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Year: 2019

Lady Braves face Gillette, Bear Lake and Lyman to open Cokeville Tourney

                      A good season-opening litmus test for volleyball teams in the region for more than two decades now, the Cokeville Invitational draws a great mix of small schools with perennial…

Make It A Double: Braves win pair of road golf tourneys

• Golf team will be in Lander this week at the home of the defending 3A champs. Blink and you’ll miss half of it. That’s never been more true of the Wyoming prep golf season which actually began two weeks…

Ogden course expected to be a rust breaker for upcoming Cardinal Classic

• Star Valley Cross-Country team will run at El Monte Golf Course. Some sports are an almost violent reminder of work that is not done over the course of an offseason. That first game or match can be an unkind…

Expert: bill requiring report of mental illness to firearms dealers based on fear

By Allayana Darrow, The Sheridan Press Via- Wyoming News Exchange SHERIDAN — Paul Demple, chief executive officer at Northern Wyoming Mental Health Center, said a proposed bill that would require mental illness adjudications be reported to firearm dealers is a…

Alpine Firewise meeting planned

Thursday, August 28 the Alpine Fire Department will host a Firewise meeting. The meeting will take place from 1-4 p.m. in the Alpine Fire Department Building. “A wildfire may make it necessary for neighborhood residents to evacuate,” said Alpine Fire…

Soldier Deployment Ceremony is Sept. 8

The Wyoming Army National Guard will say farewell to soldiers in A Battery, 2nd Battalion, 300th Field Artillery Sept. 8 at 2 p.m. The soldiers will deploy to the Middle East. Gov. Mark Gordon, Maj. Gen. Greg Porter, and the…

Wyoming Supreme Court affirms district court restitution ruling

By Isabella Alves, Wyoming Tribune Eagle Via- Wyoming News Exchange CHEYENNE — The Wyoming Supreme Court last week affirmed a decision out of Laramie County District Court that requires a local woman to pay restitution following her “no contest” plea…

Court filing: Sale of Wyoming mines to Contura ‘dead’

By Greg Johnson, Gillette News Record Via- Wyoming News Exchange GILLETTE — A proposed sale of the Eagle Butte and Belle Ayr coal mines to Contura Energy Corp. “is dead,” according to a Tuesday afternoon U.S. Bankruptcy Court filing in…

Montana Shakepeare in the Parks performance is Friday at 6 p.m. in Thayne

Montana Shakespeare in the Parks is back this summer with “The Merry Wives of Windsor” taking the stage. It will be on Friday, August 30, at 6 p.m. at the Thayne Community Center lawn. Attendees are encouraged to bring their…

State treasurer’s office works to overhaul aspects of accounting system

Wyoming State Treasurer Curt Meir says the office has overhauled aspects of the accounting system continuing the work of those before him. For the last three years the office had no way of tracking where to get money and where…