Has a frontrunner emerged in Utah’s effort for a new state flag?

In this file photo, twenty semifinal designs for a proposed Utah state flag were installed in a temporary display in Cedar City on Sept. 22, 2022 | Photo by Jeff Richards, St. George News / Cedar City News

SALT LAKE CITY — Public comment on Utah’s state flags wraps up Wednesday but it’s clear some ideas among the 20 state flag semifinalists have risen to the top while others are all but eliminated.

So what do Utahns want to see in a new flag?

A reflection of the state’s mountains, something that represents southern Utah, a beehive and either an eight-pointed star or eight stars.

Sen. Dan McCay, R-Riverton, a member of the Utah State Flag Task Force, said those should be in any finalist designs, based on the recurrent feedback. He proposed a motion Tuesday to ask a design review committee to come up with final designs that put those symbols and elements together. Members of the committee agreed.

Read the full story here:  KSL News.

Written by CARTER WILLIAMS, KSL.com.

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