Old Man Winter usually lingers in the mind as the longest season because it can bring its particular kind of weather well before the actual season begins, and ...

The next community If you've been following the local fundraising drive to raise money to pay for a feasibility study on the Riverton Medical District's plan ...

A day at a time "In the bleak midwinter," begins a song often sung around Christmas time - when winter actually is only a few days old. Even now, in the midst ...

Families usually get together over the holiday season. For some it's one of the few times all year -- perhaps even the only one -- when two or three generations ...

Following the stock market lately? Better have a barf bag nearby. So volatile have the big U.S. indexes been through the fall and early winter that the terms ...

Holiday housekeeping The Ranger will not publish next Tuesday, Jan. 1, in observance of New Year's Day. On a related note, your daily newspaper staff ...

We live on Earth's northern hemisphere, where as of today, true winter has begun. And true, celestial, scientific winter, as defined by the sun and Earth, ...

Congratulations and gratitude to the City of Riverton and the affiliated R-Rec program for converting the old Tonkin Stadium football field into an ice-skating ...

We're in the midst of transcribing hundreds of letters to Santa Claus for our Christmas edition, which we publish a week from today. Many years ago, while ...

If the planners and practitioners of Wyoming's Firewise program took a look at the circumstances surrounding the devastating California wildfires this month, ...

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 ...