County museum gets support for photo grant

The Sweetwater County Museum received support for a grant application towards the purchase of the New Studio photo collection.

The letter, which was approved by the Sweetwater County Commissioners Tuesday, is one of two that will be sent with a $5,000 grant application to the Rocky Mountain Power Foundation.

According to Ruth Laurizen, director of the Sweetwater County Museum, the museum has raised more than $34,000 of the needed $62,000 purchase price. While the museum has worked hard to raise the needed money before their April deadline, a few of the grants museum staff applied for havenâ...