Continuing the Crook County News Since 1884
Continuing the Crook County News Since 1884
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The brave and the ghoulish headed to the elementary school on Saturday to celebrate the scariest of seasons. Kid Prints hosted their second Halloween Carnival in the gymnasium to give the kids a chance to show off their costumes while enjoying some good old-fashioned fun. Witches, superheroes and goblins took part in the many activities, from a cake-walk to a costume contest. Particularly popular was the “trunk-or-treat” in the parking lot, in which community members parked their decorated veh...
During Tuesday’s regular meeting, a trustee for Crook County Medical Services District called into question the protocol followed when the Board of Trustees conducted an executive session earlier this month, leading to a brief but heated debate. Trustee Joey Kanode stated his concern that the agenda was not followed, the scheduling was not made transparent and the meeting may not have been necessary at all. “Our last meeting has been called into question – our special meeting, or emergency meeting, whatever it was,” he began. “We didn’t fo...
Despite the best efforts of Mother Nature, ongoing work to upgrade the dam at Cook Lake Recreation Area is heading towards completion. Though the weather this year has been particularly irksome for construction, it has only succeeded in creating a minimal delay. “Moisture this year continues to make working conditions challenging,” agrees District Ranger Mike Gosse. “In the spring it was all the rain and snow mix and now this fall we are continuing to work through early snow conditions. This...
Something’s missing from the sidewalk along 3rd Street this week: the sign that once drew attention to the 1875 Gallery. The building now awaits new occupants, having been emptied of its artistic contents, which will remain in storage awaiting their new home in the Old Stoney cultural center. Old Stoney is, of course, not yet finished and it will be at least a couple of months until the building is ready to house the county’s museum and art gallery. However, there was little choice but to hit the pause button on the gallery until that mom...
“Get along with people; get along with your neighbors; help one another.” Chipper Chatfield Charles Erwin “Chipper” Chatfield, 96, of Sundance, Wyoming, died peacefully early Friday morning, October 25, at Belle Estate Senior Living in Belle Fourche, South Dakota. Chipper was born on Houston Creek west of Sundance on December 5, 1922, to E.B. and Berenice (Belshe) Chatfield. He grew up on the Chatfield Ranch and lived his entire life there. He graduated from Sundance High School (Old Stoney) in 1940, where he played football for the Bulldog... Full story
Jerry Stuart Shepperson (age 73) passed away peacefully at his home on October 20, 2019. He is preceded in death by his parents, Al and Jessie (Mellor) Shepperson and numerous aunts and uncles. He is survived by his wife, Anita. They lived together on their ranch outside of Upton, Wyoming. He is lovingly remembered and will be forever missed by his family, which includes Mike and Darien Shepperson (Julie); Melissa Saunders (Steve), Bryan, Jack, Hannah and Carter; Sarah Ward (Chad), Brady and Lily; his brother Bob Shepperson (Julie); nephew... Full story
Frank Gutierrez, Jr., 51, of Rapid City, South Dakota, succumbed to a hard-fought battle of seven years with cancer and passed away peacefully early morning on Friday, October 25, 2019. Frank was born to Carmen (Vidabel) Gutierrez and Frank Gutierrez, Sr. on December 2, 1967, in Great Falls, Montana. He went to elementary school at St. Mary’s, Littleton, Colorado, graduated Mullen High School in Denver and attended Western State in Gunnison, Colorado. He was a three-sport athlete in high school playing football, basketball and baseball. He l...
1 Years Ago The Times October 29, 1919 Let us encourage the initial social function of the Sundance Commercial Club by partaking of the hospitality at the Halloween party Friday night. C.C. Ripley and son of Redwater had business in the county seat Monday. The Ripley farming operations are to proceed undaunted by the past season, evidenced by the fact that they now have a field of about 200 acres of winter wheat. Reports from the scene of operations at the Homestake property at Lead, where a big force of men are engaged in fighting the fire...
