Riverton News

The Wyoming Business Council Board of Directors will tour local businesses, attend a community reception and review applications for Business Ready Community and Community Development Block Grant requests at its May 22-23 meeting in Thermopolis.

The Central Wyoming College Board of Trustees during its regular meeting Wednesday night approved securing $5.6 million in bonds through Wells Fargo to fund several upcoming construction projects.

April 2013- Jeffrey Vincent of Vincent Financial Services in Riverton, WY was recently named one of "America's Top 1000 Financial Advisors" by Barron's magazine, a leading financial publication.

Fremont Therapy Group, LLC has two new full time Physical Therapist , Occupational Therapist and/or Physical Therapist Assistant positions for their Lander and Riverton locations.

Governor Matt Mead took time today to thank the outgoing Director of the Wyoming Department of Revenue, Ed Schmidt, who is retiring and announce that Dan Noble will be the new Director, subject to confirmation by the State Senate.

Units from several Fremont County Fire Battalions responded to a fire that moved into large trees just east of Kinnear Tuesday night.

Public Works Director Bill Urbigkit explained water rights to the city council Tuesday night and why he is proposing to equalize what city residents are charged for irrigation water.

Wyoming Wireless is the largest Wyoming-based Verizon Wireless retailer with 8 locations across the state, including 3 in Fremont County, as follows: Wyoming Wireless in Lander and Riverton have been remodeled to include live phone bars so you can try the phones before you buy.

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

A Fremont County Coroner's Verdict and Case Docket was released Tuesday on the cause of death of 44-year-old Vance S. Reed of Riverton, who was found by a passing motorist on April 20th, transported to Riverton Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

The National Weather Service Forecast Office in Riverton said Tuesday that several dry cold fronts will bring cooler, but still above normal, temperatures to the region today, after a day in which most areas recorded, or tied, their record high temperature for the day.

By consensus, the Fremont County Association of Governments last week agreed that a discussion on race relations, if nothing else, is in order in Fremont County.

CWC Professor Todd Guenther said students Mallory Ann Hayes, Nico Holt, Billy Hovendick, Jordan Stapley and Jennifer Thornton presented research papers based on archaeological field work conducted 2012.

Members of the Fremont County Commission expressed displeasure with service from Great Lakes Airlines this morning during the Riverton Airport Board's budget hearing.

A 57-year-old Riverton woman has been charged with allegedly taking $2,500 from Central Wyoming College due to gambling problems.

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 Bureau of Land Management and the Wyoming Honor Farm will host a wild horse and burro adoption and gentling clinic May 17-18 in Riverton.

Sprout's Greenhouse in Lander invites you to celebrate Mothers' Day at an open house celebration starting today and running throughout the weekend.

The Director of the Fremont County Library System, Matt Nojonen, abruptly resigned on Wednesday, according to Library Board Chairman Kevin Tippetts of Riverton.

Heide Bush , 37, Lander, cited for Larceny. LPD Chief Jim Carey said officers were called to the Maverik gas station for a report of a gas drive-off. Bush allegedly did not pay for $50.03 worth of fuel.