Hyperlocal Site Rides Phallic Bull Scoop

National media picks up - twice - on crazy Utah story broken by St. George News.

StGeorgeNewsLogoBefore the current second wave of national media attention, the story of a controversial restaurant sign in Hurricane City, Utah was the purview of website St. George News.

Assistant editor Kimberly Scott was first to report the story on March 19. Five days after Barista’s restaurant owner Stephen Ward hoisted up high above his establishment a giant copper bull purchased for $130,000 in Las Vegas, angering the community with the artwork’s over-sized genitalia and the idea that the appendage was dangling across the street from a high school.

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