The Logan Herald Journal

By raise of hands who thinks that Brandon is guilty?” Amy Nielson asks a group of Mountain Crest High School students after reading a story about a girl who said she was raped by another teenager after a school dance. Two of the students raise their hands. Full Story »

Utah State University is leading the way in a federally funded $4.6 million dollar geothermal drilling project in south central Idaho, an area with rich potential for this type of alternative energy. Full Story »

The architect and developer of a potential new senior center in Logan took the idea to the seniors themselves Monday morning. Full Story »

The Cache County Democratic Party wants its members to challenge the Independence Caucus. Full Story »

Sue Morgan plays with one of her sledding dogs at her home in Richmond Monday evening. Morgan, who teaches at USU, will be moving to Alaska. (Eli Lucero/Herald Journal) Full Story »

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Enrollment in the Cache and Logan school districts increased this year at a rate faster than the state as a whole. The Cache district increased enrollment by 444 students, a rise over last year of just over 3 percent. Full Story »

Jed Willets walks past the old Smithfield train station that he is restoring and will use as his office for Cache Heritage Reality Friday afternoon in Logan. Full Story »

HEBER — The Bureau of Land Management’s Extreme Mustang Makeover bills itself as a chance for “wild” to get “styled.” That’s a fair statement judging by the progress of 25 horses that participated in the makeover’s first Utah contest on Saturday. Full Story »

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A Hyrum man is behind bars charged with multiple counts of child sex abuse. Nathan Mylrea Teare was arrested Wednesday at his home at 720 S. 600 East in Hyrum. Court records show the 27-year-old faces eight counts of first-degree felony aggravated sexual abuse of a child. Full Story »

A Utah State University administrator has won nearly $1 million in USDA funding to continue research on the sheep genome — work that could help breed better animals. Full Story »

For awhile it looked like Mike Morrill might pull it off. The challenger led incumbent Mayor Randy Watts for much of the evening Tuesday as votes from central, south, west and north Logan were tallied. Full Story »

Pat Canning, a local property manager, couldn’t bring herself to include a box of “precious” personal effects from a Logan home in a garage sale, so she’s trying to find relatives of the couple who once lived there. Full Story »

Fully realizing that as a local columnist my target is local interests and issues, what has been perceived as a national concern this last year is now being felt here at home. Full Story »

PRESTON — Franklin County voters made it clear this week they don’t want higher property taxes in exchange for a new hospital, leaving hospital staff wondering how to meet the growing medical needs of a rising population. Full Story »

RICHMOND — Few things say Cache Valley more than cheese. The valley is home to giant cheese-making operations such as Gossner Foods and Schreiber, as well as cheese education at Utah State University. Full Story »

Shea Watrin looks for a book at the Hyrum Library Friday afternoon. (Eli Lucero/Herald Journal) More than two years after the Hyrum Library opened its doors, the city still owes roughly nearly $1.8 million on the facility. Full Story »

Ah, fall: Aggie football, brisk mornings, hunting season, fabulous fall colors, bugling elk, the smell of wood smoke from the neighbors’ wood stoves, and best of all — big, reckless, trout in the local rivers and streams. Full Story »

The parents have spoken, and the superintendent agrees: Sunrise, Summit, Greenville and North Park elementary schools should keep their current grade configurations. Full Story »

A $25 million proposal to join two major canals — including the waterway that ruptured this summer — generated more than an hour of questions Wednesday from shareholders concerned about the project’s cost and feasibility. Full Story »

Logan Assistant Fire Chief Will Lusk discusses the ordering process for the candy fundraiser to benefit the Sorensen family at the department's station in Logan Thursday. Full Story »

Candidates in three Cache County towns are still waiting to decisively say they won or lost Tuesday’s election after results yielded close final numbers. Full Story »

A Hyrum woman involved in a fatal car accident last April was sentenced to serve 90 days in the Cache County jail Wednesday after pleading no contest to a single count of reckless driving. Full Story »