrick Wiggins. Wiggins has served in, and is now retired from, the […]
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5 days ago
County selling downtown Tooele propertyBidding starts at $2 million for six combined parcels. It’s kind of like a game of Monopoly. Tooele County has put six parcels it owns on a Tooele City downtown block up for sale. The parcels are in a contiguous area south and east of Tooele City’s Main and Vine Streets. They will be sold […]
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There could be a flood this year in the spring, but Tooele City and county leaders are prepared. As of Tuesday morning, Jan. 31, 2023, the peaks around the Tooele-Rush Valley Basin were holding 205% of the 30-year median value of snow water equivalent for the same day of the year, according to the National […]
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5 days ago
New Deseret Peak Complex planTooele County’s 2023 budgeted investment of $5 million in new and improved facilities at the Deseret Peak Complex is just the beginning of implementing an updated master plan for the complex. Victus Advisors, a Park City-based consulting firm that specializes in recreational facilities, was contracted by Tooele County in April 2022 to prepare a draft […]
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5 days ago
Rush hour accident causes injuriesAn accident during rush hour on State route 36 in Erda on Monday, Jan. 30 resulted in serious injuries. A Cadillac traveling northbound on state Route 36 around 6:10 a.m. near Church Road left the roadway near mile marker 60 for an unknown reason and rolled over, according to the Utah Highway Patrol’s public information […]
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During the past two years, traffic fatalities increased on Tooele County roads. There were 13 fatal crashes recorded in Tooele County in 2022 and 15 in 2021. So far this year, there has been one crash fatality, which occurred in Tooele City, according to Cameron Roden, Utah Highway Patrol public information officer. There were four […]
