Tooele County School District Superintendent Mike Johnsen will retire next month after three years as superintendent and 40 years with the district as a high school teacher, coach and administrator.

Chances are you have probably written a check at the grocery store, mailed bills from your mailbox, shopped online and casually discarded credit card offers before without giving these matters a second thought. And that is just what identity thieves would like you to do.

Tooele County plans to issue a $3 million bond to fund the expansion of Deseret Peak Complex with the hope that the expanded facilities can pay for themselves over time.

These days, green is in. And the move to become more environmentally conscious has now come to include the racing circuit in the American Le Mans Series, which rolls into Miller Motorsports Park this weekend for the Utah Grand Prix.

The Tooele County Fair has been brought back under the big top of Tooele County in a move to save money and return the event to its traditional roots.

The West Elementary School Lions had a goal to walk across Africa on a safari, a total of 9,000 miles, this year. The students at Ibapah School had a goal to walk 700 miles to visit Glacier National Park. Both schools ended up walking much farther than they expected.

The Midvalley Highway, which has been in the making since 1996, has been pushed back another year as engineers work to finalize a route for the project.

Tracks Brewing Company is commemorating Armed Forces Day this Sunday with the sixth-annual Armed Forces Car, Truck, and Bike Show and $1,000 Poker Run along with Miller Motorsports Park, the Utah National Guard, Operation Give and Utah's largest World War II private military collection in association with the Utah Grand Prix.

After more than 30 years spent in its now-aged and overcrowded building, the Tooele Veterinary Clinic will be moving into a new Stansbury Park location, scheduled to be built this year.

Ophir will emerge from its winter hibernation this weekend with the annual opening of the Ophir Historic District.

Utah's infamous allergy season is running rampant in the Tooele Valley with the pollen not likely to stop kicking around until the beginning of winter.

The State Board of Education approved the application for the first-ever charter school in Tooele County last Friday.

The race season at Miller Motorsports Park gets underway in full this weekend with the American LeMans Series Larry H. Miller Dealerships Utah Grand Prix, but many local businesses say they've already gotten an economic boost from the track heading into the summer tourism season

The head judge of the 3rd District Court in Utah says many judges don't want to work in Tooele because a posting in the town means being the only judge handling a large, and at times complex, calendar of both civil and criminal cases.

A Grantsville High student was arrested and booked into the Tooele County Jail after attempting to break into Williams Family Drug in Grantsville through the roof early Saturday morning.

When former Tooele Mayor Bob Swan passed away in February, Dan Tuttle stepped up to the plate on Capitol Hill as Tooele County's lone local lobbyist, keeping track of bills that could impact the county. His work pinch hitting in the middle of the session impressed county commissioners enough to give him the job permanently last week.

At first I thought a documentary about elderly people singing "I Wanna Be Sedated" by the Ramones wouldn't turn out so well. But after realizing Young @ Heart was an actual chorus that met regularly and had some talent, I didn't think it would be so bad. Now, I know it's the best documentary I have seen all year -- although there haven't been many -- and is a really great movie all around.

The lobby and hallways at the school district office were filled with examples of students' work. There were cedar chests, chess boards, bed frames, signs done in metalwork, food, computers, diagrams on how to draw blood, business plans, marketing displays, and much more.