Author: Mariah Wheeler

OGDEN, Utah– It’s a sad day for a small business in Ogden and members of the community after Jesse Jean’s Homestyle Café and Coffee announced they will be closing after 20 years due to the financial burden of the pandemic. “Just physically, emotionally and financially, has taxed us to the point where we were ready to break, we were falling apart,” says Anna Davidson, owner of Jesse Jean’s on 25th street. Anna and Ron Davidson, announced Jesse Jean’s doors will close after COVID-19 left the business in a continued deficit after being on 25th street, where rent was up to…

OGDEN, Utah – Utah’s Hogle Zoo is saying goodbye to its five-year-old polar bear, Hope, and welcoming in a new animal. Hope is heading to an accredited zoo in the Midwest at the end of January in part of a breeding program. The program will hopefully contribute healthy cubs to the critically endangered species, the zoo said in a news release. The news release stated, “As an accredited member of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), Hogle Zoo works closely with the Species Survival Plan (SSP) to ensure a genetically diverse population. The SSP functions like a massive computer dating system for…