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(Video) – Literacy Week from LCSD #2

Lincoln County School District #2 and SVI Media team up again to bring great reading to your evening! With teachers and community members reading wonderful books each night, kids and adults alike will find themselves enjoying the captivating tales and…

Wyoming preparing as state’s coronavirus risk is still low

◆ Common sense illness prevention steps emphasized. By Kim Deti Wyoming Department of Health While the number of reported cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to grow around the world, the current risk of an outbreak is still…

Updated: Three confirmed dead: I-80 closed after crash involving more than 100 vehicles

***Updated March 2, 12 noon: Wyoming Highway Patrol troopers were notified of crashes involving multiple vehicles around milepost 181 and 184 on Interstate 80. Troopers arrived to find over 100 vehicles involved between both crashes. Multiple injuries and three fatalities…

Wyoming State Historical Society seeking history award nominees

◆ Award designed to recognize efforts to preserve history. Provided by the Wyoming State Historical Society The Wyoming State Historical Society seeks nominations of individuals and organizations that have done outstanding work in preserving and interpreting Wyoming history in 2019….

County Shriners Committee created

◆ Group already planning for 2021 event. Thursday, February 20 a group of community members and volunteers met at the Thayne Fire Hall to present Shriners with the funds raised at the first annual Lincoln County Fair Winter Sports Event…

Govorner Gordon applauds halt of planned aerial gunning of mountain goats

Governor Mark Gordon expressed his gratitude to Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt after the Secretary intervened to call off a planned mountain goat culling through aerial gunning in Grand Teton National Park. The culling was scheduled to begin last…

Climb Wyoming graduates class, makes plans for next session

◆ Next training session set to begin in April. Climb Wyoming is working to place recent graduates of their Professional Office Careers training. “We provide career training and job placement for low-income, single moms in Teton, Lincoln and Sublette counties,”…

Sledders to play ‘King of the Hill’ this weekend at the Afton Hillclimb

◆ Top riders from across the region to take part in 2020 competition. Friday, February 21 the Afton Hill Climb will get underway in Grover Park. Competition will begin at 8 a.m. The event will continue through Sunday, February 23,…

Cowboys Drop Road Contest to Hot Shooting Utah State, 78-58

LOGAN, Utah (Feb. 19, 2020) – The Wyoming Cowboys ran into hot shooting in the opening frame in a 78-58 road loss at Utah State on Wednesday evening in the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum in Logan, Utah. It marked the…

Names in the News

The University of Wyoming lists eight students from Lincoln County on the 2019 fall semester Provost’s Honor Roll. The Provost’s Honor Roll consists of undergraduates who have completed at least six but fewer than 12 hours with a minimum 3.5…