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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It has been a year of transitions for our eAudiobook services at the library. Historically, we have offered eBooks through CloudLibrary and eAudiobooks through RBDigital, both free services to our patrons through our statewide library network. Last year, RBDigital made some changes and was no longer available, so our eAudiobook offerings were “dumped” into CloudLibrary. This was not a very satisfactory solution, so Wyoming libraries have been looking at other options. Enter OverDrive, a digital provider of eBooks and eAudiobooks – sever...
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Each year, Crook County Medical Services District offers community members a chance to invest in their own health. Simply visit one of the designated blood draw locations this April and receive a full health screening at the annual health fair on May 1. The main health fair panel, which costs $40, includes a number of tests that would cost a patient over $800 if performed separately. These provide an overall profile of your health that gives you an overview of the condition of your organ systems. Complete Blood Count (CBC) and cholesterol labs...
Last Thursday, Public Works Director Cory Allison, Kent Cranston of Cranston Electric and town crewman Dave Elliott could be seen working on two of the street lights along North Big Horn Avenue. The lights had been out for some time due to electrical issues, but maintenance is usually gone for the day before the lights come on, so they were unaware. Resident Rosalie Brimmer, noticing the problem, approached Allison last week requesting the crew fix the dark lights, ensuring the street not...
Veris, the subcontractor performing the sludge removal for RCS, plans to return to Moorcroft to finish sludge removal for the lagoon cell 3 this week. While this happens, RCS continues to place rip rap around this cell as well as place new gravel around the roads of the lagoon. The walls of the new chlorination building will also be constructed this week dependent upon the wind and weather....
Moorcroft resident Harold Stortz has been sentenced on two counts of abuse of a vulnerable adult after allegedly leaving an elderly person on the floor after a fall for approximately six hours. On September 4, 2020, an officer from Moorcroft Police Department was dispatched around 7 a.m. to a report of an elderly person who had fallen. He arrived to find the person, who he knew from previous contacts, “laying on the living room floor with only a thin long sleeve shirt on”. Stortz was allegedly sitting in the kitchen looking at the elderly per...
Cheyenne man pleads guilty to strangulation, property destruction CHEYENNE (WNE) – Eric Earl Carter pleaded guilty to felony strangulation of a household member and felony property destruction in two separate cases as part of a plea agreement. In the agreement, the state and defendant jointly recommended sentences of three years of probation, with a suspended sentence of three to five years of incarceration, for each count. The sentences would run concurrently. Additional charges in both cases – two counts of misdemeanor domestic battery (first...
WYDOT visited with the Moorcroft Town Council Monday night to invite the town to contract with the agency to resurface roadways throughout Moorcroft township when WYDOT begins work on State Highway 14. The state will begin work in 2025 upgrading corners, milling and overlaying 14 from the intersection with Highway 16 (Converse) north to the bridge just north of Old Sundance Road. WYDOT district construction engineer Isaac Finkle from the Sheridan office explained how the upcoming project can ben...
The community cleanup day has yet to be scheduled for this year, but preparations are being made including new criteria for accepting items with freon. The council was asked at Monday night’s meeting if the landfill could accept these old appliances that retained the hazardous chemical within and simply hire out the removal. Mayor Dick Claar advocated such a move: “If it’s something that will keep refrigerators and freezers out of the borrow ditch, we can charge $50 and when we get 15 of them out there, we’ll just have somebody come and cle...
The roof has been installed on the restrooms in Noonan Park and plumbing will be completed within the next week. The crew is working on exterior grade and pouring concrete for parking area. The surrounding welded fence soon to be removed from the basketball court will be repurposed for use at the landfill as another type of screen cover to lie over the pit, further mitigating flying debris. Glenn Construction owner Ben Glenn anticipated completion of this project by the middle of...
Man charged in Riverton stabbing faces enhanced sentence RIVERTON (WNE) — Accused of stabbing a 55-year-old man in a van near North Federal Blvd last week, Jody VanFleet was sent to a higher court on Wednesday. The 37-year-old VanFleet has been charged with two counts of aggravated assault, one for the stabbing, and one for threatening the alleged victim with a drawn deadly weapon. One of the assaults is punishable by up to 10 years in prison. But because VanFleet has been convicted of two felonies prior and now faces an allegation of f...
Casey Anderson has been sentenced on a felony charge of domestic battery after an alleged altercation in Moorcroft on April 4 last year. On that date, a Moorcroft Police Department officer was asked to respond to a domestic violence issue at a local motel. The victim allegedly claimed that Anderson had pushed her down in an alley, causing her to suffer numerous scratches and cuts. Anderson was detained and allegedly denied having been involved in the situation, saying he had been at work that morning. He gave consent to search the motel room,...
Moorcroft resident Charles Clarence Birr has received a suspended sentence for possession charges after a search of his residence for an associated case revealed numerous items related to meth use. On January 21, 2020, a Crook County Sheriff’s Office deputy was conducting a search warrant of the Birr residence in Moorcroft associated with a related case involving burglary. While standing in the living room, the deputy reports noticing items related to drug use in plain view. These included a glass pipe next to the couch where Birr was s...
