Shutting down parts of the Meeteetse, Clark and Powell landfills is going to be a multimillion dollar expense and Park County commissioners are hoping to get some help from the state of Wyoming.

Boys golf team wins first ever state title

The boys golf team picked an excellent time to win their first tournament of the season, seizing the Class 3A State title for the first time in Powell High School history.

The Panthers played some of their best golf on Saturday to turn a five-shot deficit into a 12-shot victory at Rawlins’ Rochelle Ranch Golf Course on Saturday.

Boys golf team wins first ever state title

The boys golf team picked an excellent time to win their first tournament of the season, seizing the Class 3A State title for the first time in Powell High School history.

The Panthers played some of their best golf on Saturday to turn a five-shot deficit into a 12-shot victory at Rawlins’ Rochelle Ranch Golf Course on Saturday.

PHS fourth overall, girls seventh

Powell High School’s Marshall McArthur and Justin Lynn avenged two earlier losses to Cody to win the weekend’s North Region Tennis tournament at No. 2 doubles.

Park County commissioners have at least temporarily stopped a plan to lower the starting wages of new deputies in the Park County Sheriff’s Office after Sheriff Scott Steward expressed concern the move would worsen turnover.

After tallying 144 holes of golf last weekend from each of the boys teams, only nine strokes separated first place from third at the Class 3A West high school conference tournament in Star Valley.

Powell High School Head Coach Troy Hildebrand expects a similar leaderboard traffic jam — for both the boys and girls — at the Class 3A State Tournament in Rawlins on Friday and Saturday.

Yellowstone National Park enthusiasts could get an extra couple weeks in the fall and spring to drive into the park’s Northeast Entrance under a proposal being considered by Park County commissioners here and in Montana.

A local masseur chose not to testify in his own defense at a Park County jury trial, but his words were used against him anyway.

Jaime Solis, 46, of Ralston, was convicted by a 12-member jury on two counts of second-degree sexual assault on Tuesday, Aug. 30. The conviction was based in part on a secretly-taped conversation with the young woman he assaulted during an April 2010 massage.

Boys squad wins opening matches, Girls beat Green River

Green River and Rock Springs were the first victims of the Powell High School boys tennis, with the Panthers taking three of five matches on Friday and Saturday.

The PHS girls beat Green River four matches to one on Friday before falling to Rock Springs by an identical 4-1 score on Saturday.

A Cody orthopaedic surgeon is suing an Indiana woman over an anonymous mass mailing that disparaged him with false information. The lawsuit alleges she facilitated the December 2010 mailing. The woman says she doesn’t know what the suit is about.

Copies of the flyers, apparently intended to discredit Dr. Jimmie Biles of Yellowstone Sports Medicine, were sent to thousands of addresses across the Big Horn Basin in early December.