The Voice of the Community Since 1909, Serving Moorcroft and Pine Haven, Wyoming
The Voice of the Community Since 1909, Serving Moorcroft and Pine Haven, Wyoming
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The Moorcroft Area Chamber of Commerce (MACC) hosted their first Safety/Business Day on Saturday with 22 vendors setting up tables along the sidewalk. Several offered items or services with which many people were unfamiliar, according to co-organizer Elaine Buckmiller. Of the 17 individual who participated in the $250 chamber bucks drawing, Louise McKinney won. When asked for their thoughts on the day, vendors were pleased with the contacts made and the overall response, according to...
Pine Haven’s fireworks display at Coulter Bay, celebrating the Fourth of July has not, as yet, been approved by the state, according to Councilman and fire liaison Don Lancaster, due to possible fire danger. However, with the clock ticking, the pyrotechnics must be purchased very soon. What if the event is cancelled? Considering this possibility, council plans to buy the fireworks regardless the verdict. With Pine Haven Days coming in the fall as well as New Years, the explosives can be stored until one of these more viable opportunities a...
During last week’s review of the budget before its last reading, a concern over the $50 in the waste water reserve at this time was brought to the council’s attention by town treasurer Cheryl Schneider, who said, “$50 is not enough to do a reserve amount.” She acknowledged the difficult conversation to which this situation returns the group, however, “That $50 is the lowest I’ve seen it since I’ve been here so that’s pretty low and scary.” Schneider explained to recharge that account will necessitate action: “If we did a 45₵ increase on the...
With the opportunity to file for office this election year ending last Friday, Moorcroft and Pine Haven residents interested in becoming a member of the town council have stepped up and recorded their names with the their respective Clerk’s Offices and their names will be sent on to the Crook County Clerk this week. Due to unusual circumstances over the last couple of years, all five Moorcroft Council seats and four of the five Pine Haven seats are open for the 2022 elections. Moorcroft The entire governing body is seeking re-election on the M...
The Moorcroft Area Chamber of Commerce (MACC), along with area businesses and Emergency Services are bringing the Safety/Business Day educational event to town on Saturday, June 4, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. First responders will be on hand, providing answers we need before we need them on questions such as what to do when you smell gas and what to do in the event of an electrical fire. The Moorcroft Volunteer Fire Department and EMS will be serving walking tacos at noon in the fire hall, on a donation basis. Everyone stopping by will receive...
Thirty two young adults graduated from Moorcroft High School (MHS) Sunday evening, reaching the most commonly recognized milestone into adulthood. The excitement and cheerful attitude shared by these former high school students was tangible as they bumped fists and joked with each other and with Principal Kirby Baier as he introduced speakers and presented diplomas. Senior Class President Char Cranston welcomed fellow graduates and thanked staff and teachers for their kindnesses over the years...
Randy Gill addressed the Moorcroft council Monday evening regarding the Memorandum of Agreement (MOU) between the town and Moorcroft High School (MHS) for the school's use of the Moorcroft Town Center (MTC) gymnasium. The original agreement has expired and, before approving another, the governing body called for this discussion to update requirements and responsibilities of each agency. Gill concurred, "We need to have something in place for sure before the start of the new school year. He...
The council touched again on the future of the Moorcroft landfill at the meeting on Monday night. HDR Engineering’s Heath Turbiville reported on two possible funding avenues that will be opening for application for landfill projects in the near future if the governing body chooses that direction. According to Turbiville, one option not previously considered is the $50 million federal ARPA program. This program is scheduled for water and sewer projects, but after a conversation with Craig McOmie from DEQ’s Casper office, “it sounded like he wa...
Pine Haven’s planning and zoning committee endorsed approval by the council of the C Bar Subdivision preliminary plat after a public hearing last week. However, with site concerns still to be addressed including street names, possible realignment of Pine Haven Road and the mandate from the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) for all fire hydrants moved to be replaced with new, the governing body did not accept said application until they and developers Greg Cottrell and Robert Chamberlin could meet and discuss the needed adjustments. A...
Wyoming Highway Patrol trooper James Rose started the day with this advice to the assembled sophomores and freshmen from Moorcroft, Sundance and Hulett: "You'll get the most out of today if you are willing to participate...the best thing I can tell you is participate." Moorcroft Police Chief Bill Bryant joined forces with Rose and Lisa Williams in a new program called the 307 Teen Challenge at the Moorcroft Town Center (MTC) last week. This instruction is similar to the Freshman Impact Program...
The Moorcroft Area Chamber of Commerce (MACC) hosted their annual Spring Clean-up Day last Thursday with the much-appreciated muscle of Moorcroft High School students and faculty. The town allowed free dumping at the landfill again this year and public works crews assisted with hauling branches to the town slash pile. The chamber set up a site to deposit used oil and batteries and a bin for metal for recycling and many volunteers used their own pickups and trailers to carry debris to the...
HDR Engineering's water/waste water experts Noah Messick and Justin Stark presented the adjusted second phase of the Powder River Water Project at a work shop preceding Monday night's meeting. When the infrastructure work began a few years ago, the Goshen project took first priority with Powder River the second, according to the Water Development LT Study, which recommended water distribution upgrades. The Powder River Project, though, due to the size of the project, had to be divided into...
