SVI Radio Interview: Brian Muir, Kemmerer City Administrator
Brian Muir, Administrator for the City of Kemmerer, called into SVI Radio‘s Weekday Wake-Up on Monday, June 17 with his monthly update on what is taking place in southern Lincoln County. Muir discussed the TerraPower groundbreaking and what is coming…
Missing woman passed through Moran
JACKSON (WNE) — License plate reader cameras were used recently to try to locate a missing Idaho woman whose cellphone showed she had passed through Moran. Laura Lane, 54, left her job in Buffalo, Wyoming, and began traveling…
Feds signal deference to Wyoming, dilution of protections, on migration routes
• As BLM finishes up its Rock Springs RMP, state director suggests that his agency has backed off its plan to unconditionally preserve ungulate corridors. By Mike Koshmrl, WyoFile.com In an apparent response to pressure from Wyoming officials,…
Park Service calls for bison populations to grow in the West
CASPER (WNE) — The National Park Service is calling for a 20% increase in the bison population. The service has released its preferred alternative for a new Interagency Bison Management Plan, which comes more than two decades after the inaugural…
‘Neighbors reaching out’ – Box-H Park playground equipment result of community effort
It’s about the laughter. It’s about the memories — past and future. It’s about reaching out to your neighbor. It’s about building a community. In essence, those were the motivations behind efforts to bring in new playground equipment for…
$880K price tag to fix mudslide on Teton Pass
By Jasmine Hall Jackson Hole News&Guide Via- Wyoming News Exchange JACKSON — Hiding in the shadow of a landslide that severed part of Teton Pass on Saturday is a mudslide that will cost $880,600 to address. The Wyoming Transportation…
The Rookie Cookie Shack; Open for Business
• Jordyn Roberts saves for college. After countless weekend bakes with her family as judges, Star Valley High School senior Jordyn Roberts has officially launched The Rookie Cookie Shack in the Afton Bomgaars parking lot. Open Monday through Saturday…
Valli Vu Golf Course enjoying busy times
• Tee times are recommended. For many years the Valli Vu Golf Course in Afton was a nine-hole municipal course that was almost sleepy at times. Punch cards for rounds carried over from two summers prior and getting a cart…
Independent Notes: Great-grandparents and Nuclear power.
On Monday, just outside of Kemmerer, I watched as they turned the first shovelfuls of dirt for the TerraPower Natrium Reactor 1 Demonstration Project. My mind was on my great-grandparents, not necessarily on nuclear power. I was thinking about…