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Chronic Wasting Disease found in elk on Snowy Range

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), a fatal neurological disease of deer, elk, and moose has been discovered in elk hunt area 10 that encompasses a portion of the Snowy Range area in the Medicine Bow National forest and surrounding private lands.

Colo. company wins Forest Service stewardship bid

Bolstering a long-term strategy to address fuel reduction and overall forest health, USDA Under Secretary Harris Sherman yesterday announced a Forest Service 10-year stewardship contract totaling $4.75 million for the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest.

Council approves Resort & Spa zone change

0, to address the planning commission’s recommendation to approve two zone changes submitted by the Saratoga Resort and Spa, Chris Shannon, co-owner of Orion Point, LLC, said he was opposed to any zone change on property north of Pic Pike Road from RD 7200 to Retail Business (resort).

Clinic seeks new accreditation

‘Big enough to serve, small enough to care,’ is a motto Tonya Bartholomew, practice manager for the Platte Valley Medical Clinic, thinks fits the clinic well.
“We practice good, old, small-town medicine,” Bartholomew said. “We have so many services that are not typical. You would find a lot of the services we offer in Laramie or Cheyenne and it’s only because of the Corbett Medical Foundation.”

School district moves bus talks to the front

Carbon County School District No. 2 Board of Trustees looked into a couple different ways to keep the wheels on their buses going round and round at their November meeting Monday, first by talking about offering some drivers benefits, and then by mulling hiring a district mechanic to do the maintenance and repair work on their fleet.

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