Star Valley Trades Fair planned for Afton Civic Center
• Workforce Services invite businesses to participate, May 7 in Afton Star Valley area businesses and organizations are invited to participate in a trades fair program designed to give high school age students and others insight into potential job…
Star Valley Health positioning hospital for the future
• Telephone Town Hall scheduled for May 8 With Star Valley Health facing a 3.5 million shortfall, associated with bad debt and a computer accounting error, the district owned hospital is laying out plans for the year. “Star Valley…
Labor advocates: Most lethal state in the nation for workers ignores blue-collar plight
• It’s Workers Memorial Day. Yet Wyoming elected officials mostly silent in wake of yet another alarming report of workplace carnage, advocates say. By Dustin Bleizeffer, WyoFile.com In 2023, a worker died after falling through a skylight on a…
Conclave to elect a new pope will start on May 7 as cardinals get to know one another
By NICOLE WINFIELD and COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic cardinals on Monday set May 7 as the start date for the conclave to elect Pope Francis’ successor, delaying the secret voting for two days so they…
Friendship- binding the fabric of our lives
*This feature appeared in the April 23, 2025 print edition of the Star Valley Independent • Quilt blocks embroidered in 1949 emerge from an attic in Turnerville True friendship – It’s an irreplaceable and tender memory for every young…
Bridge updates at SVR: Hardman Bridge replaced
Star Valley Ranch continues with road and bridge improvements in 2025. Mayor Ru Rock reports, replacement of the Hardman Bridge on Cedar Creek is underway and continues to move forward this week. “The prefabricated concrete bridge pieces have already…
Star Valley Health responds to financial challenges
• Hospital releases statements on changes, following funding shortfall in 2025 With changing factors in health care costs resulting in funding shortages at the beginning of 2025, Star Valley Health has acknowledged the need to make changes in the…
NCAA passes series of rules that sets table for schools to pay players directly
By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer The NCAA passed rules Monday that would upend decades of precedent by allowing colleges to pay their athletes per terms of a multibillion-dollar lawsuit settlement expected to go into effect this summer. The nine…
Pope Francis, first Latin American pontiff who ministered with a charming, humble style, dies at 88
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives with critiques of capitalism and climate change,…
Determined to Succeed: Aullman battles her way back to the mat
Find this two-page feature in the April 16, 2025 edition of the Star Valley Independent. A year ago, Remington Aullman earned all-state status after advancing to the finals of the Wyoming State Wrestling tournament and finishing second. It was…