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By Sarah Gambles

Saturday June 21, 2025

☀️ 41 – 74° Logan | ☀️ 57 – 77° Salt Lake

⛅ 58 – 86° Manti | ☀️ 72 – 97° Moab

☀️ 58 – 82° Cedar City | ☀️ 71 – 96° St. George

🌅 Good morning!

A group of Herriman High Schoolers broke a national record this week.

The school’s 4 x 800-meter relay team broke the national high school record at the New Balance Nationals track and field meet in Philadelphia's famed Franklin Field.

The team consisted of Jonah Tang, Micah Tang, Tayshaun Ogomo and Jackson Spence, who finished with a time of 7:26.12 to break a 14-year-old national record of 7:28.75 set by Poly High School of Long Beach, California.

The performance also set a stadium record for Franklin Field, the site for the annual Penn Relays, the biggest high school relay competition in the nation — if not the world — with an international field, Doug Robinson writes.

Referring to Herriman’s performance, New Balance Nationals meet director Aaron Robison, a former BYU miler, noted, “That’s unreal. When you set a Franklin Field record, that’s something.

“It’s a solid time for a college team and it was done by a high school team and a team from Utah.”

Read more about the record-breaking feat.

Are national parks really at risk? Sen. Mike Lee pushes back on campaign against public land sales

The debate over Utah's public lands continues.

Sen. Mike Lee and Rep. Celeste Maloy are defending a proposal to sell federally owned land after environmental groups launched a campaign against the proposal, included in the Senate version of President Donald Trump’s tax bill, Cami Mondeaux reported.

The groups accuse congressional Republicans of trying to siphon off millions of acres of federal land to help pay for Trump’s tax cuts.

In a post on X, Sen. Lee wrote:

“I want to be COMPLETELY clear: My bill exempts ALL parks, monuments, wilderness areas, etc., from the federal land sale. We exempt 15 categories of land, including land where people have valid existing rights. And even then, it's less than ONE PERCENT of federal land.”

Here are four key points:

Under the bill, 11 states would be required to sell anywhere between 0.5% and 0.75% of all Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service lands, which could total up to a maximum of 1.5% in some cases.

About 63% of Utah’s land is owned by the federal government, the most of any state in the country aside from Nevada.

The legislation would require that any land sold would be used only for housing development or other community needs. The bill outlines 15 categories of land that cannot be sold, assuring the preservation of sites like national monuments and parks. Read more about public lands.

Artists from across the country gather in Salt Lake City for the 49th annual Utah Arts Festival

Some of the best artisans and tastemakers are presenting items this weekend at the 49th annual Utah Arts Festival in Salt Lake City.

The festival showcases more than 800 artists, dancers and musicians from around the country, Margaret Darby reported. More than 900 volunteers help bring the festival together.

It will also feature a variety of food and beverage stations, an interactive kids zone, live graffiti art and film screenings.

Here's what some of the artists are saying:

Garett Loveless on his sculpture titled, "Self-Reflection": “This piece is all about perception. It’s about (how) the outsider will see things the individual does not know — there are gaps in the reflection ... they see things more clearly than the individual." Mandy Henebry on her first time showing her ceramics: “I’ve been making ceramics for about 35 years. I finally got to a point where I wanted to make sure my pots looked different from everyone else’s.”

Cory Ballis on his specialty in blown glass: “Everything starts as clear glass at 2,100 degrees, and then I hand mix all the colors myself. I have 15 different colors that I mix.”

🗓️ Events Calendar

We put together a calendar list of events and activities going on around the state of Utah during this month. Check it out, and let us know if we are missing anything!

Here are some highlights for events in Utah today:

Strawberry Days | Pleasant Grove Utah Arts Festival | Salt Lake City Tooele Arts Festival | Tooele Redwood Farmers Market | New Roots Redwood Farm, West Valley City Hurricane Farmers Market | Hurricane, Washington County Lake Street Dive | Sandy Amphitheater Lead singers of classic rock: Jason Scheff from Chicago and Tommy DeCarlo, formerly of Boston | Summer Nights with the Stars (Davis Arts Council) “Disney’s Newsies: The Broadway Musical” | Heritage Theatre, Brigham City “Something Rotten!” | Murray Park Amphitheater, Murray “Into the Woods” | The Electric Theater Center, St. George Utah Royals vs. Seattle Reign FC | 3 p.m. Salt Lake Bees vs. Sacramento | 7:05 p.m.

Please reach out to me at [email protected] if you have any thoughts, feedback or ideas you would like to share!

✨ Cheers ✨

— Gambles

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