Wednesday, September 13th, 2023
On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, 19 terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes. The first two planes crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. A third plane flew into the Pentagon. The fourth plane...
Wednesday, May 24th, 2023
By the end of this week Tooele County School District will have graduated 1,031 seniors — not including the graduates from Adult Education and the school district’s Digital Education Center. The school district has become very proficient...
Wednesday, May 17th, 2023
A day is just a day, but some days, and most days today, are special days. Some of those days are kind of fun days, like Jan. 5 is National Spaghetti Day and Feb. 3 is National...
Wednesday, March 8th, 2023
As we have said before, news usually is what happens, but sometimes the news is about what didn’t happen. Today’s paper has two stories about what didn’t happen. Some of our sources wanted to know why we...
Wednesday, January 18th, 2023
The reason for many holidays appear to have taken a back seat to the purpose or memory that holidays were designed to commemorate. Monday, Jan. 16 was Martin Luther King Day, a federal and state holiday. Government...
Wednesday, December 28th, 2022
As December 2022 and the year come to a close, we offer a few parting thoughts and notes of appreciation before we tear off the calendar page for the last month of the year. First, to the...
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022
While tradition ties our Thanksgiving with a romantic tale of a 1621 fall harvest feast shared by pilgrims and indigenous people, the day didn’t become a national holiday until President Abraham Lincoln signed a proclamation on Oct....
Tuesday, September 13th, 2022
Perhaps you heard the alarms and sirens on Sunday morning and wondered what all the commotion was about. Maybe you looked at your calendar and then remembered the day that will not be forgotten, 9/11. On the...
Wednesday, August 24th, 2022
School started today in the Tooele County School District. School district, charter school and private school students are once again traveling to and from school. In some areas student pedestrians will share their pathway with motorists. Drivers...
Tuesday, June 14th, 2022
It says something when we write a headline about a serious accident that reads “Another accident at …” Accidents should not become so commonplace at one location that they become expected. The Utah Department of Transportation has...