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Sublette County Hospital District now offering Urgent Care (posted 6/26/2022) Sublette County Public Health Update: June 23, 2022 (posted 6/26/2022) Catholic Church Garage Sale June 24, 25 and 27 (posted 6/23/2022)
The Town of Pinedale will hold their annual 4th of July free community picnic at the American Legion Park from 2-4PM. They will have hamburgers, hotdogs. Potluck for side dishes, bring your own beverages. No dogs allowed during picnic hours. The celebration is being co-hosted with the Pinedale Fine Arts Council who is bringing live music to the event. Music starts at 4PM. Bands are Wildermiss, Two Runner, and special guests. There will be fireworks at dusk (shot from Yellowstone Trails RV park on the west end of town). Everyone invited to come join the fun!
Mike Schmid, from La Barge, Wyoming, has thrown his hat in the ring for Wyoming House District 20, challenging long-term House member Albert Sommers. With redistricting, HD20 includes all of Sublette County and LaBarge. Schmid is the Founder, President and CEO of SOS Well Services, LLC. He has over 40 years of experience in oilfield services, including managing roustabout crews; constructing well field roads, drill pads, managing trucks, equipment, and hundreds of employees. "I have considered running for office over the years, however the timing wasn’t right. Encouragement from friends, neighbors, and even family, I felt now is the right time, especially with our state’s core conservative values slipping away," said Schmid. Schmid was raised in the small town of Daniel, Wyoming, graduating from Pinedale High School and immediately finding work and an eventual career in the oil & natural gas fields of southwestern Wyoming. He eventually moved to La Barge, to be closer to work. Giving back to the community and state has always been important to Schmid. He has been a member of the Board of Directors for the Wyoming State 4-H Foundation for the past 12 years, while currently serving as a director for the Wyoming Trapping Association representing Area 5 in Southwest Wyoming. He is a former La Barge City Councilmember. served as a member of The Wyoming Wildlife Foundation, The Old West Turkey Shoot, and The Wyoming Game & Fish Commission. He was the recipient of Field and Stream’s Conservation Award and played a significant part in the Dry Piney Wildlife Highway Crossing Project. While serving on the Game & Fish Commission, he was instrumental in forming and serving as the President of the newly formed WYldlife Fund. Schmid says, "Sublette and Lincoln counties have been good to me and my family. The people of this area have been supportive of what we’ve been able to accomplish, as employees, vendors, cheerleaders and even competitors. I have learned from them all. I have the time and passion to commit to this seat as your representative. I will use my years of experience to Restore Conservative Values." Mike can be reached by email at href="mailto:Schmidforhouse20@gmail.com">Schmidforhouse20@gma il.com. Related Links: href="http://www.mikeschmidhd20.com">www.MikeschmidHD20.coma>
Expect interruptions during construction Bridger-Teton National Forest The Pinedale Ranger District of the Bridger-Teton National Forest is advising visitors of temporary interruptions during the period of August 3rd though September 2nd while reconstructing the Fremont Crossing Trail Bridge. The Fremont Crossing Trail Bridge is in the 428,169-acre Bridger Wilderness and lies on the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail (CDT), which overlays the Highline Trail #7094. The bridge sits at an elevation of 10,500-feet and is located roughly 13 miles north of the Pole Creek Trailhead. The existing 80-foot structure spans Fremont Creek and consists of a prefabricated steel truss trail bridge with two precast concrete grade beams and one center concrete pier within Fremont Creek. The new bridge is a steel truss bridge, without a pier in the creek, and will have wood decking. During this reconstruction project, the Forest Service has awarded the contract to a company who will make every attempt to keep crossing access over Fremont Creek during the project by implementing a temporary bridge during the construction period. However, stock users will have to ford the creek due to limitations of the temporary bridge. Visitors may see delivery of bridge materials via helicopter and may also see mechanized motorized tools that have been analyzed and preapproved by the Bridger-Teton National Forest. The Forest Service asks that visitors remain vigilant if they see construction going on in the area, and to exercise a heightened level of caution while in the area. This project is expected to last for 31 days, and we appreciate visitors’ patience during this period. This project was funded as part of the Great American Outdoor Act. For questions or concerns about this improvement project, please contact Jay Sammer, Pinedale District Wilderness and Recreation Program Manager, at jason.sammer@usda.gov
Public invited to the Open House on July 1 Bridger-Teton National Forest The Big Piney Ranger District of the Bridger-Teton National Forest has re-modeled the Sherman Guard Station in preparation for a public grand re-opening celebration to be held July 1st from 2-6pm. Hosted by the Big Piney Ranger District and the Sublette County Historic Preservation Board, this open house day will include light refreshments (hamburgers, until gone) and interpretive signs for a self-guided walking tour of the buildings and grounds. Beginning July 2nd, the Sherman Guard Station will transition into two rental cabins available to the public through a reservation system on recreation.gov. Recent Forest Service re-modeling work on the rentals includes painting the interiors and installing wood stoves for winter heating. Historic photographs and old maps were framed and now decorate the walls, courtesy of the Sublette County Historic Preservation Board. Work is continuing on the fences which surround the Guard Station compound. Located 18-miles west of Daniel on the Horse Creek Road, the Sherman Ranger Station site was one of the half-dozen original Ranger Stations on the Wyoming National Forest, established in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt. Usually located at or near the forest boundary, the early ranger stations were generally spaced "a day's ride by horseback" from each other. From Sherman, the nearest other stations were Hoback to the northwest and Snider Basin to the south, both of which are also on the Big Piney Ranger District and seasonally available for rent. The stations were built for the early Forest Service district rangers to live in and work out of. Over the years, ranger station building complexes were upgraded and replaced, so the very earliest buildings are gone. At Sherman, in 1933 and 1934, the Civilian Conservation Corps constructed a small office/dwelling building and a garage/workshop. These are the two buildings to be made available for rent. From 1912 to 1930, Sherman served as the year-long headquarters for the Sherman Ranger District. From 1930-1937 it was used as a seasonal/summer headquarters for the district ranger. After that, the station was used less and was called a guard station, only intermittently occupied by seasonal workers. Notably, in 2002 it was the staging area for fire crews fighting the 3600-acre Mule Fire. For more information, please contact the Big Piney Ranger District at 307-276-5800, visit https://www.fs.usda.gov/btnf, follow the Bridger-Teton National Forest on Facebook @BridgerTetonNF or on Twitter @BridgerTetonNF. PAC 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament in Pinedale July 8 (posted 6/12/2022) |
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