Newcastle
The Newcastle City Council voted to make Heritage Park its No. 1 priority on the list of American Rescue Plan Act grant resolutions the city submitted to the State Loan and Investment Board. The adjustment had been recommended by Chuck Barlett, the city’s interim engineer, during the council's Feb...
Bill addresses county landfill issues
Senate File 176 Solid Waste Disposal, a Weston County-inspired solid waste district bill, was approved by the House on Feb. 13 on second reading, according to Wyoleg.com. The bill passed the Senate on third reading on Feb. 2, with all 31 senators voting in...
CHEYENNE — While there were bills that died in both the chambers of the Wyoming Legislature due this week’s general file deadline, the difference in how many was significant.
Forty-eight bills that had cleared committee review were not brought to the floor of the House of Representatives for...
John Riesland, chairman of the Weston County School District No. 1 board of trustees, apologized on Jan. 25 for kicking people off the Zoom option for the board’s meeting and requiring those in attendance to sign-in during the board’s Jan. 11 meeting.
As previously reported in the Jan. 19 story...
The Newcastle City Council is working to finalize a Chapter 56 permit for the city to lethally remove deer living inside Newcastle city limits. The process began in April 2022.
Chapter 56 is a Wyoming Game and Fish Commission regulation for the lethal taking of wildlife, according to Councilman...
The Weston County Health Services board of trustees has appointed Piper Allard as interim CEO after officially accepting the retirement of Maureen Cadwell on Feb. 6.
Cadwell had served as CEO for 10 years, and her retirement was announced during a special meeting held by the board on Feb. 6. The...
After engaging in some discussion over the potential strengths and weaknesses of a four-day school week, the Weston County School District No. 1 board of trustees approved a traditional school week calendar for the 2023-24 school year on first reading during its Jan. 25 meeting.
As previously...
Prell's mugshot provided by the Weston County Sheriff's Office
A longtime volunteer firefighter and coach was arrested last month, and is being charged with sexual assault and multiple counts of first and second-degree sexual abuse of a minor who was under his supervision in 2015 and 2016.
Lovell James “Jim” Prell, 45, of Newcastle, was bound over to the...
The Newcastle City Council has decided to reconsider the parking ban in front of Little Ones Childcare after concerns were raised by at least one individual who attends church in the area.
On Dec. 5, the Newcastle City Council made a portion of South Summit Avenue a no-parking zone after day care...
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Sonja Karp, Newcastle High School teacher and News Letter Journal sports editor, was once again named the top sports columnist in the Wyoming Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest. Karp, a former coach, covers NHS sports for the newspaper.
Sonja Karp, the News Letter Journal’s sports editor, was named the top sports columnist in the small weekly newspapers division in the state for the ninth time since she began working for the paper in 2013.
The honor was announced during the recent Wyoming Newspaper Association’s annual...
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