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Articles from the March 17, 2022 edition


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  • Public meetings set for this year's hunting regs

    Sarah Pridgeon|Mar 17, 2022

    The Wyoming Game and Fish Department will once again be holding public open houses around the county this month to discuss the proposed hunting seasons for 2022. Meetings are scheduled in both Sundance and Hulett and comments will be accepted until April 1. The first of the two meetings will take place in Sundance on March 21 in the courthouse basement from 4 to 6 p.m. The next day, March 22, the Greater Hulett Community Center will host a meeting from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The intent is to gather...

  • Freezin' for a reason

    Sarah Pridgeon|Mar 17, 2022

    Fundraising isn’t always for the faint-hearted. Each winter brings the opportunity for the bravest among us to leap into the icy waters of Keyhole Reservoir and raise money for Special Olympics Wyoming. Save the date for this year’s icy leap: the Jackalope Jump will be taking place at the marina at Keyhole State Park on March 26, with registration beginning at 11 a.m. and the jump beginning an hour later. Funds raised by the shivering swimmers will go towards the estimated 1600 Special Olympics athletes in this state through program costs inc...

  • All Stars

    Mar 17, 2022

    A number of Sundance Bulldog basketball players earned state and conference honors as their seasons wrapped up. Pictured above, left to right, Keaton Mills, all-conference; Cana McInerney, all-state & all-conference; Zoe Skeens, all-conference; Bailey Hofland, all-state and all-conference; and Gunner McLaughlin, all-conference....

  • CORRECTION: Weed & Pest

    Mar 17, 2022

    In last week’s issue, we mistakenly referred to Wade Dennis as the supervisor of the Crook County Weed & Pest District in the article describing the results of the annual county audit. Dennis is the chairman of the Weed & Pest Board. The district has been advertising – and continues to advertise – for candidates to take on the role of supervisor....

  • Flags of our mothers

    Sarah Pridgeon|Mar 17, 2022

    Of the original six flags created for the State of Wyoming, two have hung in the Natrona County Library and Buffalo's Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum for more than 50 years. But until this week, displaying those flags was illegal. When Wyoming historian Kylie McCormick visited the county to give presentations on women's suffrage, she took a moment to discuss a particular bill from this year's legislative session. Thanks to her research, a single sentence has been added to a law from 1945 that...

  • Open Mic Night planned

    Mar 17, 2022

    There will be an Open Mic Night at Wild West Espresso on Fri., Mar. 25 from 6-8 p.m. Plan to come down and share your talent with the community. A sound system will be set up along with a piano and small amp. You will be able to order beverages and possibly sandwiches as well. Those wanting to just come listen are welcome. The last time there was an Open Mic Night, it was standing room only, so plan accordingly. If you have questions, please contact Todd Kahler at 307-290-0194. Hope to see you there!...

  • Danny Lew Viergets

    Mar 17, 2022

    Danny Lew Viergets, 72, of Alzada, Montana, passed away in his home March 4, 2022. He was born in Belle Fourche, South Dakota, on March 4, 1950, to Lew and Velma Viergets of Alzada. Danny graduated from Belle Fourche High School in 1968. After graduation he attended Miles City, Montana College. After college Danny returned home to the ranch, where he worked sun up to sun down alongside his father, Lew. Danny, taking pride in his appearance, never missed an opportunity to work on his tan or find...

  • Pinochle Marathon

    Gail Kaiser|Mar 17, 2022

    Please turn in all scores by March 31. The Pinochle Marathon Card Party will be held Sunday afternoon, April 10, starting at 1 p.m. at the Sundance State Bank Meeting Room. These are Pinochle average scores for individuals as of March 13, 2022: Lyle Brunson 4243 Carol Jordan 4019 Marla Loken 3992 Barbara Glick 3961 Alan Loken 3945 Barbara Byrne 3938 Larry Byrne 3846 Emmet Hegwood 3771 Mary Jayne Jordan 3647 Sandra Hegwood 3488 Karol Santistevan 3433 Jennifer Adams 3379 Gail Kaiser 3370 Vivian Brunson 3191 Tracy Santistevan 3163 Jean Adams 2934...

  • This Week at Your Library

    Kim Heaster|Mar 17, 2022

    We are still doing curbside and in-town delivery if you would prefer not to come inside. We have numerous magazines available for a two-week checkout. GOOD HOUSEKEEPING is a women’s magazine featuring articles about women’s interests, product testing by The Good Housekeeping Institute, recipes, diet and health, as well as literary articles. It is your destination for everything from recipes to product reviews to home decor inspiration! Displays: Marcy Havner’s rock collection. If you have a collection you would like to share with Sunda...

