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A proclamation honoring Hunger Action Month was read aloud by Moorcroft Mayor Dick Claar at Monday night's meeting of council. Moorcroft Interfaith Community (MICC) member Monty Reichenberg, who, with many others, has been on the front lines helping distribute food locally, attended to hear this announcement from the mayor that Moorcroft will recognize and assist to alleviate the need in this area. More than 500 people were provided with food in the south parking lot of the MTC last week,...
The Future Farmers of America (FFA) barn has finally become a reality south of the Moorcroft High School. FFA councilor and driving force behind this build, Moorcroft High School agriculture teacher Hugh Jenkins, has been working to accomplish the endeavor for more than three years. Jenkins started with an idea to create a space for town kids to raise livestock including sheep, cattle, goats and chickens for fair projects near the school. With the approval of the school board, he stood before...
Crook County Emergency Management Coordinator Ed Robinson visited Moorcroft and Pine Haven as part of his route to each of the municipalities within the county to discuss the addition of a new warning signal to the towns' siren systems for Destructive Thunderstorm conditions. "Basically, if you have baseball sized hail or larger, 80 mile an hour wind or both, [the National Weather Service] considers that to be a destructive storm – upgraded from severe thunderstorm, but lower than tornados. It's...
The Oshoto Zone 25 Volunteer Fire Department hosted their third annual fundraising shooting competition Saturday and though temperatures were nearing 100 degrees and air quality was compromised due to smoke, "We had a fairly decent turn out," member Twitter Westover said. Fifty contestants competed over the course of the day with the top three places winning a choice of a coat, vest or shooting bag. Hadley Burch won the .22 rifle with the winning poker hand in the Youth category; Anna Burch...
The annual Rib Rally hosted by the Moorcroft Area Chamber of Commerce (MACC) sold out of ribs last Wednesday. One of the event organizers later said the last plate sold at 4:55 p.m., ultimately feeding more than 170 people. This year, the number of locals to travelers, according to the MACC spokesperson “was approximately 90/10.” She suggested fear of COVID-19 as a possible deterrent to more tourists stopping in....
MHS Wolves football and volleyball began practice for the upcoming fall season Monday, cross country got going over the weekend and golf started practice for this season the preceding Monday, August 8. The football and volleyball players will start their season with away games in Glenrock and Douglas respectively during the weekend of August 26. The golf team traveled to their first open in Upton over the weekend of August 13 and headed for their next game in Lusk the following weekend and the...
Approximately one tenth of an acre was burned in Pine Haven at the intersection of Deer Drive and Maple Street when a truck made contact with power lines, according to Pine Haven Volunteer Fire Chief Dave Hull. Hull reported to council Tuesday night that a dump truck driver who was preparing to lay a slab accidentally came into contact with power lines, causing sparks to fall into the very dry grass. “The flames were mostly contained by the operator and land owner. We [firefighters with suppression truck] remained there until PreCorp c...
School maintenance watched as Moorcroft Public Works crew flushed out the storm drain beneath the MK-8 playground early Monday morning. The town crew hooked a hose to the nearby hydrant west of the building and flushed the pit as the operator of the town’s vac-truck controlled the large vacuum hose, dislodging and clearing out debris and closing the hole before children arrive to start the day. According to school maintenance supervisor Steve Gary, when the playground was installed several y...
A few months ago, the Crook County Commission chose not to support a solid waste district, which would have allowed a board to decide whether it would be more feasible to levy a tax for the upkeep and operation of the Moorcroft landfill for the entire county or close the facility. The decision not to move forward with the solid waste district took the choice from the county as a whole and set it on the shoulders of the Moorcroft Town Council. According to Mayor Dick Claar, the town will soon be moving forward with the goal of keeping the...
Project Blue Light is a nationwide recognition of law enforcement officers who show up every day and put their lives on the line for anyone in trouble; the men and women who smile and wave when neighbors pass them and respond without delay when called. Moorcroft employs three such officers: Police Chief Bill Bryant, Officer Jake Miller and Officer Nick Curley. These men work diligently to ensure the safety of town residents. Pine Haven contracts the municipal streets to the Crook County Sheriff’s Department and knows that the deputies patrol c...
After a month of repairs and improvements, Donna’s Diner has reopened. When a customer inadvertently ran his vehicle through the front wall, destroying the glass door, window and a structural support holding the south end of the roof on the July 4 weekend, owners Candy Elliott and Kellie Donahue immediately got to work getting the place back into working order. Regular patrons have been keeping close watch over the work, waiting for the doors of their favorite lunch stop to open again. Loyal c...
The $5 million DEQ-mandated upgrades to the Moorcroft lagoon, including training for the public works sewer management crew, is finished after more than ten months of work. RCS brought all components online a couple of weeks ago. The site crewmen have had to learn an entirely different method of maintaining the cells, says Public Works Director Cory Allison. “With the upgrades we had to do, there’s more stuff that we have to do out there,” he says. “There’s a different blower system, a different...
This weekend Moorcroft hosted the competition to name this year’s Crook County Rodeo Royalty. The girls rode Friday evening, showing their saddle and reining skills as well as the requisite wave before stepping to the ground to listen as the judge critiqued their work. The remainder of the competition took place at Saturday night’s banquet, where candidates demonstrated their verbal skills and style with a speech and walk. The winners of this year’s Rodeo Royalty will be announced at the Crook...
