LAYTON -- Jangling bells, lively dance steps and colorful books are important tools that can push forward the learning process, even for such subjects as language arts, science and math.

About 130 elementary school teachers in the Davis School District danced and painted and perused the narrative voices in children's literature Monday to test that hypothesis during the annual Fine Arts Academy at the Davis Conference Center.

KAYSVILLE — Several recent meetings between the Davis School Board and county officials may be laying the groundwork for economic development while drawing fire from a local taxpayer advocate.

BOUNTIFUL -- LaMar Taylor is convinced that there are methods to parenting that really work. He'd like to see the methods that don't -- those that enable bad behaviors and damage good kids -- become a thing of the past.

LAYTON -- Like to draw but can't? Have family, friends and pets? Mix in heavy doses of the three P's -- practice, patience and perseverance -- and you, too, could be an illustrator.