Sweetwater County

The National High School Finals Rodeo (NHSFR) wrapped up this past weekend in Rock Springs.

The Alzheimer’s Association of Wyoming recently received a more than $15,000 grant from the Wyoming Community Foundation to bring in-person education programs to the southwest and northeast corners of the state. The grant will support programming in Lincoln, Sublette, Sweetwater, Uinta, Crook, Niobrara and Weston counties.

More layoffs are coming to surface coal miners in Sweetwater County, just about eight months after the first round of layoffs.

About seven hundred Genesis Alkali union workers are starting the week with new contracts signed Sunday evening, just hours before the old contracts expired. It includes wage increases, but the main theme is upping safety standards.

Union workers for one of the largest producers of soda ash in the world are in contract negotiations in Sweetwater County. They have until June 30 to reach an agreement.

Plans are moving forward for a wind turbine project in southwest Wyoming, and the public comment period was recently extended.

When the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released its draft plan for managing millions of acres in southwest Wyoming in August, it got heated – amongst Wyomingites and even nationally. So, Wyoming’s Governor Mark Gordon appointed a task force to sort through all the opinions, and the group has released their recommendations.

A surface coal mine in Sweetwater County is in the midst of laying off workers because of a decline in nationwide demand for coal. The state is scrambling to help the workers transition out of their jobs.

Conversations continue about the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) plan for its land in southwest Wyoming. About 60 people came out for a public workshop held in Farson – a town south of Pinedale with a population of about 200 people.

A black lung mobile screening clinic will take place in Rock Springs this week. The hope is to spread awareness of black lung in Wyoming.