Orem

Utah Valley University finally has a name to match its University Parkway address, and the street showed it yesterday.

An Orem man accused of killing a 13-month-old boy pleaded not guilty on Friday.

UVU TO CELEBRATE UNIVERSITY TRANSITION -- To help manage traffic during UVUphoria festivities celebrating Utah Valley State College's transition to Utah Valley University on Monday, College Drive between UVSC's roundabout at the intersection of University Parkway and Sandhill Road and the McKay Center will be closed from 4-7:30 p.m.

A controversial housing proposal will need to wait for a development agreement to be worked out between developers and the city before the project gets another look from the Orem City Council.

What is now an omni-present corporate clone where moms take their toddlers for a Happy Meal or commuters grab a breakfast sandwich was once the social epicenter of teenage life in Orem.

Upon a hilltop that once was the home of an Orem rodeo grounds and overlooking the city below, Orem city and Central Utah Water Conservancy District officials dedicated the new jointly funded $20 million water storage reservoir.

The Orem Friendship Center will be closed July 4 for Independence Day.

Codner graduates

With gasoline prices soaring do you support America using new domestic resources for petroleum offshore oil exploration, drilling in Alaska and accelerated development of oil shale here in Utah? Why or why not? For energy needs in general, what about revisiting nuclear energy?

"Yes. Whatever we need to do to get the gas prices down. I don't have a problem with [nuclear energy]. I think it needs to be done."

What is now a fast-food fixture where moms take their toddlers for a Happy Meal or commuters grab a breakfast sandwich was once the social epicenter of teenage life in Orem. That's right -- McDonald's.

When Orem Elementary's principal ran past some of his students during the school's April walkathon, they wondered aloud who the man was.

It's not too late for local youth to sign up for the fourth Annual National Youth Theatre Festival coming June 25-27 at the SCERA Center for the Arts in Orem.