Lincoln County prepares for SW growth
• Impact fees designed to help counties and towns. Permanent homes planned for LC. As new industry comes to southwest Wyoming, Lincoln County is making plans for both infrastructure improvements and housing. Stephen Allen, Lincoln County Commission Chief of Staff…
Independent Notes: Funding our towns and counties and working with our D.C. delegation
As Wyoming’s budget is worked over every two years in the Legislature, it includes funding from the state to local governments, called Direct Distribution. Putting this together is a two year process and the funding is divided accordingly. This…
Miss Wyoming Adelaide Roberts hosts Alpine event
• Fundraiser held with 307 Dance Productions for Libertas International. Miss Wyoming Adelaide Roberts of Star Valley teamed up with 307 Dance Productions Friday night in Alpine to host a fund raising event for Libertas International. Libertas International assists…
Alpine Fire Department blocks fire from spreading
• Arrangements made for lodging. An Alpine family was displaced Friday afternoon, April 12, when fire destroyed a bedroom in their home. No one was injured but a family dog died in the fire. Lincoln County Communications dispatched the Alpine…
Independent Notes: Sloppy Joes and the growth of area health care
Read the Opinions on page 9A of the April 10, 2024 edition of the Star Valley Independent. Years ago, I started attending the board meetings for the Star Valley Hospital. That’s what it was called about 39 years…
Winter of 2023 factors into proposed big game seasons
• Game and Fish holds SV meeting. Commission will meet April 16-17 to finalize seasons. The winter of 2023 was still on the mind of many sportsmen when they checked in with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department at a…
Alpine health care expands with new SVH addition
SVI Media toured the additions underway for the Alpine facilities of Star Valley Health. SV Chief Operating Officer Mike Hunsaker answered the following questions on the addition. Alpine new addition will include what new services? The new space will…
EPA withdraws decision on Afton water
• D.C. delegation assisted, calling the EPA demands ‘not warranted.’ In August of 2022 the Environmental Protection Agency, (EPA) put the Town of Afton under notice, advising the community’s water source, the Periodic (Intermittent) Spring was under direct influence of…
Construction permit submitted for Natrium reactor
• Kemmerer and Lincoln County respond to permit from Regulatory Commission. TerraPower reported Friday, Mar. 29 the company had submitted it’s construction permit application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for the NatriumTM reactor demonstration project south of Kemmerer….
Independent Notes: Rock Springs Management Plan
We held a series of meetings late in the year to address the proposed change for Bureau of Management federal land in southwestern Wyoming. All of this fell under the proposed Rock Springs Resource Management Plan or RMP. Receiving a…