Alpine

Precinct caucuses Tuesday -- Utahns will meet in precinct caucus meetings Tuesday at 7 p.m. to select precinct leaders and name delegates to county and state party conventions.

In its 31st year, the Miss Drill Team Utah pageant has a new claim to fame: the first time a daughter has replicated her mother's achievement.

Lone Peak High School

The Cedar Hills City Council tweaked its appointment powers for the Planning Commission and Board of Adjustments March 4, downgrading the mayor's role in the process.

Family is an important word in the local community; and for James and Laura Trinnaman, family is their business. The couple has been running an adoption agency since 2001 in American Fork. They currently operate under the name Families for Children, an agency which has been well established in Salt Lake since 1984. The Trinnamans are currently in the process of breaking off and opening For Every Child Adoption Services.

Timberline Middle School and Mountain Ridge Junior High each held their annual Grand Concerts last Friday and Saturday evening.

Students from northern County schools gathered Feb. 26 at Mountainville Academy for their annual patriotic assembly. In addition to the patriotic theme presented by VFW Post 4918, students also received awards for the Patriot's Pen Essay Contest.

Lone Peak High School

For Alpine resident Michael Kennedy, "Emma Smith: My Story," a biographical film about the wife of Joseph Smith, the founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is more than a movie.

Newspaper captures honors -- North County Newspapers won a handful of awards in the Utah Press Association Better Newspaper Contest. Awards were presented Saturday at the association's annual convention in St. George.

The stink from the north county sewer plant has been reported from up to eight miles away, and recently caused some local business people to send employees home early.

The Salt Lake City law firm BTJD has expanded to include a satellite office in Alpine. Seven of the 33 attorneys in the firm live in Utah County and will work from the northern Utah County office.