It was built under Brigham Young’s orders and housed one of Utah’s most famous restaurants. Now it will last forever.
After three decades of preserving a historic pioneer-era property, Tom Owens was ready to turn over the responsibility to Farmington — and the city obliged.
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Tom Owens at the Richards Grist Mill in Farmington on Thursday, March 23, 2023.
Blake joined The Tribune in March 2022 to cover city and county government before becoming an editor in 2024. He is a University of Minnesota graduate who started his journalism career in Las Vegas, where he covered local government, state politics and the depletion of the Colorado River. He is dad to a Golden Retriever named Woodward.