Woman found dead after grizzly bear encounter near Yellowstone National Park
A woman was found dead in Montana on Saturday after coming into contact with a grizzly bear on a trail west of Yellowstone National Park. The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks said in a statement on Sunday that…
Sunrise Engineering Star Valley Office is relocating to better serve clients
Provided by Sunrise Engineering AFTON, WYOMING – July 19, 2023 – Sunrise Engineering, a leading engineering firm specializing in infrastructure and public works projects, is pleased to announce the relocation of its Star Valley office in Afton, Wyoming. The new…
Wyoming Picked Sixth in 2023 Preseason Football Media Poll
• Easton Gibbs Named Preseason Defensive Player of the Year, • Five Cowboys Named Preseason All-Conference Tim Harkins Associate Athletics Director for Media Relations, Public Relations and Broadcasting University of Wyoming Athletics Las Vegas, Nev. (July 19, 2022) — The…
Independent Obituaries: July 19, 2023
The following obituaries appeared in the July 19, 2023 edition of the Star Valley Independent. For more area obituaries, please visit Schwab Mortuary. For more resources including headstones, please visit the Star Valley Historical Society. Nel Lo Bassett Nel Lo H. Bassett passed…
Woman gored by bison in Yellowstone National Park
The following is a release from the National Park Service – A 47-year-old female from Phoenix, Arizona, was gored by a bison near the Lake Lodge Cabins on the north shore of Lake Yellowstone the morning of July 17….
TerraPower and Centrus expand efforts to commercialize domestic HALEU production
• TerraPower and Centrus Energy execute MOU to accelerate joint efforts to create domestic, commercial-scale HALEU production TerraPower and Centrus Energy Corp. (NYSE American: LEU) announced today a new memorandum of understanding (MOU) to significantly expand their collaboration aimed at establishing…
UW College of Ag Announces Leadership Changes
The University of Wyoming College of Agriculture, Life Sciences and Natural Resources has added a fourth associate dean to its administrative team and selected a new associate dean of academic and student programs. Kelly Crane, former director of UW Extension, has taken…
Alan Edwards To Assume Larger Role as DEQ Deputy Director
The Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) Director, Todd Parfitt, announced today that Alan Edwards, Deputy Director, and Industrial Siting Division (ISD) Administrator for the DEQ will be assuming a larger role as Deputy Director. “I have asked Alan Edwards to…
Natural gas pipeline proposed for Afton/Star Valley
Today the Caribou-Targhee National Forest released its Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement proposing construction of a new twelve-inch or less outside diameter, high-pressure pipeline to provide natural gas to the Afton/Star Valley, Wyoming area. “Our announcement kicks off a formal…
Lower Valley Energy election results
Lower Valley Energy held its annual meeting at the Jackson office. Board of Director District seats 1, 6 and 7 were up for election. Elections for the previous two years were uncontested so there was no voting those years. Below…