After more than six years living and working in the United States, including the past three years in Wyoming, a Bear Lodge employee is fighting to stay.

By BRENDA TENBOER
The 2010 Junior Livestock Sale during the Big Horn County Fair was declared a success by the board of trustees during a special meeting on August 19.

By BRENDA TENBOER
The lone mayoral candidate on the ballot in the primary election for Manderson, Tami Applegarth, has withdrawn her bid for the center seat and instead accepted a write-in nomination in a bid to fill a 2-year council seat.

Hyattville United Methodist Church celebrates centennial

By MARLYS GOOD
The United Methodist Church of Hyattville will celebrate its centennial with a special service at 10:30 a.m. this Sunday, July 18. Keynote speaker will be Elaine Stanovsky of Denver, bishop of the Yellowstone and Rocky Mountain conferences.

FFA gears up for greenhouse sales

By BRENDA TENBOER
Horticulture and agriculture science students at Riverside High School have worked hard to make the annual FFA plant sale a success this year.
Nasturtiums, pansies, dahlias and snapdragons abound at the FFA greenhouse in Basin.

Speakers emphasize making right choices

By KARLA POMEROY
The resounding theme for the speakers at the South Big Horn Health Coalition’s Underage Drinking and Impaired Driving Prevention Presentation was that the choices you make impact not just yourself but others, family members, friends and even emergency responders.

Soldiers head to Fort Hood
Lt. Col. Nesvick: Team effort required for success

By KARLA POMEROY
It was standing room only at the Worland Eagles Club Saturday afternoon as friends and family of the 2-300th C Battery Wyoming National Guard gathered to wish the soldiers who headed to Fort Hood, Texas, Monday in preparation for deployment to Kuwait.

Impaired driving presentation hopes to save at least one life

By KARLA POMEROY
To save one. If one life could be saved by the South Big Horn Health Coalition’s Underage Drinking and Impaired Driving Prevention Presentation then it would all be worth it, according to committee member and Greybull Police Officer Ben Mayland.

Vanderpool completing lots of training before deployment to Kuwait

By Karla Pomeroy
Nineteen-year-old David Vanderpool joined the Wyoming Army National Guard 2.5 years ago in his junior year at Riverside High School. He knew it was more than likely he would be deployed overseas, after all it was after his brother Matt, returned from serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom with the Guard, that he decided to enlist.

Clifford benefit draws strong support

By Brenda TenBoer

Now that is what living in a small community is all about, a family is in need and caring friends and neighbors band together to do something about it.