The Pine Haven Planning and Zoning Committee entertained a public hearing Monday afternoon and with council in attendance amidst a full room, developers Greg Cottrell and Robert Chamberlin as well as realtor Pat Avery met with citizens to answer questions and concerns about the anticipated C Bar Subdivision that, if approved, will be built on 30 acres a few blocks south of Town Hall along either side of Pine Haven Road. Engineers for both the town and the developers were also on hand for...
People have been laid to rest in the Moorcroft Cemetery since 1904 with the burial of Diamond Joe Thompson. With ever-increasing numbers of family and friends taking their places within this ten-acre allotment since then, the available plots are getting limited. Many of the remaining parcels are already purchased. As Clerk/Treasurer Cheryl Schneider said, "There are some left, but most are sold." Mayor Ben Glenn and council have mitigated the inevitable problem of overcrowding and closing with a...
Property owners Greg Cottrell and Robert Chamberlin, development engineer Chris Lovas of Lovas Engineering and realtor Pat Avery met with Pine Haven’s planning and zoning committee last week to present and discuss the preliminary plat of the C Bar Subdivision as the group sets up the next step of the housing development. During their examination, though, town engineer Heath Turbiville of HDR Engineering expressed concerns regarding certain aspects. However, according to committee chair Charlie Gully, “It sounds like most of those things are...
Moorcroft High School teacher Andrea Wood and father Senator Ogden Driskill addressed the Moorcroft Council at the Monday night meeting to advocate saving the MTC building and reforming it into a charter school for trade. "The school I have in mind is a nine through 12 high school building that would serve about 60 students from Crook, Weston and Campbell Counties with open enrollment. All targeting students who have an interest in going into the trade skills, who know they're not college...
MK-8 students attended the spring concert and art show last Thursday afternoon with parents in tow, showing their paintings, drawings and dioramas as they waited for the concert to begin. The afternoon's event had been originally planned for the beginning of the month, but was postponed due to weather. "It was a real challenge to keep everything attached to the walls, but it was worth it! Families were able to view over 765 pieces of student artwork in the main hallway before moving into the...
Fire department engineer Ed Scott has been working with Wyoming fire marshal Jim Reed to initiate, within the Pine Haven community, a program to aid in the prevention of home oxygen fires for people who live with the concentrators and tanks. According to Pine Haven Volunteer Fire Chief TJ Gideon, the state fire marshal’s office provided the town free devices for users. “We’ll do that, as we see the need for it. It’s a pretty cool project. Basically, we put a check-valve in their oxygen machine,” he said. The number of user associated deaths in...
At this week’s meeting of the board of the Crook County Medical Services District (CCMSD), members revisited a master plan for the Crook County Hospital consisting of four options presented by architect Curtis Hendershott of Treanor HL recently for revitalizing the county’s medical facilities in Sundance. The choices included an interior overhaul, bringing several operational facets, including emergency and administration, up to a higher standard at an anticipated cost of between $23 and $26 million. The second option is a more moderate exp...
Moorcroft's council and department heads met for their first two discussions of the coming budget for the 2022/2023 fiscal year in the days before Monday night's meeting. Office and employee items increasing in cost this year include Caselle and Code Red rates as well as health insurance; clerk/treasurer Cheryl Schneider anticipates a possible raise in property insurance as well. "I would not be surprised if we see that increase." Chemicals will also be going up roughly 35% in the coming year, a...
As a special treat for story book hour during this year's National Library Week, Youth Services Librarian Lacy Rasco read stories about the adventures of the PAW patrol as they save their neighborhood from varied calamities and her audience of more than 100 children from one to ten years of age listened with baited breath. This story time, though, was a little different. As she finished reading, the crowd parted and who showed up, but the heroes themselves with Rasco giving a short biography...
Lowe's Roofing has been removing the old damaged cover material on the southeast section of the MTC throughout this week as they began the process of replacing that part of the roof. According to Public Works Director Cory Allison, the operation should take approximately three weeks. Moorcroft has only recently received the insurance money for the hail damage incurred a number of years ago and the town has had to fight for the amount given because the town's insurance provider, Wyoming Associati...
Keyhole Marina owners Phil Jordan and wife Tris and Keyhole State Park representatives Julie Huntley and Wade Henderson attended Tuesday morning's work meeting at Pine Haven Mayor Karla Brandenburg's invitation to discuss the possible development of the west side of Keyhole Reservoir. The mayor began the discussion, speaking to Huntley, "What can we get on this side [of the lake] for amenities?" Huntley passed the question to Jordan as he had submitted a business plan 15 years ago to the state...
Crook County is home to many craftsmen and women in several mediums and of all ages. Mary Joselyn of the Moorcroft Senior Center is seeking them out to feature their art at the center for the public to enjoy for a month at a time. Sandra Bonner of Pine Haven has been quilting and sewing for 65 years. "My mother started me sewing. I just loved watching her sew and she was patient enough to teach me. She allowed me to create and be and do. It was fun and it still is," she says. The lessons her...
Pine Haven’s town council has passed the updated ordinances governing subdivisions after hearing from their ordinance committee, which has been diligently working on updating this particular chapter of ordinances for number of months. This update is extremely timely due to the interest and actual platting that has been set in motion by three potential developers including C Bar, Knotty Pine and Waters within town limits. As with so many ordinance compilations adopted by smaller communities decades ago, a clear and comprehensive update is now n...
