Community dev group forms

At Tuesday night’s meeting of the newly formed and as-yet-informal Moorcroft Community Development, Ron and Linda Calor hosted a gathering of around a dozen individuals and business owners from the “main street” area along Big Horn Avenue.

Linda opened the discussion with a difficult, but apparent truth: “Our little town’s dying. Our property values are going down and if we don’t do something, we’re going to be a truck stop.”

This observation has been proven repeatedly by the inability of most new small businesses that open in Moorcroft to hold on more than a year. In an effort to find answers...