The Alpine School District Board of Education voted Tuesday to study two different reconfiguration options for the district before the board votes in July on whether to put a split option on this year’s ballot for a vote. The board meeting comes a day after several Utah County city councils met to begin their own […]
Orem is officially a city of pickleball fanatics, according to a study done by TeachMe.To that analyzed pickleball culture around the country. Orem ranked second out of the top 50 cities for pickleball, and Provo was close behind in seventh place, with New York named the No. 1 city where pickleball is thriving. The ranking […]
In August, the Pleasant Grove City Council approved a property tax increase of 14.8%, or $56.64 a year on the average-valued home, increasing the city’s annual revenue for the fiscal year by $733,171. However, when residents gathered signatures to put it on the ballot in November, the property tax increase did not pass, leaving the […]
Utah County residents woke up to several inches of snow Wednesday morning, but the region should get a reprieve for a couple of days. A winter storm warning on Wednesday lasted until 11 a.m. and is not expected to resume, as snow began melting in the late afternoon. For the remainder of the week, Hayden […]
In an article printed on Aug. 31, 2023, titled “Solution to Utah’s teacher shortage? Group says raise salaries” Nichole Whiteley reported on Envision Utah’s ideas to address the teacher shortage. I take issue with the attitude of Jason Brown, vice president of education and communication for Envision Utah when he said that increasing teacher salaries […]