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Around Wyoming brings you news from around the state, keeping you informed with brief updates of stories you may have missed.

Around Wyoming, Tuesday, November 11

A Jackson retiree has assigned herself to keeping the area beautiful. The Jackson Hole News&Guide reports twice a week, Dannette Jolly gears up in an orange vest and bikes to a two-mile stretch along Highway 89. Using a pair of kitchen tongs, she picks up any trash she finds. She wants to keep people looking at nature, not human-made rubbish.

A small kitten’s rough start has made a happy turn. The Pinedale Roundup reports Elkhart, the butterscotch kitten, was abandoned at a trailhead in the Wind River Mountains. He evaded capture by local animal rescue volunteers for weeks and survived thanks to hikers who shared bits of food with him. But as the weather turned and fewer hikers were out, hunger got the best of him, and he was trapped. But his life was just getting started. He’s now contentedly purring with his new adoptive family.

A Jackson-born man has been selected for the U.S. national cross-country ski team. Buckrail reports Lucas Wilmot is now a student athlete at University of Utah. He finished in the top 10 at a World Junior Championship race, which qualified him to join the team.

And, according to casino.online, Wyoming’s most popular horror movie is A Nightmare on Elm Street.

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Ivy started as a science news intern in the summer of 2019 and has been hooked on broadcast ever since. Her internship was supported by the Wyoming EPSCoR Summer Science Journalism Internship program. In the spring of 2020, she virtually graduated from the University of Wyoming with a B.S. in biology with minors in journalism and business. When she’s not writing for WPR, she enjoys baking, reading, playing with her dog, and caring for her many plants.