Attention, please: Thanksgiving is just a week away. If that seems a little early, it is. Thanksgiving, the fourth Thursday of the month, occurs in 2018 on ...

As of today, a full century has passed since the armistice ending what was known at the time as The Great War, since known as World War I, nicknamed "The War ...

Election judges Running a general election in Fremont County requires a small army. There are the full-time staff members in the county clerk's office, of ...

Miller's close call The buzz around the crowd in our newsroom was the loudestTuesday night when preliminary word was delivered that Libertarian legislative ...

Casting ballots "Is tomorrow voter day?" asked a Monday visitor to The Ranger. Indeed it is, arriving inFremont County at a time when the fervent climate of ...

This is the time of year we publish our "postal statement," the annual declaration of circulation required by the U.S. Postal Service to verify that we are ...

A fizzler The vaunted "winter storm" that we had been warned about over the weekend, which had led to special weather statements and front-page newspaper ...

No. 10 The 10th of 12 months on our calendar year has arrived. The word "October" brings instant mental connotations to everyone's mind in a way that most ...

Rarely in our lifetimes is there likely to be a more unexpected, strange and troubling fall from grace as that of Bill Cosby. The great comedian, writer and ...

Season's greetings Here's an opportunity for a student research project: Find out how many times the first day of fall locally has coincided with an obvious, ...

We are getting a kick out of the aerial photographs of the North Federal reconstruction site shot from the camera mounted on a remote-controlled drone. The ...

The sagebrush was crackling Monday afternoon as a brisk breeze pushed flames up a hill toward a vulnerable house east of Ethete on 17 Mile Road. Firefighters ...

A news staff member who recently had been in a big city in the Eastern Time Zone saw a marquee outside a huge high school there. reading "Homecoming ...

Holiday Your daily newspaper staff appreciated the day off on Monday. While Monday is no longer a publication day for us, it normally is a work day. We kept ...

Surely there is no more to be said about John McCain, is there, than was said at his moving, fascinating and, it is fair to say, highly entertaining funeral ...

Aretha Franklin couldn't have a quick funeral. Too many people wanted to say goodbye. She died two weeks ago, but it wasn't until Friday afternoon that she ...

Another meeting organized by the Save Our Riverton Hospital group took placeMonday night. Originally it had been scheduled for the small lecture auditorium in ...

We have made a change in our opinion page.It has to do with something we are ending rather than something we are starting. We are discontinuing our ...

Labor Day First, a bit of holiday housekeeping. The Ranger offices at 421 East Main in downtown Riverton will be closed next Monday, Sept. 3, in observance of ...

A typical post-mortem activity for any losing political campaign is a long round of soul-searching about what went wrong. No doubt that is exactly what is ...

100 percent GOP If you are a Democrat looking for votes in Fremont County, don't count on any support in Lysite. The small precinct in eastern Fremont County ...

- Shoshoni could claim to be the political hotbed of Fremont County, at least judging by the primary election candidates on Tuesday. In a town of about 600 ...

Takeaways fromTuesday'sprimary election are many and varied, as always: - The first is the clear and resilient strength of Fremont County Commissioner ...

Ring the bell Mondaywas the start of school for most school districts in Fremont County. Aug. 20 is one of the earliest back-to-school dates in local history ...

Voter turnout for primary elections always seems to be lower than in general elections. That's a curiosity. Most of the time, the primary election is where ...

It's been a good long while since Fremont County voters faced a primary election ballot without Del McOmie's name on it. It's finally going to happen on ...

On today's Ranger opinion page (that's the page you are reading now), you'll see a long letter written by the new committee organized in an effort to try to ...