America 250-The History of New Jersey (from Wikipedia)

 European contact began with the exploration of the Jersey Shore by Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1524. At the time of European contact, many tribes of the Lenape lived in the area.

In the 17th century, the New Jersey region came under the control of the Swedes and the Dutch, resulting in a struggle in which the Dutch proved victorious (1655). However, the English seized the Dutch colony of New Netherland in 1664, renaming it the Province of New Jersey. New Jersey became one of the Thirteen Colonies which broke away from Britain in the American Revolution, adopting the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Becoming a state upon the formation of the United States, New Jersey saw significant action during the American Revolutionary War. New Jersey's delegates signed the Articles of Confederation in 1779. Princeton acted as the nation's capital for four months in 1783, while Trenton served as the capital in November and December 1784. Trenton was also under consideration as the permanent U.S. capital, along with New York City and Philadelphia, before southern states, led by Thomas Jefferson, pushed for a capital to be established south of the Potomac River.^[1]

In 1787, New Jersey became the third state to ratify the United States Constitution.^[2]

Rich School District

 March 25th 

6:00 PM

Garden City Town Council March 18th

 

Description/Agenda:

        
1.	Roll Call
2.	ADU Ordinance Discussion
3.	Zoning discussion 
4.	Adjournment

Bear Lake Kids Club

 

Laketown Planning and Zoning Commission Public Hearing

 Laketown Planning and Zoning Commission Public Hearing

Notice is hereby given that the Laketown Planning and Zoning Commission will hold a public hearing to receive public comment on proposed ordinances affecting the Town's water system, land use requirements, and building regulations.
The public hearing will be held on March 25 at 7:00pm at the Laketown Town Office, 10 N. 200 E., Laketown, UT 84038.
The Planning and Zoning Commission will consider the following proposed ordinances and may take action on these items:
1.	Water Share Fee in Lieu Ordinance - An ordinance allowing applicants, in certain situations such as minor subdivisions, to pay a fee in lieu of transferring a water share or water right to the Town when connecting to the municipal water system. The proposed fee would be $6,400 for a 1/2-acre lot equivalent.
2.	Well Ban Repeal Ordinance - An ordinance repealing the current prohibition on the drilling of wells within Laketown.
3.	Mandatory Water Connection Ordinance - An ordinance requiring property owners obtaining a building permit to connect to the Town's municipal water system if the property is located within 300 feet of an existing Town water line.
4.	Wildland-Urban Interface Code Adoption - An ordinance amending Title 9 of the Laketown Town Code to adopt a new Chapter 9.7 incorporating the 2006 Utah Wildland-Urban Interface Code and adopting the Laketown Wildland-Urban Interface Map, as required by Utah State law, to address fire safety standards in areas where development meets wildland areas.
The Commission will receive public comment on these items and may forward a recommendation to the Laketown Town Council.
All interested persons are invited to attend the public hearing and provide comments. Written comments may also be submitted to the Town prior to the hearing.
A copy of the proposed ordinances may be reviewed at the Laketown Town Office during regular business hours.
Published this 12 day of March, 2026.
 
The agenda for the meeting is as follows: (NOTE: The agenda may be accelerated or the line items may be discussed in any order.)
 Welcome
1.	Pledge of Allegiance
2.	Minutes
3.	PUBLIC HEARING 
a.	Water Share Fee in Lieu of Ordinance
i.	Brief Summary/Presentation By Laketown Planning and Zoning Commissioner
ii.	Motion/Second/Vote to open the Public Hearing
iii.	Call the public for comments (Note: Public should state name clearly for the record.)
iv.	Motion/Second/Vote to close the Public Hearing
v.	Additional Planning Commission discussion (if needed)
vi.	Motion/Second/Vote to either:
1.	Recommend approval to the Town Council; OR
2.	Recommend approval to the Town Council with modifications; OR
3.	Recommend denial to the Town Council with reasons therefore.
b.	Well Ban Repeal Ordinance
i.	Brief Summary/Presentation By Laketown Planning and Zoning Commissioner
ii.	Motion/Second/Vote to open the Public Hearing
iii.	Call the public for comments (Note: Public should state name clearly for the record.)
iv.	Motion/Second/Vote to close the Public Hearing
v.	Additional Planning Commission discussion (if needed)
vi.	Motion/Second/Vote to either:
1.	Recommend approval to the Town Council; OR
2.	Recommend approval to the Town Council with modifications; OR
3.	Recommend denial to the Town Council with reasons therefore.
c.	Mandatory Water Connection Ordinance
i.	Brief Summary/Presentation By Laketown Planning and Zoning Commissioner
ii.	Motion/Second/Vote to open the Public Hearing
iii.	Call the public for comments (Note: Public should state name clearly for the record.)
iv.	Motion/Second/Vote to close the Public Hearing
v.	Additional Planning Commission discussion (if needed)
vi.	Motion/Second/Vote to either:
1.	Recommend approval to the Town Council; OR
2.	Recommend approval to the Town Council with modifications; OR
3.	Recommend denial to the Town Council with reasons therefore.
d.	Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) Code Adoption
i.	Brief Summary/Presentation By Laketown Planning and Zoning Commissioner
ii.	Motion/Second/Vote to open the Public Hearing
iii.	Call the public for comments (Note: Public should state name clearly for the record.)
iv.	Motion/Second/Vote to close the Public Hearing
v.	Additional Planning Commission discussion (if needed)
vi.	Motion/Second/Vote to either:
1.	Recommend approval to the Town Council; OR
2.	Recommend approval to the Town Council with modifications; OR
3.	Recommend denial to the Town Council with reasons therefore.

