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Largest polygamist community changing

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COLORADO CITY, Ariz., Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Changes, including a polygamy bed-and-breakfast, are coming to Colorado City, Ariz., and nearby Hildale, Utah, the largest polygamist community in the nation.

A beauty salon and tanning parlor opened recently in the frontier Arizona town where women traditionally have not cut their hair, and both men and women are clothed from wrist to neck to ankle, the Arizona Republic said.

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Colorado City's high school put a basketball team on the court for the first time last season. The next business planned for Colorado City's frontage along Arizona 389 is a bakery with pastries and fancy coffee.

One local resident is even pondering opening a bed-and-breakfast with a polygamy theme. A hearing is planned to pick a new board to assume virtually all financial duties of both towns.

Meanwhile, the search continues for Warren Jeffs, the fugitive leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, indicted on sexual misconduct charges.

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