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Mid-Valley Fire District Approves 3 Mills Levy

◆ First levy approved following district’s organization. The newly formed Mid-Valley Fire District approved it’s first tax levy during the April 14, 2021 meeting. Director Halverson moved that the District set its tax levy at 1.54, but the motion died…

(Video) – Dave Draney Track Invite

After being postponed a week due to concerns over weather and field conditions, it should be sunny with highs in the upper 40’s as Star Valley High School hosts their annual track meet at Braves Field. Field events will begin…

Jenny Oaks Baker performing in Afton is a Really Big Deal

James and Daphne Arbizu have been busy. They’ve formed a nonprofit. They’re restoring the Ford Theater to its former glory, teaching music students, running a music store, applying for grants, and they’re booking a series of comedians, entertainers, aspiring talents,…

Snowstorm cost Casper $500K

CASPER (WNE) — The historic March snowstorm that dropped two feet of snow on Casper cost the city more than half a million dollars — more than half of what it typically spends in a year on snow removal, according…

Cheney outraises challengers in initial fundraising for 2022 primary election

CHEYENNE (WNE) – With more than a year left until Wyoming’s 2022 primary election, Congresswoman Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., reported a strong start to her campaign’s fundraising efforts last week, accruing roughly $1.5 million in contributions over the first quarter of…

Lincoln County with just two active COVID-19 cases

As of 3 p.m. Monday, April 19, the number of laboratory-confirmed coronavirus cases seen since the disease was first diagnosed in the state in mid-March stood at 48,535, an increase of 306 cases over the 48,229 cases reported on April…

Rock Church Summer Theater will do a show this summer and will have open auditions Saturday from 1-4 p.m.

The Rock Church Summer Theater, sponsored by the Star Valley Historical Society, will hold a show this summer after missing last year due to COVID-19 and will have open auditions this Saturday from 1-4 p.m. Those will be held at…

KICK IT OR KEEP IT: “As I Am (Acoustic)” by The Goo Goo Dolls

The legendary rock group The Goo Goo Dolls released a surprise album last week made up of four acoustic versions of their previous songs. The album, title EP 21, was released on Friday, April 16 featuring the songs “As I Am,”…

Wyoming Game and Fish director explains H.B. 101 in regards to authority on closing elk feed grounds

Wyoming Game and Fish Director Brian Nesvick says some of the recent headlines about the department being stripped of its authority to close elk feed grounds in regards to H.B. 101 is a little misleading. He says what it did…

“Rulon” focuses on the Olympic Champ’s Third Act

◆ New documentary delves deeper into the man we think we know. Most long-time Star Valley residents have a story or a memory about Rulon Gardner, the farm boy who grew up milking cows in Star Valley and became an…