Dubois News

The Fremont County Museums Board is requesting a $143,000 increase to its budget for next year, the majority of which comes from pay raises and benefits to employees.

The preliminary cause of death of 62-year-old Curtis LeClair has been ruled "asphyxia due to drowning," according to initial autopsy results released today by the Fremont County Coroner's office.

Fremont County Ambulance is seeking to nearly double its budget for 2014 in a move to restructure the entire department.

An osprey nest on a power pole along Wagon Box Road west of Dubois was dismantled by a crew from High Plains Power on Monday, and the power company was searching for a location to erect a new, and higher, nesting box for the protected birds.

As part of ongoing efforts required under the terms of delisting to monitor the population of gray wolves in northwest Wyoming, the Wyoming Game & Fish Department is scheduled to conduct scientific trapping operations in the Absaroka and Wind River mountain ranges north and west of Dubois, perhaps as early as this month.

The relationship between the Fremont County Pioneer Museum and the Fremont County Pioneer Association is thawing.

The Fremont County Museums Board will wait until the budget process is complete before they will try again to find a director for the Fremont County Pioneer Museum in Lander.

Fire Chief Mike Hutchison said eight firefighters and two pieces of apparatus responded to 64 Cheyenne Avenue Sunday night at 5:07 p.m. where a mobile home was reported on fire.

The Dubois Volunteer Fire Department responded quickly and controlled a fire that burned out of control at 24 Wagon Box Lane west of town Friday afternoon.

The Fremont County Association of Governments again pledged Thursday night that money raised from the optional one-cent sales tax would only be used for infrastructure projects, and not for promotional signs at project sites.

Fremont County Attorney Michael Bennett found himself in a familiar role Thursday afternoon, making a persuasive argument to sway the thinking of a panel of people.

A larger than normal audience of twenty five residents and 2 members of the media attended last night's regularly scheduled Dubois Town Council meeting.

Sheriff's Capt. Ryan Lee issued the following statement concerning a Friday night incident regarding underage drinking.

At 12:56 p.m., deputies were called by a woman in Dubois who reported that 10 American black belly sheep escaped from her property.

At 9:02 a.m. on Wednesday, police were called to the 300 block of Main Street for a report of a silver Dodge pickup that had a broken mirror.

The Wind River Transportation Authority , operators of the blue buses throughout Fremont County, and the Linx regional transportation system will hold a briefing for the public on new service connecting the Wind River Country with Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks this summer.

Fremont County Sheriff Skip Hornecker talked to the Fremont County Commission on Tuesday about reorganizing the structure of the communications department of his office.

University of Wyoming Fremont County Extension has announced that it will be hosting two Spring Private Pesticide User Schools so farmers, ranchers, hired hands or anyone else who wants to get a Private Pesticide Permit can pass the tests and get their permits.

They want to be pharmacists, pediatricians and nurses, and on Friday about 35 Fremont County students from Shoshoni Junior High School, Riverton Middle School and Wyoming Indian Middle School toured Riverton Memorial Hospital visiting with staff to learn what they do at work.

To make CT exams as safe and accurate as possible for its patients, St. John's Medical Center, has acquired a dose reduction system, for its CT scanner.