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Month: June 2023

June 28, 2023 Star Valley Independent

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Wednesday is final day of “Dyer’s Woad Week”

Provided by the Wyoming Weed & Pest Council For nearly 20 years, the Lincoln County Weed and Pest District has held the annual “Dyer’s Woad Week,” when children 18 years and younger can pick Dyer’s Woad plants and trade it…

Amid funding concerns, lawmakers reject push for EMS as essential service

By Aedan Hannon Casper Star-Tribune Via- Wyoming News Exchange CASPER  — Lawmakers on a legislative health panel declined last week to move forward with a draft bill that would have made emergency medical services (EMS) an essential service in Wyoming…

Tornado strike causes severe damage at nation’s largest coal mine

• Six were hospitalized for injuries, and a ‘massive’ cleanup job remains at Peabody Energy’s North Antelope Rochelle mine. By Dustin Bleizeffer, WyoFile.com Hundreds of workers escaped serious injury, though six required hospital treatment, when a tornado ripped through the…

Wild horses back in court amid swelling populations, planned roundups

• Mustang advocates have mounted a legal fight aiming to reverse a Bureau of Land Management decision calling for zero horses in portions of the checkerboard. By Mike Koshmrl, WyoFile.com ROCK SPRINGS — Jim Magagna summed up one difficulty of…

Legislators, doctors want rules on prior authorization

By Aedan Hannon Casper Star-Tribune Via- Wyoming News Exchange CASPER — For the first time, Wyoming lawmakers are looking to put in place rules that guide how health insurance companies can approve and deny medical care.  However, the second interim…

Wyoming leaders battle Biden for gun rights

By Sarah Elmquist Squires Lander Journal Via- Wyoming News Exchange LANDER — Last week, U.S. Senators John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis fired back against a Biden administration Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) rule governing pistol braces.  The senators joined…

Interviews

June 27: Superintendent Matt Erickson, LCSD2

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Yellowstone National Park’s Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel to open July 1, 2023

MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY – Yellowstone National Park’s Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel and Cabins will open July 1, 2023. The hotel closed immediately after the historic 2022 flood because of damage to the area’s wastewater system. The hotel gift shop with sandwiches, snacks…