Jump Start Your Business program cultivates success for local entrepreneurs
• Kate Gessford with Old Dog Farms earns business funding The Jump Start Your Business Program has been helping bring classes run by local business leaders as well as funding to small businesses. This past series of eight classes…
Music students represent SVHS at All-State
• Five students become 4-year All-Staters Forty-two music students from Star Valley High School qualified for and performed at the Wyoming All-State Band, Orchestra and Choir Clinic on January 20-21 in Cheyenne at South High School. Five of the…
Independent Obituaries: January 29, 2025
The following obituaries and death notices appeared in the January 29, 2025 edition of the Star Valley Independent. For more area obituaries, please visit Schwab Mortuary. For more resources including headstones, please visit the Star Valley Historical Society. Judy Mosley Judy Ann Mosley:…
SVI Radio Interview: Megan Degenfelder, Wyoming Superintendent of Public Instruction
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Annexation on the Alpine agenda for 2025
• New P&Z board member welcomed The Alpine Town Council moved an annexation project forward and welcomed a new member to the community’s planning and zoning board at the Jan. 21 meeting. Rachael Stewart was given the oath of…
McKay Erickson Legislative Update
• House District 21 Representative discusses key issues In a recent appearance on the Weekday Wake-Up, House District 21 Representative McKay Erickson highlighted his ongoing efforts on the House Education Committee and addressed pressing issues surrounding property tax reform….
LC Tourism coordinated as one program
• Board will be formed with town representatives Representatives from the Lincoln County’s towns, chambers and economic development groups met in a conference call this week to make plans for a unified effort to promote tourism. Lincoln County Economic…
Wade Bitter selected to Star Valley Ranch Town Council
The Star Valley Ranch Town Council voted to appoint Wade Bitter to fill a vacancy on the council. The vote took place during a special Town Council meeting held at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, January 28. Bitter will fill the…
SVI Radio Interview: LCSD2 Superintendent Matt Erickson
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State’s top elected officials address municipalities
By Noah Zahn Wyoming Tribune Eagle Via- Wyoming News Exchange CHEYENNE — In an address to the Wyoming Association of Municipalities, Gov. Mark Gordon said Friday he is optimistic for the future of the state’s towns and municipalities, but…