UW football back for fall
By Davis Potter Casper Star-Tribune Via- Wyoming News Exchange CASPER — Wyoming football is officially back. So is the rest of the Mountain West. After a week of various media reports, statements from university administrators and state officials, and rampant…
Fire in Medicine Bow grows by more than 32,000 acres
———- By The Laramie Boomerang Via- Wyoming News Exchange LARAMIE — There were no doubts the critical weather conditions and natural fuels feeding the Mullen Fire burning in the mountains about 40 miles west of Laramie went from bad to…
SBA Economic Injury Disaster Loans Available to Wyoming Small Businesses
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Small nonfarm businesses in 10 Wyoming counties and neighboring counties in Colorado, Nebraska and Utah are now eligible to apply for low interest federal disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration, announced Director Tanya N. Garfield…
Transportation Commission awards $62.7 million in contracts in September
The Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT) will pave 13 miles of Interstate 80 between Rock Springs and Rawlins to improve the surface. The Wyoming Transportation Commission awarded Interstate Highway Construction Inc., of Englewood, Colorado, a $20.8 million contract for the…
Thousand Books Before Kindergarten program now back up and running
◆ Book boxes back in local businesses. The Lincoln County School District 2 Education Foundation has reopened their 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten program in the Star Valley community. Program book boxes were locked down last spring due to coronavirus containment…
Thursday second day in a row with more than 100 new coronavirus cases
By The Wyoming News Exchange A second day of increases of more than 100 in new confirmed coronavirus cases around Wyoming pushed the state’s number of active cases to new highs Thursday. The Wyoming Department of Health, in its daily…
Star Valley Cross-Country runs at Rexburg
————— Star Valley Cross-Country traveled to Rexburg, Idaho on Thursday afternoon for the Madison Quad meet. In the Women’s race, Elanor Eddington of Idaho Falls took the top time with a race of 19:25, edging teammate Allison Lemons by 13…
Wyoming receives $43 million with federal literacy grant
◆ Statewide literacy task force will be launched. CHEYENNE (WNE) – Teachers could soon have a few more tools to promote reading in their classrooms, as the Wyoming Department of Education has received a federal grant totaling $43.3 million that…
Funeral services for Margene Warren
Funeral services for Margene Warren will take place Saturday, October 3, 2020 at 12:30 p.m. in the Afton 3rd Ward Building. A viewing will take place on Friday October 2, 2020 from 6-8 p.m. and from 11:30 a.m. to 12:20…
Goat cull efforts off to smooth start
By Mike Koshmrl Jackson Hole News&Guide Via- Wyoming News Exchange JACKSON — The ongoing effort to eradicate nonnative mountain goats from the Teton Range is predictably going slower using ground-based volunteer hunters than with a helicopter flying contracted gunners. Three…