One person died and three were injured after a fishing boat overturned in Echo Reservoir on Sunday.

A spokesperson with the Summit County Sheriff’s Office said the department received a 911 call around 11:30 a.m. from someone who reported a fishing boat with four people aboard had overturned and started to sink.

The caller and other recreators in the area pulled the four boaters from the water and transported them to the shore. However, one of the individuals, a 46-year-old man from Davis County, was pronounced dead at the reservoir.

The three other boaters — two adults and one juvenile — were transported via ambulance in stable condition to the hospital. The Sheriff’s Office did not have an update on the severity of their injuries as of Monday morning.

The Sheriff’s Office is in the early stages of its investigation into why the boat overturned, with a spokesperson saying no further details are yet available.

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Summit County musicians of all ages and skill levels have a new opportunity to hone their craft and perform for the local community: the Summit Symphonic community orchestra.

“We started off as a ragtag group that would get together and play whatever we felt like, but then we decided it would be better if we could get something for the community to come listen to and enjoy,” said violinist Katie Harmon, the symphony’s founder. “Watching it slowly get built out has been really exciting, and the community response has been nice.”

Harmon was inspired to create the symphony because Coalville, where she lives, didn’t have any performance groups for adults. North Summit High School has a marching band but not an orchestra, and Harmon said there were no options for adult residents to continue their musical education.

Summit Symphonic’s first rehearsal was in April, and Harmon said she quickly realized the musicians needed a director. She enlisted fellow violinist Ramona Pace to fill the role over the summer, calling Pace a good fit for the fledgling orchestra because of her decades of professional experience.

“I have a music education degree from the University of Utah, and I’ve taught middle school and high school strings in Evanston for the last 10 years,” Pace said. “We want to get (the symphony) to the performance level, but we also want to keep an educational component and include younger kids who are beginning and encourage them to come.”

Harmon said the symphony has approximately 20 players so far, all with varying skill levels. Some musicians are in middle school or high school and have never had the chance to play in an ensemble before, while others are long-time community members who have played their instrument for decades.

“I have a lady who’s 70 years old and plays the violin, and I usually try to sit her next to someone a little bit younger who she can mentor,” Pace said. “A couple of my high school students are quite proficient, so it’s the same thing. They’re going to connect with someone who’s in middle school to say, ‘Oh, let’s try this.’ It’s pretty helpful to have the older ones mentor the youngest.”

The age differences also create a community for the musicians, which Harmon said has been her favorite part of the experience.

“One of the coolest moments for me was during one of the first practices because this guy came in and had his trumpet, and he was just beaming from ear to ear,” Harmon said. “He was like, ‘I haven’t pulled this out in decades, and I’m so excited to have somewhere to play this.’ Our other trumpet player is quite young, I think around 11, and he was like, ‘I finally have a buddy!’ There’s just this camaraderie there.”

Pace said she intentionally chooses music that’s manageable for beginners but still complicated enough to require technical skills from more experienced players. She also transcribes or writes easier parts for players who are struggling so they can still participate and learn the basics they need.

“With your violin teacher or cello teacher, you’re doing a solo repertoire at home mostly, so this is a good experience for everyone to play in a group, learn how to play the melody, the harmony, the different rhythms,” Pace said. “It’s been fun to help the younger ones come along and get that group experience.”

Summit Symphonic had its first public performance last week at the Summit County Fair, and Harmon said she hopes the ensemble will continue to play at local events, like Christmas parades or Fourth of July celebrations.

The orchestra practices at 7 p.m. on Thursdays at the Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum on Coalville’s Main Street. Information about the symphony, including how to join, is available in the Summit Symphonic Facebook group or by emailing summitsymphonic@gmail.com.

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Monday evening, east side Summit County residents met at the North Summit High School auditorium in Coalville, and over Zoom, for an update on the fast-growing Rocky Canyon Fire.

