California sky "Areas of smoke," say the weather forecasters in predicting conditions for the week ahead. The meteorologists aren't kidding. While wildfire ...

A hot wind blew out of the north as I stopped to photograph the crumbling remains of a once-vibrant downtown business district. It could have been right out of ...

Decades after it last happened, the state of Wyoming is going to sanction, license and allow a hunting season for grizzly bears. It will not be without ...

Part 2 I got my javascript bot slowly rebuilt in a new, better way over a period of days. At first it still couldn't do more than ping / pong, but with ...

In older election times, a common presence was the "single-issue candidate." Some ballots had dozens of them. The single-issue candidate was running for office ...

The window beside my desk here at Homestead reveals a gnarled old tree in the far corner of the lawn. Beside that tree stands a genuine early day sheep wagon ...

For years there was a standard line of conversation whenever the topic of customer parking came up in Riverton. Recently, some of that old thinking has been ...

Followers of national news are being shocked daily with images from the astounding wildfires in California, the biggest of which is consuming homes by the ...

A cooler fair This has been a hot summer compared to most, but we are getting lucky with a cooler stretch of weather during Fremont County Fair ...

I walked into her classroom on the second floor of the old Shoshoni High School and said, "A quivering bowl of estrogen?" "You read it," she replied ...

You're attendance at the Fremont County Fair is not mandatory. But it is highly recommended. The fair, which continues through Saturday, is many things at ...

Having a free week or two before my teaching semester begins anew at the University of Iowa, I decided to take on learning a new language. No, not Spanish or ...

Where does Taylor Haynes "reside," anyway? The question has inserted a dramatic element into the primary election for governor in Wyoming. The answer to it ...

I'm not going to say who did what - I ain't no snitch - but I will say that there was a "grounding" here last week. I had never grounded any children before; ...

Our Riverton Rendezvous balloon rally was a thing of beauty again this year, but it was hampered a bit as well by a scheduling change in Casper. Apparently, ...

If there could be such a thing as a one-sentence editorial, the following might fill the bill: Enter the Fremont County Fair Parade. We urge this call to ...

When you're the center of your own universe, there aren't many other stars out there. By nature, most teen-agers see the world in myopic monochrome, aware of ...

Rendezvous City The big events on the Riverton Rendezvous schedule are now over for another year. Participation was heavyFridaynight in 90-plus-degree ...

Maybe it's the heat of summer, maybe it's just a bit of melancholy, or maybe it's just a natural longing for the past, but as I researched an article for an ...

One observation from last week's meeting of the new Wyoming Commercial Air Service Improvement Council is how little so many people in the room seemed to ...

Driving through midwestern cornfields at 8:30 in the evening is among the more beautiful experiences the continent has to offer. The sky is soupy, different ...

Editor's note: This editorial on the Riverton Rendezvous balloon rally first appeared in 2004. An updated version has been repeated annually since ...

OK, so I'm not that good at it myself. But my schoolteacher mother tried. The question still haunts us today, in so many ways. Do words really mean what they ...

On Tuesday, when planners of the state's proposed skilled nursing home for Wyoming veterans described what their intentions were and what they needed from the ...

No one witnessing the presentationsTuesdayin both Riverton and Lander concerning the planned skilled nursing home for veterans in Wyoming could have come ...

It was inevitable. Someone challenges a thing you hold dear, something you identify with or an image associated with an entire lifestyle and there is ...

The hot season The heat wave that held the Wind River basin in its ferocious hands for several days dissipated finally as the new week ...