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Austin Campbell (left) and Joseph DeTemple discuss the homemade accelerometer on Cole Orban’s arm during Physics Day at Lagoon on Friday. Students created the devices to measure gravitational forces while they rode the roller coaster. (BENJAMIN ZACK/Standard-Examiner)

Fair at Lagoon proves to students: Physics is amusing

Last updated Saturday, May 18, 2013 - 12:38am

FARMINGTON — Josh Farah dipped his finger deep into the plastic jar of marshmallow cream and cleared room for his raw egg.

The 17-year-old from Alta High encouraged his friends to also have a taste even though he was in a hurry. In addition to having an entry in the egg-drop contest, his group also had an entry in a logo design competition for a future physics fair day held at Lagoon.

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Amy Church holds up a certified check for the amount of $797.15 that children raised during a bake sale to help save their librarian’s job in Ogden at the Ogden School District board meeting on Thursday. “I know this is a far cry from the $990,000 that is needed to retain them,” she said, “but this is strong evidence of what the citizens of Ogden want.” See video of the board meeting at www.standard.net

Ogden School Board faces anger over cutbacks

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, May 17, 2013 - 11:29am

OGDEN — Parents, librarians, former principals and teachers, and a few current students crowded into the Ogden School District’s board meeting Thursday night, many awaiting their chance to express their disappointment to the board and district officials about recent cost-cutting actions sparked by a $2.7 million budget deficit.

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Staff Sgt. Nick Bricker (right) pulls a Humvee during the fitness challenge organized by the Hill Air Force Base 75th Security Forces Squadron as part of National Police Week Thursday in Layton.

‘Rock Hard Cop Physical Challenge’ held at Hill for National Police Week

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, May 17, 2013 - 1:07am

HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Air Force Airman 1st Class Lydia Tejera learned she has to be ready for anything, including pulling a 2,000-pound Humvee.

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$BENJAMIN ZACK/Standard-Examiner Tiyah Adams smiles as she receives her first-place medal in the fifth-grade Krypto competition at the Math and Science Olympiad at Roy High School on Tuesday. Krypto, a math-based card game, is one of numerous events that students from around Weber School District participate in each year.$

Math and Science Olympiad held at Roy High School

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 12:33am

ROY — Kymberley Peterson carefully cradled her shoebox with the balloon car inside as she listened for the results of the balloon-car derby Tuesday morning.

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A hiker, Kelly Rogers (in tank top), waits to be lowered Tuesday by Weber County Search and Rescue after he became injured, then disoriented, and spent several days on the North Ogden Divide above North Ogden. (NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner)

Injured hiker may have been on Divide 3 days, officials say

Clayton Leuba Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 6:02am

NORTH OGDEN — Search and rescue officials on Tuesday participated in the rescue of a Weber County man who claimed to have been stranded on a hillside for three days after sustaining injuries and becoming disoriented on a hike near the North Ogden Divide.

Exactly how long Kelly Rogers, 43, waited to be rescued is still unclear.

Rogers told Weber County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue that he had been dropped off in the Nordic Valley area Sunday afternoon and suffered injuries to his knee and ankle after walking for some time.

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