  • Peek at the Past

    Mar 17, 2022

    1 Years Ago Mar. 23, 1922 Road conditions have improved wonderfully the past week, and at the present it is reported fair to Rocky Ford, and good from there to Spearfish. It will be several days before auto travel opens to the west to Moorcroft or Upton. Government trapper Evans was in for supplies, and reports poor luck on account of the heavy snows, says the Gillette Record. He has been engaged in the vicinity of the Lee & Spaeth ranch. The snow fills the runways of the wild creatures, and the wolves in particular scatter out in their...

  • Circuit Court

    Mar 17, 2022

    Speeding – Anastasia Kelli, Sheridan, 84/70, $130; Katie Austin-Schaffer, Coopersville, MI, 90/80, $105; Kenneth Simonton, Douglas, 86/75, $115; Anthony Janckila, Cokato, MN, 91/80, $115; Darrel Laughing, Gillette, 88/80, $101; (minor), Gillette, 92/80, $120; Sarunas Brazdeikis, Hinsdale, IL, 90/80, $105; Tiffany Mittlieder, Spearfish, SD, 90/80, $105; Brandon D. George, Rapid City, SD, 95/75, $160; Rohan Parge, Chicago, IL, 92/70, $170; Haley Idler, Gillette, 90/75, $135; Eh Rarr, South Salt Lake City, UT, 93/75, $150; William Nanemahoo, F...

  • Legislature approves 62-31 redistricting plan

    Carrie Haderlie, Wyoming Tribune Eagle Via Wyoming News Exchange|Mar 17, 2022

    CHEYENNE — Both chambers of the Wyoming Legislature gave final approval Friday night to a redistricting plan that increases their numbers by three to 62 representatives and 31 senators. With less than two hours left until a midnight deadline, the Senate voted 17-12, with one absent, to adopt the plan finalized earlier in the day by a joint conference committee. The vote came shortly after the House had approved the plan by a 44-12 vote, with four absent. The votes came at the end of a long day of debate, which itself followed a six-month redist...

  • School Salaries

    Mar 17, 2022

    CROOK COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT N0. ONE PUBLICATION OF ANNUAL GROSS SALARIES* Superintendent $137,350.00 subtotal $137,350.00 Coordinator / Director $21,000.00 $44,956.00 $48,700.00 $49,948.00 $70,150.00 $77,630.00 $83,650.00 subtotal $396,034.00 Principal, High School $85,770.00 $88,730.00 $93,910.00 subtotal $268,410.00 Principal, Middle / Jr. High $88,800.00 subtotal $88,800.00 Principal, Elementary $89,470.00 subtotal $89,470.00 Assistant Principal, Middle / Jr. High $81,400.00 subtotal $81,400.00 Instructional Facilitator $5,000.00 $5,000.00...

  • Liquor License

    Mar 17, 2022

    NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR NEW BAR AND GRILL LIQUOR LICENSE, FOR THE CITY OF SUNDANCE, 2021/2022. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the applicant whose name is set forth below has filed their application for a new Bar and Grill Liquor License in the Office of the Sundance City Clerk, City of Sundance, County of Crook, Wyoming. The name of said applicant and the description of the place and premise which the applicant desire to use as the place of sale is set forth as follows: LIQUOR LICENSE Uncle Louie’s Diner, Inc. Block 9 Lots 5 & 6 of Original T...

  • Liquor License

    Mar 17, 2022

    NOTICE OF APPLICATION TRANSFER OF RETAIL LIQUOR LICENSE, FOR THE CITY OF SUNDANCE, 2021/2022. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the applicant whose name is set forth below has filed their application for transfer of the Cowgirl Pizza Restaurant Liquor License in the Office of the Sundance City Clerk, City of Sundance, County of Crook, Wyoming. The name of said applicant and the description of the place and premise which the applicant desire to use as the place of sale is set forth as follows: LIQUOR LICENSE AM Pizza Co. Lots 23&24, Part of Lots...

  • FORECLOSURE

    Mar 17, 2022

    FORECLOSURE SALE NOTICE (For Publication) WHEREAS NOTICE IS HERBY GIVEN that a default in the payment under the terms of a secured and perfected Note has occurred. The Note is secured by a Mortgage dated June 29, 2011 and recorded on July 1, 2011 at REC # 615094 Book Photo Book 507, Page 590 in the records of Crook County, Wyoming from Gregory A Borden, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Pinnacle Bank - Wyoming, a Wyoming Corporation for the amount of $120,564.00. The Mortgage having been assigned to and now in...

  • Bids

    Mar 17, 2022

    Legal Notice Invitation to Bid Crook County Road & Bridge is seeking bids for supplying and delivery of Magnesium Chloride for the CMAQ Dust Mitigation Project. The bids are due by March 31, 2022 at 3:00pm. Please visit the Road & Bridge office; call 283-1441; or download the full bid package at crookcounty.wy.gov. Bring your complete bid packets to the Road & Bridge office or mail to PO Box 995, Sundance, WY 82729. Bid opening will be at the County Road & Bridge Office on March 31, 2022 at 3:00pm. Bids received after this time will be...