A state of Wyoming veterans service officer from the Wyoming Veterans Commission will conduct community outreach services around Wyoming cities throughout April. Sandy McFarland is available to meet with veterans and their families to discuss state and federal veterans’ benefits, Department of Veterans Affairs claims, or VA healthcare. McFarland can also help veterans and their families apply for benefits, file claims, or request healthcare. Her office is located at 551 Running W. Dr., Ste. 100, in Gillette, and she will be available at the f...
Moorcroft recently received a $50,000 community development grant from Wyoming Business Council for two separate studies in town. Half of the funding is to be spent specifically on the MTC study, while the other $25,000 is to be spent on a community evaluation. The community analysis identifies potential future economic development, giving the governing body reasonable direction and strategies to continue building and maintaining a thriving environment for local residents and businesses in coming years. Of the three engineering firms...
Crystal Meadows and husband Roger have been residents of Crook County for several decades. Living a few miles east of Pine Haven, the couple was active in supporting the town’s endeavors to become a thriving community over the years. A project particularly close to Crystal’s heart before her unexpected death in 2020 was the municipal community center/senior group. As a memorial to her life, friends and neighbors donated over $15,000 to the newly created center at Roger’s behest. He was pleas...
The Coach Mirich poker tournament held in Pine Haven in January garnered over $14,000 for the town’s volunteer fire department, specifically a new battery-operated “Jaws of Life”. Last Friday night, many in the department joined came together at the fire station to get a “hands on” demonstration of the newest addition to their arsenal. The crew of first responders watched avidly as account manager Roger Crane removed what to the folks assembled was a beautiful piece of machinery. The battery w...
The danger of uncontrolled fires to life and property is very real, making the established guidelines for fire safety imperative, according to Pine Haven Volunteer Firefighter and assistant Chief Don Lancaster, who would like to remind the community to take care as we head into a potentially dry spring and summer. “It was a tremendous fire, we were lucky to get it stopped when we did,” he says regarding the recent 104-acre blaze near Sundance at last Tuesday’s council meeting. In at least two fires reported last week, embers were still alive...
Wyoming to receive $1B from latest relief package CASPER (WNE) — Wyoming will receive over $1 billion in state aid soon, thanks to the latest stimulus package signed into law Thursday by President Joe Biden. The federal government passed a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package along party lines this week, the third economic recovery act to pass Congress since the pandemic began last year. Wyoming will soon see hefty returns under the sweeping act. In addition to the approximately $1 billion in state aid, the federal government will funnel an ad...
At the Moorcroft lagoon, RCS continues to work on the rebar and mechanical work for the new chlorination building as weather permits. Additionally, they continue to work on the contact chambers, installing two slide gates and connecting the future chemical lines into the chambers....
Due to winter weather conditions, the mobile vaccine clinics have been rescheduled for Fri., Mar. 19 in Sundance and Newcastle. Veterans with appointments simply need to come at their previously schedule appointment time, now on Friday. Additional appointments are available. The clinic will be in Sundance from 8-11 a.m. at the CCSD Central Office parking lot and in Newcastle from 12:30-3:30 p.m. at the Gateway Travel Center parking lot. Veterans choosing to be vaccinated will receive the Janssen (Johnson and Johnson) one dose vaccine. In...
Crook County Library is hosting the program “Frozen and Boiled: The Weather Extremes of 1936” by Tim Velder on Friday, April 9 at the library meeting room in Sundance. The program will begin at 7 p.m. and is free to the public. Throughout the history of America’s upper Great Plains, weather is almost always among the top three factors in the success or failure of a people. One harsh winter. One brutal drought. One season of pestilence. Any one of those things happening in one calendar year...
Pat Frolander, local writer and Wyoming’s fifth poet laureate, has been honored with an award from the Western Writers of America. The Spur Awards honor the best in Western literature and are selected by a panel of judges from material that was published the previous year. Spur Awards are given for works whose “inspiration, image and literary excellence best represent the reality and spirit of the American West.” This year, “Baptism,” a poem that was published in Frolander’s Second Wind by High Plains Press, was chosen for the Best Poem award...
On March 1, police assisted Crook County Victim Witness Coordinator with removal of victim items from a residence. On March 2, police took protective custody of a child due to alleged sexual assault. Investigation is ongoing. Stats: Two house watches, eight extra patrols, 20 business checks, one open door/window found, two traffic warnings, one sexual assault of a minor, three VIN checks, four school zone / crosswalks, two assists to other agencies, two finger printings Citations Issued: Isaac R. Welch, Gillette, WY, No Brake Lights; Blaine R....
Mar. 1 – Eight VIN checks. Two paper services. Eight traffic stops. Civil assist. Subject booked into jail. Business checks. Mar. 2 – Five VIN checks. Two traffic stops. Civil assist. Theft report. Threat report. Fire page. Business checks. Mar. 3 – Six VIN checks. Inmate transported to appointment and back to jail. Two sets fingerprints. Suspicious person complaint. Assist to Sundance Elementary. Civil standby. Suspicious circumstance. Business checks. Mar. 4 – Eight VIN checks. Traffic stop. Civil assist. Two motorist assists. Sundanc...
