On paper, the City of Newcastle only collected 63 percent of the revenue anticipated in the recently concluded fiscal year, and while some of the shortfall resulted from decreased tax collections, the bulk of the money was in grant allocations that will still be forthcoming when the projects they were meant to pay for are completed.
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Wyoming Refining Company (WRC) is in the midst of performing $11 million worth of upgrades at its plant in Newcastle, geared mostly towards improving the quality of emissions released by the refining process, but when it's all said and done the improvement won't be anything you'll be able to see.
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Newcastle Middle School will be under construction until Christmas, and as a result, middle school students will be sharing space in the high school with their older counterparts until they can move into the newly remodeled space after the break. To help make the transition easier for the students, classes started for the middle schoolers on Monday, giving them two days to get acclimated to their new surroundings before the high schoolers hit the hallways.
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A prairie fire, apparently sparked by a downed power line, consumed nearly five thousand acres of private and Thunder Basin grasslands in the Northwestern portion of Weston County Friday afternoon. Dozens of firefighters from Weston and Campbell Counties, as well as Forest Service personnel responded to the blaze which, whipped by stiff west winds, raced southward along Black Thunder Creek.
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