In a surprise announcement, Canyons School District Superintendent David S. Doty told the Board of Education April 16 that he will resign effective June 30 to lead an academic consulting and reform firm. Doty has served in his position five years. T...
Hundreds of high school students are getting ready for commencement exercises. Alta High’s and Jordan High’s graduations are both set for June 6. Alta High school’s graduation will be at 10 a.m., Thursday, June 6 at the UCCU Cente...
About 40 fourth- through sixth-grade American Preparatory Academy students were doing double-unders and double-Dutch with jump ropes recently at a school-wide assembly. Peers were clapping and cheering when not only the student team jumped to the mu...
It’s not “to be or not to be” for Alta High School’s theatre department. It’s “to be” for the students who have won the back-to-back state championship. At the April 13 competition in South Jordan, the schoo...
The Fisher House provides a “home away from home” for veterans receiving medical treatment at the nearby VA Hospital, in Salt Lake City and their families and operates entirely on donations. St. John Director of Advancement Nevah Stevenso...
Two Draper students earned top awards April 20 in the visual arts category at the state Reflections contest. Oak Hollow fourth-grader Grace Moore won the intermediate, or third- through fifth-grade competition, and Willow Springs second-grader Garek...
About 5,000 visitors will be expected to enjoy carnival rides, look at classic cars and listen to country, pop and rock music over the three-day St. John the Baptist parish’s 14th annual Festival of Roses. The Festival of the Roses, held tradi...
He was talking to his teacher about competing in the school’s geography bee, when his social studies teacher Helen McNally asked seventh-grader Ethan Foreman to sign up for the history bee at the same time.  The result of that decision mad...
About 90 Draper Elementary choir students will perform “Peter Pan” in April. Third- through sixth-grade students will perform the musical twice.  On Wednesday, April 10, there will be a 9:15 a.m. performance and on Thursday, April 1...
American Preparatory sixth-grader Baylor Jeppsen wanted to find out more about the sweet spot in his baseball bat. His science project “Sting in the Swing” resulted in first place in the physics, astronomy and math category among the 300 ...
Barrett, who is holding the winning $50 gift card that will be used to provide teachers snacks during parent-teacher conferences, is pictured with fifth-grade teacher Shannon Hart, Assistant Principal Shawn Walker, sixth-grade teacher Tori Peterson, ...
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