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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After years of fighting to keep the Moorcroft landfill open, seeking every avenue available to make the facility viable for everyone, the town council has run out of options, a situation discussed candidly and at length at a work shop before the regular Monday meeting, this week. As of June, the current operating permit for the latest extension will be up and, according to Public Works Director Cory Allison, the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is becoming ever more impatient for a...
Director of Crook County Family Violence and Sexual Assault Services Sandy Stevens addressed Pine Haven’s council last Tuesday night, requesting and receiving the town’s annual $1200 contribution to this much-needed enterprise. During her presentation, she offered the council some disturbing information. Stevens shared that the entity assisted 56 victims of domestic violence throughout 2021 compared to 35 in the previous year and utilized twice as many individual services, from a little more than 900 in 2020 to almost 2000 in 2021. She and husb...
The Montana Conservation Corp has picked up where they left off clearing and cutting deadfall, low branches and other ladder fuel when the pandemic closed borders a couple of years ago. The group of 20-22 volunteers began work on Monday and will finish for the year on March 24. They are working on the Bureau of Land Reclamation land surrounding Pine Haven, cleaning and creating a buffer area, according to Fire Chief TJ Gideon. The group will begin just outside the state park boundary east of town and move south and east. Councilman Don Lancaste...
This rare white (or smoky gray) wild hen has been a resident of Pine Haven for a couple of years, says Sunny Schell. About one in 100 wild turkeys are thought to be this color. While not as rare as an albino, these birds are noteworthy. Schell also said that this particular hen had hatched a black poult. If this is, in fact, an entirely black unbarred bird, it is considered extremely rare and is, according to the National Wild Turkey Federation, melanistic: "a rare genetic pigment mutation that...
Joseph "Joe" William Stone, 20, of Moorcroft, Wyoming, passed away February 22, 2022. Joe was born February 8, 2002, in Rapid City, South Dakota, to Scott and April (Robertson) Stone. He graduated from Edgemont High School in 2020. Joseph's passions in life were many but he particularly enjoyed being outdoors, climbing trees, hunting sheds or hiking. There wasn't a music genre he didn't appreciate or like; he was a fan of any and all music. He thoroughly loved his job, working construction for... Full story
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...
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...
For an invigoratingly frigid good time and for a heartwarming good cause, join the crowd at Keyhole Marina on Saturday, March 26, at 11 a.m. to register and prepare before taking the plunge, literally, off the dock into ice free water a few yards from the beach at noon. This year, the theme is “Freezin’ for a reason”. Preregistration is also available, just go to give.sowy.org/ge/jjkeyhole. Participants may jump as a group or individually; wearing costumes, jeans or Speedos. Members are encouraged to bring blankets to wrap around thems...
The Pine Haven community is coming together again to help the town’s fire auxiliary and community center with a fundraiser hosted by the Over the Hill Gang. The Red, White and Blue fundraiser is in the form of a raffle with three very different prizes of similar value starting with a Devils Tower Golf Package, including eight rounds of golf and a gift certificate for other club amenities; second prize is an $800 gift card for Black Anchor Products LLC in Moorcroft; and the third prize is an $800 Visa gift card that can be spent anywhere Visa is...
The Wyoming Department of Transportation will begin work on repairs to the Svalina Road Bridge, which crosses I-90 near Rozet at mile marker 139.3. Contractors will begin placing traffic control the week of March 21, notifying the traveling public of the road closure and alternate detours for those residing in the area. Those detours will be Svalina Road to Adon Road to WYO 51 or the on and off ramps of I-90 at Exit 141. Scheduled repairs to the bridge include replacing the approach slabs, a...
PUBLIC NOTICE Pursuant to the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act and the Wyoming Public Service Commission’s (Commission) Rules, the Commission hereby gives notice of the Application of Black Hills Wyoming Gas LLC d/b/a Black Hills Energy (BHWG or the Company), for authority to revise the Fuel, Lost and Unaccounted for Gas Percentages (FL&U) in all of its Divisions, as more fully described below. 1. BHWG is a natural gas public utility as defined by Wyo. Stat. § 37-1-101(a)(vi)(D), subject to the Commission’s jurisdiction pursuant to Wyo.... Full story
NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO AMEND SOURCE MATERIAL LICENSE – STRATA ENERGY, INC. Public Notice Strata Energy, Inc. of Oshoto, Wyoming has applied for an amendment of its Source Material License (WYSUA-1601, Amendment 10) from the Land Quality Division of the Department of Environmental Quality. The license area for the mining of uranium is located in: all or parts of Sections 7, 17, 18 and 19 of Township 53 North, Range 67 West and all or parts of Sections 12, 13, and 24 of Township 53 North, Range 68 West, Crook County, Wyoming. The Ross ISR P... Full story
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... Full story
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... Full story
CALL FOR BID Notice is hereby given that the Town of Pine Haven, WY. will be placing for sale a 1991 International School Bus. DT 466 International Diesel Engine, Allison Automatic Transmission, 91 International Harvester Chassis Navistar, 91 Thomas Body 60 passenger, seats have been removed and replaced with a long bench, Goodyear 9:00R20 Tires. Bus may be seen at Pine Haven Town Shop 7 Lakeview Drive, Pine Haven. Sealed bids will be accepted at the Pine Haven Town Hall, 24 Waters Dr. Pine Haven WY. 82721 until 4:00 pm, April 8, 2022. Terms... Full story
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... Full story
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... Full story
Town of Moorcroft Regular Meeting of the Council Monday, March 14th, 2022 Councilman Glenn called the meeting to order at 7:00 pm and the Pledge of Allegiance was said. Roll call was taken. Town Council Present: Mayor Ben Glenn, Councilmen Dale Petersen, Austin Smith, and Dusty Petz Excused: Councilman Paul Smoot Town Representatives Present: Clerk/Treasurer Cheryl Schneider, Public Works Director Cory Allison and HDR Engineer Heath Turbiville. Excused: Police Chief Bill Bryant Councilman Petersen motioned to approve the Consent Agenda and... Full story
MARCH 2022 BILL LIST #1 ADVANCE AUTO BRAKES #102 & #103 $99.40 CASELLE SOFTWARE SUPPORT $598.00 CASEY PETERSON MEALS & TRAVEL TO COUNCIL MTG $701.28 COFFEE CUP FUEL STOP FUEL- LF, SWR, PW, MTC, AMB, WTR, ST & ALLEYS $2,386.78 COLLINS COMMUNICATIONS ALARM MONITORING $41.00 CROOK COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE DISPATCH SERVICES $1,900.00 DAN HART PATROL SERVICES RELOCATE TOPSOIL & OVERBURDEN $9,000.00 DIEHL'S SUPPLIES $24.34 ENERGY LABS LAGOON AND LANDFILL $935.00 HAWKINS CYLINDERS $65.00 HDR HOURLY SERVICES $10,683.99 INNOVATIVE TECH INSTALL NEW... Full story
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 public input on general hunting regulations, as...
Crook County Natural Resource District (CCNRD) February 1st Regular Board Meeting Minutes CALL MEETING TO ORDER The meeting was called to order by Chairman Wayne Garman at 12:09 pm at the Sundance USDA Service Center, 117 S 21st St, Sundance, Wyoming. ATTENDANCE Board: Wayne Garman, Lily Altaffer, Kim Fundaun, Call in: Wanda Burget Employees: Sarah Anderson, Bridget Helms, Call in: Carmen Horne-McIntyre Guests: Staci Steiner, FSA County Executive Director OPEN ISSUES TO DISCUSS Program Update by Carmen Ms. McIntyre has started work under the...
