Kerry Bringhurst
UPR Management | Host, Morning EditionAt 14-years-old, Kerry began working as a reporter for KVEL “The Hot One” in Vernal, Utah. Her radio news interests led her to Logan where she became news director for KBLQ while attending Utah State University. She graduated USU with a degree in Broadcast Journalism and spent the next few years working for Utah Public Radio. Leaving UPR in 1993 she spent the next 14 years as the full time mother of four boys before returning in 2007. Kerry and her husband Boyd reside in Nibley.
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In other news, the rapper known as Youngboy was arrested in Weber County Tuesday after various patterns of unlawful activity.
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Kristina Winn says she has a special love for her grandmother, Kenna Worthington, a self-described woman of faith who faces life’s challenges one stitch at a time.
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In 1938, at the age of 4, Jeanine Hewitt sailed from France to Morocco. Her father had been called to serve in Italy so she, her mother, and 9-month-old brother were sent away. She and her grandson Josiah Johnson met the StoryCorps recording booth in Logan to talk about that experience, as well as what it was like to be raised by her grandparents.
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Mary Heers came to the United States in the 1960s to pick up a trail of activism moving like a whirlwind of change from Stanford to Detroit.
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And an update on the bill that would offer student teachers a stipend.
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The Utah Legislature is also considering extending child tax credits up to the age of six.
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When Adam Whitney gave his sister Rachel Von Niederhausern a birthday gift of paperwork about setting up a non-profit that led to the Logan Loaves and Fishes community meal, it became a gift that has kept on giving and one she will never forget.
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Construction on The Wanlass Center for Art Education and Research at Utah State University will begin in two weeks.
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In other news, 40 acres of new wetlands will help clean water headed to the Great Salt Lake.
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In other news: A rainwater collection program distributed hundreds of rain collection barrels in Utah County. And Gov. Spencer Cox issued an executive order requiring water conservation at state facilities.