Gillette man Cody Shuck faces possession charges after he was spotted acting suspiciously near a Crook County bentonite pit. A Sheriff’s Office deputy was dispatched to a report of a suspicious person on Wagener Road on October 8. The reporting party stated that someone in an older pickup had pulled into the bentonite pit, shut off its lights and parked. When the reporting party walked over to the truck, he allegedly observed the driver lying across the front seat. He reported that he knocked on the window and the subject sat up, started the tr...
Oct. 19 – House watch and business checks. Officer investigated bullet hole in house. Three bar checks. Three traffic stops. Oct. 20 – House watch and business checks. Officer assisted motorist stuck in snow. Two traffic stops. Oct. 21 – House watch and business checks. VIN inspection. Officer investigated report of illegal entry into vacant home. Officers investigated suspicious person at business. Two traffic stops. Oct. 22 – House watch and business checks. Officers issued trespass warning to vagrant. Three traffic stops. Oct. 23 – House...
Speeding – Ryan C. Knievel, Rozet, 31/20, $85; Kurt P. Krueger, IL, 53/40, $110; William M. Jackson, Newcastle, 79/70, $88; Jennifer L. Lefler, CO, 79/70, $88; Jennifer L. Lefler, CO, 80/70, $90; Rebecca L. Colbert, AZ, 84/70, $115; Peter A. Lago, CA, 92/70, $165; Jordon R. Cooper, Lander, 85/75, $90; Sara A. Tebbett, CA, 88/75, $110; Kristen L. Nelson, MT, 92/75, $130; Jose A. Rosas, 110/75, $195; Joshua S. Baker, 88/80, $86; Abner E. Hernandez Domingo, CO, 91/80, $100 Fail to Drive Vehicle Within Single Lane – Yudiel C. Espino, FL, $75 No...
Oct. 21 – Five VIN checks. Traffic stop. Paper service. Deputies arrested subject on Crook County warrant. Deputies arrested subject for interference. Deputy removed debris from roadway. Deputy did welfare check. Deputy assisted motorist. Detention Deputy did fingerprints for outside employment. Detention Deputy booked in two subjects. Oct. 22 – Two VIN checks. Three traffic stops. Two paper services. Deputy did business check. Deputy did welfare check. Deputy attempted to serve warrant. Detention Deputy did fingerprints for outside emp...
It’s the time of year for all Wyoming consumers to evaluate their health insurance choices for 2020. The Wyoming Insurance Department advises ALL consumers to be aware of the Open Enrollment periods for both Medicare and the ACA Marketplace. Wyomingites getting health insurance through their employer should check with their human resources contact to make certain of open enrollment dates for that particular employer group. Medicare Open Enrollment has begun and runs from October 15 to December 7, 2019. During this time, people with Medicare c...
Purposed “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is man’s all” (Ecclesiastes 12:13). The Book of Ecclesiastes was written by King Solomon, who could be considered the wisest man who has ever lived. It provides information relating to the futility of life apart from God and directs people to seek true happiness in Him alone. I have taken ten personal observations from this book to encourage you through this limbo we call life. 1. Pleasure will always come but will never last. 2. Wrong motiv...
As costumes go, it was remarkably close to the real thing. On my eighth Halloween as a human being, I marched into the school gym wearing a homemade version of Jack Pumpkinhead from Return to Oz. To the surprise of nobody present, I waltzed back out with the grand prize. If you’ve never seen the movie, I don’t advise hunting it down – it’s terrifying. To this day, I can’t look at a chicken without expecting it to talk, and don’t get me started on princesses who think it’s fine to keep heads in...
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department needs help from hunters this fall to collect lymph node samples from deer and elk for chronic wasting disease (CWD) testing in targeted areas across Wyoming. Hunters are a very important component in helping Game and Fish understand the disease and achieve CWD monitoring goals. Game and Fish is targeting deer hunt areas 17, 18, 23, 26, 34, 61, 74-77, 88, 89, 105, 106, 109, 121-123, 132, 133, 157, 168 and 171. Elk focus hunt areas include 8-12, 88-91, 97, 98, 110, 114 and 125. “We are asking hunters in t...
