Riverton News

The Fremont County Commissioners this past week dealt with a number of housekeeping measures, but also awarded several bids for remodeling in the courthouse, a lighting retrofit project and leasing a new county-owned parcel in North Riverton.A low bid of $57,630 submitted by Electrical Dynamics for a lighting retrofit project in the courthouse was ... (more)

Three boys stood with their backs to hoop dancer Jasmine Rae Pickner-Bell so she could autograph their T-shirts. Thirteen-year-old Johnny Diederich attended the festivities with brother Jeremy, 12, both of Chandler, and Christian Alvarado, 6, of Maricopa, and their grandmother, Kathi Lee, of the San Tan Valley area.

The 2011 Fremont County Fire Protection District Awards Banquet was held at the Eagles Hall in Riverton.

Funeral services are at 10 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 13, at St. Stephen's Catholic Church with burial to follow at the Sacajawea Cemetery at Fort Washakie.

Jeffrey City Deputy Jay Dee Darnell performed another successful search and rescue Thursday night, finding yet another truck driver who became stranded on the Ore Road leading into the Gas Hills.

A single vehicle rollover between Shoshoni and the Boysen Reservoir causeway has apparently claimed the life of the only occupant of the vehicle, according to Fremont County Sheriff's Captain Ryan Lee of Riverton.

A cold front is bringing some snow and strong winds to parts of Wyoming and has prompted a blizzard warning in the Wind River Mountains.

The audience watching the Central Wyoming College production of Camelot will see a big cast that rehearsed for weeks, yet the show's overall success has a lot to do with a very large group working behind the scenes.

Captain C. T. Smith reported five arrests in Riverton from 7 a.m. Tuesday morning through 7 a.m. Wednesday morning.

State Representative David Miller of Riverton told members and guests of the LEADER Corp.

Lynell L. Addison of Casper died at the Central Wyoming Hospice in Casper on Saturday, Feb.

Wyoming's governor, Matt Mead, made a suprise visit to the regular meeting of the Fremont County Republican Women on Monday.

It was a busy weekend in Riverton with 17 arrests recorded by the RPD. Captain C.T. Smith said a domestic violence incident sent two people to the Fremont County Detention Center Saturday after police recieved a call of a fight in progress.

The annual live call-in show "One on One with the Governor" did not air on Wyoming PBS as scheduled Thursday, February 2 at 7 p.m. due to technical difficulties with the audio feed.

RPD Captain C. T. Smith Friday said Riverton police have identified a suspect in the Wednesday night stabbing incident that critically injured one man and hospitalized another.

Community programming, integration with the Dubois School system, family movie nightA and monthly book fairs are just a few of the services provided by the Dubois BranchA Library, part of the Fremont County Library system.Built in 2002 primarily with private funding and a "bit of" public funding, the DuboisA Branch Library offers free Wi fi ... (more)

A Wyoming Department of Transportation open house on the reconstruction of a portion of Riverview Road drew a full house at city hall Tuesday night of mostly landowners and residents concerned over impacts to their property.

Riverton Police are investigating a break-in at the Woodwards Liquor Store that occurred at 2:14 a.m. Tuesday.

A federal judge has rejected an appeal from a state prison inmate convicted of murder in the 2004 strangulation death of a nurse at the Wyoming Honor Farm in Riverton.

Five arrests were noted in the 24-hour period that ended at 7 a.m. Tuesday, according to Captain C.T. Smith of the RPD.