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Bear Lake area
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| Brigham City |
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Bryce Canyon Natl. Park
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Capitol Reef Natl. Park
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| Cedar City |
| 97.3 |
| Delta |
| 89.5 |
Emery County
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| Escalante |
| 93.5 |
| Fillmore |
| 106.9 |
| Hanksville |
| 91.9 |
| Jensen |
| 89.7 |
| Levan |
| 91.9 |
| Milford |
| 90.7 |
| Montpelier |
| 95.7 |
| Ogden |
| 89.5 |
| Panguitch |
| 88.7 |
| Parowan |
| 89.5 |
| Price |
| 91.5 |
| Provo |
| 88.7 |
Randolph
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| Richfield |
| 91.5 |
| Roosevelt |
| 100.1 |
| Saint George |
| 90.9 |
| Soda Springs ID |
| 90.5 |
| Tabiona |
| 106.3 |
| Teasdale |
| 94.5 |
| Vernal |
| 91.5 |
| Washington County |
| 89.1 |
Zion National Park
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RATTLESNAKES IN THE WASATCH FRONT
Reported by Sheri Quinn
Rattlesnakes in the Wasatch Front are leaving their dens right now to hunt. They are less likely to bite in the Spring, they are focused on getting food. The Great Basin rattlesnake is the only species of rattlesnake that lives in the Wasatch Front. They are abundant but their populations have decreased dramatically.
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BRAIN DAMAGE
Reported by Kerry Bringhurst
Nearly half of Traumatic Brain Injury accidents in Utah occur in rural communities. Utah State University’s Center for Person’s with Disabilities (435-797-8810) and the Brain Injury Association of Utah (800-281-8442) have received funds to oversee a pilot project to study Traumatic Brain Injury services. The second in a series on Traumatic Brain Injury and what one Disability Service Coordinator is doing to prepare for the influx of veterans with ware related TBI.
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SPACE GARDEN
Reported by Sheri Quinn
Scientists from Russia, NASA, and Utah gathered at the Space Dynamics Laboratory in Logan, Utah recently to study how plants in outer space can benefit humans both physically and mentally.
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UNIVERSITY SMOKING
Reported by Kerry Bringhurst
Members of Associate Students at Utah State University have voted to support a plan to ban the use and sale of tobacco products on the campus. Utah Public Radio’s Kerry Bringhurst says the ban would be the first on at a Utah institution of higher education.
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USU SHUTTLE MISSION
Reported by Sherri Quinn
Utah State University is part of an international space shuttle mission scheduled to launch tomorrow morning before dawn. Astronauts aboard the shuttle Endeavour will deliver experiments designed at a USU physics laboratory to the International Space Station.
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PRISON EDUCATION
Reported by Kerry Bringhurst
Members of the state legislative education appropriations committee have voted to provide partial funding used to train inmates in the Utah state prison system.
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SPIRAL JETTY
Reported by Sheri Quinn
Utah's Spiral Jetty is one of the world's most important works of land art. A proposal to drill for oil in the Great Salt Lake, five miles away from the immense basalt rock earthwork has set off an international alarm.
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IRIS Training
Reported by Kerry Bringhurst
Research to determine the best methods of training teachers has led a Utah based company to develop a virtual instructor that is receiving national attention. Utah Public Radio’s Kerry Bringhurst brings us this report from North Logan.
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KRCL Renovation
Reported by Sheri Quinn
Krcl community radio station 90.9 in Salt Lake City and now on 90.5fm in Logan --is getting a makeover. In an effort to increase listenership along the Wasatch Front, the station is replacing its 20 plus weekday volunteer programmers with three paid DJ's. The decision announced last week was met with both ambivalence and outrage among volunteers. Some say it puts the meaning of "community" in community radio into question.
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SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
Reported by Sheri Quinn
The Sundance film festival wraps up this Sunday. Staged each winter in the snowy mountain town of Park City, Utah, Sundance is America’s premiere showcase for independant movies. Out of the 207 films being shown at Sundance this year, 47 are foreign productions. One of them, “Dinner With The President: A Nation’s Journey,” explores the prospects for democracy in one of the most populous Muslim countries in the world, Pakistan.
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PORT 15 UTAH
Reported by Kerry Bringhurst
Utah Trust Land planners says a development project incorporating an in-land railway port could eventually bring in as much as $10 million dollars a year to the fund used to help educate the state’s public school children.
