Weston County
Concert association membership drive under way
It’s time to purchase a membership for the Weston County Concert Association’s 2023-24 season.
This year’s lineup, according to the association, includes Empire Trio: Hooray for Hollywood, Yesterday Once More: The Sound of Karen Carpenter, Kiss Me...
Photo by Alexis Barker/NLJ
The classmates pose for a current class photo on Friday evening in front of the bronze Dogie Statue at NHS.
Kathy Decker Levasseur was the primary organizer of a Newcastle High School Class of 1966 reunion held Aug. 24-27 in Newcastle, and the agenda included plenty of time for musing, memories, and music.
Levasseur said the highlight of the reunion was really just getting together after all these...
The office of Wyoming State Superintendent of Public Instruction Megan Degenfelder and the Wyoming Department of Education announced recently that Weston County School District No. 7 was awarded a Career and Technical Education grant to help further the needs of rural schools.
The Upton district...
Weston County, at 2.1% unemployment, no longer has the lowest rate in the state as both Teton (1.5%) and Niobrara (1.8%) counties dropped below 2% in July, according to the Aug. 23 report from the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services Research and Planning section.
“From June to July, most...
Notes from the Aug. 17, 2023, meeting of the Weston County Health Services Board
• Judd Dawson, Weston County Health Services CEO, explained to the board that the hospital is working toward reducing printing costs and is seeking alternative solutions to how they currently print.
• Kim Scharf,...
The Weston County Fair Board is on standstill after the resignation of three former members — Linda Hunt, Susan Bridge and Mike McFarland — left the board without a quorum to conduct business.
On Aug. 15, board member Billy Jackson asked the Board of Weston County Commissioners during their...
Photo courtesy of Nichole Gregory
Gene Baldwin, Don Jording, and Nolan Gregory pose for a photo at one of the remaining pillars of the Cambria Park Golf Course, located at the Flying V Trail north of Newcastle. Each of them took turns hitting a couple of golf balls from one of the course’s old tee boxes after a history presentation on Aug. 20.
It’s a pretty good day when you can share some local history — and an even better one when you can get one of Newcastle’s eldest and one of its youngest golfers together for a tee-off at an historic site.
That’s what happened Aug. 20 at the Flying V Trailhead, north of Newcastle, when Linda Hunt...
Republican delegates from each county recently met in Laramie for the quarterly Wyoming GOP meeting, where state leadership discussed platform topics. During the meeting, the Weston County Republican Party was selected to host the next quarterly meeting in November.
Attending the meeting from...
Attorney general’s office regionalizes services
Northeast Wyoming Advocacy Resource Center will now provide family violence and sexual assault services in Weston County after the dissolution of the Foundation of Caring, Understanding, and Service, or FOCUS.
The advocacy resource center...
At the Weston County Health Services board meeting on Aug. 17, CEO Judd Dawson discussed the fiscal year 2023 financial report, which in the future he hopes will provide more integrated data solutions for the board to use in making financial decisions. Dawson presented the information with the...
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