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(MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner) Jodi Hutchinson teaches a health class at North Davis Junior High School in Clearfield recently. Because of higher-than-expected enrollment, class sizes have increased here and at other Top of Utah schools.

More students than expected enroll in area schools this year

Last updated Saturday, September 17, 2011 - 11:42pm

FARMINGTON -- Davis School District expected an additional 900 students in its schools this year. Instead, that number almost doubled, and school officials scrambled to make room in already crowded classrooms.

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Shuttle buses negotiate a tight bus stop in Yosemite National Park. The number of visitors to the park is increasing.

NPS gets serious about managing the crowds at Yosemite

Mark Grossi, McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Sunday, December 26, 2010 - 2:42am

FRESNO, Calif. -- Yosemite National Park this year might reach the nerve-wracking plateau of 4 million visitors. In the 1990s that number meant summer gridlock, gate closures and bad publicity.

Yet last summer -- the park's busiest since 1996 -- there were no gate closures or three-hour waits to get into paradise. The National Park Service has gotten serious about managing crowds at one of America's favorite parks.

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