Over 300 who logged on virtually at the start of the meeting joined around 60 in-person attendants. TV cameras and their operators lined the back row like snipers, pointed at a map of the fire footprint projected over the stage. 

Husband and wife Steve and Julie, Coalville residents, were in the crowd. While the two hadn’t needed to evacuate, the fire had burned through some range land they own in Franklin Canyon near Henefer.

When they saw the smoke column get closer Saturday from their front porch, they ran over to Henefer to see what was going on. They’d leased the land for sheep grazing, and when the couple showed up, the shepherds were trying to get the animals moved from up on the Henefer Divide, which separates East Canyon from Franklin Canyon.

Then the fire jumped S.R. 65, and started moving fast, Julie said. Thankfully, the sheep got of and they moved their expensive equipment in time. But after the fire came through, it was decimated.

“Everything that burnt was right down to the ground. There’s not even a ghost tree. It’s just annihilated, that’s how hot it was,” Julie said. 

She said from the base of Franklin Canyon, their car was covered in ash the size of golf balls.

“I went over and touched it. It wasn’t hot, but it was warm. It had white edges,” she said. “It’s those embers that jump.”

The fast-moving fire behavior on Sunday pushed the footprint from 4,000 acres to an estimated 15,000 by Monday morning. And like many of the residents tuning in to the community meeting, Steve and Julie wanted to know if that might happen again.

Mike Tatishi, the operations section chief for the Northern Utah Type 3 Incident Management Team, started the meeting with a rundown of the fire since it began Friday off S.R. 66 in Morgan County. 

While crews did their best to hold the fire at around 150 acres that first afternoon, weather shifts pushed the blaze to the northeast toward Hogsback Summit, and it crossed the county line by Sunday morning. 

From the southern end, which is the “heel,” around toward Hogsback saw some successful firing operations, Tatishi said, so his team is feeling confident in that area. 

“Things are looking really good on the south end. Then we’ll just continue to hook around and go in as direct as we can and keep the fire footprint as small as we can,” he said.

Toward the front, Division Tango is the edge of the fire moving toward Henefer pushed by strong afternoon winds. In that area on Monday, Tatishi said firefighting resources have included dozers, aviation, engines and hand crews. Activity had been “fairly favorable.”

“As it gets down a little bit further to the north in some more favorable country, we can get after it with the heavy equipment,” he said. “We’ll continue those operations through the night.” 

Division Whiskey is the east side of the fire, which is moving toward Coalville, he said.

“We had folks out there today poking around and looking for access points and where we’re going to hang up this fire here on the east side,” Tatishi said. “That’ll be a big shift in resources tomorrow over there to assist out in Division Whiskey.”

Incident Commander Garrett Nielsen said they have resources coming in from across the country, including help from the National Guard, and he assured residents that they were doing as much as possible.

“What makes fires challenging is if the communities aren’t supportive, but you guys have been amazing to work with,” he said. “Without you guys’ support, honestly, it makes this task really daunting. And the firefighters feel it.”

Nielsen said in some cases the offer of support, like volunteering to go out with the firefighters or donating food or money, is well meant but not helpful. Much better to give that time and money to the evacuees who have been displaced, he said.

“We’re taken care of. We do this day in and day out, and so take care of yourselves and let us support you with what we do on our day-to-day jobs,” he said.

Looking ahead, weather forecasts are “spicy,” Nielsen said, with potential rain systems with thunder cells that can produce gusty winds.

“When those come over, we typically don’t know which way the winds are going to go,” he said. “With the ones we’ve been seeing lately, we’re thinking one thing, and it does the exact opposite.” 

So far no structures have been reported lost, Nielsen said. 

Summit County Sheriff Kacey Bates addressed the evacuations, which were extended in Henefer Monday afternoon to include the homes west of Main Street.

“As your sheriff, I want everyone to know when it comes to evacuations that I do not take that lightly. I know it’s very serious, and I do not like displacing residents. But it’s with the utmost caution that when we do send those evacuations, we have talked about it with all of our partners, and we feel that that is the decision that is right for the community members,” she said.

