On Jan. 21, longtime Draper resident Marsha Vawdrey was chosen as Draper City’s new city council member.  And on Jan. 25 she was sworn in, just blocks up the street from where she used to buy candy as a child. “I’ve lived here...

Construction will commence late this spring on a trail linking Draper City’s trail system to the trails of Utah County.  The project is nearly 10 years in the making, having begun with a $1.1 million federal grant to Draper City for the en...

Corner Canyon High School may be new this school year, but it already contains an important piece of Draper’s history. In 1939, under the Works Progress Administration program which provided work to unemployed heads of households at the time, ...

Draper seniors acquitted themselves admirably in a recent Wii bowling match-up against a team from Atria Senior Living in Sandy Feb. 13. Sharon Larkin, Candy Bartland, Louie Minerman and June Taylor, calling themselves the Draper Dragons, scored a t...

A city serves many functions, but it’s not too often it becomes a large landowner. In an unusual string of circumstances, Draper City became landowner to approximately 2,400 acres of the SunCrest property in November 2012.  The city is no...

Chris Collins, 14, is a rather unassuming guy, but he has a secret: he’s a Pokémon champion. Chris recently took first place at the senior division of the 2014 Pokémon City Championships held in Ogden. He’s hoping to parla...

Brooke Evenson, 20, of Draper recently left home for a volunteer experience with the International Volunteer HQ Bali Kindergarten program.  Through this program, Evenson will spend 12 weeks in a village near Ubud, Bali teaching underprivileged...

AYSO Region 354 Sandy/Draper has received more than $1,890 in money and equipment from Hillside Tire & Service and Michelin through the Michelin Soccer Program. This community program partners Michelin tire dealers with local soccer organization...

  A self-proclaimed “bulldog” in business took the reins as Draper City’s new mayor Jan. 6. “I realized the mayor is the spokesman for and the champion of the city,” Troy Walker said. “It’s a role I&rs...

Bill Rappleye, first elected in 2009, has already begun his second four-year term on the council.  Prior to his first term, he had served on Draper’s planning commission for 10 years, four of which he was the chairman.  “It wa...