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Nathan Vaughn and members of the Northwest College Trap and Skeet Club practice for the upcoming Collegiate Clay Target Championships during a session at the Heart Mountain Rod and Gun Club east of Powell. Three members of the trap and skeet club, including Vaughn, will compete at the national competition in San Antonio, Texas, in March. Photo by Mark Davis, Powell Tribune.
NWC shooters aim for national championship
In its 30th year, trap and skeet club helps students learn importance of persistence
By Mark Davis
Powell Tribune
Via Wyoming News Exchange
POWELL -- Before coming to Northwest College, Sasa Starkjohann had never even held...
Carl Christensen and his teammates celebrate their completion of the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge. Photo courtesy of Atlantic Campaigns.
Powell man sets world record in row across Atlantic
By Mark Davis
Powell Tribune
Via Wyoming News Exchange
POWELL — After rowing 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean in a four-man boat, Powell resident Carl Christensen found it hard to believe it was finally over. The reality of being on dry...
Carl Christensen of Powell, skipper of the rowboat Woobie for team Fight Oar Die, battles through the Atlantic Ocean with teammates and fellow military veterans Luke Holton of Alaska, John Fannin of Texas, and Eric Stratton of Denver during the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge. Christensen celebrated his birthday on the boat recently, complete with a birthday cake and song. (Photo courtesy Lars Kristiansen, Atlantic Campaigns)
Powell man celebrates birthday in middle of trans-Atlantic row
By Mark Davis
Powell Tribune
Via Wyoming News Exchange
POWELL — In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean last week, Carl Christensen couldn’t believe his crew members were singing happy birthday to him after presenting him with a cake...
Gordon says grizzly delisting depends on election outcome
By CJ Baker
Powell Tribune
Via Wyoming News Exchange
POWELL — If you want to see the grizzly bear delisted, Gov. Mark Gordon says you should support President Donald Trump’s bid for re-election in 2020.
Speaking to members of the Park...
Justin and Desarae Starck lead their pack goats through Bighorn National Forest. The Starcks are among a growing number of outdoor enthusiasts to sometimes use pack goats instead of horses to carry gear on backcountry treks. (Photo by Mark Davis, Powell Tribune)
Use of pack goats on backcountry trips increases
By Mark Davis
Powell Tribune
Via Wyoming News Exchange
POWELL — Ice- and mud-covered roads certainly weren’t going to get between Desarae Starck and her limited quota tag for a bull elk deep in the Bighorn Mountains. She was set on hiking into...
Powell High School senior Brody Karhu visits with University of Wyoming Acting President Neil Theobald during the president’s Thursday visit to Powell and Park County. Theobald said he visited with students about the many opportunities offered by a college education — not just at UW but also at Northwest College and other institutions. (Photo by Mark Davis, Powell Tribune)
Acting UW president promotes university, community colleges
By CJ Baker
Powell Tribune
Via Wyoming News Exchange
POWELL — The University of Wyoming’s interim president says the state doesn’t just need more Cowboys — it also needs more Northwest College Trappers and other college students.
UW...
Former Powell treatment center employees charged with multi-million dollar fraud
By C.J. Baker
Powell Tribune
Via Wyoming News Exchange
POWELL — Federal prosecutors have charged three Powell men with health care fraud and other felony crimes, alleging they submitted millions of dollars worth of...
Yaakov Feldman (left) and Rabbi Moshe Feldman supervise as Forrest Smith of GF Harvest dumps oats into an auger. In order for the oats to be used to make shmurah matzah, an unleavened bread eaten by Orthodox Jews during Passover, the entire process of making the bread, from harvest to baking, has to be supervised. (Photo by Kevin Killough, Powell Tribune)
New Jersey team makes sure Powell oats are kosher
By Kevin Killough
Powell Tribune
Via Wyoming News Exchange
POWELL — They were a long way from Lakewood, New Jersey. Rabbi Moshe Feldman, Yaakov Feldman, and Simcha Guzik are Orthodox Jews who came out to Powell to watch over the harvest of oats...
Two bull moose move through the creek bottoms near the Cloud Peak Wilderness in the Bighorn Mountains. The Game and Fish are using GPS collars to assist with a study of the species. Only females are being currently studied in the first ever study of the area’s moose population. About 60 collars have been deployed. (Photo by Mark Davis, Powell Tribune)
Study of Bighorn Forest moose in second year
By Mark Davis
Powell Tribune
Via Wyoming News Exchange
POWELL — By the time the sun began illuminating tree-covered peaks, Sam Stephens was already in hot pursuit of a cow moose near Shell.
Before 5 a.m., his green company truck was packed and...
Powell elm is state’s biggest on record
By Mark Davis
Powell Tribune
Via Wyoming News Exchange
POWELL — Everything on the Fisher farm has a job — even the trees. But one of Bernice Fisher’s trees has been working overtime.
Fisher has the largest American elm in the state of Wyoming, certified...
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