She gave a rundown of the areas of the county that were in either “Ready,” “Set” or “Go” status.

In the next speech, North Summit Fire Chief Ben Nielson assured residents that their stations are still fully staffed to help with any other emergencies that may happen in his district, which he called “incidents within incidents.”

He said with the other fires across the state, like the 120,000-acre Widemouth Fire in central Utah, that resources are spread thin. So he asked people to “help us help you” by staying safe and avoiding the area if possible.

Summit County Councilor Tonja Hanson ended the meeting with a series of thank yous to the crews, volunteers and community members who have come together to help.

Fire officials stayed after to answer any questions from the in-person attendees, who mostly wanted information on what to expect, or if any new evacuation alerts would be sent out soon. All they could say is “hard to know” and “safety is a priority.”

For updates from Summit County: tinyurl.com/ke375sd3.

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Some romances start with a lucky match on a dating app or an office crush, but Whitney and Anne B. Carothers Woodward’s began eight years ago in the restaurants of Park City Main Street. 

Anne was working at Vinto’s Pizzeria. Whitney at The Mustang. 

“I think I went over to borrow an onion or something,” Anne reminisced as she kneaded dough at the couple’s Midway eatery, Annie B’s Pizzeria.

From the fryer, Whitney chimed in, “All I see is the little top of her head (over the counter) because she’s so short. I’m like, ‘Who the hell was that?’ And the rest is history.”

Both had worked in the food industry their entire careers but hadn’t considered opening their own restaurant until they realized they couldn’t find the thin crust, East Coast-style pizza they were both raised on anywhere in Utah. Anne is from Massachusetts, and Whitney is from New Jersey.

“We drove to Salt Lake, to Provo, to Ogden. During COVID, we drove to Vegas to get pizza. We couldn’t find good, reliable pizza anywhere,” Whitney said.

So the couple decided to open their own pizzeria: Annie B’s. They opened in Coalville in 2021 and moved to Midway in May. 

The move was inspired by a number of factors. The couple lives in Heber City and were not fans of the daily commute, which was often made even longer by weather and traffic.

“When you’re getting your butt kicked, making pizzas all day, the last thing you want is a two-hour commute,” Whitney said.

The most important factor, however, was a desire to operate out of a larger space. The couple’s restaurant in Coalville was less than 1,000 square feet. The only upside of that was the omnipresent smell of pizza cooking in the kitchen.

“It smelled like pizza as soon as you walked through the door. It gives me goosebumps, still,” Whitney said.

The couple is much more content in their 8,000-square-foot building at 380 E. Main St. in Midway, which used to house Mexican restaurant Tarahumara. 

The Woodwards spent a little over a year renovating the space, from re-tiling the floors to cutting out sections of the wall to serve as windows into the kitchen.

“You’ll see some of the remnants of our unprofessional construction,” Whitney joked.

“Don’t look down at the floor,” Annie said, pointing out imperfections. “I should stick to making the pizzas, not pouring concrete.”

The walls are lined with jerseys signed by athletes like Karl Malone and Pete Rose. Whitney likes to think of his expensive hobby as an investment, but at the same time, he’s not sure if he’ll ever sell any of his over 50 treasures.

The restaurant includes a small coffee shop the couple will open as soon as they hire baristas, and a room with a foosball table and Skee-Ball machine that will eventually be built out as a full arcade.

The Woodwards have also purchased the 3,500-square-foot building next door to develop into a second restaurant. The cuisine is to be determined, but the couple hopes to open it by Christmas.

For now, patrons can enjoy Annie B’s current offerings: sub sandwiches, fish and chips, wings, salads, calzones and plenty of pizzas.

Each pizza was born from experimentation. For example, a friend recently begged the Woodwards to make a chicken parmesan pizza.

“We actually made the cutlet, deep-fried it, melted the cheese on it and put it on top of this really rich, cheesy pizza. He said it was amazing,” Anne said.

