22 hours ago
Shooting locks down Stansbury schools

Editor’s note: This incident occurred right as today’s issue of the Transcript-Bulletin was going to press. Consequently, many details were not available at press time. More in-depth coverage will be included in Thursday’s edition. All three Stansbury Park schools were locked down early Tuesday afternoon after gun shots were reportedly fired nearby. The schools were […]

The demand for assistance from the Tooele Food Bank continued at record numbers for the second week of November although Tooele County’s unemployment rate for October held steady at the 23-year average of 5.4 percent. “Our requests for assistance continue to grow with more new families coming in every day,” said Lorri Trujillo-Cook, team leader […]

An investigation is still ongoing into the shooting of a dog last week that allegedly threatened a police officer. At about 10:20 a.m. Wednesday, officers from the Tooele City Police Department responded to the Pratt Aquatic Center on a report of a man with a gun. During the ensuing search of nearby Tooele City Park […]

22 hours ago
Dry November does little to ease drought

Dry November weather has done little for Tooele County’s drought situation, but December looks promising so far on account of this week’s storm. Tooele saw 1.29 inches of precipitation last month, nearly half an inch less than average, according to Ned Bevan, a cooperative weather observer in Tooele for the National Weather Service. He also […]

22 hours ago
Bandmembers recall JFK visit

The assassination of President John F. Kennedy 50 years ago stunned the nation, but it hit even closer to home for local students who had seen the nation’s leader just weeks before. The Tooele High School Marching Band performed at the airport the day Kennedy flew in to Salt Lake City on Sept 26, 1963. […]

23 hours ago
Black Friday turns green for local merchants

Area merchants report Black Friday crowds outnumbered last year, including locally owned shops that shunned the national trend to blend Thanksgiving Day through Cyber Monday into one long holiday shopping weekend. Nationally, 141 million shoppers shopped Thursday through Saturday, compared to 139 million during the same time period in 2012, according to a survey of […]

23 hours ago
County hires Astill as new facilites department head

Tooele County has a new department and a new face to manage it. Isaac Astill came back to Tooele from the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Miss., to direct the new Tooele County Facilities Management Department. The new department is an amalgamation of the county’s former parks and recreation, and building maintenance departments, according to […]

Two Tooele men were arrested for allegedly robbing a Tooele apartment last week and police are asking for the public’s help in finding a third suspect. According to a probable cause statement, last Wednesday around 8:30 p.m. a person living near 1100 West and Utah Avenue reported that three masked men armed with shotguns had […]

A Tooele man was injured after being hit by a train early Monday morning. A train conductor reported a man running beside the railroad tracks near the viaduct on SR-112 in Tooele at about 2:25 a.m., but when police checked out the area, they found no one, said Lt. Adrian Day of the Tooele City […]

Editor’s note: This is the final installment of a three-part series on Utah’s Student Health and Risk Prevention survey on Tooele County students. Part One was about alcohol, tobacco and drug use among youth. Part Two was about the incidence of student bullying on school property, and student safety.   Suicide is the leading cause […]