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Ogden School District announces slew of administrative changes

Last updated Tuesday, May 1, 2012 - 5:41am

OGDEN — The Ogden School District has shuffled its deck of administrators, moving many around and discarding at least one, in hopes of building a winning hand to take the underperforming district into a more promising future.

Thirteen of the district’s 20 schools will see personnel changes.

Superintendant Brad Smith on Monday announced the hires for three new district positions created last month, and he named seven new principals and five new assistant principals, some new to the positions and others just moving between schools.

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Ogden junior highs to revamp honors programs

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 8:19pm

OGDEN — The three junior high schools in the Ogden School District are all on the same page — not just with each other, but with the high schools they feed into.

District officials have been meeting with the principals of all three junior high schools and their corresponding high schools since the fall to revamp the honors program and make sure the junior highs are properly preparing students for the high school programs.

Superintendent Brad Smith said the junior highs have all had honors programs of some sort for several years, but they haven’t been aligned with anything.

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Graciela Aparicio (top) helps Tirzah Probasco during a computer literacy class at Mount Ogden Junior High School.

Community classes help seniors become computer savvy

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - 12:18pm

OGDEN -- Debbie Daniel was pleased when she had to add two extra computer classes to her community schools roster at Mount Ogden Junior High School.

There is also a waiting list for the computer classes. Daniel oversees the evening classes for the school's community schools program. The extra bonus for her has been the number of adults age 50 and older who are rapidly signing up for the classes.

She loves visiting with the group as they come to the classes, which are taught by the school's teachers.

She has one 87-year-old class member who loves to talk about what he has learned.

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Ogden's community school offerings get ramped up

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, April 6, 2012 - 5:56pm

OGDEN — The first term of Mount Ogden Junior High’s community school was a huge success, so organizers are expanding offerings for the term that begins Tuesday.

“It’s what I was hoping for,” said Debbie Daniel, YMCA Community School coordinator.

The Computers 101 class drew the biggest crowd, with students ranging from age 41 to 86, she said. Daniel is adding a second session.

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Principal Lichelle Watne helps student Jared Quintana down the stairs to the cafeteria with a mobile chairlift at Hillcrest Elementary School in Ogden on Thursday. (NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner)

Chairlift helps Hillcrest Elementary student get to lunch

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 11:01pm

OGDEN — Jared Quintana’s journey to his Hillcrest Elementary School cafeteria used to take him and the person pushing his wheelchair out the front door, down a ramp, around the school through wind, rain or snow, up three stairs and into the back door of the basement lunchroom.

Now the second-grader simply rides “Jared’s machine.”

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DNA matches close a pair of '90s rape cases

Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, March 22, 2012 - 5:54am

OGDEN -- The defendant in the second of two late-1990s Ogden-area rape cases solved with DNA matches is up for sentencing as the State Crime Lab continues to churn through DNA databases.

Sergio Hernandez, 43, is to be sentenced April 19 in 2nd District Court for a Jan. 23, 1997, early morning rape that occurred behind Mount Ogden Middle School.

He was charged in September after DNA recovered from the crime scene and preserved was matched by the state crime lab with DNA recorded in a national database. Hernandez, formerly of Ogden, was held at the time in the Arkansas State Prison for a similar attack on a woman in that state in 2009.

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Julie Ann Johnson

Obituaries Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, March 12, 2012 - 4:32pm

Julie Ann Johnson, 52, died unexpectedly at her Layton home Saturday, March 10, 2012. A funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 17, at the LDS Stake Center, 1589 E. Gentile, Layton. Friends may visit at a viewing from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, March 16, at Lindquist’s Layton Mortuary, 1867 N. Fairfield Road, and from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the church before the service. Interment, Lindquist’s Memorial Park at Layton, 1867 N. Fairfield Road. Post condolences at www.lindquistmortuary.com. See the complete obituary in the Standard-Examiner's e-edition.

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Junior high opens doors for community enrichment classes

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, January 29, 2012 - 11:19pm

OGDEN — Mount Ogden Junior High School will launch its first session of community school classes on Tuesday.

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Delong Puk, 14, picks out shoes at the Target in Riverdale on Thursday. Students at Mount Ogden Junior High in Ogden raised money so other students at the school could go shopping for themselves and others and enjoy Christmas with their family. (ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner)

Junior High students reach New Level of Fundraising

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, December 23, 2011 - 1:47am

OGDEN -- A slow economy didn't have any effect on students' giving at Mount Ogden Junior High School this year.

Students raised more money with their Change for Children event than ever before -- almost $8,600.

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Joyce Wilson, pictured last week in Ogden, has been actively involved as a volunteer with the Ogden School District’s theater programs for the last five years.

Ogden School Board member keeps musical theater alive

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, December 18, 2011 - 11:26pm

OGDEN -- Joyce Wilson is passionate about students in the Ogden School District. So passionate that she serves on the school board and then volunteers up to 40 hours a week producing school musicals throughout the district.

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14 years later, DNA identifies Ogden rape suspect in Arkansas prison

Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, November 23, 2011 - 7:27am

OGDEN -- Fourteen years later, DNA testing has brought a former Ogden man back to town to face charges related to the sexual assault on a woman.

Sergio Hernandez, 42, is charged in the Jan. 23, 1997, attack that occurred in the early-morning hours behind Mount Ogden Middle School.

DNA recovered from the crime scene and preserved matched that recorded in a DNA database for Hernandez, held in the Arkansas state prison for a similar attack on a woman in that state in 2009, according to 2nd District Court charging documents.

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Prep notes: Top preps battle for pool props

Staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 12:20am

The Thanksgiving Invitational swimming meet at South Davis Recreation Center is fast becoming one of the top early meets in the Utah prep season.

With several top teams from Salt Lake City and southern Utah in the pool, Top of Utah teams still held their own in the non-scoring meet.

Individual winners on the boys side included Davis' Sam Bryson in the 50 freestyle and teammate Zach Santella in the 100 butterfly. Weber's Chandler Ward won the 100 freestyle, and Viewmont's Josh Meyers was tops in the 500 freestyle.

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Joan Christensen Lucas

Obituaries Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, November 12, 2011 - 7:23pm

Joan Christensen Lucas, 77, of South Ogden, died Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, Nov. 14, at the LDS Chapel, 4955 Adams Ave., in South Ogden. Friends may call from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 13, at Myers Mortuary, 845 Washington Blvd., in Ogden, and from 9:30 a.m. to 10:40 a.m. Monday at the church. Interment will be at the Hooper Cemetery. Post condolences at www.myers-mortuary.com. To read the full obituary, see the Standard-Examiner's e-edition.

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Whooping cough outbreak leads to increased vaccinations

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, November 4, 2011 - 6:24am

OGDEN -- The Weber/Morgan Health Department has seen a dramatic increase in immunizations since the recent outbreak of whooping cough at Mount Ogden Junior High School.

There have been seven documented cases of the highly contagious disease in students and employees at the school and two others elsewhere in the Weber-Morgan Health District.

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Whooping cough outbreak raises questions about vaccinations

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, October 31, 2011 - 11:26pm

OGDEN -- Some parents who choose not to vaccinate their children are feeling frustrated and angry about the way they were notified of a whooping cough outbreak in a city school last week.

More than 65 Mount Ogden Junior High School students were sent home for being underimmunized or on immunization exemption -- for personal, religious or medical reasons -- on Oct. 24, when one student case of whooping cough was confirmed.

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