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Life In Bits: Where is the pony express when you need it?

<span><span>I have friends back East–in New York, Connecticut, and Boston–who spent this week braving and then attempting to recover from Hurricane Sandy. Electricity is shot, roads are blocked and flooded, family is separated. Some are safe and warm, others are ...

Abroad on vacation, an A.F. reporter gets a glimpse of evil

NATZWILLER, France -- Ask the residents of this small town nestled against the Vosges mountains in the heart of France, and they will describe the U.S. as the country of all extremes: mammoth hurricanes, gravity-defying skyscrapers and a Grand Canyon-size income gap. In the local press, which ...

Life In Bits: Story time: a Halloween-y romance

I don't know about you but I love a good weird story around this time of year. So do my blog partners from my writing blog (www.threegnomes.com). So a little while back we decided to each write an unusual romantic short story for our readers. Mine came out a little, er, warped. And it seemed ...

An American Fork mom the next Mrs. America?

An American Fork wife, mother of five and the current Mrs. Utah Valley, is preparing to compete for the Mrs. Utah America title, which recognizes Utah’s married women and is the official state preliminary to the prestigious Mrs. America pageant.Kirsty Stalder, 35, a former runner-up to Miss ...

Citizen news from 50, 60, 70 and 80 years ago

<strong>Published Thursday, Oct. 25, 1962</strong>In the Alpine School District 677 students were graduated in June 1961. Of that number, 286 or 49%, went on to a Junior College or a University; 52 or 7% attended Vocational Schools and 6 or 1% entered the Armed ...

Life in Bits: A treatise on sweaters

<p style="text-align: left;">Do you know what my favorite word in the English language is? "Sweater." Yep. Love it. Why? Well, first of all, the word is functional. I mean, look at it: <em>Sweater</em>. The name literally means what it does: it makes ...