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Obits: Why does death breed such lively writing?
Last month, an obituary first published in the Hartford Courant garnered national attention — not for the prominence of its subject but for the warm wit behind its composition. It began: “Robert Sp...
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THS swim teams nab Region 11 titles
Both Tooele boys and girls teams felt right at home in the Region 11 championship held at the Pratt Aquatic Center in Tooele Saturday afternoon. Tooele girls ran away with the region title by winni...
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Saying hello to adulthood means saying farewell to a good night’s sleep
After graduating, it seemed as though most kids my age spent the summer catching up on all the sleep they missed during the last four years of their lives — myself included. I was a busy kid in h...
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Buying a home is painful process — but worth it
My husband and I just moved into a new home about a week and a half ago. It is a beautiful three-bedroom, three-and-a-half bath home and I love it almost as much as I love my shoe wardrobe (which b...
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Holiday gaming withdrawls cause problems for students
In speaking with some of the other Transcript-Bulletin reporters after Christmas, we discovered many of us shared post-holiday traditions revolving around video games. What I had thought was a str...
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Best of the Rest: Stories that didn’t make the Top 10
Journalists are, by and large, a skeptical lot. The profession’s mantra has always been, “If your mother tells you she loves you, check it out.” And few things ring alarm bells for a journalist lik...
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Covering breaking news sometimes makes for high adventure
by Lisa Christensen
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Something I have learned is that I do not do well being tethered to a desk. I find I am generally happier when I can get out of the office and move about. Luckily, 2011 provided a lot of opportuni...
Reporter seeks adventure in Tooele County
by Rachel Madison
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Before I started working at the Transcript-Bulletin, I had never been to Tooele. I had passed by the exit at 75 miles per hour on I-80 on my way to Wendover or California, but before now, I’d never...
Motivators are key to losing weight
by Jake Gordon
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Health and being healthy have been weighing on my mind recently. Here at the Transcript-Bulletin office, we recently had a company health fair complete with testing, and the results were kind of su...
There ain’t no cure for wanderlust
by Mark Watson
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Warning: This column may be unstructured, wander, meander, roam a bit and stray. Or, in other words, it may resemble my travel patterns for the last three decades. I’ve moved around a lot. I really...
Five years in Tooele County: A reporter’s farewell
by Sarah Miley
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When I first started my job at the Transcript-Bulletin in January 2007, I was a wide-eyed recent college graduate. I did not know a single soul in Tooele County, nor did I know much about the commu...
Thanksgiving tips are fine, but holiday survival advice is priceless
by Lisa Christensen
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I recently saw a list of Thanksgiving tips that included what to do if your stuffing is dry, your potatoes are runny or if your sweet potato casserole with marshmallows on top flames up in the oven...
Tooele County delicacies abound, if you know where to look
by Jeff Barrus
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I’m sometimes asked why the newspaper doesn’t do restaurant reviews. My answer has always been that we have a relatively small pool of restaurants to review, and subjecting those to criticism would...
Random thoughts from an election watcher
by Tim Gillie
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Well, one more election out of the way. Although campaigning has already started — or perhaps it just never stopped — for the “big” one next year, there is now time for a short respite before the n...
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