Claudson predicts socialization of healthcare system
Midway Clinic confirms influenza cases

By BRENDA TENBOER
Thanks to President Barack Obama’s federal stimulus plan, America is moving closer to adopting a socialist healthcare system.

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P&Z to Paintrock Crossing developers: ‘Show us the money’
Alm must financially guarantee streets, water improvements

By BRENDA TENBOER
Hyattville building contractor Terry Jeffers and engineer Sherman Allred expected to get a final nod of approval for the Paintrock Crossing Subdivision at a public hearing Tuesday. However, the Big Horn County Planning and Zoning Commission was not satisfied with final documents submitted by property owner John Alm and the hearing will continue next month.

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Session heads into final week

By Karla Pomeroy
The Wyoming State Legislature is in the midst of its final full week of session, with the Legislature expected to adjourn next Thursday, March 5.

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Three wrestlers win region titles
Team in hunt for second place at state meet
By Nathan Oster
Greybull-Riverside claimed third place in the team standings and saw three of its wrestlers claim weight class titles last weekend at the Class 2A West Regional tournament held in Pavilion.

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Huskies overwhelm Ten Sleep, clinch conference title
By NATHAN OSTER
The final weekend of the regular season was a productive one for the Burlington Huskies, who clinched the Class 1A Northwest Conference title Friday with a 45-32 win over Ten Sleep and then routed rival Riverside 72-34 in a “throwback” game Saturday.

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Lady Huskies on hunt for regional crown; as top seed will face Encampment first

By MARLYS GOOD
It’s full bore ahead for the Burlington Lady Huskies, the top seed from the Northwest going into the 1A regional tournament in Lander this weekend, as they enter the hunt for the regional crown, a berth at the 1A State tournament, and perhaps the 1A State title, which would be like finding gold at the end of the rainbow.
Burlington will face Ten Sleep, the winner of the pigtail game with Encampment, Thursday (today) at 2:15 p.m. The teams share a bracket with Snake River and Meeteetse with Cokeville, St. Stephens, Farson and Ft. Washakie coming up the other side.

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Lady Rebels top seed in West Regionals; open against Big Piney at 7:15 Thursday  By Marlys Good The Lady Rebels closed out the conference seas...

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Riverside ekes out overtime victory at Shoshoni

By Karla Pomeroy
The Riverside Rebels had to fight in overtime to stave off the home standing Shoshoni Wranglers Friday and be able to host Monday’s pigtail game against the same Wranglers team for advancement in the 2A West Regional Tournament.

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Rebels win to advance in regional tournament                      &nb...

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Laura Lee “Muggy” Polster-Clifford

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Grassroots campaign begins to re-open Antelope Butte; meeting set in Greybull next week

By Karla Pomeroy
A grassroots campaign to reopen the Antelope Butte Ski Area has begun and is quickly gaining support.

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Basin City Arts Center remodel under way

By Brenda TenBoer
On Jan. 30, Wyoming Business Council representatives, including former Big Horn County commissioner Don Russell, toured the historic Basin City Arts building.

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Dead Swede closed for renovations in 2009
Forest Service makes improvements

By Brenda TenBoer
A Big Horn Mountain campground popular with both locals and tourists will be closed for the entire year.

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Struggling teams still work hard, enjoy the game

The winter sports season is winding down with 2A West Wrestling Regional Tournament this weekend, State Wrestling and the 1A and 2A West Basketball Championships next weekend.

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Terry LeRoy Dickson
April 27, 1946 - Feb. 10, 2009

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Helen L. Patrick
Sept. 3, 1926 - Feb. 13, 2009

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Jay Anthony Olsen
Aug. 16, 1951 - Feb. 14, 2009

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Wayne Stubbs Lyman
April 25, 1929 - Feb. 8, 2009

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Harry William Kimbell
Aug. 27, 1914 - Feb. 11, 2009

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Clutch free throws nail down
conference championship
By Marlys Good
Two clutch free throws by Wacey Triplett with  seven seconds left to play gave the Riverside Lady Rebels a 50-49 victory over Thermopolis and nailed down the conference championship for Riverside.