Roundup nets 558 wild horses WORLAND (WNE) — Through Tuesday evening, 558 wild horses in the Fifteen Mile Herd Management Area had been gathered with 261 shipped to other facilities for treatment or to be prepared for adoption. The Bureau of Land Management scheduled the gather as part of the HMA’s management plan. According to a BLM press release, the gather operation is in line with the BLM’s commitment to maintaining healthy wild horses on healthy, productive public rangelands. The Fifteenmile HMA is located approximately 35 miles north...
GILLETTE — To a casual passerby, the 109,000 square feet of flat, even crushed red stone is a big empty space. To Dave Gribble, the large research pad at the Integrated Test Center represents even larger potential. “I think [the ITC] has a lot of potential and it will be interesting to see how things evolve and change from the first set of experiments in all those test bays,” he said about the ITC at the Dry Fork Station power plant north of Gillette. As senior scientist for Colorado-based TDA Research, Gribble will have a front-row seat to se...
CASPER — Despite economic doubts and numerous remaining hurdles, state lawmakers continue to move forward with discussions to potentially bring a temporary nuclear waste storage facility to Wyoming. At a meeting next month in Casper, the Wyoming Legislature’s Joint Committee on Minerals, Business and Economic Development will be taking up the idea of creating an exploratory committee within Gov. Mark Gordon’s office and the Department of Environmental Quality to explore the concept’s future in Wyoming. Despite previous estimates that it woul...
SHERIDAN — The Montana Department of Environmental Quality and the Navajo Transitional Energy company announced they reached a short-term agreement late Friday that will allow coal production at the Spring Creek Mine to resume. The interim agreement will keep the mine operating for 75 days while the two parties continue negotiating a long-term agreement, according to Montana DEQ Public Policy Director Rebecca Harbage; it can last beyond 75 days if both parties agree to an extension, she added. While some of the issues that led to the closure w...
Crook County Library will host the program “The Wyoming State Flag and the Women Who Made It Fly” by Kylie McCormick on Friday, November 8 at 2 p.m. at the Hulett Branch Library and 7 p.m. in the library meeting room in Sundance. The program is free and open to the public. Before being deployed to France, Edward Marsh Turner, M.D. ensured that every person in the Wyoming National Guard Medical Corps was issued the first Wyoming flags printed in the state, hand-held on papery silk, a small piece of home to carry into the horrors of war. The poc...
The library will be closed Monday, November 11, in observance of Veterans’ Day. NOVEMBER BATTLE OF THE MILITARY SERVICE BRANCHES FOOD DRIVE: We are conducting a food drive to help stock the shelves at the Crook County Food Pantry before the holidays. We will have bins set up in the library with the name of each branch of service on them. Please bring in non-perishable food items and place them in the bin of the service branch you served in or your favorite branch. We will also have the bins at the high school for the Veterans’ Day Concert on...
The Sundance Cross Country runners travelled across Wyoming to compete in the state meet on Saturday. Up against some stiff competition from across the state, the Bulldog runners did their best. Hunter Skeens led the Bulldogs, placing 8th in the boys’ varsity with a time of 18:20. Jaydan Davis and Titus Schelling were also in the top 25, finishing 20th and 22nd respectively. Josh Pridgeon and Kort McLaughlin rounded out the Bulldog boys coming in 53rd and 54th. In the girls’ varsity race, Tor...
The Sundance volleyball team closed their regular season play on Saturday travelling to Big Horn to take on the Rams. Things haven’t been easy for the Bulldogs these past few weeks, but they were able to come away with a four-set victory to secure the #2 seed heading into regionals next week. Sherri Negaard led the Bulldogs in serving as she was able to send three aces across the net for no return. Negaard also was the go-to hitter with 14 kills on the night. Aftyn Marchant kept the Bulldog offense alive, coming up with 14 digs against the R...
The Upton Sundance Patriots and Shoshoni Rams squared off for a final regular season football game on Friday in Casper. Staying true to their streak, the solid Patriot defense was able to shut out another team to help the Patriots maintain their winning ways. The Patriot offense continued to be a force to be reckoned with as Brad Kruger, Jaydon Caylor and Jess Claycomb all found their way into the end zone throughout the first half. Claycomb and Caylor dominated the rushing game, going over 100 yards each on the night. Upton-Sundance went to...