  • Weight Restrictions

    Mar 17, 2022

    IMPORTANT NOTIFICATION CROOK COUNTY WEIGHT RESTRICTIONS TAKE EFFECT MARCH 14, 2022 The Crook County Board of Commissioners have put into effect Spring Weight Restrictions on the following pavement surface roads. The following roads will be posted, six (6) ton per axle weight limit. • Moskee County Road #207 from Interstate I-90 to the end of pavement (approximately six (6) miles) • Warren Peak County Road #100 from US Hwy. 14 to the Forest Service Boundary • Pine Ridge County Road #205 from Interstate I-90 to end of pavement • Old Sundanc...

  • Election

    Mar 17, 2022

    Candidates for Election for Vista West Improvement District On March 22, 2022, there shall be an election held for one (1) Board Seat of the Vista West Improvement District by mail ballot for a four-year term. The term date will commence April 1, 2022, and run through March 2026. Qualified elector residing within the Vista West Improvement District filing an application for this position is: Max Kelley. Publish: March 10 and 17, 2022...

  • Settlement

    Mar 17, 2022

    WYOMING DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION CHEYENNE, WYOMING NOTICE OF ACCEPTANCE OF AND FINAL SETTLEMENT FOR HIGHWAY WORK Notice is hereby given that the State Transportation Commission of Wyoming has accepted as completed according to plans, specifications and rules governing the same work performed under that certain contract between the State of Wyoming, acting through said Commission, and Keyhole Technologies, LLC, The Contractor, on Highway Project Number B214020 in Campbell, Crook, Johnson, Sheridan & Weston Counties, consisting of installing...

  • PROBATE

    Mar 17, 2022

    IN THE DISTRICT COURT, SIXTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COUNTY OF CROOK, STATE OF WYOMING In Probate Docket No. 5881 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF TAMMY BETH NEEDHAM, Deceased TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN SAID ESTATE: You are hereby notified that on the 23 day of February, 2022, the Estate of the decedent was admitted to probate by the above-named court, and Garrett Needham and Eric Needham were appointed Administrators thereof. Any action to set aside the Application shall be filed in the Court within three months from the date of the first publicatio...

  • POLLING LOCATION

    Mar 17, 2022

    NOTICE OF CHANGE OF POLLING LOCATION Notice is hereby given that on the 3rd day of May, 2022, at 2:30 o’clock P.M. in the Commissioners Room in the Courthouse in Sundance, WY, the Board of County Commissioners will consider a change of polling place location for the following Districts and Precincts: • 01-01 Sundance Inside North, 01-02 Sundance Inside South and 02-02 Sundance Outside to be moved back to the Crook County Courthouse basement at 309 Cleveland, Sundance. • 03-03 Beulah to be moved to the Northeast Wyoming Welcome Center at 5266...

  • Settlement

    Mar 17, 2022

    WYOMING DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION CHEYENNE, WYOMING NOTICE OF ACCEPTANCE OF AND FINAL SETTLEMENT FOR HIGHWAY WORK Notice is hereby given that the State Transportation Commission of Wyoming has accepted as completed according to plans, specifications and rules governing the same work performed under that certain contract between the State of Wyoming, acting through said Commission, and Z & Z Seal Coating, Inc., The Contractor, on Highway Project Number B214019 in Campbell, Crook, Johnson, Sheridan & Weston Counties, consisting of crack...

  • Wyoming News Briefs

    From Wyoming News Exchange Newspapers|Mar 17, 2022

    Man uses bed sheets to rappel from third-story hotel room and escape deputies GILLETTE (WNE) — A 26-year-old man eluded deputies multiple times Saturday night, once after initially contacted during a traffic stop and a second time when he rappelled out of a third story hotel window using multiple bed sheets he tied together. He was first contacted in a blue 2014 Ford Explorer outside of the Towne Places Suites hotel on Second Street in Gillette around 11 p.m. Saturday. He was in the back seat of the SUV along with two women, 26 and 33, who were...

  • Fort Meade and Hot Springs VA hospitals on chopping block

    Mark Watson, Black Hills Pioneer|Mar 17, 2022

    STURGIS — The Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital in Hot Springs is on the chopping block again, and so is the one at Fort Meade. In a confidential call Friday to employees, Rob McDivitt, VISN 23 director, outlined a plan to close the hospitals at Fort Meade and Hot Springs, turning them into clinics. “These are their plans: they will turn the full-service VA hospitals in Fort Meade and Hot Springs into clinics; the Sioux Falls VA hospital will lose its emergency services; and the clinic in Wagner will completely close,” reported Gov. Kristi Noem...

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