No one injured in emergency plane landing
RIVERTON (WNE) — No one was injured Monday after an aircraft landed without hydraulics at Central Wyoming Regional Airport. Airport manager Paul Griffin said he was notified just before 7 p.m. Monday that a Key Lime Air pilot headed to…
Fatal crash east of Sundance, Wyoming
On January 8, 2021, a fatal crash occurred around milepost 201 on Interstate 90 east of Sundance, Wyoming. At 08:02 a.m., Wyoming Highway Patrol troopers were notified of a one-vehicle rollover. A 1997 Ford F-250 was headed west on Interstate…
Active COVID cases rise by 149 Friday
By The Wyoming News Exchange The number of Wyoming’s active coronavirus cases increased Friday as the state reported 406 new laboratory-confirmed cases of the virus. The Wyoming Department of Health, in its daily coronavirus update, said in addition to the…
Fat bike championship moves to Pinedale
PINEDALE – There is a silver lining to the changes and upheaval wrought by the pandemic. During the past five years, the Colorado resort town of Crested Butte hosted the World Fat Bike Championships sponsored by Borealis Fat Bikes. Due…
Wolf hunt ends 20 short of limit
PINEDALE (WNE) — The 2020 wolf-hunting season in Wyoming’s trophy game management area closed as the New Year began last week, with only 31 gray wolves taken from a limit of 51. Game and Fish manages gray wolves, which are…
Town Councils welcome newly elected members this month
◆ New members will be sworn in at meetings throughout January. New members to town councils throughout Star Valley are looking forward to meetings throughout January in which they will be sworn in and take their seats among their councils…
Cross-country skier collapses and dies in Grand Teton National Park
Grand Teton National Park Rangers responded to an emergency request to help with a collapsed cross-country skier at approximately 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 6. Gary Sternberg, age 69, of Jackson, Wyoming, was skiing with others near Phelps Lake when…
Lincoln County Library System 2021 Book List
By Star Valley Branch Library Staff To get you started towards attaining your 2021 reading goal the staff at Star Valley Branch Library has put together a list of “must reads” published in 2020… any way about it these would…
First Bank $2 bill initiative encouraged local holiday shopping
◆ Star Valley shoppers spent over $2,300 in $2 bills at local businesses. To encourage consumers to shop locally during the 2020 holiday shopping season, branches of First Bank in Afton and Alpine invited patrons to go into the bank…
Twenty-five more deaths tied to COVID; active cases down slightly
By The Wyoming News Exchange The deaths of 25 more Wyoming residents have been linked to the coronavirus, the Wyoming Department of Health announced Thursday. The department described the deaths of all but four as involving older adults. The deaths…