West Jordan Journal

11/03/2025

📢👀 West Jordan residents - tomorrow is Election Day! 🗳️📬 Please review this important information from your City Recorder before submitting your final ballot!

including important dates and ballot drop-box locations.

11/03/2025

📬 Your Vote = Your Power 💪 City elections are coming up (on Nov. 4)! That's why we've created our Voters Guides to help West Jordan voters access easy-to-understand information about their local candidates: Kayleen Whitelock, Rob Bennett, Jessica Wignall, Sergio Sotelo, Annette Harris, and Chris McConnehey. Check out the newest post below and get ready to vote smart! 👀

in West Jordan.

10/31/2025

Boo! 👻 Join us here at the City Journals as we celebrate Halloween with West Jordan’s own Melanie Bjork-Jensen. From trauma nurse to TV baker, her journey takes us all the way to Food Network’s Halloween Baking Championship! 🎃 Read more through Peri Kinder's article below:

Local baker uses plenty of imagination to whip up haunting desserts.

01/12/2023

Sarah Carlson, sole proprietor of The Story Cupboard, and her sister, started the company in 1994 in their parents' dining room.

12/21/2022

The Salt Lake area isn’t usually thought of as a top food truck destination, but that might now change thanks to a new state law.

12/19/2022

Students at Ascent Academy, a charter school in West Jordan, get to make a lot of choices. They get to choose how they will show what they’ve learned. They get to choose a subject they want to study in depth. And they get to choose the design for Principal Crystal Thomas’s fingernails.

Would you trust a child to design your gel nails? Would you trust them to choose what subjects to learn? Ascent Academy Principal Crystal Thomas does!

12/14/2022

The 50th Homecoming celebration of Westland Elementary was a success, said Crystal Whitehead, who organized the event.

“We had a great turnout,” she said. “I think it was beyond a lot of people's expectations. We had a lot of past and current teachers, alumni and a lot of the community.”

Past teachers and students wander down memory lane at Westland Elementary’s 50th Homecoming Celebration.

12/12/2022

The Cultural Arts Society of West Jordan held their first annual Community Talent Showcase Fundraiser and Talent Show on Nov. 12. Their goal was to help promote the cultural life of West Jordan by promoting the arts in the community. West Jordan is excited to promote and sustain visual, performing and literary arts and bring a rich culture to the community.

The Cultural Arts Society of West Jordan held their first annual Community Talent Showcase Fundraiser and Talent Show on Nov. 12.

12/07/2022

In September, a group of Westvale teachers raised $500 to pay off lunch account balances. In November, Tua Kealoha, a local business owner and father of three, raised and donated $600 for past due lunch accounts.

Generous donors pay school lunch debts.

11/18/2022

En Pointe School of Ballet is adream come true for Rachael Ellis, Artistic Director/ Owner of En Pointe. Rachael always wanted an elegant, traditional studio. She has worked hard to make her dream come true, and she’s had her hand in every detail of the making of En Pointe.

En Pointe School of Ballet is adream come true for Rachael Ellis, Artistic Director/ Owner of En Pointe.

11/17/2022

You can always find Jill Wilder greeting the guests at Macey’s West Jordan with a smile. The customers always feel welcome and enjoy their shopping experience. Wilder’s enthusiasm lights up the store with laughter and her genuine concern for the needs of the customers.

You can always find Jill Wilder greeting the guests at Macey’s West Jordan with a smile.

10/27/2022

In a sales tax revenue report to the city council in late August, Danyce Steck, Finance Director, relayed some tough news.

“While we saw 1% (May) or 5% (June) growth, we actually would consider that a decrease in sales tax because there was a 10% inflation factor,” Steck said.

The city has received more money from sales tax in the past few months than last year, but inflation is blasting a hole through the gains.