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By Britney JohnstonSalem Junior High School ninth-grader Braxton Beatty has received a $100 scholarship savings account after being named a regional winner of the winter drawing held by Zions Ban

How do you make fractions fun? Turn them into a basketball game. How do you teach students about mechanical engineering and propulsion? Let them build their own self-propelled rubber band race ca

By Tara JoynerWalker Sanderson Funeral Home Provo/OremIt’s Walker Sanderson Funeral Homes great pleasure to serve as an Honorary Chairperson of the Red Cross Heroes Recognition Event recognizing

The Senior Citizens of Mapleton gathered recently at the The Abbington Assisted Living & Memory Care Community facility for a tour of the building and a luncheon provided by the Abbington. Ma

We the people are fed up with the lies and deceit of the greedy politicians who think more of themselves than the people they represent. They are a group of self-righteous individuals who capital

By Debbie BalzottiSometimes I judge a book by its cover. The haunting portrait photo of Olive Oatman from 1848 shows a dark-haired beauty with a tattooed face gazing out from the cover. “The Blue

By Salem Hills FFA ChapterThe Utah State FFA Convention was held in Richfield in March. Sakai Brost, a student at Salem Hills High School, took the opportunity to run to be on the 2016-2017 State

By Jordan Blanchard
Spencer Marvin, a ninth-grade student at Salem Junior High School, has organized the construction of a track and field discus ring at his school as his Eagle Scout Project. “I

Dear Residents of Utah:The Utah Legislature has fast-tracked a bill to Governor Gary Herbert that allocates $53 million dollars of taxpayer funds to finance a proposed coal-export terminal in Wes

Located in the remote northwest corner of the San Rafael Swell, these two rock towers are named after two cowboys who roamed the area in the late 1880s. Sid and Charley Swasey and their brothers

For years we have traveled the washes, canyons and mesas of the San Rafael Swell and found the names of four Swasey brothers – Sid, Charlie, Rod and Joe – everywhere. They roamed the swell as cow