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Article: heard around the West
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- High Country News
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- November 12, 2007
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UTAH AND OREGON
The West used to pride itself on a live-and-let-live attitude. No more. In Orem, Utah, on Feb. 11, a judge will begin hearing the case against Betty Perry, 70, who refused to water her lawn and then resisted arrest when a policeman came to cite her for having brown grass. The jury trial is expected to last three days, reports the Salt Lake Tribune. In its "Thumbs Down" column, the paper said that a "70-year-old grandmother will thus become an example of what happens to scofflaws in law-abiding, lawn-worshipping Utah County." But central Oregon may go Utah one better. Susan Taylor, who lives in the upscale town of Bend, faces a potential lawsuit for daring to hang out her ...