From our files: Karma Sanders takes principal job in 2001

100 years ago, Aug. 20, 1926

The Cowley Progress

The Custer Battlefield Highway Recreational Park on the top of the Big Horn Mountains was formally opened recently. The park is situated approximately 50 miles west of Sheridan.

75 years ago, Aug. 23, 1951

The Lovell Chronicle

Mr. and Mrs. A.H. Bassett, pioneer residents of the Shoshone valley, will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary on August 31. Open house will be held at the home of her sister, Mrs. S.C. Nebel, at 260 Shoshone Ave. Visitors will be welcome from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

50 years ago, Aug. 19, 1976

The Lovell Chronicle

If you think you’ve been seeing more patrolling on local roads recently, you’re right. Big Horn County is one of 13 counties selected by the Wyoming Highway Patrol for increased traffic enforcement during the next three months.

Increased patrolling is taking place in an effort to curb the state’s soaring fatal and injury accident rate. Wyoming is currently the most dangerous state in the union in which to drive, according to the National Safety Council.

25 years ago, Aug. 23, 2001

The Lovell Chronicle

Local woman Karma Sanders has returned to the area to take the job as new principal at Rocky Mountain Middle School. Sanders, who graduated from Byron High School in 1980, went to Northwest College for two years. She then went on to get her bachelor’s in teaching at Brigham Young University. She was offered a teaching job in Kansas, and it was there that she got her master’s from Kansas State University.

10 years ago, Aug. 18, 2016

The Lovell Chronicle

Bighorn Canyon Youth Conservation Corp (YCC) members will be presenting a program tonight they have developed to share their experiences and hard work from this summer with their parents and Bighorn Canyon staff. Bighorn Canyon would like to extend the invitation to the community. The program will begin at 7 p.m. at the Bighorn Canyon Visitor Center in Lovell.

From the time the YCC program was created to the present, the emphasis for the program has been to get the local youth outdoors and to create in them an interest in environmental science, or at least educate them about the importance of preserving the special places that are our National Parks, organizer Jennifer Schneider said.