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| Updated: 2:20 a.m. West Valley City • Utah Republicans turned the keys to the party over to a youthful new leadership team on Saturday, all of whom are under the age of 35. (Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Sen. Mitt Romney gets ready to take the stage during the Utah Republican Party’s 2021 Organizing Convention at the Maverik Center in West Valley City on Saturday, May 1, 2021, where he was booed by Republican delegates numbering more than 1,900. Sheep rancher Carson Jorgensen won the election for party chair on Saturday. His win was widely viewed as an upset as he def...

As Sen. Mitt Romney and Utah Gov. Spencer Cox were booed by a crowd of more than 2,100 people who gathered — mostly without masks — at Saturday’s state Republican convention, a new generation of GOP leaders took control of Utah’s dominant political party.

Credit: Megan Hotchkiss Davidson/Sandia National Laboratories The best path across the desert is rarely the straightest. For the first human inhabitants of Sahul -- the super-continent that underlies modern Australia and New Guinea -- camping at the next spring, stream, or rock shelter allowed them to thrive for hundreds of generations. Those who successfully traversed the landmarks made their way across the continent, spreading from their landfall in the Northwest across the continent, making their way to all corners of Australia and New Guinea. By simulating the physiology and decisions of ...

SIR – Our well-being has been severely affected by the Covid crisis. The danger now is if we continue to delay our return to normal life, the danger is that the economy will be destroyed in the process. Many livelihoods have already been ruined. It is time for us to live with the virus, and for those who deem it necessary to protect themselves to do so. Tom Berglund London W8 SIR – In the Downing Street briefing on Wednesday, Professor Van-Tam referred to the Covid peak in January as the “third wave”. Later in the briefing we were told we must avoid a third wave later this year.

Wareham Firefighters break in new brush breaker WAREHAM – You could say Wareham Firefighters were breaking in the new brush breaker truck. The sparkling new five-ton brush breaker hasn’t even had its service numbers painted on its sides yet. It was carrying its full load of 750 gallons of water, and 25 gallons of foam. Along with the firefighters it was also carrying 230 or so pounds of journalist who had been invited along for the training drill Saturday. The training exercise involved locating Chief Matt Rowley and Assistant Chief Patrick Haskell who were secreted deep in the woods on t...