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Deaf and Blind School surveilance video capture of theft. (Courtesy Photo)

Thieves may have student ID information from Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind

Last updated Thursday, August 23, 2012 - 9:30pm

OGDEN — Officials at the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind are worried that thieves may have stolen personal information from some students.

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Garrison Clark competes at the Utah Regional Braille Competition in Salt Lake City on Friday. Forty students from around the state, including 14 from the Top of Utah, gathered Friday at the Utah State Division of Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired for the annual event.(NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner)

Visually impaired students use right touch at braille competition

Dana Rimington Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, March 3, 2012 - 7:48am

SALT LAKE CITY — Sixteen-year-old Ellie Price, of Logan, can take a reading test with her eyes closed, and she’s not the only one.

Forty students from around the state, including 14 from the Top of Utah, gathered Friday at the Utah State Division of Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired for the annual Utah Regional Braille Competition.

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Volunteers remove graffiti from school playground

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, August 18, 2011 - 9:20am

SALT LAKE CITY -- Volunteers have removed graffiti from a vandalized playground at a school for deaf and blind students.

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State to relocate schools for the deaf and blind superintendent

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, August 8, 2011 - 10:57pm

OGDEN -- A state task force set up to investigate the effectiveness of the Ogden-based Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind has recommended the USDB superintendent be relocated from his Weber County office to the Salt Lake City offices of the Utah State Board of Education, where state officials can keep a closer eye on USDB decisions and how funds are spent.

Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind Superintendent Steve Noyce said Monday that whatever the motivation for task force decisions may have been, he is happy with the recommendations and the state board's immediate vote to move him.

Such a move would give him greater access to the people in a position to help the USDB, Noyce said.

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(ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner) Mandy Kay poses with Braille and large-print books ready for shipping at the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind in Ogden on Friday.

Books for the blind get a new life in Bangladesh

Scott Schwebke Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Saturday, May 21, 2011 - 6:04am

OGDEN -- Mandy Kay can almost relax now that the end is in sight for her five-week ordeal of trying to ship 575 boxes of Braille and large-print books from the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind to a library in Bangladesh.

But last week, just a few hours before the U.S. Postal Service picked up the boxes, Kay, a library technician at the school, worried the triple trouble she had encountered in trying to mail them would continue.

"Three times is a charm or three strikes and you're out," Kay said as she mustered a cautious smile while waiting for a postal truck to arrive.

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(ANTHONY SOUFFLE/Standard-Examiner) Garrison Clark, 11, a student at the Utah Schools For the Deaf and the Blind in Ogden, reads Braille in the annual Utah Regional Braille Challenge in Salt Lake City on Friday.

Students give Braille a workout in competition

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner correspondent

Last updated Saturday, March 5, 2011 - 12:26am

SALT LAKE CITY -- Colt Riley was hoping to win second place at the Utah Regional Braille Challenge on Friday.

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USDB removed from state budget-cut list

The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, February 11, 2011 - 11:37pm

SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind appears to be safe from state budget cuts.

Last week the State Board of Education drafted a list of potential programs that could be cut should the state budgets be tightened this year.

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Deaf community makes itself heard over potential cuts to USDB services

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner Davis Bureau

Last updated Wednesday, February 9, 2011 - 12:09am

SALT LAKE CITY -- Members of the deaf community want lawmakers to know the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind provide services that school districts cannot.

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