Star Valley Independent

The Star Valley and Cokeville Teacher’s Association is sponsoring a meet the candidates forum this month. The forum is open to all school board candidates who are running for the Lincoln County School District No. 2 Board of Trustees.

The Alpine Town Council received a favorable financial report on the Alpine Sewer Collection System Project and the Waste Water Treatment Plant this week during their regular meeting.

Darrel Jenkins is not the kind of man who jumps out of airplanes. He was born in Freedom on Jan. 18, 1920. He married the love of his life, Magdalene, and the two of them spent a lifetime scraping a living off the land, managing a dairy farm and building a family together.

An additional Star Valley meeting to discuss county landfill rates has been scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008 at the Thayne Town Hall. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m.

The Town of Star Valley Ranch passed a resolution in favor of moving forward with the silo and barn project. The decision was made after a public hearing was held in which the majority of attendees expressed approval of seeking grant funds for the project.

Wednesday evening, Aug. 6, 2008, between 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. the Green Canyon Water Tank in the Town of Star Valley Ranch was vandalized. According to initial reports of the incident, locks and chains at the gate were removed and the lock to the access door on top of the tank was removed.

In a unanimous vote, the Lincoln County Planning Commission has voted against recommending a grass airstrip on the Double L Ranch just north of Etna. The decision was made Wednesday, July 23 at the regular county planning and zoning meeting.

A wet spring does not mean fire danger is non-existant. Monday, June 23, the Bridger-Teton National Forest dispatched a fire engine to a small wildfire on the Pinedale Ranger District.

The Idaho Falls District of the Bureau of Land Management and the Caribou-Targhee National Forest released a Record of Decision regarding the expansion of the Smoky Canyon Mine, Panels F & G. Their decision authorizes the J.R. Simplot Company to extend current open pit phosphate mining operations.

Close to 25 members of the Wyoming National Guard arrived in Weston County Saturday, June 7, to build a 26-foot long temporary bridge over a washed out county road. The request came to the Wyoming National Guard Friday to send personnel to put a bridge into place.