From our files Community musical ‘Joseph ...’ a huge hit in 1998

100 Years Ago, Nov. 23, 1923
The Cowley Progress
Word came over the phone during late Monday night or early on Tuesday morning that during the night Grandma Byron Sessions of Byron had passed peacefully to the Great Beyond.
Sister Sessions was the mother of a large number of boys and girls, all husky boys and girls of splendid physique. She, with her husband, have several times been called upon to lead out or assist in the colonization of new frontiers. Mr. Sessions and his family were called to lead in the colonization of this part of the Big Horn Basin.
75 Year Ago, Nov. 25, 1948
The Lovell Chronicle
The Byron Eagles established themselves as undisputed champions in six-man football as they crossed the state of Wyoming to the border of Nebraska, and there, in the little town of Pine Bluffs, closed the football season with an impressive 44-0 victory over the division champions for the southwest.
Starting the game for the Eagles were Roy Snell, LeRoy Sedgwick, Wayne Porter, Carm Sessions, Jay Mangus and Melden Tanner, each of whom checked up a touchdown with Snell scoring twice and Porter kicking the extra two points. Alternating with the first linesmen were Bob Timlin, Waldo Jensen, Earl Watts, Homer Lynam, Don Griggs, Jerry Littlefield and Gary Stevens. The twenty-two boys of the football squad were accompanied by Supt. Simmons and Coach Wilford Mower.
This is the second state championship for Byron in 1948; they took the limelight last spring when they received state honors in basketball, B Division. In football they have been undefeated in four years of conference play.
50 Years Ago, Nov. 21, 1973
The Lovell Chronicle
In an effort to help keep drinking drivers off Wyoming’s highways, the 42nd Legislature last February passed measures lowering the presumptive intoxication level, the Wyoming Highway Patrol reminded motorists today. A separate act lowered the presumptive intoxication level from 0.15 to 0.10 percent alcohol in a person’s blood.
25 Years Ago, Nov. 25, 1998
The Lovell Chronicle
Back by popular demand. The Lovell community production of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” will give an encore performance this Saturday, Nov. 8, at 8 p.m. at the Hyart Theatre. The production has run three nights, last Thursday, Friday and Monday. In the local production of “Joseph,” directed by John Lee Mangus, three female narrators (Chauna Bischoff, Marilyn Croy and Janae Harman) relate the intriguing story of Joseph and his experiences in Egypt with the Pharaoh.
10 Years Ago, Nov. 21, 2013
The Lovell Chronicle
Lovell High School junior Justin Mickelson was selected this summer to perform with the Macy’s Great American Marching Band and will depart Saturday for what promises to be an exciting week in New York City. The son of Frank and Michelle Mickelson of Lovell, Justin has twice been selected for the Wyoming All-State Band, and that track record led to him being invited this summer for the Macy’s band. As an all-state trombonist, he didn’t have to audition for the national marching band. He received a letter of invitation and simply mailed in an application.