A new Town Clerk for Hanna

Leslie Birge has spent the majority of her life in Carbon County, mostly in the town of Hanna.

"I might have been born in Texas, but I was raised here in Hanna," Birge said. "My father worked for a gas company and I went to Hanna Elementary and finished at Hanna High School."

After graduating, Birge went to work for the Hanna Housing Board and then the Hanna Senior Center. She married before she was 21, and she started a family. Birge has two daughters, Audrianna and Andraya.

Now that they are grown, one lives in Hanna and the other lives in Cheyenne.

When Birge left the Hanna Senior Cente...