Elevate, Inspire, and Inform the Cedar Valley Community
On June 23rd, 2020 the Planning Commission held a public hearing for a conditional use permit for a 7-11 in the Porter’s Crossing area. The Planning Commission approved the proposal with a 5-0 vote. There has been some heated discussion on the topic and several resident groups submitted papers and research either opposed to or…
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The CDC website says that the Spanish Flu of 1918 had a huge effect on the United States, and the Cedar Valley was no exception. “Between September and November, a second wave of flu peaks in the United States. This second wave is highly fatal, and responsible for most of the deaths attributed to the…
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The Eagle Mountain City Council on June 16th, 2020 will be discussing the possibility of the annexation of approximately 204.69 acres. The process of annexation will incorporate (territory) into an existing political unit such as a country, state, county, or city. In this case, the acreage will be moved from the jurisdiction of Utah County…
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Again, we would like to highlight a very talented Eagle Mountain Resident. Bill Louis is an Eagle Mountain resident that has taken art to a very public and large scale. Bill and his wife Loni moved to Eagle Mountain two and a half years ago. Their four children, ages 11, 9,6, and 5 go to…
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Jasper Savage/Hulu/Channel 4 Nick Chater, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick Margaret Atwood’s novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, described the horror of the authoritarian regime of Gilead. In this theocracy, self-preservation was the best people could hope for, being powerless to kick against the system. But her sequel, The Testaments, raises the possibility that individuals, with…
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During the June 2, 2020, Eagle Mountain City Council meeting, Councilmember Burnham expressed her public support for the Black Lives Matter movement. After some technical difficulties and comments from the Mayor and other City Council members, Burnham made the following statement. The transcript of the video is below. I don’t usually do this, but every…
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The local citizen activist group, Eagle Mountain Residents Against Developer Misrepresentation (EMRADM), has made waves recently having filed more than 100 complaints with Kroft Foods, Inc., citing misrepresentation by developer EagleBuild67, LLC., over their most recent development, the Hidden Valley Ranches (HVR). HVR is a planned residential development south of Hidden Hollow Elementary, off of…
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Recently Eagle Mountain City created a virtual Main Street on its website. This main street is open to Eagle Mountain businesses and has the ability to allow vendors to sell products as well as a booking service. You can go to the virtual Main Street by following this URL: https://eaglemountaincity.com/mainstreet/. I added Cedar Valley Sentinel…
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The year 2020 has been a rough ride for the graduates of 2020. This year they are split between two high schools. The older Westlake High School (home of the Thunder) and the new Cedar Valley High School (home of The Aviators). Usually, the graduates would fill a huge auditorium on the BYU campus. But…
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Justin Thomas Strasburg was arrested in Saratoga Springs in the evening for May 19, 2020. Thomas was arrested after using a U-Haul truck to steal garage doors from construction sites to install in other people’s garages. During his interview, he said he was responsible for stealing eight different garage doors. They were stolen from Vineyard,…
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