Weston County
Newcastle fared better than other places — avoiding power outages, massive snow drifts and deaths — as arctic air moved across the nation dropping temperatures to well below zero, and wind chills to dangerously low levels.
Temperatures began to drop on Dec. 21, according to weather data, reaching...
Weston County is well represented in terms of agriculture in the 67th Wyoming Legislature this year as both Sen. Cheri Steinmetz, R-Lingle, and Rep. Allen Slagle, R-Newcastle, will serve on agriculture committees on their respective sides of the State Capitol, according to a Dec. 2 release from...
Between now and April, the Bureau of Land Management Newcastle Field Office intends to burn various slash piles on agency-administered lands in both Crook and Weston counties, according to a Dec. 12 press release from the agency.
“All prescribed burn projects are conducted in accordance with...
STORY UPDATE: A list of great addresses to view holiday lights has been added to the end of this story. You can also Click Here for a Google Map with all of the spots marked and connected with our suggested Lighted Loop Tour.
To help celebrate the holiday season and the retreat of Winter Storm...
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....
Melissa Stroh recently published her first series, “Tale of the Clans,” a 20-plus-year
project. The setting of the plot is inspired by 10th century Ireland towards the end of the Viking
era and is meant to be an “adventure-laden escape” leading readers back to God, their “first
love.”
Weston County has yet another published author in the books, so to speak, after Melissa Stroh began rapid releasing the first four books of her “Tale of the Clans” series, a project that has been 20 years in the making.
“If you’re looking for a Hallmark story, my stories are not it,” Stroh said. “...
Newcastle City Council Meeting, Monday, Nov. 7, 2022, Newcastle City Hall, Newcastle, Wyoming.
The city of Newcastle is slowly getting the components in place to complete its dispatch and police department move to City Hall, according to IT director Leann Cox. No clear official move date has been announced by the city, an uncertainty that hampers the timing of the county’s own dispatch...
The Wyoming Department of Transportation is still searching for a resident engineer to live in Newcastle and work out of the local office, according to District 4 engineer Scott Taylor. The opening is the result of the resignation of John Leahy this past summer.
“We have been advertising since...
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