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STATE CAPITOL RESTORATION
Reported by Kerry Bringhurst
Utah State Capitol restoration and renovation celebrations continued through January 12, 2008. The $200 million dollar project includes unique safety features along with several additional works of art. Utah Public Radio’s Kerry Bringhurst has more.
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UTAH STATE CAPITOL
Reported by Dan Bammes
A four year renovation of the Utah State Capitol is now complete. Dan Bammes reports the $230 million dollar project to the “People’s House” was designed to restore the structure to it’s original splendor.
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SEVIER POWER PLANT
Reported by Lee Austin
Developers of a coal fired power plant in South Central Utah have made gains in recent weeks. The Sevier County Planning and Zoniong Commission gave the project preliminary approval last week, and the State Division of Air Quality voted last month to uphold an earlier decision granting a license for the power plant. But as Lee Austin reports, the fight is far from over.
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NEW YEAR'S CELEBRATION
Like the New Year, all celebrations undoubtedly call for champagne. It's just so fabulous, festive and bubbly. And it's all thanks to the discovery that it's okay to keep one of fermentations byproducts, carbon dioxide. We sit down with the local owner of Vintage Wine Cellars to help us determine what makes a fine champagne.
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SHADOW OF CORRUPTION - 5 Part Series
Reported by Sheri Quinn
The Ache are one of the last remaining hunter/gatherer groups in the world. They live in a remote region of the endangered Atlantic rain forest in Eastern Paraguay in South America. The Ache are trying to protect a chunk of the rare forest called the Mbaracayú Reserve. Less than ten percent of intact rain forest remains in Paraguay and the deforestation rate continues at a rapid pace. The reserve is in severe jeopardy despite the allocation of international conservation funds to help protect it. With the help of two anthropologists, the Ache are trying to save what’s left of the reserve and adjacent forest, but they are faced with recent forest fires and constant corruption on the local and national levels.
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MENTAL HEALTH COURT pt.2
Reported by Kerry Bringhurst
Utah Public Radio Reporter Kerry Bringhurst discusses the impacts of incarcerating the mentally ill. This report includes comments from President of the Utah Jail Commanders Association, NAMI- Utah Executive Director, and a personal account from a twenty year old young man with a mental illness who now mentors youth in the Utah juvenile justice system.
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MENTAL HEALTH COURT pt.1
Reported by Kerry Bringhurst
More than one million inmates in the nation’s jails are estimated to have some type of mental illness. In an effort to address the problem, the Utah Legislature is providing seventy five thousand dollars of ongoing money to fund a juvenile mental health court in Box Elder, Cache, and Rich Counties.
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ROMNEY SPEECH ON RELIGION
In a speech delivered at the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum in College Station, Texas, Romney hoped to put aside the issue of his membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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HUNTSMAN DONATION
Utah Billionaire Jon M. Huntsman has donated 26 million dollars to Utah State University. The contribution is the largest private donation in the university’s history and will be used to fund programs and scholarships in the USU college of business. Utah State University President Stan Albrecht joined Dean Doug Anderson in naming the University’s business college the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business. Utah Public Radio’s Kerry Bringhurst has more.
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ID THEFT
Reported by Kerry Bringhurst
This January the Utah Attorney General's office will ask Utah lawmakers to pass legislation to fund a data base to help victims of identity fraud regain their personal credit.
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CULTURAL DIVERSITY
Reported by Sheri Quinn
Utah State University celebrates cultural diversity this week. A group gaining an increasing presence in Utah is Indian culture. There are about 9,000 Asian Indians in Utah and their population is on the rise. Just over half are of the Hindu faith. The Sri Ganesha Hindu temple of Utah, located in South Jordan in the Salt Lake Valley was built in 2003 as a central gathering place. Now they have plans to expand to meet their community’s growing needs.
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DEAF CULTURE SERIES Part 1
Reported by Kerry Bringhurst
Utah Public Radio features a series of reports on the deaf community. In the first of three reports Kerry Bringhurst tells us early detection technology can lead to a better beginning for the one in every seven infants experiencing a hearing loss.
DEAF CULTURE SERIES Part 2
Reported by Sheri Quinn
Since newborn hearing screening tests were implemented in the 1980s more children with hearing loss are getting access to hearing aides at an earlier age. The tests helped the Lichty family from Lehi, Utah detect hearing loss in their two youngest children soon after birth. Their conventional hearing aids weren't working. They needed a digital hearing aid called a Cochlear implant. Getting them was an uphill battle. They finally won last year and the victory changed their son Nathan's world.
