Weston County
It sure seemed like a load of snow fell on Newcastle last month, but that wasn’t really the case.
Despite what appeared to be heavy snowfall in recent weeks, Susan Sanders, a warning coordination meteorologist with the National Weather Service, reported that Newcastle’s official snowfall for...
Photo courtesy of Michael Smith
Sen. Ogden Driskill, R-Devils Tower, reads during the morning session Jan. 31 in the Senate
Chamber.
The general session of the 67th Wyoming Legislature came to an end on Friday, March 3, and majority floor leader Rep. Chip Neiman, R-Hulett, said he is encouraged by the good work done for constituents in Wyoming.
At the start of the session, according to a Wyoming Legislative Service Office...
Weston County will be getting a taste of University of Wyoming life, and a reminder of the school’s presence in the county, next week when UW President Ed Seidel, Department of Economics faculty member Anne Alexander and two students visit Upton and Newcastle to speak with members of those...
The Heritage Park Steering Committee and the city of Newcastle are exploring other funding avenues for Heritage Park after the State Loan and Investment Board denied the city’s funding request due to ineligibility. The city had earmarked the park as a No. 1 priority when requesting funds available...
Judge Stuart S. Healy III, for the District Court in the Sixth Judicial District, has accepted the News Letter Journal’s lawsuit challenging the legality of a secret ballot, and also ruled that the hearing on the lawsuit will take place in Weston County in June. Healy ruled during a hearing on Feb...
The city of Newcastle is seeking a city administrator, despite not having all the details on the job description or pay hammered out. The Newcastle City Council voted on Feb. 21 to begin advertising the position with pay depending on experience.
As previously reported in the August 2022 story, “...
Photo courtesy of Kim Vrana
Kyah Miller showed the 120-pound weight class what she was made of as she wrestled her way to a Wyoming State Championship in the inaugural girls’ state wrestling tournament Thursday and Friday at the Wyoming Ford Center in Casper.
When she started her high school wrestling career as a freshman, Kyah Miller knew what she was up against. She would be pitted against boys who were physically stronger than her, and she knew that there were probably not many wins in her future.
Miller stuck with it, though, and picked up some...
Residents of Weston County who have been demanding to see the findings of an outside investigation into actions of the Weston County Commissioners are unlikely to ever have those demands met, because it doesn’t appear any “findings” actually exist.
Months before the News Letter Journal and other...
During a joint meeting on Feb. 22, the Newcastle City Council and Board of Weston County Commissioners agreed to revisit the issues that led to a march toward creation of two separate dispatch facilities — one city, one county — to service residents.
For the past several years, tension between...
In the hopes of being more transparent and user friendly, the Board of Weston County Commissioners says, it is contemplating overhauling the county’s website. Concerns about the website were brought to light during conversation earlier this year regarding which newspaper should be designated as the...
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