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.

Thefts are on the rise around Sublette County and the Sheriff’s Office is urging folks to secure their valuables and lock their doors. At least four thefts and one burglary were reported within five days from March 18 to March 22.

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.

There’s no shortage of Easter celebrations and egg hunts around Sublette County this weekend. Here’s a round-up of what’s planned. 

The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust has granted $62,212 to the Sublette County Health Foundation to purchase a new Sonosite Point of Care Ultrasound for the Marbleton Medical Clinic as part of a statewide ultrasound initiative across Wyoming. The machine is already in place at the clinic and ready for use. 

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.  

For the first time in its history, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department has a formal plan in place for managing the state’s 21 winter elk feedgrounds.  The 96-page document allows for changes to feedgrounds that could avert the worst consequences of an ugly disease that’s ramping up — a sickness that scientists expect will devastate Northwest Wyoming’s six fed elk herds in the long term if feeding continues. Notably, the plan does not compel reform or call for closing feedgrounds, but it does open the door for wholesale changes to the system of feeding elk that’s been in place for a century. 

Billionaire Joe Rickett’s proposed luxury resort in the rural Hoback Basin near Bondurant is moving forward with the necessary building permit from Sublette County and plans to break ground later this spring or summer. The permit authorizes the construction and development of The Homestead 20-unit resort with an attached underground day spa and a 90-seat fine dining restaurant.

The Drift 100 overall winner has always been a male biker, until this year when Shalane Frost, a 35-year-old woman from Fairbanks Alaska, crossed the finish line in first place on her skies in only 23:21:36. The second-place overall finisher was male biker Edyn Teitge, who at age 14 is the youngest athlete to ever complete the marathon. The teen from Hailey, Idaho completed the race in 23:55. Pulling into third place on her bike was Ginny Robbins, from Victor, Idaho. No stranger to The Drift 100, Robbins is now the first athlete to finish the race in each of the three divisions and place first in each discipline.

PINEDALE — After two hours, John Masterson had read the room. The oil and gas industry was fighting the Wyoming Game and Fish Department ’ s proposal to protect one of the longest …

Sublette County Health is excited to announce that Dr. Doug George has joined the team as the newest provider, bringing his expertise in gynecology and women’s health. He will be seeing patients in Sublette County two days a week, starting April 1.

Last year, the Game and Fish Department removed more than 100 head of elk from rangeland in southeastern Wyoming, salvaged the meat and donated it to Wyoming first lady Jennie Gordon’s Wyoming Hunger Initiative. This year, in an attempt to address overpopulated elk herds that damage rangelands through overgrazing, the Joint Agriculture Committee proposed a bill that would have compensated landowners for extraordinary damage to rangeland, provided those hunters allow reasonable hunting access on private lands, at 100 percent of the private land lease rate for the affected area. 

More than 100 people attended the National Forest Creations Art Show and Auction Party hosted by Friends of the Bridger-Teton National Forest (FBT), a nonprofit organization, on Feb. 29. Bidders raised a combined total of $1,400 for the 18 Bridger Teton National Forest (BTNF) local artists who turned wood slices from a 138-year-old pine tree that had collapsed within the U.S. Forest Service Pinedale Ranger District into works of art.

*Editor’s note: This article discusses the sexual assaults of minors and may be disturbing to some readers, however, these survivors have expressed the importance of speaking out against their abuser in hopes of encouraging others in similar situations to do the same. To quote one of them, “We have to talk about things that are very painful.”

The drone footage depicts the young woman, her hair over her left shoulder, as she ambles through snow-covered sage in the darkness. She squats down into the snow and seems to struggle as she stands back up. At one point, she takes off running. Her shoulders and head appear red from her body’s heat signature, a stark and undeniable contrast to the wildlife also visible in the darkness surrounding her.

PINEDALE — The Wyoming Senior Olympics were held at the Pinedale Aquatic Center and White Pine Ski Resort in Pinedale from Thursday, March 7 through Sunday, March 10. What follows is an …

The Sublette County Sheriff’s Office reported 149 calls from March 4 to March 10, including 18 citizen assists, a dead body, 4 livestock problems, a suicidal person, 6 suspicious incidents, a fire, 9 sets of fingerprints, 29 urinalyses and 22 vehicle identification number inspections.

Several new charges were filed and sentences imposed in Sublette County Circuit Court from March 4 to March 10, 20234.