Ahead of Wednesday’s run, Moore was holding onto fifth place in her first competition. She completed day 1 in Teton County in 1:58:47, day 2 in Lander in 1:59:12, day 3 in Sublette County in 2:24:16, and day 4, also in Sublette County, in 2:22:31. She finished the Kemmerer stage just before press deadline on Jan. 31, averaging 15.1 mph.

Ovation Healthcare was the first on the bandwagon to express interest in the SCHD and its representatives came to Pinedale on Jan. 24 to tour the site, meet with officials and make a presentation to SCHD board members at their regular meeting that night.

This is not a news-breaking story of pollution – that was covered by longtime Pinedale Roundup owner and editor Ric Samulski – “DEQ raps Chevron for Bondurant Dump Site.” A single mention in the late Judy Meyers’ painstaking newspaper index – one reference to the “Chevron Pit, Bondurant” that led to Samulski’s Nov. 3, 1983, article, complete with Allen Messick’s photo of a Case cat slogging through the pits. That issue found last week in bound volumes at the Pinedale Library revealed Samulski’s reporting that Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality investigated Chevron’s unpermitted drilling-waste pits and on Oct. 20, 1983, issued Chevron a notice of violation. With Samulski’s 1983 article as a guide, Wyoming DEQ staff pursued a Jan. 26 records request and found more than a hundred records made available by press time. They are typed, handwritten and, scrawled on – detailing the process to correct contamination from Chevron’s unlined 3-cell pit, or pond.

The Pinedale Roundup, serving all of Sublette County, continues to be one of the best small weekly newspapers in the Cowboy State, bringing home numerous awards from the 125th Annual Wyoming Press Association Convention. This year’s contest submissions were judged by members of the National Newspaper Association.

Still, until very recently, Moore did not plan to be any more than Alix Crittenden’s racing partner and assistant – and now she’s starting the Wyoming Stage Stop on Friday as the JHI musher.

At the Sublette County Planning & Zoning Board’s Jan. 18 meeting, Rio Verde Engineering’s Mike Jackson mentioned the dump site – labeled as the “Chevron Pit” – hazarding that he didn’t know much about it.

At the Sublette County commissioners’ Jan. 17 meeting, they asked Road & Bridge supervisor Billy Pape about what he uses on snow-covered roads for traction and melting. Chair Sam White and commissioners Doug Vickrey, Tom Noble, Mack Bradley and Dave Stephens went into that conversation after Vickrey mentioned citizen complaints.

The Sublette County Planning & Zoning Board will review a conditional-use permit application at its meeting on today, Jan. 18, that only hints at owner Joe Ricketts’ larger plans for a luxury resort near Bondurant. This CUP application addresses one distinct 10.1-acre parcel’s approved uses; it is attached to the recreational services’ resort rezoning won by Ricketts’ team in previous processes that do not reveal the big picture of the resort project’s scope. Click into the article to read more.

“There was a complaint lodged with the district the weekend before last weekend, a complaint of a very serious nature,” Hoffman said. “The claims were investigated internally and substantiated.” Ray’s termination was based on that complaint. Click into the article to read more.

Sublette County’s volunteer firefighters turned out Saturday morning, Jan. 13, to fight an attic blaze in Pinedale’s 17-below temperature. At 8:25 a.m., Sublette County Unified Fire’s (SCUF) battalions from Pinedale, Marbleton/Big Piney, Daniel and Kendall Valley responded to a call about a structure fire at a house on South Fremont Avenue where smoke was billowing from a home’s eaves, according to SCUF’s Mike Petty.

In the first 23 hours since a GoFundMe was launched by Martina Hansen on behalf of Crittenden on Tuesday, Jan. 16, the community raised a whopping $23,830 toward a goal of $40,000, a fitting show of support from County 23. Click into the article to continue reading and for a link to the GoFundMe page.

The Sublette County Planning & Zoning Board will review a conditional-use permit application at its meeting on Thursday, Jan. 18, that only hints at owner Joe Ricketts’ larger plans for a luxury resort near Bondurant. Still, a closer look at Ricketts’ CUP application coming before the Planning & Zoning Board this week gives clues to his larger plans for his private guest ranch and resort along Upper Hoback Road. It includes Ricketts’ desire for “a private driveway” and an all-new private road to the resort off Highway 191. The proposed underground facility, labeled Jackson Fork Parking Garage, is a 200-foot by 116-foot structure– 23,200 square feet – facing away from Upper Hoback Road with a landscaped porte cochere entry and “welcome center.” The P&Z Board will decide, Jan. 18 at 6 p.m. in the Sublette County Commissioners Meeting Room, whether to recommend the CUP request. Next, the application goes before Sublette County commissioners at their Feb. 6 meeting.

2024 Pedigree Stage Stop Race Schedule *Each stage is 30 to 35 miles Jan. 26 - Ceremonial Start in Jackson, Wyo. Jan. 27 - Stage One - Teton County, Wyo. Jan. 28 - Stage Two - Lander, Wyo. Jan. 29 - Stage Three - Pinedale, Wyo. Jan. 30 - Stage Four - Big Piney/Marbleton, Wyo. Jan. 31 - Stage Five - Kemmerer, Wyo. Feb. 1 - Travel Day Feb. 2 - Stage Six - Alpine, Wyo. Feb. 3 - Stage Seven & Final Banquet - Driggs, Idaho

Sublette County Attorney Clayton Melinkovich provided them with the 2024 Officer Investment Disclosure as required by Wyoming Statute 6-5-118: “Conflict of interest; public investments; disclosure required; penalty; definitions.”

This announcement follows the board’s December decision to withdraw from its management agreement with Star Valley Health, citing different directions as the reason.

Birds that typically migrate south from Pinedale for the winter but still spotted in the area during the Dec. 31 count include three great blue herons, two northern harriers, 107 American crows and one American robin.

The two entities had worked together since a March 2021 management contract agreement, required by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s financing program, after the Sublette County Rural Health Care District became the new Sublette County Hospital District (SCHD) board and interviewed several candidates to help build a new critical access hospital (CAH).

Elk Hunt Area 92 is in the Pinedale Region and shares a small border with Elk Hunt Area 98 to the south, where CWD was previously detected in 2021. This hunt area is bordered on the west and north by the Wyoming Range. The eastern border is Highway 191 on the north and the East Green River road going south.

The Pedigree Stage Stop began in 1996 and is the largest sled dog race in the lower 48 states. Mushers can run up to 10 dogs per day of their pool of 14, although some mushers will run lighter with teams of eight dogs. A dog is not required to run all seven stages and can sit one out. Mushers put a lot of thought and strategy into which dogs they rest on which days as they prepare to tackle the various obstacles found across eight different mountain ranges and seven Wyoming communities before crossing the finish line in Driggs, Idaho. In some areas, dogs and their mushers will tackle 10 percent grade hills for miles at a time through deep snow.

Main Street Pinedale’s biggest fundraiser of the year turns frightful weather into a delightful celebration of snow. The 2024 Pinedale Winter Carnival, held over President’s weekend, from Feb. 9-11, is a family-friendly event that dates back to the 1950s and features skijoring, SnoCross races, a snow sculpture contest, the Cardboard Classic downhill sledding competition and now a hot dog eating contest.