Saturday saw the third annual Lakeview Show and Shine Car Show open with a bang with 50 entries in the first hour and more coming in as fast as they could be registered. Ultimately, there were 54 entered in the competition and 40 just for fun, coming from all over the county including several from Hulett, Moorcroft and Sundance. Walking through the lengthening lines of vintage and rare vehicles was a treat to many aficionados of fine automobiles. Organizer Sharon Coleman said later of the...
Tourists and locals alike flocked to Moorcroft’s 56th Jubilee over the weekend, filling every event with fun. Forty teams played in both the volleyball and cornhole tournaments and it was very much standing room only at the ranch rodeo. With the Jubilee Committee blending with younger volunteers and their ideas, there were a few notable changes as well. Organizers of the rodeo provided a bouncy house and inflated slides for youngsters not involved with the events in the arena; the splash pool a...
A few minutes before 10 a.m. last Wednesday, librarians Lacey Rasco and Heather Reynolds walked into the canopied picnic area at Robinson Perk to prepare for Story Hour. This delightful time has been part of the stores of the children’s library for a long time, though usually conducted in the library. Rasco explained the change of venue, “We couldn’t have any programs in the library because of COVID-19, so we figured we’d do it outside and everybody enjoyed it so much, we decided to do it agai...
A while back, Emily Smith and husband Bill, who serve on the Pine Haven Town Council and Over The Hill Gang (senior group) committee board respectively, approached the “Gang” with an offer to donate a black powder rifle and pistol to be raffled off. Fellow resident Richard Wilkerson also contributed a “very nice” knife set with block for second place, according to spokesperson and event co-organizer Chris Bingham. The gang then purchased a Paradise Foods $100 gift certificate for third place....
The town of Moorcroft hosted a public meeting last Wednesday for residents to voice their opinions on how the town is being managed and what areas they think need more attention, etc. This survey is being conducted by DownTown Redevelopment Services under the auspices of Rural Community Consulting. With the compilation of this and other information, the company hopes to have a summary and suggestions for the future health and growth of Moorcroft in September, according to Mayor Dick Claar....
At Monday night’s meeting of Moorcroft’s council, the town’s policy regarding water and sewer deposits was discussed after an individual had previously requested a waiver of said deposit for a rental property they had recently purchased. After consideration, Councilman Dale Petersen suggested the deposit be paid as per ordinance with the understanding that, with no missed or late payments, the responsible party may retrieve the money after 12 months. This option is open to every resident who pays for their utilities and are in good stand...
Early Saturday morning, as Ray Adams, daughters Nadia and Breezie Lynn and friend Kelsy Dawson were walking along North Big Horn Avenue, they found one of the US flags that had been torn from its moors on the ground, muddied and lifeless. Adams retrieved the banner and took the opportunity to teach the girls something about respect for this representation of blood and honor. He and Nadia folded the soiled cloth as the group discussed the process of retiring Old Glory to the fire. In a day of...
Robert Zerbst of Rozet “never misses his senior meal” at Donna’s Diner, said part-owner Kelly Donahue of the fellow who literally ran his pickup through the front of the café Monday morning. Zerbst was still visibly shaken as he sat in the vehicle after backing out of the building. When the call came in at 10:23 a.m., eight volunteers responded from the Moorcroft Volunteer Fire Department, immediately evacuated the participants from the north exit and shut off power and gas. The pickup went t...
Jake Miller started his introductory ride along with Moorcroft Police Chief Bill Bryant on June 28 and is now working alongside his new crew at the department and looking forward to meeting his neighbors. Miller, who had lived and worked in the Casper area most recently, is “literally from all over” Wyoming, working in the coal mines, oil fields and road construction among other jobs for several years before beginning his career in law enforcement four years ago. Since then, he has been a dep...
A quorum of three sat to conduct town business and hear concerns and issues brought before them by guests Monday night. MTC study Rural Community Consultants, the company hired to conduct the feasibility study for the Moorcroft Town Center (MTC), has provided survey sheets at town hall for citizens to give their opinion about the facility. People may pick up the paper and follow the address to complete the survey online. Representatives of the consultant group will meet with town officials on July 17, at 5 p.m. to discuss the process. They...
Western Crook County has now been upgraded by the United Stated Drought Monitor as an extreme drought area, a level just short of the highest category of severity recognized by the monitoring system. This was a realization that has been reiterated almost daily over the last month as the area’s volunteer fire fighters respond to the call, suit up and head out to face yet another blaze. With this in mind, many a face surely turned upward to the gentle rain over the last few days with a smile of w...
A fire started northwest of Pine Haven Wednesday, June 16. First responders received the call around 2 p.m, but people were on the scene fighting the blaze “even before it was paged out”, according to spokesperson for Crook County Emergency Management, Melanie Wilmer. Eighty-five firefighters responded from Crook County Volunteer Fire, Moorcroft Volunteer Fire, Pine Haven Volunteer Fire, Carlile Volunteer Fire, Sundance Volunteer Fire, Aladdin Volunteer Fire, Hulett Volunteer Fire, Beulah Vol...