But only the best make it on the menu.

Two crowd-pleasers are the Meatballer pizza, topped with homemade meatballs, and Buffalo chicken pizza, which is slathered in the authentic Buffalo sauce of western New York, where Whitney once lived.

The funniest story behind a pizza comes from the Layla, Annie B’s cheesiest pizza, topped with feta cheese, roasted tomatoes, balsamic reduction, arugula salad and lemon vinaigrette.

“We were doing a catering event, and this little 9-year-old girl named Layla would not stop eating all my cheese,” Anne said. “I had it all grated and cut, and it was all ready to go, and she’s just sitting there (eating it). And finally, I had to be like, ‘I’m not going to have enough for the pizza, sweetie.’”

The Woodwards’ secret ingredients are garlic butter on every pizza crust and herb ricotta on every calzone. When Annie B’s started out, it took three months and over 300 batches for the couple to perfect the dough.

“We were so sick of pizza, if you can ever be. Try 10 different batches a day for weeks,” Whitney said. “Towards the end there, I thought, ‘We’ve just eaten too much pizza, and we’re pissed off.’”

That dough-making experience reflects the couple’s philosophy when it comes to food: serve only the best.

“What we can’t make by hand, we buy the top quality, best ingredients we could possibly find.” Whitney said. “Even the fish, we went through 12 different fish companies to try and find the perfect piece of battered cod that wasn’t too light, wasn’t too heavy. And they’re expensive, but that’s just the way we are with food.”

Part of the reason for that is Whitney’s background working at fine dining restaurants. It’s been difficult to realize he doesn’t need tweezers to ensure every little piece of oregano is perfectly placed.

Anne’s culinary background began with enrolling in the New England Culinary Institute in Vermont her mid-20s, when she was a ski bum in Park City trying to figure out what to do with her life. Ever since, she’s been fascinated with the business side of the industry and has always wanted more responsibility than what was in a cook’s job description.

For Whitney and Anne, blending their backgrounds as co-owners was difficult at first.

“We met so late in life that we both had our set ways. First couple of years, we didn’t know who was boss,” Anne said. “But we found our things that we’re great at.”

Whitney’s greatest strength, Anne said, is his people skills, which counterbalance her shyness. Anne’s greatest strength is that she’s “a little prep monster,” as her husband put it, always preparing trays of dough balls to prepare the restaurant for the week.

Plus, Anne chimed in, she’s “the fastest pizza-slinger out there.” She won’t, however, toss pizzas after she got caked in flour the first time she tried it.

The Woodwards are well aware that Midway has a more competitive pizza market than Coalville did, but they think their style of pizza can coexist with local favorites like The Pizza Yard and Café Galleria.

“We’re not looking to compete, (but) be successful with everybody else. We’re surrounded by other great restaurants, which is another reason we picked Midway,” Whitney said. 

Anne added, “There’s higher expectations here. And that makes us feel happy when people love our food, and they have high expectations. It’s almost like the new Park City out here.”

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A company that has repeatedly claimed to have the largest stake in Wohali’s future development has taken the reins of the luxury real estate property, hoping to repay its foreign investors and find a path forward for a project that has been embroiled in lawsuits and bankruptcy proceedings for the past year.

EB5AN was the lone bidder at a formal auction last month, submitting a $65 million credit bid to the trustee overseeing Wohali’s federal bankruptcy case. The company specializes in the EB5 visa program, a tool established in the 1990s to stimulate the economy through foreign investors.

The EB5 program allows residents of other countries to easily obtain a green card if they invest $800,000 in a project and prove it created at least 10 jobs. It essentially serves as a cheaper method of funding compared to traditional lenders, like banks and private investors.

EB5AN has handled over 30 projects, sourcing potential investors, lending money to developers and administering the visa program. In 2022, the company became the primary source of funding for Wohali, entering a lending relationship with the previous owners before the golf course was completed or major construction work started on the property.