DEAF CULTURE SERIES Part 3
Reported by Tom Williams
Some in the deaf community refuse to get a cochlear implant or other device for themselves or for their children. As they see it they are deaf and not disabled and don’t need to be fixed.
DEAF CULTURE SERIES Part 4
Reported by Tom Williams
A portion of a conversation with Freeman King, a Professor in the Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education at Utah State University. Many in the deaf community consider themselves as something like an ethnic or minority group, comparable, as they see it, to Hispanics or African Americans. They are proud of their unique language and culture. Freeman King talks about deaf culture and its unique language, values and customs.
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IMMIGRATION
Reported by Kerry Bringhurst
A Utah lawmaker is proposing comprehensive anti-illegal immigration legislation that he says is necessary to stem the flow of undocumented immigrants into Utah. Half a dozen similar bills failed in last years legislative session, but senator Bill Hickman believes this is the year.
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SCHOOL VOUCHERS
School vouchers have taken strong opinions and criticism and on October 31 it was our turn to discuss the topic. We invited Dr. Steven Laing, Coordinator of the Administrative/Supervisory Certificate Program at USU, and Lisa Johnson from Utahns for Public Schools to argue against. In favor we invited Patrick Byrne and Leah Barker from Parents for Choice in Education. For the last 20 minutes we invited callers to give their ideas, and they did.
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Utah’s school voucher program would provide up to three thousand dollars for families to send their children to private schools. That’s one fact – one of very few – that both sides of the debate agree on. Dan Bammes talked with officials at some of the real schools and with real families who could be affected by next week’s vote on the issue. Listen to the special.
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TRANSPORTATION TAX
Reported by Kerry Bringhurst
In preparation for elections on Tuesday, November 6, 2007 supports for and against various initiatives and proposals are posting signs along roadways and broadcasting advertisements over airways. Kerry Bringhurst reports alliances are being formed in several counties to designed to convince voters to support tax increases for transportation.
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EXPOSED
Reported by Jenny Brundin
Mary Dickson has been called an “accidental playwright.” But what happened to the Salt Lake writer at the age of 29 wasn’t an accident. The experience profoundly changed her life.and eventually led to Dickson’s first full-length play: “Exposed.” It opens tonight at the Rose Wagner Theatre. The docudrama is Dickson’s journey investigating the human costs of the nuclear fallout that blanketed Utah in the 1950s and 60s.
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MARIO CAPECCHI
Reported by Sheri Quin
The 2007 Nobel Prize in medicine has been awarded to a University of Utah scientist. Sheri Quin filed this report on Mario Capecchi and his pioneer work in gene targeting.
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St. GEORGE TOWN SQUARE DEDICATION
Reported by Kerry Bringhurst
The city of St. George will dedicate a new Town Square and Water Walk redevelopment project next week. UPR’s Kerry Bringhurst tells us the history of St. George is being commemorated in this unique project celebrating the heritage of Southwestern Utah. To find out more
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SPUTNIK
Reported by Sheri Quinn
The launch of the first artificial satellite by the Soviet Union fifty years ago changed the world. The anniversary of Sputnik is not only a celebration for humankind's first steps into outerspace, it's also a time to reflect on the beginning of space research in Utah. Ten years earlier, in 1947, Engineers and scientists in Utah were already probing the fringes of outerspace with German rockets. It was the catalyst for the thriving space program at Utah State University. Reporter Sheri Quinn has the story.
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RESCUE DOGS
Reported by Lee Austin
When police in Utah receive a missing persons report, someone lost on a camping trip or back country hike, they often call the Salt Lake City-based group Rocky Mountain Rescue Dogs. The rescue dogs and their volunteer handlers are highly trained, participating in group excercises or "workouts" each month. Goblin Valley State Park was the scene of September's "workout."
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MILFORD FLAT FIRE
Reported by Kerry Bringhurst
Cattlemen throughout Northern Utah will donate one hundred tons of hay to be delivered to ranchers in Beaver and Millard Counties. The donations were gathered this week and will be used to help offset loses of grazing and range land destroyed during the summer’s Milford Flat Fire. Kerry Bringhurst has more.
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CALIBRATION CONFERENCE
Reported by Sheri Quinn
Monitoring the earth's environment from outer space is becoming a national priority as the global warming trend continues. Over one hundred scientists from around world gathered on the campus of Utah State University in Logan this week for what's called the calibration conference. It's a highly specialized meeting focusing on gathering accurate data about global climate change as well as providing tools for national defense. Sheri Quinn has this report.
