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  • Food drives help local pantries

    Jan 24, 2019

    Job's Daughters Bethel #7 of Gillette held food drives and delivered food to pantries in Gillette, Sundance and Moorcroft. They also decorated cookies and delivered them to police departments, sheriff and fire departments in those communities. This organization for girls ages 10-20 helps them learn to do community service activities like these. For more information, contact Shannon at (307) 290-2311. You can also see more information at Wy-JDI.org or jobsdaughtersinternationa...

  • Elk feeding essential, but not needed yet

    Mike Koshmrl, Jackson Hole Daily Via Wyoming News Exchange|Jan 24, 2019

    JACKSON — Alfalfa-spewing elk-feeding trucks and the federal employees who drive them will be deemed “essential” and thus unaffected by the partial government shutdown, but so far the herds are OK without the help. National Elk Refuge Biologist Eric Cole has been allowed to work part time to determine when feeding is needed, and he has found that grasses are still plentiful and accessible for the approximately 2,800 elk congregated on the refuge’s south end. “What we’ve had going for us is we haven’t had any significant thaw-freeze c...

  • Legislators eye lawsuit over coal port

    Heather Richards, Casper Star-Tribune Via Wyoming News Exchange|Jan 24, 2019

    CASPER — Wyoming lawmakers will try to set aside $250,000 to sue Washington state over coal, bypassing Wyoming’s attorney general and hiring a private lawyer, via a bill introduced Thursday in Cheyenne that largely mimics a failed measure last year. Washington has effectively blocked a coal export terminal development by denying a state water permit. Wyoming — which wants an export terminal on the West Coast to get its coal to Asian buyers — has long maintained that Washington’s block is political: that the powers that be in Washingto...

  • Bill would use income tax to fund education

    Chrissy Suttles, Wyoming Tribune Eagle Via Wyoming News Exchange|Jan 24, 2019

    CHEYENNE — Two Democratic lawmakers hope to launch meaningful income tax discussions in Wyoming with the introduction of new legislation. House Bill 233, introduced Thursday, would impose a 4 percent tax on residents and corporations earning more than $200,000 in taxable income a year. Sponsors of the bill say the tax would raise an additional $208 million annually for the Wyoming Department of Education's School Foundation Program, which oversees public school funding. This would undoubtedly solve the state's education funding woes, said S...

  • News Briefs

    From Wyoming News Exchange Newspapers|Jan 24, 2019

    Party switching bill killed a second time in committee CHEYENNE (WNE) — A closed primary bill that failed Tuesday once again couldn't win enough support for it to move on to the Senate floor Thursday. But a similar measure in the House and a newly filed bill in the Senate mean the issue of closed primaries is still alive this session. Senate File 32 had failed in the Senate Corporations, Elections and Political Subdivisions Committee on a 3-2 vote Tuesday. But Chairman Bill Landen, R-Casper, tried to bring it back for potential r...

  • Crook County School District No. 1

    Jan 24, 2019

    MINUTES of MEETING BOARD of TRUSTEES CROOK COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT #1 Preparing Today for Success Tomorrow CCSD#1 will prepare & empower all students for successful, lifelong learning through effective teaching. CALL TO ORDER - The regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of Crook County School District #1 was held in Sundance, WY, Monday, January 21, 2019, at the hour of 6:11 p.m. at the Sundance Elementary School. ROLL CALL - The meeting opened with the following present: Chairman Brian Marchant; Trustees Marlene Edwards, Rick Gill, Thayne...