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The regular season is nearly complete for Wyoming High School volleyball teams in 2021.

The spring season will start in Laramie in 2022 with a date to be determined.

The Grizzlies needed to rebuild from a year ago.

There are only four weeks left in the regular season.

Hot Springs County Schools are in lockdown until distance learning is completed at least until September 13th.

PINEDALE — Sublette County COVID case numbers continue to rise for the third week in a row, according the July 30 briefing from the County Public Health Office. The Wyoming Department of Health reports that there have been 24 new COVID-19 cases in Sublette County in the past week. There are currently 20 active cases in the county, with 829 recoveries and eight deaths for a total of 857 cases since the pandemic began. Individuals are quarantining/isolating in the communities of Big Piney, Boul...

Crews have been battling the 80-acre Soda Lake Fire west of Big Piney, Wyoming today (July 28, 2021). Wyoming Team 2, a type 3 incident management team assumed command this morning. Advertisement The Soda Lake fire was first reported yesterday (July 27, 2021) around 3 pm. Aviation and ground resources were immediately dispatched to the fire from Bridger Teton National Forest and Sublette County Unified Fire. A type 3 incident command team was also ordered. The Soda Lake fire is actively burni...

Keith Alan Murphy, 61 of Marbleton, Wyoming, passed away at his home July 22, 2021 from COVID-19. Keith was born December 16, 1959 in Evanston, Wyoming to Edward and Wilma (Redden) Murphy he was the middle of three boys. He grew up and attended schools in Big Piney and graduated from Big Piney High School in 1979. Advertisement - Story continues below... After high school, Keith went to work doing what he loved, being a cowboy! He worked on ranches in Dubois and Nebraska but the majority of h...

June 1, 2021 The next time Donny Proffit sets foot on the floor of the Ford Wyoming Center -- formerly the Casper Events Center -- it will be in a pair of cowboy boots and not a pair of wrestling shoes. For Karson Bradley, she won’t fret too much about competing in collegiate rodeo’s biggest event -- she’s been there before. Proffit will return to Casper this time for the College National Finals Rodeo (CNFR) June 13-19 as a member of the University of Wyoming rodeo team, not as a four-tim...

Rodeo Season Moving Along Quickly The rodeo circuit paid a visit to Casper with 2 performances over the weekend as the regular season is winding down. In the first session for the boys on Friday at the Central Wyoming Fairgrounds, Roedy Farrell of Thermopolis posted a 75 in the bareback to win that section with Laramies Kayson Dory winning the saddle bronc with a 69. The top effort in bull riding on Friday was turned in by Tipton Wilson of Jackson with a 78. In the boys timed events on Friday, ...