Lovell News

As the new chief of police, John Wahl is the top cop for the Town of Byron, filling the "big shoes" of Chief Frankie Rohrer.He began work on May 8 and is replacing longtime and well-known Rohrer, hired as the town's lone law enforcement officer in July 1999.

Nov. 10, 1943 - " May 27, 2012Warren Walter Shidler, 69, of Lovell died May 27, 2012, at North Big Horn Hospital due to complications of Alzheimer's Disease.

Filings have been trickling in for the Primary Election, with a few candidates for town council and the county commission throwing their hat in the ring so far with a little more than a week left in the filing period.Filing for the Aug.

A group of students from Bob Geiser's sixth, seventh and eighth grade history classes visited the historic Mexican Cemetery located on U.S. Highway 310 west of Lovell last week and made improvements while they were there.

Local high school seniors will take a big step into the next stage of their lives next week when Lovell and Rocky Mountain high schools hold their annual commencement exercises.Lovell High School will present the Class of 2012 at its 93rd Commencement Exercise Monday at 7 p.m. at the LHS Johnny Winterholler Gymnasium.Chad Lindsay will be the ... (more)

Filing period for the August 21 primary election begins today and runs through June 1.There is one county office open this year, a four-year commission seat currently held by Chairman Jerry Ewen.

Sept. 11, 1941 - " May 16, 2012 Nancy Hopkin Smith was the firstborn child of Fredrick Wilson Hopkin and Dorcas Lea Waltman.

A $2.63 million highway patching project is scheduled to begin Thursday, May 17, in Northwest Wyoming, according to Todd Frost, Wyoming Department of Transportation resident engineer in Cody.

Bert Mann made an appearance for his preliminary hearing on Monday in Circuit Court, in Lovell, before Judge Thomas Harrington.

Jacob Asay, Shay Kite, Kassidy Hetland and Holly Wilkerson of Lovell High School and Dalton Banks and Bryce Ward of Rocky Mountain High School, have been selected to participate in the American Legion Boys State and American Legion Auxiliary Girls State programs in June.

The Lovell Town Council Tuesday night selected four projects to be funded should voters in November pass an optional sixth-cent sales tax for Big Horn County municipalities.Meeting in special session ahead of a planned meeting of the nine Big Horn County mayors Thursday night in Deaver, the council voted not only to present two projects already ... (more)