Laketown Planning & Zoning Commission Agenda

Samatha Harper Idaho State Champion Wrestler

 

Town of Woodruff Agenda March 18, 2006

 Town of Woodruff

P.O. Box 154
Woodruff, UT  84086

Meeting Description:  Board Meeting__________________________________________________                
Date:  March 18, 2026               Time:  5:00 p.m.                                      Location:  Town Hall________
	Items to Be Discussed	
 1	Amend budget	
 2	Discuss new land use ordinance	
 3	Update commercial district and zoning map	
 4	Business License - Terri Knudsen	
 5	Follow up from previous meetings	
 6	Approval of minutes from February meeting	
 7	Approval of March bills	
 8	Review and initial bank statement/credit card statement/monthly reports	
 9	Other board concerns	
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Notice of Special Accommodations:

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, individuals needing special accommodations (including auxiliary communicative aids and services) during this meeting should notify the town clerk at 435-793-4201.

Bear Lake State Park

 Sunny

Low Temp:30° F

High Temp:61° F

Water Temp:41.9° F

Water Level:5916.20′

Ice Conditions / Thickness:

Garden City Planning Commission

 

PUBLIC NOTICE

 

The Garden City Planning Commission will hold their regularly scheduled meeting on Wednesday, March 11, 2026, immediately following their Public Hearing at 5:00 p.m. at the Garden City Lakeview Building, located at 69 N. Paradise Parkway, Building C.

AGENDA

 

1.                Roll Call

2.                Approval of Minutes

a.      Public Hearing

b.      Regular Meeting

3.                Discussion/Approval of Architectural Standards, Parking and Landscaping to build an 88-96 bed Holiday Inn Express. Located at approximately 35 E. 50 S. – Donald Mendenhall

4.                Ordinance Discussion/Approval:

a.      Ordinance #26-04 – An Ordinance updating the C3 Zone Permitted Uses

b.      Ordinance #26-05 – An Ordinance adding Storage Facility to definitions

5.                Miscellaneous

6.                Adjournment

 

 

NOTE: The order of this agenda may be altered by those present if necessary.

 

The conference phone number is 1-866-347-5097.

 

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, individuals needing special accommodations (including auxiliary communicative aids and services) during this meeting should notify the Garden City Office at (435) 946-2901, at least 3 working days before the meeting. The Garden City Office is open Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

 

Posted on this 4th day of March 2026.

 

Town of Garden City Agenda

 1.	Roll Call
2.	Approval of Minutes
a.	Approval of minutes of the regular Town Council Meeting February 12th, 2026.
3.	Public Comments - 2-minute limit
4.	Utah Division of Water Resources Conservation presentation
a.	Discuss Garden City Landscaping Ordinances. Blue Herbst
5.	Ordinance Discussion/Approval
a.	Ordinance #26-05, An Ordinance Adding Storage Facility to Definitions
b.	Ordinance #26-01.2, Amending  Service Centers in Commercial Zones Permitted and Conditional Uses and Storage Sheds
c.	Ordinance #26-04, An Ordinance Updating the C3 Zone Permitted Uses
6.	Council Member Reports
7.	Miscellaneous Discussion/Approval
8.	Public Hearing at, or after, 6:00 p.m.
a.	Ordinance #26-03, An Ordinance Updated STR Violations and Penalties
b.	Ordinance #26-06, An Ordinance Amending Quiet Hours
9.	Ordinance Discussion/Approval, Continued
a.	Ordinance #26-03, An Ordinance Updated STR Violations and Penalties
b.	Ordinance #26-06, An Ordinance Amending Quiet Hours
10.	Payment Vouchers
11.	Adjournment

America 250 (Wikipedia)

The Native Americans in Maryland were a peaceful people who welcomed the English. At the time of the founding of the Maryland colony, approximately forty tribes consisting of 8,000 – 10,000 people lived in the area. They were fearful of the colonists' guns, but welcomed trade for metal tools. The Native Americans who were living in the location where the colonists first settled were called the Yaocomico Indians. The colonists gave the Yaocomico Indians cloth, hatchets, and hoes in exchange for the right to settle on the land. The Yaocomico Indians allowed the English settlers to live in their houses, a type of longhouse called a witchott. The Indians also taught the colonists how to plant corn, beans, and squash, as well as where to find food such as clams and oysters.^[12][13]