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USU ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT'S NEW FACILITY
Reported by Kerry Bringhurst
Construction on a 12.5 million dollar athletic facility at Utah State University is nearing completion. Utah Public Radio’s Kerry Bringhurst reports The Romney Stadium North End-Zone project features one of the top aquatic therapy programs in the nation. The public is invited to attend an open house for the Utah State University North End Zone project during Aggie homecoming week. Tours of the aquatic therapy center will be given on Saturday, September 22nd from noon to 2 p.m. prior to the USU Football game against San Jose State. Private showings of the facility can be arranged by calling the USU Athletic Department at (435)797-2060.
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DEMOLITION DERBY DANCE
Reported by Jenny Brundin
Five years ago, Erik Stern brought his parents to Ogden, Utah from Los Angeles. One was suffering from a form of dementia; the other was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. The experience of caring for them was bewildering, profound, and at times disturbing. Gradually, Stern – a professor of dance at Weber State University- began to create a dance-theater performance about the experience. As Jenny Brundin reports the performances entertains, engages, and informs.
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ELECTIONS SPECIAL
Reported by Kerry Bringhurst
A desire by employees in Northern Utah for a more rural lifestyle is leading to an increase in population and challenges for bedroom communities and their civic leaders. Utah Public Radio’s Kerry Bringhurst tells us upcoming election issues reflect a desire by candidates and voters in Providence, Utah to find ways to adjust to changes in their city.
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THREE CRANKY WOMEN - PIANO METHODS
Reported by Kerry Bringhurst
A music method program used for youth consortium programs at Utah State University and the University of Utah is receiving national attention. The pilot program for piano instructors and students was developed as a supplement to the traditional weekly piano lesson. Kerry Bringhurst tells us one of the nations foremost publishers of music training materials announced it will be publishing the program making it available through the country.
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LUNAR ECLIPSE
Reported by Sheri Quinn
A full lunar eclipse yesterday morning gave Utahns an uncommon sight of the moon. It's been several years since the last one was visible from Utah. A few hours before dawn, amateur astronomers gathered at Stansbury Park Observatory, half an hour west of Salt Lake City, to watch the event. Reporter Sheri Quinn has this audio portrait
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YOUTH MARKSMANSHIP EXCELLENCE - 2 PART
Story by Kerry Bringhurst
For Garrett Cranny from Paradise, Utah, aiming and taking his shot means much more than landing a trophy deer or elk. Like an increasing number of Utah youth, Cranny is aiming for a place among top shooters who compete throughout the nation for honors recognizing their marksman skills. Reporter Kerry Bringhurst relates.
HEAR THE STORY>> PART I PART II
USU SMALL SATELLITE CONFERENCE
Story by Sheri Quinn
It’s a wrap today for the 21st annual small satellite conference hosted by Utah State University. All week, attendees from the military, academia, aerospace industry and government agencies gathered to share ideas and explore emerging spacecraft technology. The conference is a place where deals get made and space travel becomes more common. Sheri Quinn has this report.
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TRAPPED IN THE MINE
Story by Jenny Brundin
 It has been a long 10 days for the people in the coal mining towns near Crandall Canyon, Utah... where six miners are trapped underground. With each passing day, residents are struggling to stay optimistic. But they say, even if there’s the slimmest chance the men are still alive, that prayer, personality, and the humor intrinsic to the mining culture will be crucial to their survival. UPR reporter Jenny Brundin shares the latest from her visits with the people from these close-knit communities.
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NUNS
Story by Sheri Quinn
Just a few miles down the road from the federal prison where executions take place in Indiana, there's a twelve hundred acre wooded sanctuary. It's St. Marry of the Woods College, and it's the oldest Catholic Womens' school in America. Sheri Quinn has this story.
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AFFORDABLE HOUSING ASSISTANCE
Story by Kerry Bringhurst
It's a fact that when you call upon a public service organization like the neighborhood nonprofit housing corporation for assistance, you need to be prepared to share personal information about your family and your income. But keep in mind you'll be among a fast-growing number of hopeful home owners required to share this information if you request to be placed on the waiting list for affordable housing assistance. Kerry Bringhurst reports.
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SCHOOLS REQUIRE DRUG TESTING
Story by Kerry Bringhurst
Recent policy change has resulted in mandatory drug testing for students attending Mountain Crest and Sky View high schools that wish to participate in any sports-related activities. The test will screen for at least eleven illegal substances, including cocaine, methadone, PCP, marijuana, and alcohol. Kerry Bringhurst reports.
