Alixel Cabrera

REPORT FOR AMERICA CORPS MEMBER

Alixel Cabrera is a Report for America corps member and writes about communities on the west side of the Salt Lake Valley for The Salt Lake Tribune. She has reported on the economy, energy, food and culture for newspapers and websites in Venezuela and the U.S.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Property along Redwood Road just east of West Jordan City Hall on Wednesday, May 4, 2022. The city hopes to acquire this property and transform it into its downtown.

So you want to go to downtown West Jordan? But where is it?

By Alixel Cabrera | May 8, 2022, 12:00 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) E.T. Technologies treatment facility, shown in 2018, is poised to cease operations in five years as part of a settlement to a lawsuit with West Valley City.

West Valley City can breathe easier. ‘The smell’ will be gone — within five years.

By Alixel Cabrera | May 3, 2022, 12:00 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) Josh Scheuerman, shown Monday, April 25, 2002, helped make the West Valley Skatepark a reality.

This boarder-artist brought Utah its biggest skate park, but it wasn’t easy

By Alixel Cabrera | May 1, 2022, 2:10 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) People cross 300 West in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, between 900 South and 2100 South, an area undergoing a major redesign to make it more bike and pedestrian friendly.

How these Salt Lake County communities plan to make streets more walkable

By Alixel Cabrera | April 20, 2022, 10:38 p.m.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Guadalupe School music teacher Kimberly Marsden teaches her students the Schuhplattler dance from Germany, April 6, 2022. The school has received a grant that will help families in the community upgrade the energy-efficiency of their homes.

New push underway to reduce west-side pollution — inside and out

By Alixel Cabrera | April 8, 2022, 12:22 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) Contractors begin the work of disassembling Raging Waters water park in Salt Lake City, Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021. The park has been closed since 2018. The city plans to replace it with a big regional park.

Salt Lake City has big plans for replacing Raging Waters — and you can help shape them

By Alixel Cabrera | March 27, 2022, 12:00 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The west bench near Herriman is expected to gain more trails, expanding the Butterfield Canyon, Yellow Fork and Rose Canyons Recreation Area as seen on Wednesday, March 16, 2022.

‘This is long overdue’ — More trails are coming to the Oquirrh Mountains. See where.

By Alixel Cabrera | March 23, 2022, 1:00 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Solar panels on the roof of Century Laundry in Salt Lake City on Thursday, March 10, 2022. A new effort is underway to bring more such panels to west-side businesses.

The air on Salt Lake City’s west side may enjoy a brighter future. Here’s why.

By Alixel Cabrera | March 18, 2022, 2:58 p.m.

(Courtesy Utah Highway Patrol) A blue Toyota FJ Cruiser, left, and a white Ford Focus are shown after a wrong-way crash on Interstate 15 on Saturday.

Wrong-way crashes leave three people dead in less than 24 hours

By Alixel Cabrera | March 13, 2022, 10:24 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Snow falls on Salt Lake City on Saturday, March 5, 2022. Snow is expected in the mountains on Sunday.

Fast-moving storm expected in northern Utah on Sunday

By Alixel Cabrera | March 13, 2022, 9:36 p.m.