(Riverton)  The Fremont County Fair Officially kicks off tomorrow in Riverton with a parade down Riverton’s Main Street. This year’s parade will begin at 6pm tomorrow night.  Events will continue through out the next week with events and a carnival at the Fremont County Fair Grounds in Riverton. … Read entire article »

     RIVERTON, Wyo. (AP) – The state of Wyoming will cover the required 25-percent funding match on projects the Federal Emergency Management Agency approves in response to recent flooding in Fremont County.      Gov. Dave Freudenthal’s office announced recently that the state will pick up the matching requirement. His press secretary says that the state contribution will help local governments.      President Barack Obama this month issued a federal disaster declaration in Wyoming in response to flooding this spring in Fremont County and the Wind River Indian Reservation.      The state has said that the cost of required public assistance in response to the flooding exceeds $7.6 million. More than half of that is for road and bridge damage.      —      Information from: The (Riverton) Ranger, http://www.dailyranger.com … Read entire article »

(Riverton) A Riverton couple had a visit from federal, state, county and city authorities yesterday that landed them in jail. 53 year old Robert James and 49 year old Shanon James of Riverton were arrested after a search of their home revealed 7 pounds of Marijuana, along with packaging materials, paraphernalia and weighing accessories.  They are charged with one count each of felony possession of a controlled substance and further charges are pending. The Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation, along with Deputies and Officers with the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office and the Riverton Police Department executed a Search Warrant in the 800 block of West Monroe Thursday afternoon.  Authorities say the marijuana has an estimated street value of approximately $40,000.  The Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation’s North West Enforcement Team said they will investigate … Read entire article »

(Riverton)  A Riverton man was sentenced by Federal District Judge Alan Johnson this week for felony possession of a firearm. Stacy Raymond Clark, 39 of Riverton was sentenced to three years probation.  The conviction stems from an incident which occurred in the early morning hours of September 11th 2009, when Clark, who was intoxicated, refused to leave the premises of a local Riverton business.  When Clark was arrested, local officers found a loaded handgun in his pants pocket.  Clark had previously been convicted of a felony in 2006. … Read entire article »

(Lander)  The Fremont County Clerk’s election office will be testing and sealing voting equipment to be used for the primary 2010 election next week.  The process will be conducted on Monday, August 2, 2010 at 9 a.m. at the election office in the Fremont County courthouse, 450 North 2nd Street, room 120. The public is invited to attend. … Read entire article »

LOGAN, Utah (AP) – An excavation of a prehistoric village by Utah researchers is turning up the question: Why so high?      The so-called “High Rise Village” on a slope of the Wind River Range is at an elevation of nearly 11,000 feet.      The site holds traces of 51 pit houses and evidence of cooking and tool making.      Utah State University anthropologist Chris Morgan says his excavation could explain how people came to occupy most of the globe by the end of the Pleistocene era about 12,000 years ago.      —      Information from: The Herald Journal, http://www.hjnews.com … Read entire article »