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click to enlarge Ive never been one to exalt when good things happen. Its been many years since even my youngest child was born, so I barely remember the celebration after each arrived. Since each were early-morning babies, its likely any celebration was short-lived and that, by afternoon, I was in the office looking for typos, mostly mine. Im happy when the University of Utah football team wins a big game, and I jump up and down ...

CHATHAM, Va. — Pittsylvania County voters this November get to decide if the countys sales tax rate will increase by 1 percent, based on a resolution that the Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors unanimously passed at its monthly business meeting yesterday night. The resolution supports a 1 percent local tax referendum for renovation and necessary maintenance of Pittsylvania Countys public schools, as well as a generator of funds to pay off the existing loans and bonds that are outstan...

Credit XPRIZE Foundation As the $20 million NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE comes to a close in Wyoming, Gov. Mark Gordon has offered up the state to once again host an XPRIZE competition, public records acquired by Wyoming Public Media show. The offer followed a cryptic Jan. 21 tweet from Elon Musk, CEO and founder of Tesla, which read: "Am donating $100M towards a prize for best carbon capture technology." The tweet sparked a conversation in the Governors office of how to best be a part of the eff...

April 5, 2021 State, national and international media frequently feature the University of Wyoming and members of its community in stories. Here is a summary of some of the recent coverage: Lawmakers last week restored $8 million in appropriations to both UW and the state’s community colleges, along with an additional $15.5 million for UW to buy a student housing complex. The Wyoming Tribune Eagle and The Casper Star-Tribune (CS-T) reported that Gov. Mark Gordon signed the overall supplementa...

Man rescued after nine hours in ‘Spooky Gulch’ Kane County Sheriffs Office A 52-year-old man is rescued after getting stranded in Spooky Gulch, a slot canyon in Kane County. By: FOX 13 News and last updated 2021-04-01 09:43:08-04 KANE COUNTY, Utah — A 52-year-old man was rescued after spending nine hours in “Spooky Gulch.” The man was hiking with his family in the slot canyon in Kane County Monday when he literally found himself between a rock and a hard...

How the US top coal-producing state is moving towards net-zero emissions Wyoming coal. (Image courtesy of the University of Wyoming’s CarbonSAFE Research). Two initiatives aimed at supporting net-zero emissions in the Carbon Valley region are being advanced in Wyoming, the US’ leading coal-producing state. With 16 active mines, Wyoming accounts for almost 40% of the country’s coal production. Between 1865 and January 1, 2020, more than 12.2 billion short tons of coal had been mined in t...

By Editor | March 17, 2021 By MARK EVANS mevans@stegenherald.com Scott Schmieder, county road and bridge foreman, reported to the Ste. Genevieve County Commission last Thursday that he had already gotten some work done on Lawrenceton Cutoff Road before heavy rains hit. He said his crews would be back at it as soon as weather permitted. The crumbling road is the county’s first priority this paving season. A week earlier Schmieder and the commissioners met representatives of Jokerst, Inc. and V...

By Editor | March 10, 2021 By MARK EVANS mevans@stegenherald.com As winter melts into spring, road work is looming ahead for Ste. Genevieve Country road crews. Road and bridge foreman Scott Schmieder shared a list of roads that need repair with the county commissioners during their meeting last Thursday. He identified the following roads: French Village, Saline Creek, Dry Fork, Blum, Lawrenceton Cutoff, Straughn Road, Hager, Donze, Minnith, St. Mary Cemetery, Hart-Pinkston, and Burk’s Hill. ...

“Fortify yourself with a flock of friends.” Those typed-out words were found among Cecil Richard “Dick” Huffman’s belongings just a few days after he passed away. That sentence must have resonated with him because he found a friend everywhere he went. Mr. Huffman, or Dick as most knew him, is best-known in the Dry Fork community for his time as principal at Whitmell Elementary School (1964-1990). An aerial photograph of the school still hangs in his home as a reminder o...

Sources: CO2Concrete, Los Angeles; CP staff TCC Materials shipped green block from its Rapid City, S.D. plant to the coal-fired Dry Fork generating station at the Wyoming Integrated Test Center in Gillette. CarbonBuilt successfully tested the Reversa platform’s carbon dioxide utilization and sequestration potential in a curing chamber adjacent to the power plant. The demonstration saw capture of more than 3 tons of carbon dioxide in a sample volume of 10,000 concrete masonry units. Photo: Car...