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Hayfield Restoration Burn Planned go to article

Grand Teton Offers Limited Firewood Permits go to article

Escaped Campfire on Elk Island Prompts Suppression Actions go to article

Westside Store to close go to article

After 30 years in business, the Westside Store and Deli at the Aspens is closing.

New Colter playground highlights school start go to article

The air buzzed with pink cheeks and pigtails, as hundreds of upper elementary schoolers poured out of cars and buses, and rolled to the front door of Colter Elementary School on bicycles Wednesday.

Labor Day weekend bumps up bookings go to article

Labor Day weekend bumped up reservations for Saturday, with 76 percent of rooms reserved valleywide.

Lightning victim: No safe place outdoors go to article

Wyoming is an average state when it comes to the number of days thunderstorms will occur, a valley meteorologist says.

Master work go to article

Herbie Hancock could have taken it easy Thursday night when he performed at the Center for the Arts...

Tests: Deadly driver drunk go to article

Officials reported a 0.27 blood alcohol content in the man who died in an Aug. 9 crash on Highway 22 that also killed Kristen Ardinger Karn...

Brad Watson's "Aliens" Serves Up Despair, with a Side of Humor go to article

Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives by Brad Watson W.W. Norton and Company, 268 pages, $23.95 In Brad Watson's new story collection, Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives, most of the families crumble, some almost as quickly as they form.  Watson grew up in Mississippi, has taught creative writing at the University of Wyoming since 2005, and sets most of his stories in the American South.  Although family disintegration is a common subject for short fiction, Watson's stories are full of surprises, often involving a note of the uncanny, such as a disturbing fortune teller who might be a gypsy, and a mysterious couple who could be escapees from a mental institution, or, as they claim in the absorbing title story, aliens from another planet.  In several stories, women have a craving to eat dirt--the practice called geophagy, once common in Mississippi among poor white and black women--that in Watson's stories gives the women an otherworldly quality, as though they have one foot among the living and one among the dead. Brad Watson will discuss Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives at the Tattered Cover (Colfax) on Monday, April 19 at 7:30 p.m.

Wyoming Writers Roll On & Western Heritage Awards Announced go to article

And now the moment we've all been waiting for: two weeks ago I asked New West readers to vote on what book I should review next.  I was delighted and relieved when several people voted.  The winner, with four votes, is Staking Her Claim: Women Homesteading the West by Marcia Meredith Hensley.  I'll review it next Monday.  And since the voting was so tight, I plan to review the runner-up, How it Looks Going Back by Doris Knowles Pulis, in a few weeks as well.  As for the other two books: they'll go back on my guilt pile, and I'll get to them as soon as I can.  Every time I open the cabinet where I keep my un-reviewed books, the books scream, "Pick me!  Pick me!" I'm okay with it, but it frightens the kids. • Wyofile has an in-depth feature by Susan Gray Gose on Wyoming mystery and thriller novelist C.J. Box.  Gray Gose writes that Box "cranks out 1,000 words a day," "publishes two books a year," and that one of his novels could be adapted into a screenplay soon: "The producers of About Schmidt (the 2002 New Line Cinema comedy) bought the rights to Blue Heaven. While many optioned books languish, this one seems to be moving forward. It's received financing, and actors Jack Nicholson, Alec Baldwin and Joe Pesci have signed on."

Temple Grandin's Life Story Hits the Small Screen go to article

The movie "Temple Grandin," about the life of Temple Grandin, the Colorado writer, animal expert, and advocate for people with autism, premiered on HBO this weekend.  The movie stars Claire Danes, a casting choice that Grandin told Erin O'Toole of KUNC she was "absolutely delighted" with.  Grandin spoke with O'Toole as she was in the midst of traveling around the country to promote the film.  Grandin said of Danes, "She put this wig on and dressed up in my clothes and became me." Grandin is pleased with the movie.  "I love the way the movie shows how my mind works," she said.  (I reviewed Grandin's most recent book, Animals Make Us Human, last year.) • One of my favorite writers, Edward P. Jones, is the "eminent writer in residence" at the University of Wyoming in Laramie this semester.  I saw on the Wyoming Arts Blog that Jones will read and sign his books Thursday, Feb. 18, at 5 p.m. in the University Wyoming Union ballroom.  If you haven't checked out Jones' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Known World or his two masterful story collections, do yourself a favor and get reading!  Also in the Roundup: Edward P. Jones and Alyson Hagy read in Laramie, the Patagonia Public Library throws its annual Writers' Round-up, Dave Cullen is in the running for the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, New Mexico honors its writers, and Denver teens pick their favorite book of the year.

Mead's Wyoming GOP gubernatorial primary spending: $1.4M go to article

CHEYENNE -- Matt Mead, the winner of last month's Republican gubernatorial primary, spent almost as much money on his campaign as his three main opponents did combined, according to the Wyoming secret

Gulf oil rig explodes off Louisiana coast go to article

GRAND ISLE, La.  -- An offshore oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, west of the site of the April blast that caused the massive oil spill.

Energy industry criticizes proposed Wyoming royalty fee hike go to article

CHEYENNE -- Oil and gas representatives had harsh words Wednesday about the first proposed changes to the state's oil and gas leasing contract in nearly three decades.