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MOUNTAIN SAFETY: Officials with the Bighorn National Forest are urging holiday weekend campers to take safety precautions when they are on the mountain. Above is Mirror Lake in the Bighorn National Forest and Cloud Peak Wilderness.


Jackson mayor’s son dies in climbing accident

JACKSON (AP) — The son of the mayor of Jackson has died in an apparent climbing accident.

The Jackson Hole News & Guide is reporting that 26-year-old Wesley Barron was found dead at the base of a cliff at around 11 a.m. Wednesday. Barron is the son of Jackson Mayor Mark Barron.

Friends notified Wesley Barron’s family when he failed to return from a climbing trip on Tuesday evening and didn’t show up for work on Wednesday.

A search located the younger Barron’s car in a parking area in Curtis Canyon. Teton County Search and Rescue workers found that he had died after falling from a cliff in a solo free climb.

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Utah bars to mark end of liquor restrictions

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Jeremy Kristic and several of his friends pounded on the door at Oscar’s bar Wednesday promptly at 11 a.m. They wanted it to open immediately, and they wanted to drink. They had after all other bars to go to — before closing time at 1 a.m.

“This is the one day we can go out to experience all the different kinds of bars,” said Kristic, a 30-year-old private investigator.

Bartenders in Utah threw open their doors Wednesday as the state ditched a 40-year-old requirement that customers fill out an application, pay a fee and become a member of a private club before setting foot in a bar.

“It’s 40 years of oppression come to an end,” said Dave Morris, owner of the bar Piper Down in Salt Lake City. “There’s this national perception that we don’t have bars here, so hopefully this gets out there that we’re open for business.”

To celebrate, Morris organized a 16-bar pub crawl to celebrate the novelty of being allowed into a bar without having to pay first. One crawl was set for Wednesday, another with a different lineup of bars was scheduled for Friday.

The new rules are an effort to boost the state’s $7 billion-a-year tourism industry and make the state appear a little less quirky to outsiders.

In the posh ski resort town of Park City, many locals took the change in stride. The area has long been known for bending state rules to accommodate tourists and many locals never bought a club membership.

“I don’t think it’ll change too much. It’s kind of open here,” said Bruce Morrison, while downing a beer at No Name Saloon on Park City’s historic Main Street. Morrison said he didn’t remember the last time he paid for a membership in Park City.

In Ogden, bartender Rich Miros at Brewskis happily scraped off lettering on the door that said the bar was a private club. The bar gets plenty of tourists from a nearby downtown hotel and skiers coming back from a day at the slopes at nearby Snowbasin.

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WYOMING HISTORY

June
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Pathfinder Dam Completed (June 1, 1909)

- First Wyoming Highway Patrol officers assumed duties (June 1, 1933)

- Amelia Earhart landed at Parco Airport (June 4, 1931)

- U.S. Army took charge at Fort Bridger (June 10, 1858)

- First newspaper published in Wyoming, Fort Bridger (June 12, 1863)

- First electric lights in Casper (June 12, 1900)

- Torrington area struck by tornado (June 14, 1922)

- Cheyenne flooded (June 15, 1883)

- First train arrived in Casper (June 15, 1888)

- Fort Laramie sold to U.S. for $4,000 (June 16, 1849)

- Battle of the Rosebud (June 17, 1876)

- Townspeople and U.S. soldiers battled on streets of Suggs (June 18, 1892)

- Town of Cumberland closed down (June 19, 1930)

- Fire destroyed downtown Carbon (June 19, 1890)

- Gros Ventre slide (June 23, 1925)

- Battle of the Little Big Horn (June 25, 1876)

- Rock Springs pilot fired first shot in Korean War (June 27, 1950)

- Town of "Berlin" laid out in Big Horn Basin (June 27, 1895)

- U.S. Senate passed bill for Wyoming statehood (June 27, 1890)

- B-17 crashed in Big Horns, Bomber Mountain (June 28, 1943)

- Taylor Grazing Act passed in Congress (June 28, 1934)

- Fort Steele established (June 30, 1868)

- Mine explosion at Hanna killed 171 miners (June 30, 1903)

- Fort Steele established (June 30, 1868)

 

 

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