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Clinics moving forward with electronic records

By JENNIFER BUTLER

Staff Reporter

Recently Midway Clinic and Big Horn Clinic have been phasing in a new electronic medical recording (EMR) system.

Big Horn Clinic Director Kathi Cook said the EMR system will be required by the government for all medical entities by 2014.

South Big Horn County Hospital and Midway Clinic Administrator Jackie

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Rebels named to All-State Team, Tri honored as Coach of the Year

By KARLA POMEROY

Editor

Five members of the 8-2 Riverside Rebels football team were named to the 1A 11-man All-State Team this week and seven were named to the 1A West All-Conference Team.

Coach Adam Tri in his second year was named the Conference Coach of the Year. He said the honor is a “tribute

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U.S. 14-A closes early for season

Crews from the Wyoming Department of Transportation are closing U.S. 14-A west of Burgess Junction for the winter today, Tuesday, Nov. 22.

The seasonal closure comes a week earlier than normal.

“High winds are causing drifting snow to close the road,” said Robin Nichols, WYDOT area maintenance supervisor in Basin. “We’ve already got five-foot drifts

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Elmer Ray ‘Eddie’ Tharp

April 27, 1928 – November 19, 2011

Memorial service for Elmer Ray “Eddie” Tharp will be held Saturday, Nov. 26 at the United Methodist Church in Basin at 11 a.m. Eddie, 83, died Nov. 19 at his home east of Manderson.

A luncheon for family and friends will be held in the basement of the

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Town survey rates raw water high, public transportation low

By KARLA POMEROY

Editor

The Basin Master Plan achieved a 51 percent response rate from the community survey it sent out earlier this month.

“Our accuracy goals were met and we had a majority respond,” Consultant Ken Markert of MMI Planning said. “One of the best things about the survey is that 279 people have

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It’s not about football, it’s about children

Nearly anyone that heard about the child abuse/molestation scandal that rocked Penn State University last week knew that Coach Joe Paterno should be fired, along with many others. And they were.

It was saddening and sickening when the students rioted on Wednesday because of Joe Pa’s firing. They didn’t get it. It wasn’t about a

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Greybull men await sentencing on drug trafficking charges

By NATHAN OSTER

Greybull Standard

Two Greybull men are awaiting sentencing on drug trafficking charges in the wake of a trial that lasted more than a month and brought to light the activities of the Fresno Bulldogs street gang and its associates in Wyoming.

U.S. Attorney Christopher A. Crofts announced a press release Monday that

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Designs wanted for county flag

By KARLA POMEROY

Editor

Big Horn County is seeking designs for a Big Horn County flag.

The commissioners took no action on a request for a county flag to be flown at the Wyoming State Fair in an earlier meeting. At Tuesday’s regular commissioner meeting, Nov. 15, Chairman Jerry Ewen said he was informed that

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Town hires two new electricians

By KARLA POMEROY

Editor

The town of Basin has hired two new electricians/linemen for the town’s electrical system.

Mayor Amy Kania said one employee will replace the vacancy left by Eric Lowe and the other fills the new position the council created in approving the 2011-2012 fiscal budget last spring. Stacey Lesher of Byron will

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Big Horn County School Board No. 4 accepts school resource officer grant

By JENNIFER BUTLER

Staff Reporter

Last month Big Horn County Sheriff’s Department was awarded a grant that would help provide the funding for a school resource officer in the Big Horn County School Board No. 4 schools. Sheriff Kenneth Blackburn accepted the grant and began discussing the possibilities with Superintendent Mary Fisher.

Blackburn said although

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