Specifically, foreign investors coordinating with EB5AN contributed almost $80 million to Wohali, leading to the company’s battle in federal court to become the beneficiaries of the property’s sale. EB5AN was ultimately the lone bidder, but only after a lengthy case involving multiple other stakeholders, including Boyden Farms — the original owner of the land — and the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands.

EB5AN touted itself as having the experience and business acumen to stabilize the Wohali property while figuring out how to pay back its investors. This is the first time EB5AN has been a primary lender on a seemingly failed project, but the company has previously joined deals in the middle of restructuring in other bankruptcy cases.

Situations in which a project fails and is revived before becoming successful are not uncommon in Summit County, with Promontory serving as the most recognizable example along the Wasatch Back.

EB5AN is still determining what Wohali’s future will look like. The company’s leadership is focused on finishing the remainder of the bankruptcy process, including settling Wohali’s debts with other lenders, and paying back its investors before diving into other construction projects or management of the property.

However, EB5AN has contracted Troon to temporarily handle the golf course, which is expected to open this summer. EB5AN’s development team has also been on site over the past few weeks to determine what amenities and infrastructure on the site still need to be completed.

There is a chance EB5AN will sell the property to another company in the future, but only after remaining issues on the site and the project’s financial problems are resolved, as there are outstanding creditors angling for repayment through the bankruptcy process.

In court filings, EB5AN pointed out poor cash management decisions that leadership attributed to the downfall of the project and its eventual bankruptcy case. Specifically, EB5AN called out previous owners’ efforts to build the golf course before installing necessary infrastructure and creating sellable lots for homeowners.

EB5AN’s attorneys said it would have been a better approach to build the residential homes first and use the proceeds from those purchases to fund the golf course’s development, which could then sell memberships to individuals living on the property. They also decried the previous owners’ philosophy that only people who purchased a home or land on the Wohali property should be allowed to buy a golf membership.

The company doesn’t want to abandon Wohali, though, even if it ends up selling the project to another business down the line. EB5AN leadership said the company is committed to working with Coalville officials to develop and provide the product they originally approved, which will boost the city’s tax base and create additional revenue.

Wohali Land Estates, the management company spearheading the original Wohali project, declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy in August, with a reported debt between $100 million and $500 million. Lawsuits naming Wohali as a defendant had already started piling up before the bankruptcy declaration, with multiple businesses suing Wohali after it reportedly failed to pay its invoices.

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A passenger died on Sunday in a rollover crash on Interstate 80 near Coalville.

The Utah Department of Public Safety said a car was traveling westbound at 11:30 a.m. on I-80 near milepost 159 when it left the roadway, overturned and collided with a concrete irrigation ditch.

The front passenger died at the scene, the report said. The driver and a rear passenger were transported to an area hospital with critical injuries.

State troopers are investigating the reason for the crash. The identities of those involved have not been released as of Monday.

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A group of foreign investors, which repeatedly claimed to have the largest stake in Wohali’s future development, was the lone bidder interested in the property at a formal auction.

EB5AN submitted a $65 million credit bid to the trustee overseeing Wohali’s bankruptcy proceedings last month. The investment group has been involved in the Wohali project for years and loaned the company more than $79 million to assist with its development. Wohali has since defaulted on the loan, with court documents in a separate case indicating the business owes EB5AN approximately $86 million, including interest and other fees.

Because of Wohali’s outstanding debt to EB5AN, the investment group was expected to be the front-runner when bids for Wohali were due at the end of April. However, EB5AN was ultimately the only bidder interested in the property despite months of conflict between the group and other stakeholders, including Coalville and the previous property owners.

EB5AN used the money Wohali owes as an opening bid for the property, which is why its proposal is referred to specifically as a “credit bid.” The investors also agreed to pay administrative expenses and other fees as part of a settlement.

But the group’s status as the lone bidder doesn’t mean the closing date will go by without a hitch.

