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Robert Pacheco walks out of Main Street Coin Laundry next to two vacant storefronts next door Thursday morning. Businesses across Tooele City have closed due to the recession.<br>- photography / Maegan Burr Recession claims business casualties
Several Tooele shops and eateries have closed recently
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Broken “for sale” signs dot the side of a lot in the South Rim Estates subdivision near Stockton Tuesday morning. A large parcel of land in South Rim, as well as the Maples development in Tooele, are the first developments in Tooele County to include a “private transfer fee” that a seller must pay each time a property changes hands.<br>- photography / Maegan Burr Hidden fee could hit homebuyers hard
Two county developments among first in state to kick back money to developer each time a property sells
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Military contracted role-players from Afghanistan play the part of Taliban forces during a training exercise at Dugway Proving Ground on April 28. The men, who worked at Dugway for 35 days, say they have not received payment from Ephraim Logistic Services who hired them for the training.<br>- file photo / Maegan Burr Afghan role-players still seek payment for Dugway job
For the past year, Rahim Attar has been a Taliban fighter in America. Attar has traveled the country helping the U.S. military with various role-playing exercises designed to prepare soon-to-be-de...
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Homebuilding still declining in Tooele
New residential construction in Tooele is declining in 2009 for a fourth straight year, according to the number of single-family building permits issued by Tooele City through the end of October. ...
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Vietnam veteran Gordon Beals rides his horse down Pine Canyon Road Wednesday morning. Beals has ridden his horse with a flag every July 4 and 24, Memorial Day and Veterans Day for four years. <br>- photography / Maegan Burr Pine Canyon veteran rides alone to honor comrades
A Pine Canyon resident and Vietnam vet has come up with his own unique way of honoring veterans on Veterans Day. Gordon Beals, 62, rode his two-year-old palomino yesterday throughout Pine Canyon i...
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Milo Berry talks in his office at Tooele City Hall Thursday afternoon. Berry is retiring from his position as the founder of the Communities that Care program.<br>- photography / Maegan Burr Caring About a Community
Milo Berry steps down amid praise for growing Communities that Care program into a powerful force for good
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Fate of at-risk girls program linked to downtown store
by Sandy Martinez
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A residential program for at-risk girls in Tooele is having problems of its own finding volunteers and funding to keep running. The New Hope House, a program designed to help teenage girls get the...
Hospital expansion going ahead
by Sarah Miley
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New $11 million project to tap growing demand for women’s health care services
School dangers not increasing
by Tim Gillie
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But officials say tobacco usage is growing as industry pushes more products to youth
Marshall to lead Grantsville
by Tim Gillie
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Colson wins by seven votes for second council seat
Tooele cop couple’s firing centered upon inappropriate relationship
by Jamie Belnap
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New details have emerged regarding the firing of two Tooele City police officers — a married couple — in late June following a five-month internal investigation into allegations of misconduct. Jor...
Dunlavy sails to second term
by Tim Gillie
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Milne edges incumbent Hansen for council seat
Transcript of 2009 Tooele Mayoral Debate
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Scott Dunn: Good evening, I’m Scott Dunn, publisher of the Tooele Transcript-Bulletin. I’d like to welcome you all to the 2009 Tooele Mayoral Debate between Mayor Patrick Dunlavy and his political ...
Mornings go all quiet on the Stansbury front
by Jamie Belnap
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Neighbors happy that SHS band is now set to abide by county’s early morning noise ordinance
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Fired therapist: Stressed Marines get shoddy care (AP)

Dr. Kernan Manion poses for a photograph in his officer in Hampstead, N.C., Friday, Nov. 20, 2008. Dr. Manion a psychiatrist was fired after he complained about conditions for his patients at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., In e-mails shown to The Associated Press, Manion had questioned why the clinic, a series of bug-infested trailers with paper-thin walls, was located near a firing range on the 240-square-mile base. (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds)AP - Marines treated at Camp Lejeune for post-traumatic stress had to undergo therapy for months in temporary trailers where they could hear bomb blasts, machine-gun fire and war cries through the thin walls, according to servicemen and their former psychiatrist.


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Teen pleads guilty in violent Border Patrol murder (AP)

FILE - This undated file image provided by the U.S. Border Patrol shows agent Robert Wimer Rosas, who was shot and killed while patrolling Thursday July 23, 2009 in southeastern San Diego County. Christian Daniel Castro Alvarez pleaded guilty Friday Nov. 20, 2009 to murdering Rosas. (AP Photo/US Border Patrol)AP - A 17-year-old pleaded guilty Friday to murdering a Border Patrol agent who was shot eight times in head, neck and torso in the mountains east of San Diego.


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Oprah's departure presents problem for TV stations (AP)

In this image taken from video Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 and provided by Harpo Productions Inc., talk-show host Oprah Winfrey announces during a live broadcast of 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' in Chicago that her daytime television show, the foundation of a multibillion-dollar media empire, will end its run in 2011 after 25 seasons on the air. (AP Photo/Harpo Productions, Inc.) MANDATORY CREDIT, NO SALESAP - For more than two decades, Oprah Winfrey has been the inspirational, change-your-life champion who reigned over daytime television much like Johnny Carson once ruled late night.


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