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from the Department of Journalism & Communication
January 28, 2013
All the Local News:
Cough! Cough! Cache Valley’s air pollution among worst in the nation; vehicle emission testing planned; NLogan taxpayers mad over $99M school plan; Providence-County fight over school closure plan; more from Sundance 2013; the Eagles still aloft; Aggie TV News . . . and more.
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INVERSION ART? Valley ice fog recedes below the Wellsvilles, leaving a frosty wonderland. TED PEASE photo
CACHE VALLEY & UTAH NEWS
Cough! County to impose emissions testing, but pollution will linger
By Curtis Lundstrom LOGAN—With a dense smog covering Cache Valley, many residents are concerned about the health effects of air pollution—the worst air pollution in the United States in recent weeks, according to federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The Cache County Council discussed emissions testing again last week, and may adopt the emissions testing plan as soon as Feb. 12, says County Executive Lynn Lemon. “If not, then at the Feb. 26 meeting,” he said, but “it’s not going to fix the problem—that’s the hard part.”
• Utah air pollution makes NBC nightly news
North Logan parents give school board an earful on new high school
NORTH LOGAN—As Mike Liechty stood in front of more than 100 parents Wednesday night in the North Park elementary school gym, faces turned from curious to furious. Liechty, deputy superintendent of the Cache County School District, delivered a 45-minute presentation outlining the district’s plan to build a new high school in Millville, a new elementary school in Lewiston and a new middle school in North Logan, as well as renovating and reorganizing many other schools. The plan will cost taxpayers $99.8 million over the next 20 years.
Rejected by Sundance, moviemaker’s ‘Depression’ a sign of the times
By Dani HayesPARK CITY—Unconventional director Marc Fignon marched up and down Park City’s Main Street Saturday holding a gigantic, yellow sign. “I’m Depressed,” it said. The Sundance Film Festival had not accepted his movie “The Great Depression,” but he was getting plenty of attention anyway with his protest against the “Sundance way of going about.”
Paradise Valley Orchards will offer vegetables this season
By Dawn Otterby
PARADISE — Preparing for his third harvest season, Paradise Valley Orchard owner Lorin Harrison says the orchard is ready to expand. In addition to producing apples, eggs and apple cider, this summer the U-pick orchard will begin producing vegetables.
Providence Council says unanimous no to school district’s plans
By Paul Christiansen PROVIDENCE—Mayor Ronald Liechty was recently informed by Superintendent Steven Norton of Cache County School District’s plans to close Providence Elementary and relocate its students to Spring Creek Middle School. The Providence City Council unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday asking the Cache County School District to reconsider, but Liechty says the county’s not listening. “I asked if they would reconsider not closing that school. In my opinion he (Norton) laughed at us. Their minds are made up and whatever you tell them, it’s in one ear and out the other.”
USU NEWS
Quadside concert series will continue this semester with local talent
LOGAN—Aggie Radio and the Quadside Café will continue their Quadside Concert Series this semester, kicking off the string of performances on Thursday with local musician Riley Holgate.
Aggie TV News: Worst air in U.S., Dillard’s is closing, guns, dogs & sports & more
By the ATV News Staff
LOGAN—In the first newscast of 2013, ATV News reports on:
• Dillard’s closes at the Logan Mall.
• Local response to possible moves toward gun control, and the Sandy Hook school massacre.
• It’s Arts Week at USU, and “Whispers of Silence,” a new sculpture by USU art professor Ryoichi Suzuki, is dedicated outside the Agricultural Sciences Building in freezing temps.
REVIEWS
Review: More like the unnecessary death of a good cast in a bad movie
By Katie Swain
PARK CITY—Fredrik Bond, director of “The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman,” walked onto the Eccles Theater stage at Sundance Film Festival on Tuesday, frazzled and confused, half-eaten apple in hand, admitting he was very hung over. While Bond was unable to answer several of the audience’s questions concerning his movie, he did inadvertently answer the bigger question of why his movie was so unbearably bad.
Review: A glimpse inside the ultra-private Orthodox Jewish world
By Dani Hayes PARK CITY—Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Hasidic communities have been practically invisible to the world. Rama Burshtein, a Hasidic Jew herself, wanted to give her people a voice and the result is “Fill the Void,” which offers outsiders a look at the strictly conservative and secluded life she chooses to live.
The Eagles land at Sundance with new documentary of a 41-year run
PARK CITY—For more than a decade, the Sundance Film Festival has been a popular scene for concerts and movies featuring musicians, with artists and bands such as Sammy Hagar, Metallica, Slash and U2 headlining at the annual arts fest. Sundance 2013 continues that tradition, with the top-selling American band of all time, The Eagles, launching their documentary “The History of the Eagles: Part 1” during the opening weekend.
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