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Dan Dockstader

Thanksgiving is a community event for Town of Alpine

• Dinner grows each year, help still welcome. As November ushers in the holiday season, one community starts to prepare a list. It’s a list of all that is needed to feed their friends and neighbors on  Thanksgiving Day. Every…

Mule Deer conversations hosted by G&F

  • Meetings in Thayne, Jackson, Cokeville and Kemmerer There are four opportunities in November and December to join the Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s  conversation on Mule Deer. RELATED: WGF SEEKING PUBLIC COMMENT ON MULE DEER MANAGMENT – Regional…

Afton tracking the Intermittent Spring system

  • Town maintains integrity of the water source. For now the Intermittent Spring continues to flow and there are no problems with the infrastructure associated with Afton’s main source of culinary water in the Bridger-Teton National Forest. The site…

New interest in trails for Lincoln County

  • Transportation Plan comments call for more trails. As the Lincoln County Transportation Plan moves forward gathering public comments from Opal to Alpine, there is a new found interest in trails coming in with the responses. Lincoln County launched…

Independent Notes: It’s an honor to vote!

  The radio broadcasting dress code is simple. Blue jeans, an old, un-ironed shirt, a hoodie and a ball cap. I love dressing for radio. Generally old shoes too because I may walk my dog Cheyenne in one of the…

Afton sewer lagoon preps for improvements

  As Afton grows, so does the need for infrastructure improvements as the municipal sewer lagoon southwest of the community. Work has started on an expansion project that has been in planning stages for the past two years, both in…

Thayne moves closer to major subdivision work

• Impact fees start with home construction. The 113 Acre, 184 lot Hemmert Ranch Subdivision in Thayne is moving forward after three years of preparation and review. “It’s a huge undertaking for the Town of Thayne, it could quadruple the…

County transportation plan coming together

• Public meetings planned Oct. 29 and 30 in Kemmerer/Afton. Lincoln County continues to work on a Transportation Master Plan and two meetings are coming up involving public input. The public is invited to a Tuesday, Oct. 29 meeting in…

Alpine Charter School to be reviewed on Oct. 24

  • Alpine councilman explains his work with the school. The Wyoming State Charter Authorizing Board will review two applications for charter schools this week, one in Alpine and the other in Cody. The governing body on charters will meet…

Independent Notes: Reports and a resolution on Amendment A.

  This week SVI has included reports about Constitutional Amendment A that you will find on the Nov. 5 General Election Ballot. SVI used reports from other publications because I’m one of the sponsors on the original legislation for the…