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INTERNATIONAL HARP FESTIVAL
Story by Dan Bammes
 Some of the world’s finest harp players are in Salt Lake City this week for an international harp festival at Westminster College. This is the second time the festival has come to Utah, putting a spotlight on a state that has become a center of the harp world. Dan Bammes reports.
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NIRLC - LAUNCHING FOR A SECOND YEAR
Story by Sheri Quinn
AGING OUT OF FOSTER CARE
Story by Tasha Cook
Teens aging out of Utah's foster care system numbered more than three hundred last year alone. When these children leave foster care at age 18, they face daunting obstacles. They lack family support. They have no place to live. They have almost no money. Most are poorly-prepared to live on their own. This year's "Kids Count" report looks at the unique challenges facing these young adults. Tasha Cook has this report.
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ROWING ACROSS THE PACIFIC
Story by Jenny Brundin
If the winds and tides are just right next week, British rower Roz Savage will launch from the San Francisco harbor, bidding to be the first woman to row across the Pacific Ocean alone – a two year journey. She wants to prove that ordinary people can do extraordinary things. And it won’t be the first time – last year she rowed the Atlantic alone. Reporter Jenny Brundin caught up with Savage in Utah on her way to California, and filed this profile. If you’d like to follow Roz Savage’s journey on-line, visit rozsavage.com.
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Milford Flat Fire
Story by Sheri Quinn
The Milford Flat fire in Central Utah is 40 percent contained. It continues to burn and has scorched at least 360,000 acres. The wildfire is so big that it would take at least 6 hours to drive around the perimeter. Wildfires are common to this area, but changing weather patterns and the spread of cheatgrass are making them more frequent and more intense. Though it's a desolate landscape, the Milford Flat area is the home of hundreds of rural Utahns. Sheri Quinn has the story.
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ONEIDA NARROWS
Story by Lee Austin
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is continuing its review of a proposed hydroelectric dam on the Bear River in Franklin County Idaho. Many of the project’s opponents have submitted documentation to “FERC.” Last weekend, opponents employed music and poetry in hopes of stopping the dam. Lee Austin reports.
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CHOIR VS CICADA ARMY
Story by Sandy Hausman
Sandy Hausman reports on what happened when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir came to suburban Chicago, where an outdoor concert space was faced with a unique challenge this summer -- the arrival of millions of cicadas. Many performances were moved indoors or rescheduled, but the choir would not be moved.
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A TASTE OF LITTLE INDIA
Story by Tom Williams
The only Indian restaurant in Logan is in a part of town some call Little India, well off of Main Street and in the middle of student apartments near USU. Something fascinating and unusual about Little India stems from the authentic restaurant known as the Indian Oven.... Tom Williams reports.
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ANTARCTIC PHOTOGRAPHY
Story by Jenny Brundin
If you knew you might one day go blind, would you become a photographer? Indeed, a photographer who voyages to the Antarctic? That describes David C. Schultz, one of Utah’s most accomplished nature photographers. The Heber City resident’s latest exhibit features photographs from his recent expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic – where he captured the elegant beauty of massive icebergs and the rich wildlife of the poles. Jenny Brundin has this profile.
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ENERGY CONVERSION
Story by Dan Bammes
 Energy comes in many forms - among them heat, sound, and electricity. Research at the University of Utah is demonstrating how to make use of sound to convert waste heat from smokestacks or even computer chips into electricity. Dan Bammes explains how it could become part of a more efficient energy future.
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JAPANESE BEETLES IN OREM, UTAH
Story by Dan Bammes
The Utah Department of Agriculture and Food has declared an insect infestation emergency covering much of the west side of Orem. In retaliation, the Department is about to begin a campaign to eradicate Japanese beetles in Orem, the main cause of the infestation. The state is also imposing a three-year ban on home gardens in the immediate area.
Pheromone trap for
Japanese beetles
18TH ANNUAL USU PHYSICS DAY
Story by Robin Sussingham
USU'S 117TH COMMENCEMENT
Commencement Ceremony - May 5
Utah State University’s 117th undergraduate commencement ceremony which took place on May 5 in the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum at USU is available for listening online. USU President Stan L. Albrecht moderated the ceremony, and The Very Reverend Frederick Quinney Lawson, Dean of St. Mark’s Cathedral in Salt Lake City, gave the commencement address.
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