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Wrestlers thump Cody in tune-up before regionals

By Nathan Oster
Greybull-Riverside cruised to a 41-18 win over Cody in its final tune-up before the Class 2A West Regional, which will unfold this weekend in Pavillion.

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Rebels fighting for home-court advantage in Monday’s pigtail game

By Karla Pomeroy
After suffering two more conference losses to push their record to 1-6, the Riverside Rebels’ focus this week is on Friday’s final conference game at Shoshoni.

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Lady Huskies wrap up conference championship
with 68-53 victory over St. Stephens

By Marlys Good
The Burlington Lady Huskies wrapped up the conference championship with a victory over challenger St. Stephens, 68-53, Friday, and returned home and dominated Dubois 74-34 Saturday.

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Huskies eke out win at St. Stephens, handle Dubois
By Nathan Oster
It was another perfect weekend for the Burlington Huskies, who extended their winning streak to 17 games with Class 1A Northwest Conference wins over St. Stephens, 64-58, and Dubois, 80-28.

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Craft now an Eagle, signs to play at Chadron State

By Karla Pomeroy
Class 2A West Conference Player of the Year Matt Craft, who ended his four-year football career at Riverside in November, will be continuing his play at the collegiate level after signing a national letter of intent with Chadron State College last Wednesday.

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Vavra lights it up to lead Lady Rebels over Greybull

By Marlys Good
When the Riverside Lady Rebels needed fire power Thursday night they knew who to call on and Nicole Vavra responded with 27 points to lead Riverside over rival Greybull, 44-37, in an important conference rematch. The senior hit from the inside, outside and at the free-throw line and the Lady Buffs couldn’t find an answer.

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Rebels struggle in final home games

By Karla Pomeroy
A three-game home stretch for the Riverside Rebels proved anything but friendly as the struggling Rebels fell to Greybull 62-27 Thursday, 70-34 to Ten Sleep Friday and 87-38 to Wyoming Indian Saturday.

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Fire destroys woodcarving shop

By Karla Pomeroy
Verle Prine sat in his house Friday morning, candles burning for light and heat after his garage had burned nearly to the ground, taking out the electrical meter.
Prine said he had been sleeping well Friday morning until his Shih Tzu/silver poodle Sara woke him up and he smelled smoke. He checked inside the house and found nothing. He said occasionally he can smell smoke from neighbors’ wood-burning stoves so he went outside and immediately saw smoke coming from his garage/shop and called 911.

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Smoke-free legislation in doubt

By Karla Pomeroy
House Bill 31, which would prohibit smoking in most public places in the state was sent to the Senate last week for introduction but as of Tuesday morning had not been assigned to a committee.
Senator Gerald Geis (R-Worland) said the bill likely would be assigned to the Rules Committee. He said if the bill comes out of committee he did not expect huge debates like there was in the House.
“I doubt if it will pass. Too many people feel it’s infringing on private rights,” Geis said in his weekly interview Monday afternoon.

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New owners, managers for The Passage

By Brenda TenBoer
The Passage Resort is under new management and the change is like night and day, according to new owner Gary Bodily.

 

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Lady Huskies derail Meeteetse, Shoshoni

By Marlys Good
The Lady Huskies gave up a total of two points in the first quarter of games against Meeteetse and Shoshoni (those two by the Lady Blue) and went on to dominate the Lady Longhorns, 51-35, and 2A Shoshoni, 44-22.

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Huskies roll past Meeteetse, Shoshoni
By Nathan Oster
Before they took the floor Saturday in Shoshoni, the Burlington Huskies got a message that was short, sweet and to the point from their coach, Dan LaRose, who was still a little miffed by their lackadaisical approach to a game the night before against Meeteetse.

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Ridgway only varsity placer at Ron Thon
By Nathan Oster
With many of the top 3A and 4A teams in attendance, the Ron Thon Memorial Invitational provided the Greybull-Riverside matmen an opportunity to see how they stack up against the top wrestlers in the state.

