Smoke may irritate residents

For the past week, smoke has drifted into Sweetwater County and although it seems to have lessened, it will not disappear anytime soon.

According to Dave Lipson, Fire Weather Services Team Member at the National Weather Service Center in Riverton, it is hard to pinpoint just exactly where all the smoke is coming from. He said with so many fires in Washington, Idaho and Montana, it is hard to tell which state or if all three are contributing to the smoky conditions, which at times have made it seem cloudy.

Some of the smoke has seemed to have cleared out, which was the result of a frontal in...