Watercolorist Jason Carpenter grew up in Pleasant Grove and lives in Taylorsville. He came home for Strawberry Days and brought three art pieces to the Fine Arts Show.

If you step foot into any tourist land, just expect the price of everything to double, if not triple. Gas for your car, milk for your children, hamburgers for your lunch and a salad for dinner, can easily run you in the ballpark of $100 a day or more, depending on the size of your family.

Arthur L. Olson has been recognized for 38 years of military service in the United States Army and the Utah Army National Guard.

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Soaring oil prices aren't only hurting people at the pump and at the supermarket with higher food prices based on transportation costs, they soon may be affecting the very streets and roads Orem residents drive on.

As of 7 a.m. on June 28, Pleasant Grove has a full-time fire department.

A few years ago we bought a game of Labyrinth Jr. for the grandkids -- just one piece in our ongoing campaign to make ours the funnest home ever. The game is built around a board that slides to and fro, so that the path your pieces must take is constantly changing.

Families from all over Utah County arrived last week at the SCERA Shell's Ellis Island in the Park experience with very little in hand and left with a great awe of what their ancestors faced in coming to America.