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Eight weeks of competition stand between the Rock girls and their dreams of making the Olympic gymnastics team.

The Payson Masonic Lodge opened in 1973. The Town of Payson was incorporated that December, with Ted Pettet named as mayor of the interim council. That same year — May 31, if memory serves — this reporter graduated with about 45 or so other somewhat awkward 17- and 18-year-olds. One of them was Lon Thomas. This month Thomas was installed as the Master of the Payson Masonic Lodge. Pettet ...

The South will rise again. Or in the case of 3A wrestling, the Southern Divisional tournament simply blows away the Northern Divisional in quality.

Check out your FIRST LOOK at the new season of Make It or Break It! Back on March 26th with “Smells Like Winner”, the new season finds the girls back at The Rock, vying for a spot on the team that heads to London for the 2012 Olympic Games. With a new coach and fierce [...]

A teen driving north into Payson on Highway 87 Friday reportedly lost control of her vehicle after the accelerator got stuck, sending her flying through afternoon traffic, according to police. The 17-year-old was unable to slow down or stop and police did what they could to clear a path for her as she struggled to regain control.

A Payson-area horse camp that helps children and adults with special needs has received a $350,000 grant for facility improvements and a scholarship fund. The Agnes Varis Charitable Trust awarded the Whispering Hope Ranch with the funds earlier this month based on the work the center does with children and adults facing life-altering or limiting illnesses, physical, emotional or developmental ...

Thanks to a last-minute push on Super Bowl or “Souper Bowl” Sunday, for the third year, the Payson Area Food Drive has met its donation goal. This year, 68,200 pounds of food was collected, the weight equivalent of three school buses. That is enough food to fill 1,364, 50-pound food boxes, the average amount given to families at the St. Vincent de Paul Food Bank. Donations are up 15,000 pounds ...

Aaron Edwards has helped the Payson Seymour boys basketball team to the top seed in next week’s Class 1A Liberty Regional. The MVP of the MVIT earlier this season, Edwards is averaging around 11 points per game.

A volunteer at Veterans Helping Veterans in Payson has disappeared after allegedly scamming the group, Payson police said.

City council members, Utah County commissioners and some Payson residents gathered at the city banquet hall on Tuesday night to listen to Mayor Rick Moore talk about the state of Payson city.