The recorded history of Maryland dates back to the beginning of European exploration, starting with the Venetian John Cabot, who explored the coast of North America for the Kingdom of England in 1498. After European settlements had been made to the south and north, the colonial Province of Maryland was granted by King Charles I to Sir George Calvert (1579–1632), his former Secretary of State in 1632, for settlement beginning in March 1634. It was notable for having been established with religious freedom for Roman Catholics, since Calvert had publicly converted to that faith.^[1][2][3] Like other colonies and settlements of the Chesapeake Bay region, its economy was soon based on tobacco as a commodity crop, highly prized among the English, cultivated primarily by African slave labor, although many young people came from Britain sent as indentured servants or criminal prisoners in the early years.

In 1781, during the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), Maryland became the seventh state of the United States to ratify the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union. They were drawn up by a committee of the Second Continental Congress (1775–1781), which began shortly after the adoption of a Declaration of Independence in July 1776, to 1778. Later that year, these articles were recommended to the newly independent sovereign states via their legislatures for the required unanimous ratification. This long process was held up for three years by objections from smaller states led by Maryland until certain issues and principles over the western lands beyond the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River. These objections were resolved with the larger states agreeing to cede their various western claims to the authority of the new Congress of the Confederation, representing all the states, to be held in common for the laying out and erection of new states out of the jointly held federal territories. Maryland then finally agreed to join the new American confederation by being one of the last of the former colonies ratifying the long proposed Articles in 1781, when they took effect. Later that same decade, Maryland became the seventh state to ratify the stronger government structure proposed in the new U.S. Constitution in 1788.

Cisco Sonar

 

Magpies

Magpies are one of my favorite birds.  They also inspire strong emotions in humans.  They are familiar in the Bear Lake valley and across the West.  They are not found in the eastern states. Magpies are intelligent, adaptable and bold.  These attributes they are both admired and loathed.  They are considered an annoyance and inconvenience by some they're also highly social may leave gifts for humans that feed them.  Like other intelligent opportunistic corvids (ravens, crows, jays) magpies take advantage of resources whenever they can find them.  Magpies are probably known to scavenge garbage, eat carrion, and steal poorly guarded pet food and raid picnics. This gives the birds a bad reputation and many people consider them as pests.  People used to believe that they drank cow’s blood but in fact they were up on the back of the cow just picking ticks off it.  

They have a special place in mythology as well.  Magpies are recognized as messengers by numerous indigenous cultures in North America.  They would spread air to humans or carry news within the Creator. A widespread story is how magpies were helping humans and birds alike and were given the honor of the wearing the rainbow of iridescence on the bird's tails and wings.

They are interesting birds with a complex life history.  They build reusable, large, dome shaped nests and parents aggressively protect their young.  The young birds are vocal and may drive you crazy with their squawking.   A group of magpies may come together with other family groups to “mob” other birds and animals.  Magpies are one of the few species that hold funerals.  When one of them dies, it will be surrounded by up flock that makes a ruckus of sounds for fifteen minutes before becoming silent and flying off.  Take some time and watch their antics and behavior.  You may even learn to like them as I do.

Town of Randolph

Town of Randolph

Town Board Agenda

March 11^th, 2026 @ 6:30 PM

 

 

 

Public Meeting – Wildland Fire Interface Ordinance

Public Meeting – Well Ordinance

Geo Peart – Bed & Breakfast

Minutes and Bills

Fencing & Surfacing of the Tennis Courts

Easter Egg Hunt – April 4^th @ 1

5K Run – August 15th

Overdue Water Bills

New Business

Rich County Sheriff's Office Feb. Report

  1 Nature of Incident Total Incidents ------------------------------ --------------- 

 Terminated 911 call 1 

 Accident w/ Damage 2 

 Traffic Accident, w/ Injuries 1 

 Intrusion Alarm 4 

 Alcohol Offense 1 

 Animal strays, dead, noise 2 

 Agency Assistance 2 

 Citizen Assist 9 

 School Assist 1 

 Attempt to Locate Vehicle 1

 Civil Dept. assist 5 

 Criminal History 5 

 Found Property 1 Fraud 1 

 Intoxicated Person 1 

 Juvenile Problem 2 

 Keep the Peace 2 

 Mental subject 1 

 Summons Service 1

 Suspicious Incident 2 

 Suspicious Person 2 

 Theft 2 

 Threats 1 

 Traffic Hazard 5 

 Traffic Violation 1

 VIN Number Inspection 10 

 Welfare Check 2 

 Total Incidents for This Report: 68 

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