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PINEDALE — Local youth planted marigold seeds during a special Pinedale Library Playhouse hosted on Earth Day by the Sublette County Library and Sage and Snow Garden Club. Photos courtesy …

PINEDALE — The Town of Pinedale’s General Election is fast approaching, scheduled for Tuesday, May 7. Incumbents Judi Boyce and Tyler Swafford are both running unopposed for the two, …

Between 2020 and 2024, Roberts’ trucking company worked for the Game and Fish Department at least 12 times, according to the state’s financial transparency platform, WyOpen.gov. In that time, Roberts also worked for the Wyoming Department of Transportation. But he was cited by Game and Fish wardens, not highway patrollers, which is why wildlife advocates are more heavily scrutinizing those contracts. In total, Roberts made $43,050 from the state agency. His work included remodeling, landscaping, habitat improvements, engineering, maintaining roads and sidewalks, and supplying rock, sand, gravel and wood.

Big Piney’s Cambry Jenks, a sophomore, earned bronze, silver and gold medals and Pinedale’s Seren Noble earned bronze and silver medals. Jenks and Noble were two of 34 Wyoming youths who were approved to receive their medals this year.

PINEDALE — The Pinedale Fine Arts Council (PFAC) will host its bi-annual Kentucky Derby Fundraiser beginning at 3:30 p.m., on Saturday, May 4 at the Sublette County Fair Grounds in Big Piney. …

Sublette County Deputy Clerk Tanya McNeal told the Pinedale Roundup on April 23 that 1,903 voters were purged from the system after the 2022 General Election. Currently, there are 3,726 registered Republicans and 157 registered Democrats in Sublette County. 

A female skier amid a multi-week trek across the Wind River Mountain Range became severely ill near Downs Mountain and needed to be rescued from an elevation of 13,355 feet, deep within the Bridger-Teton wilderness. The call came into Sublette County dispatch just past sunset on Monday, April 15. A Garmin spot-activated, with a man advising that his 29-year-old skiing partner was experiencing pain. 

A source close to White Pine said work is being done to obtain snow-making equipment and have it in place for the upcoming 2024-2025 ski season, but because of all the necessary steps, like obtaining proper permits from the United States Forest Service and groundwater testing, it’s more likely that the snowmaking capabilities will be up and running for the 2026-2027 season.

PINEDALE — Despite operating a tip line seeking valuable information to aid in the Sublette County Sheriff’s Office’s ongoing investigation into Cody Roberts’ alleged …

PINEDALE — Camp Invention®, a nationally recognized, nonprofit summer enrichment camp program, is coming to Sublette BOCES in Pinedale the week of July 15. A program of the …

RIVERTON — State troopers and regional law enforcement agents staged barricades and a decontamination unit at Riverton City Hall and stood poised to intervene if the dozens of death threats …

For comparison, a minor in possession of alcohol paid a larger court fine that week than Roberts did, and Roberts wasn’t even required to appear. Not even Sublette County Sherif KC Lehr knew what had occurred on Feb. 29 until recently. Roberts’ case was marked “closed” in circuit court, but the shockwaves are far from over.

After more than three hours of presentations and public comments, and with the Lovatt Room packed full of their constituents, Sublette County Commissioners voted 3-2 to approve the controversial conditional use permit (CUP) requested by Jackson Fork Ranch (JFR) for an industrial parking facility to service the luxury Homestead Resort in the remote Hoback Basin. The CUP includes conditions that there be no construction activity before 7 a.m. or after 7 p.m. and that there be dust mitigation during the construction of the road and the parking facility. Commissioners Dave Stephens and Doug Vickrey cast the two dissenting votes while Chairman Sam White, and Commissioners Tom Noble and Mack Bradley supported the CUP. Some folks called for Bradley to recuse himself after learning about his daughter’s upcoming wedding plans at Jackson Fork Ranch. Instead of abstaining from the vote, Bradley eventually made the motion to approve the CUP, first saying, “If it comes down to a conflict, that wedding won’t be there because I feel this vote is more important to this county than that wedding is to be there (at JFR).”

This footage released Wednesday, April 10 by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department of a muzzled and chained gray wolf suffering on the floor of the Green River Bar in Daniel corroborates some of the …

Wyoming is home to a whopping 50 percent of the world’s pronghorn, the iconic ungulate so named for its laterally flattened, blade-like horns. But that may not be the case forever, as a new study shows that Wyoming is becoming a less friendly place for pronghorn to foster offspring.

PINEDALE — Registration for the 2024 little league baseball season is now open. Pinedale Little League is seeking new and returning players for the upcoming season. Available divisions include …

The Special Olympics Wyoming 2024 State Winter Games were held in Jackson Feb. 27-29. Two local athletes, Ian Jones of Big Piney and Scott Covill of Pinedale, represented Sublette County in cross-country skiing.

After more than three months of practice, set preparation, memorizing lines and choreography and dress rehearsals, students from Big Piney middle and high schools came together to put on three thrilling musical performances of the classic Broadway production “Annie” on Friday, March 22, and Saturday, March 23. Approximately 530 area residents attended the play to support the student thespians, along with members of the orchestra and stage crew. 

Joining the oil and agriculture industries in Sublette County, about 70 folks attended the 2024 Hard Hats and Stetson’s fundraiser held Saturday, March 16, in Big Piney, raising $10,931 for the Green River Valley Museum (GRVM). The event is the nonprofit museum’s best-known and longest-standing fundraiser.

The purpose of the seasonal closure is to minimize human disturbance to migrating mule deer in the spring and fall. In collaboration with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, the Pinedale Ranger District decided to implement a no-human presence closure from Nov. 1 through Nov. 30 and from April 1 through April 30, in a crucial area along the Sublette Mule Deer Migration Route which was designated by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department.  

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