A six-month police chief drought ended with the swearing in of Chief Douglas Diamond of Rancho Cordova, Calif. on Jan. 4. City manager Rick Davis said Diamond was the third happiest man in the room that night. The first was probably Fire Chief Marc ...
As early as the end of January, the Utah Department of Transportation will be implementing a temporary “ThrU Turn” on Bangerter Highway at 7800 South, while a new interchange is being built at that location. The ThrU Turn design redirect...
Judy Jensen has looked all over the valley for affordable senior housing, but hasn’t found anything nearly as spacious or nice as the new Jordan Valley Senior Housing at 7832 South 3200 West, opening to residents mid-January. “This one i...
Alex Homar, “Gater,” rolled his miniature monster truck in the dirt waiting for the real one to roll into his neighborhood on Jan. 5, as friends, family and preschool classmates waited in similar eager anticipation. “A real monster...
With 24 years of city council service between them, the departing of former councilmembers Lyle Summers, Kim Rolfe and Jim Lems won’t likely go unnoticed. “These three men have served their city with such dedication and devotion that I a...
As a retired urban planner for South Jordan for 20 years, new councilmember for District 2, Judith Hansen, has already been on the staff member side of city hall. “I have presented before the city council and before the planning commission, an...
Fire Chief Marc McElreath was recognized Jan. 4 for his service to the city as the interim police chief, following the retirement of Ken McGuire last July. New police chief Douglas Diamond of Rancho Cordova, Calif., was sworn in during the Jan. 4 me...
  Contrary to what was originally reported in a presentation to the city council on Oct. 12, this year’s Western Stampede did not make $25,000 over expenditures, but just came close to breaking even. “The report that the rodeo made...
Residents’ heads may be spinning with the ping ponging reports of West Jordan’s violent crime rates. In their preliminary semiannual Uniform Crime Report, the Federal Bureau of Investigation recently reported that West Jordan, in keeping...
A 29-year old man was reportedly looking the other way when his sedan slammed into a TRAX crossing gate arm just as a train came into the crossing at 45 miles per hour. At 9:20 a.m. on Jan. 3, he approached the three-way signalized intersection at a...
Rep. Ken Ivory is hoping to require cities, counties and school districts to report federal receipts, as they now do on a state level, thanks to his HB 138. “When I first got up [to Capitol Hill], my first question was, how much of our governm...
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