Ballard News

The Food Network will be filming two local food purveyors at the Ballard Farmers Market this Sunday.

Eastside Duchesne County water users were eager to find out more about a proposed pipeline project that would bring a new source of culinary water and new costs to many communities.

Uintah County stands to benefit from tax benefits for businesses, new or struggling, through a Utah Enterprise Zone program.

Public Meeting When: Thursday, Nov. 12, at 6 p.m. Where: Roosevelt City municipal building What: A discussion about plans for a Starvation Reservoir water pipeline and its proposed costs.

A car struck a man crossing the street in front of St. Paul's Church on 65th St.

On Nov. 7 the Sixth Annual Crown Hill Arts Festival will offer Ballardites a chance to see a wide array of performances, from flamenco to African drumming, and alert neighbors as to what is going on artistically in the community.

In The Field House, the new store by Blackbird owner Nicole Miller, shelves have been slapped together with boards, produce bumps up against flannel shirts sitting near a collection of antlers, and there may or may not be some butter churning in the future.

A judge has released a 17-year-old Vernal girl from jail after ruling she did not commit a crime when she allegedly paid a man to beat her in an attempt to miscarry her seven-month-old fetus.

A man wanted by Colorado police for allegedly stealing a truck and burglarizing a liquor store was arrested following a brief police chase.

Christian Bale as young JG Ballard in Empire of the Sun, the Steven Spielberg film loosely based on Ballard's time in a Shanghai interment camp.

Sonora Grill head chef Chris Mortensen and owner Steve Ballard. Ballard said the restaurant is thriving in spite of the recession.

Utah Opera's Deer Valley performance with ABBA tribute band Waterloo. Only Robbie Dalley had wit enough, as judged by the arts organization's social media committee, to turn the '70s Swedish trio's song titles into critical barbs as he sent Feedback status updates to his friends.

Interesting synchronicity in the literary pages last week. First, from Jonathan Lethem's review of JG Ballard's complete short stories : Ballard was, unmistakably, a literary futurist, at ease in the cold ruins of the millennium a lifetime sooner than the rest of us; his passing registered as a disorienting claim of time upon the timeless.

The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard . An utterly amazing book in an amazing book season.

Instead, through a series of compelling histories - " almost architectural biographies - " Hollis guides us through accretions of structure, meaning and politics in which architecture appears as the most adaptable of the arts, shifting as it is reused, reinterpreted and restored.

Uintah Schools Superintendent Charlie Nelson explains the situation with transportation and the district's planned involvement in Union High School to parents in Ballard.

Luckily this " Jeff Sullivan" guy on Flickr recorded a good portion of the night with his HD camera.

"Dr. Pek van Andel was a natural choice to investigate how somebody had attached a dried bull's penis to the Oxford ox." a DID YOU KNOW THAT VIDEO IS A PR0N?: This is a scientist-made porno movie called "Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Male and Female Genitals During Coitus and Female Sexual Arousal." It's maker, Dr.

Gary and Michele Ballard Southern Utah Voices We do not know the name of the helicopter pilot that spotted the fire on the peak of the mountain and dowsed it with water to stop the spread.

Gary and Michele Ballard Southern Utah Voices We do not know the name of the helicopter pilot that spotted the fire on the peak of the mountain and dowsed it with water to stop the spread.