Last week, in a high-school gymnasium located in a small town on the Arizona and Utah border, there was a rare sight seen - a basketball game.
Water Canyon School in Hilldale, Utah, about two hours northeast of Las Vegas, hosted its first-ever basketball games, in a gymnasium that was previously used as a storehouse.
Hilldale and adjoining Colorado City, Arizona, collectively known as Short Creek, is home to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a polygamist church whose leader, Warren Jeffs, was imprisoned in 2011.
Jeffs ordered the faith’s children removed from public schools in the early 2000s.
Salt Lake Tribune writer Nate Carlisle coveredthe basketball game and the reaction from the community.
Nate Carlisle, reporter, Salt Lake Tribune