Other parties, including a conglomerate of “concerned” Wohali homeowners, the City of Coalville and a group that claims it owns approximately 3,000 acres of Wohali’s backcountry, have all filed written objections challenging the sale to EB5AN.

Peggy Hunt, a federal bankruptcy judge, plans to hear those objections in a series of hearings in May and June before issuing a ruling.

Lawsuits naming Wohali as a defendant started piling up last summer after multiple contractors sued the company for reportedly failing to pay its invoices. Wohali Land Estates then filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in August, with a reported debt between $100 million and $500 million.

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A luxury real estate development and golf course near Coalville will likely have new owners next month, less than a year after the company declared bankruptcy in federal court.

Wohali Land Estates filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last summer, with a reported debt between $100 million and $500 million. The business has since sought relief through a loan to restructure the organization, which spurred a competition between multiple investors who hoped to become the primary lender.

Lenders are key figures in the bankruptcy proceedings, as the companies and individuals fronting the loans are expected to be first in line to purchase the property during the bidding process.

Chief Judge Peggy Hunt earlier this month finalized the timeline for the auction, setting a deadline of April 20 for all potential buyers to submit their bids. The auction itself is scheduled for April 24, with a closing date of May 13.

EB5AN, a group of foreign investors who have repeatedly claimed they have the largest stake in the development, will likely be the first to bid on the property. The investment group in a separate lawsuit alleged it had loaned $79.2 million to Wohali and that the development company owed approximately $86 million, including interest and other fees, by the time it declared bankruptcy last summer.

Hunt previously authorized EB5AN to loan at least $6.8 million to Wohali as part of its restructuring efforts during the company’s bankruptcy proceedings. The trustee overseeing the proceedings then proposed an agreement that would allow EB5AN to use the $6.8 million debt as a cash payment during its bid.

The agreement stated EB5AN would start the bidding at $65 million, with $3 million to $4 million set aside to reimburse other creditors. The trustee said he did not expect the property to sell for more than $65 million based on preliminary marketing materials.

The trustee is also offering 150 memberships, each worth $15,000, to Wohali’s golf course this year in an effort to retain the property’s value. The trustee said all 150 memberships need to be sold for the golf course to open. If the 150 memberships are not sold, people who purchased one will be given a refund.

Lawsuits naming Wohali as a defendant started piling up last summer after multiple contractors sued the company for reportedly failing to pay its invoices. Wohali declared bankruptcy in August and listed a debt totaling almost $13 million for its top 20 creditors alone.

The latest complaint, which was filed last month by Suncore Construction and Materials, claimed Wohali owed the company at least $681,042. Other contractors who have sued Wohali include Knight Trucking, Eave Solar and Sierra Pacific Windows.

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A foreign creditor that previously funded and supported the Wohali development near Coalville is now suing the luxury real estate company and key members of its leadership team for violating a loan agreement and spurring a federal bankruptcy case.

EB5AN is a group of foreign investors who have repeatedly claimed they have the largest stake in the Wohali development as the real estate business faces Chapter 11 bankruptcy in federal court. The group has loaned at least $6.8 million to Wohali to aid in its restructuring efforts and is likely first in line to acquire the property if it is put up for auction later this month, as expected.

But last week, EB5AN filed a lawsuit in Summit County’s Third District Court against Wohali Partners LLC, its leadership team and other conglomerates involved in pitching and constructing the luxury real estate development and golf course.

The complaint said EB5AN entered a loan agreement in 2022 to lend Wohali up to $79.2 million to fund the community’s development. As part of the agreement, each “original member” who joined the Wohali neighborhood pledged to hand over their membership interests to EB5AN as financial security rather than pledging their funding and interests directly to the Wohali landowners and development team.

The membership pledge was designed to permit EB5AN to foreclose on and take control of the property “without resorting to bankruptcy proceedings.”

Court documents claimed Wohali owed EB5AN approximately $86 million, including interest and other fees, by the time the company declared bankruptcy last summer. However, Wohali had already defaulted on its EB5AN loan by Jan. 10, 2025.

