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4 days ago | 
sltrib.com | Connor Thomas
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5 days ago | 
kpcw.org | Connor Thomas
High Valley Transit launched in 2021. And current COO Brad Herkimer was there in the beginning — just not as a full-time employee. He was part of High Valley’s contract with Via, which operates its microtransit service, a free version of a rideshare. He finally became a transit district employee last year. “We had a single-wide trailer,” Herkimer remembered about 2021. “When I got there, we had to contract to get some bathrooms placed at Ecker Hill.
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5 days ago | 
kpcw.org | Connor Thomas
The Snyderville Basin Cemetery District announced in June 2024 its preferred site is across from the Run-a-Muk Dog Park. Now that’s receiving public pushback, including from the Utah Olympic Park. It would be on the right side of Olympic Parkway about a third of the way up the road from the roundabout, below the RTS trailhead. Cemetery board members have been finetuning the location with Basin Recreation, because it may require shifting summer and winter trails.
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5 days ago | 
kpcw.org | Connor Thomas
El proyecto de ley 84, aprobado el año pasado por la Cámara de Representantes, exige la presencia de “guardianes” armados en todas las escuelas de Utah, sean públicas o privadas. Aunque la ley permite que esos guardianes sean voluntarios armados u otros empleados escolares, el Condado de Summit decidió optar por alguaciles capacitados.
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5 days ago | 
kpcw.org | Connor Thomas
La Oficina del Sheriff del Condado de Summit respondió a las alarmas de robo en la tienda de conveniencia junto a la Interestatal 80 antes del amanecer del 4 de mayo. Los alguaciles informaron que la tienda estaba cerrada cuando encontraron la puerta principal destrozada. No había nadie en la zona al momento de su llegada.
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6 days ago | 
kpcw.org | Connor Thomas
County Democrats criticized the letter in a May 7 press release, accusing the mayors of seeking to “overturn county elections.”In their April 14 letter, Mayors Kay Richins of Henefer, Mark Marsh of Coalville, Matt McCormick of Kamas and Jeremie Forman of Francis asked state leaders to strengthen a new law districting the at-large county council. Mayors from Park City and Oakley did not sign the letter.
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6 days ago | 
kpcw.org | Connor Thomas
The Summit County Council approved all of a committee’s recommendations for divvying up $4.37 million in restaurant sales tax dollars May 7 — except when it came to the Sundance Institute. “If this is the swan song, I'm not sure that reinvesting the money at this point in that particular entity is maybe the right way to go, and I just like to know what Council thinks about that,” Councilmember Roger Armstrong said at the meeting. His colleagues agreed.
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6 days ago | 
kpcw.org | Connor Thomas
The North Summit Board of Education chose Murdock as superintendent at its meeting last month. “We're lucky here,” Murdock told KPCW. “I've had the opportunity to work in all three buildings in our district. Our district does very well. It's not like I'm walking into a district that's struggling or in need of major overhaul.”The school district scores well: North Summit students score particularly high in math and postsecondary preparedness.
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1 week ago | 
kpcw.org | Connor Thomas
Larry H. Miller Real Estate initially told the Coalville City Council April 14 that its application for a village-like development had expired. Summit County Community Development Director Peter Barnes confirmed the company’s project isn’t moving forward but said aborting the application is a little more complicated. “There are actually other landowners in the original village overlay zone application.
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1 week ago | 
kpcw.org | Connor Thomas
Court records indicate Calvin Spencer Rawe, 35, of Alpine, Wyoming, missed his initial court appearance April 18. It was virtual, not in-person. Summit County prosecutors asked 3rd District Judge Richard Mrazik to issue an arrest warrant and he did on April 28, setting bail at $500. The Summit County Jail roster indicated Rawe was not in custody as of May 7.