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Trista Kimberly “Tinkerbell” Hall
March 18, 1987 - Feb. 6, 2009

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Marjorie Reid
May 20, 1921 - Feb. 3, 2009

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Karla’s Kolumn
The strangest month

By Karla Pomeroy
February is the strangest of months. It begins with Americans turning to rodents — Punxsutawney Phil in Pennsylvania or Lander Lil in Wyoming to find out if we will have six more weeks of winter or not, as part of the Groundhog Day observance Feb. 2. The rodents, no matter where they hail from, have been as accurate, or inaccurate, as the weather forecasters and meteorologists. Just as Phil and Lil cannot predict the weather for the rest of the country, forecasters in Cheyenne can’t seem to predict weather in Basin. If they could accurately predict our weather temperatures would not have dipped to 35 degrees below 0 two weeks ago.

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BHC Multipurpose Complex project moving forward

By Karla Pomeroy
Officials from the Wyoming Business Council took a tour Friday of the old Big Horn County Jail, which county officials hope will become the new Big Horn County Multipurpose Complex.

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Sheriff’s office considers policing Manderson, Burlington

By Brenda TenBoer
Two may be better than one when it comes to small town law enforcement.
The details are still being finalized, but the towns of Burlington and Manderson are considering splitting a contract for one full-time officer with the Big Horn County Sheriff’s Office.

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2009 Legislature
Texting bill moves to the House

By Karla Pomeroy
With one cellular phone bill defeated by the Committee of the Whole, the bill to prohibit text messaging while driving has advanced through the Senate and now heads to the House.
Senate File 65 was approved 18-12 on Friday with Senator Gerald Geis (R-Worland) voting in favor and Senator Ray Peterson (R-Cowley) opposed. The bill was received into the House for introduction on Monday.

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Voters already said “no” to gambling; lottery bill should be defeated

Several years ago Wyoming voters told state lawmakers “No” to allowing gambling in the state. Every year since then one legislator or another has tried to circumvent that vote by bringing a lottery bill before the Legislature and this year is no exception.

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Tammy Rae Saldana
Oct. 2, 1962 - Jan. 12, 2009

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Rebels grab convincing win over Shoshoni
Vollan pours in 25 points

By Karla Pomeroy
The Riverside Rebels broke their 15-game losing streak Saturday with a convincing win over Shoshoni in Basin 63-42. The win also gave the Rebels an important conference win.

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Big Horn knocks off Riverside; Rebels rebound to beat Lady Blue

By Marlys Good
It was a weekend of contrasts for the Riverside Lady Rebels. Big Horn knocked them from their first place perch in 2A state ranking Friday, as they took charge in the second quarter on their way to the 54-33 victory but it was a different story Saturday with the Rebels taking no prisoners on their way to a lopsided 69-34 conference victory over the Lady Blue of Shoshoni.

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Lady Huskies dominate three conference opponents; win title
By Marlys Good
The Lady Huskies swept the table and tacked three more conference wins onto their record by beating Ft. Washakie 79-48, Ten Sleep, 50-20 and St. Stephens 69-47 last weekend. The victories almost sealed up the conference title for Burlington as the season heads into its final three weeks.

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Huskies survive test from Ten Sleep

By Nathan Oster
The showdown between the top two teams in the Class 1A Northwest Conference lived up to its billing, as Burlington and Ten Sleep battled tooth and nail Friday before the Huskies emerged with a three-point win, 46-43.

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Three champs lead way for Buffs
By Nathan Oster
Nate Gossens, Chayce Goton and Wes Ridgway won their respective weight classes to power Greybull-Riverside to a fifth-place finish in its annual memorial tournament Saturday at Buff Gym.
With Clay Cundall and Blaine Gossens also making finals, the Buffs had more wrestlers in the finals than any other team, with five. But a poor showing in the consolation semifinals on Saturday afternoon cost them valuable points.

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