Niobrara County
Aden Fulton, 17, chats with his mentor Steve Boothe over snacks and Mountain Dew during a Campbell County Chamber of Commerce mixer Thursday at Gillette College. Photo by Ed Glazar, Gillette News Record.
GILLETTE —A high schooler and a senior citizen walked into a community college Thursday evening.
Aden Fulton, 17, and Steve Boothe, 65, filled their plates with candied bacon and chicken, and they each grabbed a can of Mountain Dew at the Campbell County Chamber of Commerce’s monthly mixer at...
DOUGLAS — The oil and gas boom is on. Converse County oil and gas production continues to heat up and the county government has the numbers to back up the claim. And, from the appearance of multiple contributing factors it is not expected to slow down anytime soon.
Converse County Commission...
A two-vehicle accident south of Newcastle on Jan. 17 at 2:05 p.m. resulted in the death of a 71-year-old Denver man, according to Sgt. Jeremy Beck of the Wyoming Highway Patrol. The accident occurred around milepost 85 in Niobrara County, closing the highway for several hours.
Vladimir Perlin...
CASPER (WNE) —Wyoming’s crop production fell last year as the state produced the smallest winter wheat harvest since 1944.
Production was also down for barley, sugar beet, dry edible beans, pinto beans and corn for grain.
Drought, a reduction in planting and pests all contributed to the reduced...
At 2.2% Weston County’s unemployment rate for October was the lowest in the state, according to the Nov. 21 report from the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services Research and Planning Division.
Weston County has maintained a 2.1% or 2.2% unemployment rate for most of the year, the report says....
A total of 2,845 ballots were cast in the 2022 general election in Weston County, and the results were certified on Nov. 10, two days after the election, according to Weston County Clerk Becky Hadlock. She noted that a total of 745 absentee ballots were requested in the county before the election...
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The News Letter Journal intends to continue with its lawsuit against the Board of Weston County Commissioners despite a Nov. 1 statement from the board revealing its votes for the replacement of former Rep. Hans Hunt more than a year after they used secret...
Weston County’s August unemployment rate remained unchanged from the 2.2% reported for July, according to the Sept. 19 report from the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services Research and Planning Division.
Statewide, the unemployment rate was 3.1% in August, with the national rate being 3.7%,...
The Bureau of Land Management has started revising the agency’s 1999 Newcastle Resource Management Plan, a document that guides the management of the 292,000 surface acres and 1.6 million acres of mineral estate in Niobrara, Weston and Crook counties, according to Tyson Finnicum, public affairs...
Photo by Hannah Gross/NLJ
Tour participants of the Weston County Historical Society’s Fall 2022 Trek stopped by the old Darlington School on Lynch Road outside of Newcastle. Children of the early Weston County homesteaders who attended these centrally located schoolhouses often had to walk or ride horseback, according to Latal Fisher in “Early Day Memories.” Although the Darlington School has long been abandoned, the remains of a stove and chalkboard can still be seen through the windows.
The homesteaders who poured their hearts and souls into creating a legacy is being preserved in Weston County by the ranchers who continue to work from sunup to sundown on the land passed down to them by their ancestors, and that legacy was on display for those fortunate enough to participate in a...
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