Two-year meth probe leads to five arrests in countywide action

May 24, 2013 - By Christina George, Staff Writer:  Fremont County law enforcement made a fifth arrest early Thursday in connection with a countywide drug bust that began Wednesday.
Undersheriff Ryan Lee said ... [more]

Skeleton ID is man missing for seven years

May 24, 2013 - By Katie Roenigk, Staff Writer:  The Fremont County Coroner's Office has released the identity of the man whose skeleton was found March 10 on the Wind River Indian Reservation east of ... [more]

Highway patrol to be visible for holiday period

May 23, 2013 - The Associated Press:  CHEYENNE -- The Wyoming Highway Patrol will be out in force this Memorial Day weekend.
The patrol says it will be paying particular attention to enforcing seat ... [more]

Teen defendants enter not guilty plea in triple killings

May 23, 2013 - The Associated Press:  CODY -- Two teenagers charged in the shooting deaths of a woman and her parents near the Wyoming-Montana border have pleaded not guilty. Stephen Hammer and ... [more]

City to keep working on guidelines for fixing sidewalks

May 23, 2013 - By Alejandra Silva, Staff Writer:  A proposed ordinance that would apply guidelines to sidewalk replacements failed this month to pass first reading from the Riverton City Council.
Current city ... [more]

Digest

May 23, 2013 - The Associated Press:  Guernsey treasurer sentenced
CHEYENNE -- A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced a former Guernsey town treasurer to two years in prison for failing to ... [more]

County agrees to use signs near 1 percent tax projects

May 23, 2013 - By Eric Blom, Staff Writer:  Giant neon-green pennies will pop up all over Fremont County in the next few years.
The Fremont County Commission this month agreed to use bright, 2-foot ... [more]

Husband, wife get big sentences in Hudson homicides

May 23, 2013 - By Christina George, Staff Writer:  Joseph Jude Jenkins will spend the next 70 years to life behind bars in connection with the 2011 double homicide in Hudson. His wife, Samantha June Hanway, ... [more]

Ethete man's death due to drowning in canal, coroner says

May 23, 2013 - By Katie Roenigk, Staff Writer:  Preliminary autopsy results show Curtis LeClair, 62, of Ethete, died of asphyxia due to drowning.
The man's body was found Monday in the Wyoming Canal system ... [more]

RHS staging Les Miserables

May 23, 2013 - Staff:  "Les Miserables" boasts a large cast of RHS students and others. Front row, from left, Heather McLaughlin, Carly Thornton, Victoria Verosky, Kylee Yorgason, ... [more]

Idaho man to be new RHS head football coach

May 23, 2013 - By Craig Blumenshine, Staff Writer:  Pat Patterson, a teacher and football coach at American Falls High School in Idaho, has been offered the position of head football coach and freshman science ... [more]

Saltwater Classic this weekend, with $10,000 pro prize

May 23, 2013 - By Bruce Tippets, Sports Editor:  The 54-hole tournament starts onR00;Saturday morning and ends Monday afternoon at the Riverton Country Club. The prize money has doubled this year ... [more]

Life gets more Pinteresting

May 23, 2013 - By Clair McFarland:  The Pinterest app is on my iPad, thereby upgrading the device from "expensive cookbook" to "expensive cupcake decorating handbook."

In an attempt to ... [more]

Allotment grazing rules get closer to finalization

May 23, 2013 - By Eric Blom, Staff Writer:  Environmentalists, ranchers, the State of Wyoming and the Bureau of Land Management are wrapping up a hearing about grazing rules for the former Green Mountain ... [more]

Riverton CowBelles put on another fine event

May 23, 2013 - Larry and Betty Mathews, Riverton:  Editor:
We would like to say "thank you" to the Fremont County CowBelles, once again, for the great meal they prepared for the Business Appreciation Day ... [more]

RHS senior dramatists shine in 'Les Miserables'

May 23, 2013 - By Robert H. Peck, Staff Writer:  The Riverton High School drama club's spring musical performance of Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables" opens Thursday in the Robert A. Peck Arts Center Theater at ... [more]

The packed boardroom

May 23, 2013 - By Steven R. Peck:  We did it for football, so let's do it for other education issues as well

There has been high community interest this spring in the resignation of ... [more]

CowBelles host annual luncheon

May 23, 2013 - By Andrea Novotny, Staff Writer:  The Riverton CowBelles, a chapter of American National CattleWomen, had its annual Business Person's Appreciation Luncheon on May 16.
"The luncheon is our ... [more]

Wyoming Sugar to erect new silos

May 23, 2013 - The Associated Press:  WORLAND -- A project to erect new silos at the Wyoming Sugar Factory in Worland is drawing praise from Gov. Matt Mead.
Mead was on hand this past week to ... [more]