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Economic inequality in the Equality State

June 10, 2019 was Wyoming’s Equal Pay Day. Equal Pay Day marks the date symbolizing how far into the year women must work in order to earn what men earned in the previous year. The day is … more

By Jennifer Simon and Natalia Macker | 6/11/19

Some of the preschool children living at the site of the former Heart Mountain Relocation Center after World War II — the sons and daughters of Bureau of Reclamation staffers and homesteaders — participated in a rhythm band. Columnist Pat Stuart, who lived at the site with family after World War II, says a 1949 blizzard brought the community closer together.

Heart Mountain Camp — To the End

Perhaps it was the shared experience of living through the blizzard of ’49 together that turned the camp from ... well a camp, as in a temporary way-station ... into a community. more

By Pat Stuart | 6/6/19

The God of tomorrow

I write this Perspectives column from the table of my late father’s house. About four months ago, my grandmother and my father, who both fearlessly loved the Lord, went to heaven suddenly the … more

By Matt Tygart | 6/6/19

Grandkids a reliable source of columns

I seem to have been a bit lax in my duty to the readers of this column this year. To put it simply, ever since the calendar rolled to a new year, I haven’t written my usual number of essays … more

By Don Amend | 6/4/19

Revisiting tragedy

I could feel my heart quickening with every step as I searched for my missing child that April morning. After being startled awake by the sound of his younger brother calling to me, I had run hither … more

By Marilyn J. Drew | 6/4/19

Stop me if you’ve heard this one

You don’t hear hilarious catch-lines like, “Sock it to me,” anymore. Nor will you hear “You bet your sweet bippy” or “Vedddy interesting.” Time-honored … more

By Doug Blough | 5/23/19

Pat (Reher) Stuart and her family — including brother Rob — weathered Wyoming’s infamous blizzard of 1949 inside a barrack at the former Heart Mountain Relocation Center. In the above photo, taken in 1948, Rob Reher is shown inside a laundry basket, which temporarily served as his bed.

Heart Mountain Camp – The Blizzard of ’49

Jan. 3, 1949, was around 70 years ago. I had just turned 9 and, while events of the next three days merge in my memory, the first minute or two after waking up that Monday morning could have happened … more

By Pat Stuart | 5/16/19

Rethinking television

I have always been a drug-free person. At least I used to be such a person, before myeloma and diabetes caught up with me a few years ago. Between the two conditions, I am ingesting a frightening … more

By Don Amend | 5/14/19

So close, yet so far away

Now where was I before I so rudely interrupted myself with a long-winded part one a few weeks ago? Oh yeah, small towns in close proximity yet so far apart. If you recall, I somewhat blamed Powell … more

By Doug Blough | 5/9/19

A tribute to the woman who raised the man I married

I've been thinking a lot about my mother-in-law, Wilma Olson, who would have turned 94 this month. Wilma lived a life of service to her family. Her mother died when she was 14, and that was when … more

By Ilene Olson | 5/7/19

Columnist Pat (Reher) Stuart is pictured outside her family’s barrack at the site of the former Heart Mountain Relocation Center.

Heart Mountain — Winter of 1948-49

Powell has more busses than any other school district in America,” my father said at some point after I started in my new school, Powell Elementary. Seeing them waiting for us every morning and … more

By Pat Stuart | 4/30/19

Tidying up … one box at a time

In my early 20s, I made a comment that has become a long-running joke between my husband and me. With ambitions to live abroad again or perhaps move across the country, I told him that I wanted to … more

By Tessa Baker | 4/26/19

Of black holes and trolls

There was big news on the astronomy front earlier this month when a team of researchers managed to take the picture of an actual black hole. It was an impressive achievement, but some people used the … more

By Don Amend | 4/23/19

Columnist Pat Stuart — then Pat Reher — is pictured at the former Heart Mountain Relocation Center in 1950. After World War II ended and Japanese Americans were allowed to return to their homes, the camp became the headquarters for a homesteading effort.

Heart Mountain Camp: A kid paradise

(Little has been written about the Japanese Relocation Center’s second life — its continued occupation after the Japanese departed and Congress turned the property back to the Bureau of … more

By Pat Stuart | 4/16/19

The distance that divides

Does absence really make the heart grow fonder? Possibly in some cases, but the breakup with my fiancée happened in 1989 and these last couple years, I find myself dreaming about her less and … more

By Doug Blough | 4/9/19

One for the ladies

Ah, it’s great to see the word April in big letters on the calendar. It’s not that the first three months of 2019 have been so bad. I’ve just had some difficulty keeping to my … more

By Don Amend | 4/4/19

Online news is not replacing print

We here in Park County are pretty lucky. More and more communities across the country — more than1,300 — have no local news coverage at all, much less a couple sources competing with each … more

By Kevin Killough | 4/2/19

The road to the great beyond

You think a horse spooking away from a rattlesnake is skittish? Try talking to your mother or daughter, your son or father about their mortality. Or yours, for that matter. The very act of … more

By Pat Stuart | 3/21/19

Whose side is God on?

Big changes came to the world a century ago. With the end of World War I, the German Empire — a collection of Germanic principalities — was dismantled, and its emperor, the kaiser, … more

By Don Amend | 3/12/19

As a longtime contributor to the Tribune, Ruby Hopkin shared recipes and stories with the Powell community.

Remembering Ruby

It’s fitting that I first met Ruby Hopkin through recipes. After I moved back to Powell in 2008, Ruby would send recipes to me for publication in the Tribune. Her emails were always friendly … more

By Tessa Baker | 3/7/19