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Meeteetse woman declares candidacy for HD 28

Echo Renner, a 41-year-old Republican from Meeteetse announced her campaign for Wyoming House of Representatives District 28 (HD28) during the Park County Lincoln Day Dinner on Friday, April 27.

Incumbent Lorraine Quarberg of Thermopolis said earlier this year she will not seek re-election. Renner is the first candidate to publicly announce. With the new district

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Shell family loses everything in house fire

By nathan oster

Staff reporter

A Shell family lost its home and nearly all of its contents Friday in a fast-moving, early-morning fire that appeared to originate in the garage.

Brett and Lynn Tippets, who moved to the area about six years ago, their son and one of their daughters were asleep inside the home

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Towns move forward on sixth-cent proposals

By David Peck

Lovell Chronicle

The mayors and town officials have spoken when it comes to the sixth-cent sales tax proposal – well, almost.

Meeting in Deaver Thursday night, mayors and/or town representatives of the nine Big Horn County municipalities met to discuss projects to take to voters at the November General Election for the

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RHS announces top two honor students

By JENNIFER BUTLER

Staff Reporter

Riverside High School recently announced the students who will be the valedictorian and salutatorian of the 2012 graduating class. Michael Miller with a grade point average (GPA) of 3.9 is the 2012 valedictorian, and Hannah Hoffman is the salutatorian with a GPA of 3.6.

After high school both Miller and

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North-south transmission loop project moved up on priority list

By KARLA POMEROY

Editor

The town of Basin will be moving up one of the electrical capital improvement projects on the five-year list — connecting the north and south substations.

Mayor Amy Kania said some upgrades that Big Horn REA will be doing to lines coming into the south substation has prompted the town to

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Basin rate increases moving forward

By KARLA POMEROY

Editor

The Basin Town Council approved three ordinances addressing rate increases for purified water, mosquito control and garbage Tuesday night.

The council, with little discussion, approved the garbage rate change ordinance on second reading. The change will increase garbage rates $7.80 under the current system of shared trash collection. The town has

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RHS becomes part of the global community

By KARLA POMEROY

Editor

Wyoming’s Congressional delegation heard from the Riverside High School student body Monday, asking the senators and representative to support the resolution to oust African warlord Joseph Kony as the RHS student body became part of the global community to help their neighbors in Africa.

The calls were made after a presentation

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Mayors vote to continue county consensus funding formula

By David Peck

Lovell Chronicle

Mayors and/or representatives of Big Horn County municipalities gathering in Deaver Thursday night voted to maintain the current funding formula for the county consensus block grant program, leaving towns with the same funding formula they have had in recent years and requiring special districts to negotiate with the county for

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Becoming part of the global community

Global. We hear that word a lot anymore — global economy, global community, global warming, global language. Webster’s defines global as “involving the entire world.”

What does global community mean to us here in Big Horn County. The free online dictionary describes it as “the people or nations of the world, considered as being closely

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Rebels improve in time for regionals

By KARLA POMEROY

Editor

The Riverside Rebels skeleton crew improved their times and distances at the Thermopolis pre-qualifying meet last Friday.

Coach Steve Olson said several athletes were gone for other school events but those that competed had strong showings. “We had a great track meet. Most everyone improved their times.” He said there were

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