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e are asking for your help. We need more people to subscribe to the Davis Journal. In today's newspaper we have provided two free copies. We need you to share these copies with a Davis resident or Davis business and ask them to subscribe. When the Clipper closed in 2020, publisher The City Journals, a Salt Lake County based newspaper publisher, picked up where it left off and started The Davis Journal. Since then, the Journal has provided readers with in-depth coverage of local government, events, human interest stories, sports and more. The paper’s goal is to inform residents about what is happening in their community. Over the past few years, print newspapers have seen a decline. Large Salt Lake papers such as the Deseret News and Tribune have also felt that shift and scaled back from being a daily and moved much of their content online. Although the Journal has many loyal readers, those numbers are falling as more and more
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Tech-Hers Jr. program inspires girls to explore STEM fields KAYSVILLE—Female industry leaders share their personal stories and professional journeys with elementary school girls. By Becky Ginos becky.g@thecityjournals.com
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ifth and sixth grade girls filled the auditorium at the Davis Catalyst Center on Tuesday to participate in the second annual Tech-Hers Jr. program hosted by the Davis Education Foundation to empower girls to explore STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) fields. The initiative is supported by
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