Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
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BUFFALO - Local leaders are hoping that an active uranium mine in southern Johnson County will yield much-needed mineral tax revenue in the coming year. Uranium Energy Corp. purchased Uranium One Americas and its Christensen Ranch and Irigaray Processing Plant in December 2021. For two years, the uranium production company monitored rising uranium prices and solidified plans to ramp up production once the process proved profitable. The company resumed production this August...
BUFFALO - On Thursday mornings, there's no livelier place to be than Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4969 in Buffalo. The coffee is brewing and pancakes and bacon are on the stove before sunrise. Veterans representing nearly every branch of the U.S. military come for the breakfast, and they stay for the camaraderie. "It's just a tight-knit gathering of folks that have experiences in common," said Jurgen Hakert, who served in the Air Force for 23 years. At the VFW, every member...
BUFFALO — Johnson County gained both farms and farmland between 2017 and 2022, according to the Department of Agriculture’s Census of Agriculture released in February. That bucks the trend both in Wyoming and nationwide. While agriculture remains one of the county’s biggest industries, the outcomes for Johnson County point to a trend toward greater subdivision of large ranch land into parcels with smaller acreage. That trend revealed itself in the ag census and was not much of a surprise for locals who work in the land use s...
