Archive - Nov 19, 2012 - News

Powder River Basin Coal will be hosting a roundtable discussion on Thursday, December 13, where participants will discuss domestic challenges for the industry - and international opportunities.

Although Pilgrims likely didn't have turkey as the main course during the world's first Thanksgiving feast, turkeys and Thanksgiving are hard to separate this time of year. But before the 1930s, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department says wild turkeys were non-existent. Chris Foy has more on the rarely told history of the bird.

Angela Jarvis, Director of the Buffalo Chamber of Commerce, was awarded the Regent Scholarship by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

A recent statewide poll conducted by the University of Wyoming shows that residents oppose proposed changes in Medicare and disapprove of the Affordable Care Act known as “Obamacare.”

Anglers in our listening area will have a chance to catch some of the brook and brown trout that personnel at the Story Fish Hatchery have been stocking.

Sheridan's future business owners, council members, bosses and community activists have two weeks left to register for the 2013 Chamber of Commerce Leadership Sheridan County Class.

Volunteers of America will host the annual Turkey Trot Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, at Kendrick Park to benefit Sheridan's Homeless Shelter.

State Legislator, Rosie Berger, has been elected to serve as Speaker Pro Tempore, the third highest position in the state House of Representatives.

Sublette County officials are searching for a small plane with just a pilot aboard that didn't arrive at its destination.

The Casper Star-Tribune reports that the Cessna 182 left Stephensville, Mont., Saturday and had been due in Pinedale that afternoon but didn't arrive.

Sheridan Media reported last Friday on the mass layoff announced by Decker Coal that may include as many as 75 employees beginning mid January of 2013.