ROCK SPRINGS — Boy Scouts from local troops learned how to weave baskets for a merit badge in March.

ROCK SPRINGS — After months of collecting coins, 11 Boy Scouts completed their Coin Collecting merit badges.

GREEN RIVER — Walk down Railroad Street in Green River and on one side is the Union Pacific Railroad and its majestic depot that served the community for decades. Across the street are a row of popular bars, but only one has a neon sign hanging outside its door with a gander on it.

ROCK SPRINGS —Young At Heart Remember When Committee announced that Liz Strannigan and Rae Dell Bertonelli Varley are the Year of the Woman honorees for March.

ROCK SPRINGS — When adversity comes, responses vary.

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LARAMIE — Some 101 outstanding high school seniors from across Wyoming have been selected to receive the 2019 Trustees’ Scholars Award, the University of Wyoming’s top academic scholarship.

State and local government offices, schools and businesses across southern and eastern Wyoming remained closed Thursday as residents worked to dig out from the biggest winter storm seen in at least a decade.

GUERNSEY — Andrew Stocks of Rock Springs, a member of the Wyoming National Guard’s Cowboy ChalleNGe Academy, received the Bravo Company Try Award for the Discipline Phase 2019.

ROCK SPRINGS — Western Wyoming Community College hosted the 2019 Wolsborn-Drazovich Southwest Regional Math Contest on Feb. 26 in the Rushmore Gym.

ROCK SPRINGS — American Legion Archie Hay Post 24 was honored Saturday for donating $5,000 to the Wyoming Fallen Warrior Memorial in Cheyenne.

ROCK SPRINGS — The Rock Springs Main Street/Urban Renewal Agency announced its March Volunteer of the is Ann Maria Mattila.

LARAMIE — Saxophone virtuoso Mikayla Peterson was named the winner of the University of Wyoming’s Dorothy Jacoby Student Soloist Competition on Thursday evening at UW’s Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts.

ROCK SPRINGS — The top writers among Sweetwater County schools were honored at a ceremony Wednesday evening at Rock Springs Junior High School. 

ROCK SPRINGS — Jenni Knezovich of Fotos by Jenni in Rock Springs has earned the photographic craftsman degree from Professional Photographers of America (PPA).

ROCK SPRINGS — Do you have stories to tell? Have your friends and family asked you to get them written down? Have you always wanted to write but need some help to get started?

ROCK SPRINGS — Area educators experienced activities involving Wyoming’s wildlife to share with their students at the Project Learning Tree Nature Education Workshop at Western Wyoming Community College.

ROCK SPRINGS — Top student writers in Sweetwater County School District No. 1 were honored at a Feb. 20 ceremony.

GREEN RIVER — It was the middle of the night in the dead of winter.

ROCK SPRINGS — The Sweetwater County Library Foundation along with the Community Fine Arts Center announced a fund in memory of Fred Pickett. He was a longtime resident of Sweetwater County and was also an accomplished woodworker.

ROCK SPRINGS — For local Boy Scouts, winter is not a time to stay inside. It’s an opportunity for a desert trek to make fires and roast kabobs.

ROCK SPRINGS — Three people on Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County’s health care team have been promoted.

ROCK SPRINGS — Four students from Western Wyoming Community College were awarded scholarships as part of the Wyoming NASA Space Grant Community College STEM Scholarship program.

ROCK SPRINGS — Young At Heart Remember When Committee recently announced that Mary Louise Johnson and Barbara Jean Sweets are the Year of the Woman honorees for February.

LARAMIE — Mikayla Peterson, a graduate of Rock Springs High School, is a finalist in the University of Wyoming Symphony Orchestra’s Jacoby Competition. Peterson, a saxophonist, is a student in the UW Music Department.