Workers travel one of the roads within the Pinedale Anticline natural gas field south of Pinedale earlier this year. Natural gas activity continues to drive growth in Sublette County, which saw its population increase by 6.4 percent in 2008, according to new census estimates. (Mark Gocke, Star-Tribune correspondent)
Field engineer Mike Sauers measures and marks the area for trucks to dump loads of gravel on the old Tipperary Road near Buffalo in Johnson County on Monday. Johnson County is using state grant money to reapply gravel designed to withstand the extra punishment caused by increased truck travel from the energy business. Photo by Dan Cepeda, Casper Star-Tribune
Bridger Jones, 9, guesses a character from a traditional folk tale after being given clues during the Natrana County Library's "What's My Line?" after-school program on Wednesday afternoon. The Natrona County Board of Commissioners signed an agreement Tuesday extending an option for the land originally slated for the new library project. Photo by Kerry Huller, Star-Tribune
Natrona County High School kicker Hill Garrett, right, a sophomore, reacts to missing a late fourth quarter field goal that would have give the Mustangs the win over Cheyenne East on Friday. Photo by Ryan Soderlin, Star-Tribune
Winds over seven miles per hour, known as cut in, start the 158 turbines North of Glenrock Tuesday morning. The turbines can generate power in winds as strong as 50 m.p.h. but will shutdown or "cut out" when winds reach 60 m.p.h. (Tim Kupsick, Star-Tribune)
Kaycee firefighters worked to contain diesel fuel spilled from the 18-wheeler driven by David Dykes after what looked like a piece of wood pierced the driver's side fuel tank during the chase that took him from Edgerton to Kaycee. Photo by DANIEL CRAIG, Star-Tribune.
This pellet gun was confiscated recently from a student at Kelly Walsh High School.
The 'ghost sign' on the back of the historic Hotel Townsend in downtown Casper will be removed as part of the building's conversion into a courthouse. Photo by Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune
Valerie Hedlund, 4, watches and listens to a book being read on the Peek-A-Book machine at Natrona County Library on Wednesday morning. Photo by KERRY HULLER, Star-Tribune.
Bill Rader of Casper votes in the primary election on Tuesday at Manor Heights School. Rader said he voted in the election because it our right as citizens to do so. Photo by Ryan Soderln, Star-Tribune
Tourists use telescopes to get a closeup view of Devils Tower National Monument. (File, Star-Tribune)
NCHS' Raymond Vega pushes into the end zone against Rock Springs defenders on Friday night at Cheney Alumni Stadium in Casper. Photo by Dan Cepeda.
Rayleigh Coursen, 11, plays with her steer behind the scenes of the FFA Alumni cattle show at Casper College on Saturday. (Jake Mitchell/Star-Tribune)
Skye Fricke, 6, uses a computer Friday at the new Laramie County Library in Cheyenne, which was funded with a voter-approved special-use tax. Natrona County voters will be asked to support a similar tax this fall to build a new library in Casper. Photo by JARED MILLER, Star-Tribune.
Mike Bond, the new principal at Sagewood Elementary School, greets a student during an orientation on Thursday evening for kindergarten students and their parents. Photo by Kerry Huller, Star-Tribune
Fifth-grader Rebecca Ferris waits for instruction on the proper technique to pluck her cello strings at Evansville Elementary Thursday afternoon. Photo by Tim Kupsick, Star-Tribune.
Booths are filled with voters during early voting at the Natrona County Courthouse in downtown Casper on Monday afternoon. Lines extended outside the front door later in the afternoon. Polling stations open today at 7 a.m. Photo by Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune.
Former Natrona County golfer Nate Drell, from left to right, waits with Kelly Walsh senior Michael Chapin, center left, and his brother Natrona County sophomore Tof Chapin and their father Charlie Chapin at the first hole on Links at the Casper Municipal Golf Course Thursday afternoon. (Tim Kupsick/Star-Tribune)
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