"We screwed up," admitted Mayor Laurel Brady at the Aug. 6 Mapleton City Council meeting. "We screwed up and need to apologize to the people," said City Council member Mike Cobia. The issue was water rates and the council room was packed with citizens anxious to voice their concerns at water bills that suddenly showed a huge increase.

Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) announced today that he will be sponsoring three seminars on the upcoming transition to digital television along the Wasatch Front.

It is now a well known fact that many, if not most, retirees--or about-to-be retirees--are having to rethink and/or augment their retirement plans and accounts because those plans and accounts are being hijacked by inflation these days--by things like the rising cost of energy, gasoline, food and many other things.

Hole-in-one

Kirsten Alder got a hole-in-one on hole #16 from 120 yards at Hobble Creek Golf Course. It was witnessed by Darren Alder and Robert D. Alder.