Cedar Highlands mayor resigns, citing ‘rogue’ town council

One of Utah’s smallest and newest towns is having a rough year.A state audit recently slammed Cedar Highlands, located about five miles from Cedar City in southwestern Utah, for a lack of transparency and compliance with state requirements.And the town is currently scrambling to appoint a new leader following Mayor Steven Swann’s abrupt resignation last month, when he called out in an email “a rogue town council that continually, foolishly and ignorantly rejects and ignores sou