City of Casper Patrol Officer Aaron Black helps Luke Zimmerman with E & F Wrecker Service load a damaged motor scooter onto a tow truck after an accident on Collins Drive recently. Officer Black will be working both the Christmas and New Year holidays. Photo by Kerry Huller, Star-Tribune
Bernadine Boyce, of Allentown, Pa., applies sunscreen recently to Bruno Barber, 5, of Atlantic City, as mom, Natalia Barber, watches in Atlantic City, N.J. Experts say the best protection against dangerous cancers like melanoma are sunscreens that contain zinc oxide, titanium dioxide or avobenzone. Photo by Mary Godleski , AP
A male sage grouse takes flight with natural gas drilling rigs in the distance south of Pinedale earlier this year. Current rules prevent drilling within a quarter mile of grouse breeding areas; two conservation groups have filed a petition to extend that distance to two miles. Photo by Mark Gocke, Star-Tribune correspondent.
A pronghorn antelope buck pauses for a quick look on the Cottonwood Ranch north of Big Piney last fall. (Mark Gocke/Wyoming Game and Fish Department)
Look for sunglasses designed especially to fit children, like the Baby Banz shown here. In addition to offering 100 percent UVA and UVB protection, Baby Banz secure to little faces comfortably with an adjustable, neoprene elastic strap. www.babybanz.com. Submitted photo.
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, USA - 20JUL04 - The Federal Protective Service, part of the US Department of Homeland Security, shows off its various ways of providing security during the Democratic Convention including a mobile command center where officers can monitor 75 surveillance cameras in different parts of the city. PHOTO: Melanie Stetson Freeman / The Christian Science Monitor.
Look for sunglasses designed especially to fit children, like the Baby Banz shown here. In addition to offering 100 percent UVA and UVB protection, Baby Banz secure to little faces comfortably with an adjustable, neoprene elastic strap. www.babybanz.com. Submitted photo.
Look for sunglasses designed especially to fit children, like the Baby Banz shown here. In addition to offering 100 percent UVA and UVB protection, Baby Banz secure to little faces comfortably with an adjustable, neoprene elastic strap. www.babybanz.com. Submitted photo.
Gary Amerine, Jenny Amerine, and Dustin Child, right, eat lunch Thursday, July 27, 2006, overlooking parcels in the Wyoming Range in western Wyoming that went up for lease to oil and gas companies Aug. 1, 2006. Child teamed with Amerine in his quest to protect the Wyoming Range from oil and gas leases that could, they say, turn the Wyoming Range into another Jonah Field, one of the densest gas fields in the nation. (AP Photo/Jackson Hole News&Guide, Cory Hatch)
A fog bank fills the Hoback River valley as morning light hits the snow-capped peaks of the Wyoming Range. The remote western Wyoming mountain range has become something of a battleground between the energy industry and conservationists. Photo by Mark Gocke, Star-Tribune correspondent.
Sharon Johnson sets up the police lights on top of the new Seton House Playhouse on display at Eastridge Mall Thursday. (Tim Kupsick, Star-Tribune)
The June 2, 1909, Natrona County Tribune announced the completion of the Pathfinder Dam. Construction (pictured) lasted five years. The diversion tunnel (lower middle with water rushing out) "was drilled through solid granite at an expense of $33,000." (Frances Seely Webb Collection, Casper College Western History Center.)
Justin Wicks, 5, and his brother Brady, 2, peak out from the police themed Seton House Playhouse at Eastridge Mall Thursday morning. (Tim Kupsick, Star-Tribune)
Louis Meeks holds a jar filled with water from a contaminated well on his property near Pavillion. Meeks and other property owners in the area blame oil and gas drilling for contamination of their drinking water. (Kerry Huller/Star-Tribune)
John Fenton and others examine Pavillion neighbor Louis Meeks' water. (Dustin Bleizeffer/Star-Tribune)
Natural gas wellheads and other production facilities are intermingled with farming and ranching operations around the rural community of Pavillion. (Dustin Bleizeffer/Star-Tribune)
EnCana Corp. placed two 2,400-gallon water containers inside this unit on Louis Meeks' property two years ago when water from his well was shown to be contaminated. The containers were removed this month. (Kerry Huller/Star-Tribune)
This photo released by Protection One shows how your cell home can be used as a home security monitor.(AP Photo/Protection One)
This photo released by Protection One shows how your cell home can be used as a home security monitor.(AP Photo/Protection One)
On the net: Protect the Putt Putt
The site's purpose is to stop the "sprawl of Forest Service housing onto virgin forest land at the Putt Putt Trailhead."
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