Greenbacker Renewable Energy Company (GREC) is the new owner of the solar farm project to be built near Cokeville and Cokeville Mayor Rose Arndt said the project is shovel ready after a short delay during several changes of ownership.

Kemmerer’s Owen Burnett – who competes for Mountain View High School during the cross country season – earned his second consecutive state title Saturday, winning the 3A State Cross Country Championship at Wyoming Indian High School in Ethete.

Unsure initially about his career path as a young man, David Alcindor, MD, first thought a career in architecture might give him the outlet for helping people that he was searching for. “A long time ago, I wrote an essay about what I wanted to do with my life,” Dr. Alcindor said. “I was aspiring to do either architecture, medicine or law — I called them the ‘Humanitarian Trinity.’ I just wanted to help people.” Alcindor — now a member of the executive leadership team at South Lincoln Hospital District — went as far as earning his BA in architecture from the University of Kansas-Lawrence, and began researching ways to use his degree to help build homes in third-world countries. A native of Paris, France, Alcindor grew up in a neighborhood not typically found on tourist maps, and he was eager to help those raised in a similar situation. It was during this work that he crossed paths with a team of medical volunteers, and discovered medicine had a far greater impact on individuals in need.

The Kemmerer High School girls’ swimming and diving team traveled to Laramie over the weekend for the largest invitational of the season, placing 11th at the Laramie Invitational. "Things went really well for the girls this weekend," said KHS head coach Amanda Aimone. "The meet in Laramie was the biggest I have ever seen for a high school meet. Twenty-two teams were there excluding Cody, Powell, and Buffalo."

The Panthers traveled to Thermopolis on Friday to face the Bobcats on their home turf. They defeated the Bobcats 49-0. The Panther defense was on fire, causing multiple turnovers throughout the game.

William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, in 1564. He got married at age 18 to Anne Hathaway (Agnes) and they had 3 children. Their only son, Hamnet, died at age 11. These facts about Shakespeare are what Maggie O’Farrell used as the basis to create her best selling historical novel “Hamnet: A Novel of the Plague.”

Hundreds of Lincoln County residents, county and city officials and guests from surrounding counties gathered at the Lincoln County Training and Events Center to hear from developers of specific projects happening in the county. At a three and a half hour meeting on Thursday, Oct. 6, attendees received a boxed supper during a meet and greet and then listened to presentations given by executives of five companies: Williams Resources; RAIN FIRE/Canyon Road Holdings; TriSight, LLC; TerraPower/Natrium Reactor Demonstration Project; and Bechtel — Engineering, Construction & Project Management.

The Kemmerer High School volleyball team improved its record to 11-16-2 on the season last Thursday, beating visiting Big Piney in four sets, 25-15, 25-14, 23-25, 25-12. Lady Rangers head coach Jennifer Nielson was forced to get creative with her lineup, due to an untimely injury earlier in the week.

Eager to erase the memory of the previous week’s 45-6 drubbing by Lyman, the Kemmerer High School football team celebrated Homecoming week by doing something the Rangers haven’t done in nearly a decade — win the Homecoming game. Behind the one-two punch on the ground of Landon Heaps and Riggen Walker, and a defense that allowed just 65 yards of total offense, the Rangers shut out Pinedale 22-0 for the first Homecoming win of the Bart Jernigan era. “A win on Homecoming is big – we haven’t done that since I’ve been here, so that’s eight years,

The Kemmerer High School football team ran into a buzzsaw of sorts last Thursday at Lyman, falling to the defending 2A State Champ 45-6. The loss drops the Rangers to 1-4 on the season (1-2 in 2A West), with three games remaining before the start of the postseason.

Hospital District receives grant for new grill

The Kemmerer High School girls’ swimming and diving team continued its march to the postseason over the weekend, turning in another solid performance at the Pinedale Invitational against a talented field of schools. The Lady Rangers placed fourth as a team in the eight-team field, just six points out of third. Lander took the team title with 326 points, followed by Jackson with 248.5 and Worland with 179.5. Kemmerer was fourth, with 171.5 points; Evanston rounded out the Top 5, with 118 points.

Smithsfork Bridge completed

A Star Valley Ranch man has been booked into the Lincoln County Jail and charged with attempted murder and assault. The charges stem from a domestic incident that resulted in a two-day search for the suspect, which ended when he turned himself into police.

Lincoln County was without a county planning director for nearly one year. Although small subdivisions were being processed, many large or major subdivisions for a total of 42 projects were put on hold. Those problems will soon be resolved as a new county planning director, Robert C. Davis, AICP, SMP from Hot Sulphur Springs, Co., was hired and began the position on August 29. “My first priority will be to get those projects moving through planning and zoning,” Davis said. “Some of those projects have been waiting over a year.”

The South Lincoln Medical Center Health Fair took place on Saturday, Sept. 17. “It was a success,” said CEO David Ryerse, “well attended and well organized.”

Concerns raised, but officials say that’s normal at this stage of process

Corporation gifts $10,000 to local homestead store

Press release from the United States Bureau of Land Management

Event a success