Growth and a proposed highway divide a bucolic Utah community

Owners of some of the little remaining agricultural land in Wasatch County raise concerns about a proposed traffic-relief project that plows through their fields.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Alice Hicken and Laren Gertsch who have adjacent properties in the Heber Valley going back generations, are part of a group called Friends of Heber Valley North Fields Coalition, a non-profit started in 2020 to try and bring attention to the changes happening in the area.

Growth and a proposed highway divide a bucolic Utah community

Owners of some of the little remaining agricultural land in Wasatch County raise concerns about a proposed traffic-relief project that plows through their fields.

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