Lovell News

The north Big Horn County community has been extremely generous this year, with businesses, individuals, school children and volunteers opening their wallets and giving of their time to help the Lovell Volunteer Fire Dept.

The Prescription Drug Awareness Forum was held Tuesday at the Lovell Community Center.

The Lovell Volunteer Fire Dept.'s annual Firemen's Food Baskets program is under way once again, with firemen, school children and the general public busy gathering food and donations for the drive.

Local legislators, law enforcement, medical providers and concerned citizens of Big Horn County are invited to attend a forum being put on by the Prescription Drug Awareness Committee next week.

A sweep of alcohol compliance checks at businesses in Lovell resulted in two instances of alcohol being served to a minor along with four instances when the minor was denied the sale of alcohol.

The Wyoming Dept. of Environmental Quality Air Quality Division has granted a "limited" setback waiver that will allow two weekends of open burning in the Lovell town limits.

Officials with the National Park Service are asking for help finding people who vandalized the historic Kane, Wyoming cemetery.

Citizens attending Tuesday's Lovell Town Council meeting urged the town to keep battling for those who want to clean their yards through the open burning process.

A truck driver from Texas was fortunate to walk away from a semi-tractor-trailer crash on the steep U.S. 14 switchbacks east of Lovell Tuesday that nearly pulled his truck over the edge of the mountain.

The Friends of Big Horn Lake, a Lovell-based group that advocates for ample water at Horseshoe Bend for summer recreation, would welcome an investigation into the management of the Big Horn River.

A complaint has been filed in the 5th Judicial District Court of Big Horn County against the Town of Lovell and a Lovell police officer that alleges the officer's negligence led to a murder/suicide involving two Lovell residents in November of 2007.

The Western Sugar plant continues to process the sugar beets brought in on a limited quota by Lovell district farmers, with some of the once-frozen beets being stored in segregated piles near the Lovell factory.

Beet farmers in the Lovell Western Sugar factory district have been permitted to bring in a few extra quotas of sugar beets this week in preparation to a winter storm that was expected to hit the region mid-week. Ric Rodriguez, a Park County beet farmer and vice president of the Western Sugar Cooperative Board of Directors, said the factory is ...

Robert Neville Jones died in Redlands, Calif., of cancer. He was 70. He lived in Hemet, Calif., for four years and lived previously in Aguanga, Calif., for 10 years.

Eleutian Technologies, headquartered in Ten Sleep, began doing business in Lovell in July of 2007, with the opening of a branch office on Main Street that would serve as a meeting place for area teachers and their students located around the globe.

"I have made this a passion of mine," said Lisa Friday in a recent interview at her home near Rockville, as she talked about adopting "Rain," a wild mustang from a herd living in the Pryors Mountains in Wyoming.

Federal officials say they will complete a wild horse roundup along the Montana-Wyoming border within the next few days.As of Monday night, Bureau of Land Management contractors had gathered 131 wild horses as part of the agency's effort to reduce the size of the herd in the Pryor Mountain National Wild Horse Range.Critics say the roundup threatens ...

The life of wild mustang Cloud has been documented since his birth. His herd, from the Pryor Mountains in Montana, is being rounded up and "removed". A further 19 horses from the Pryor Mountains were rounded up by helicopter on Saturday , joining the five brought in on the first day of the muster.

Send this Headwaters page to a friend or colleague: BLM begins rounding up Pryor Mountain mustangs in Wyoming Law enforcement officers from the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service, the U.S. Forest Service and the Big Horn County sheriff's office were on hand to keep a lid on protests of the scheduled roundup of Pryor Mountain wild ...

A sweeping roundup of wild horses in the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range is scheduled to begin today, September 3 , in Lovell, Wyoming.