The lawsuit said the pledge agreements prohibited each original member from transferring their membership interests without EB5AN’s written consent. Despite that, though, the original members allegedly transferred their interests to another Wohali subsidiary in October 2024 without the investment group’s permission.

“The interest transfer directly and substantially damaged EB5,” the complaint said. “Had EB5 been able to exercise those rights, Wohali Land’s bankruptcy filing would have been unnecessary, and EB5 would have avoided the substantial costs it has incurred in connection with the bankruptcy case, including attorneys’ fees, DIP financing costs and other expenses.”

Court documents stated that if the membership pledges had not been transferred and EB5AN had retained its ability to foreclose on the Wohali property, then the federal bankruptcy case would never have been filed.

The lawsuit additionally said that Wohali Partners held the title to three parcels of property, which were worth $2 million each, that were “critical” to the development because of their road access. However, those parcels were transferred to another company, identified in court filings as “BLD,” which was a conglomerate of investment groups that spearheaded the original project and pursued financing.

Court documents claimed the transfer was made to benefit the members of those investment groups, who “are insiders of Wohali Partners.” It claimed the transfer was made with the “actual intent to hinder, delay or defraud” EB5AN and other creditors and that the deal may indicate signs of fraud.

Specifically, the complaint pointed out that the BLD group was formed on the same day as the transfer, “indicating a pre-arranged deal without disclosure,” at a time when the company was “subject to substantial claims” because of its ongoing financial issues.

The lawsuit additionally claimed that Wohali leadership purchased heavy equipment with $7.9 million from EB5AN’s loans and that the equipment was sold in mid-2025 “while the EB5 loan was outstanding and Wohali Land’s financial difficulties were escalating.”

The proceeds from the sale were not paid back to EB5AN and were instead “paid” to Jonathan Cox, a financial partner who stepped in to help the Wohali project last summer.

The complaint requested Summit County Third District Judge Matthew Bates award compensatory damages to EB5AN for the costs it has incurred as part of the federal bankruptcy proceedings, reimburse EB5AN for the sold equipment and return the BLD parcels to Wohali Partners’ ownership or pay EB5AN for their value.

Wohali’s attorneys have not yet responded to the lawsuit in court, and there are no hearing dates scheduled as of Tuesday afternoon.

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The North Summit Fire District responded to multiple incidents over the weekend, including an explosion in Coalville that left one person with serious injuries.

Around 7:45 p.m. on Sunday, fire crews were called to a structure fire and explosion on East 150 South in Coalville, according to a press release posted on social media.

First responders arrived on scene to find that a detached shed had blown up and one person had sustained “critical burn injuries.” The Summit County Sheriff’s Office in a shift report specified the man had “severe burns to the arms, legs and face.”

A medical helicopter transported the individual to a burn center in the Salt Lake Valley.

Crews secured the scene and extinguished the fire, but the cause of the explosion is still under investigation.

The department had responded to two other incidents earlier on Sunday afternoon, beginning with an agricultural burn around 4 p.m. The burn, located near River Bend Road in Wanship, had spread beyond its intended area, prompting firefighters to contain it.

While working on the fire in Wanship, crews were alerted to another brush fire around 5:30 p.m. on East Henefer Road. They determined it was a controlled agricultural burn reported by a passerby. The property owner had the burn under control, and fire crews did not take any further action.

“These incidents highlight how quickly conditions can change, especially with agricultural burns,” said battalion chief Tyler Rowser. “We appreciate our partner agencies, the Park City Fire District, South Summit Fire District and Morgan County Fire Department for their support and want to remind residents to take extra precautions and ensure fires are properly managed and monitored at all times.”

The press release said the North Summit Fire District plans to ask the Summit County Council this week to enact fire restrictions in unincorporated parts of the county on May 1. Similar requests will also be made to the Henefer Town Council and Coalville City Council.

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