Weston County
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Kyah Miller returned to the pool in her senior year, and head coach Doug Scribner is excited to see how far she’ll go this season.
The Lady Dogie swimmers dove into their season last Monday, and are hard at work prepping for their opening competition this weekend. Head coach Doug Scribner is back once again, and is excited to see where his team goes this year.
The team lost no one to graduation last year, and have five...
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Returning senior All-State award winner Holden McConkey wraps up sophomore Jayden Corley as the Dogies work to prepare for their zero week scrimmage in Douglas this Friday.
Dogie football head coach Matt Conzelman is excited to have the 2022 season under way, and identified the theme of the season as “Be Relentless.”
“That means persevering and having that never-say-die Dogie attitude,” explained Conzelman. “Our goal is to keep that in mind and keep working for the...
Filings for board positions on both Weston County school districts will continue through Aug. 29, and while voters in the Newcastle area are already guaranteed of having choices on the ballot in November, there has been little interest shown in serving on the Upton board.
To date, one candidate has...
Several write-in candidates will appear on the general election ballot for Weston County’s two municipalities after garnering enough votes during the August 16 primary, according to Weston County Clerk Becky Hadlock.
Joining incumbents Don Steveson and Ann McColley on the ballot for seats on the...
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An American Wyandotte Chicken, showing at the Weston County Fair, is a popular show bird with breeders. They are used for eggs and meat, according to petshoods.com.
The battle over backyard chickens continues as the Newcastle City Council wrestles with creating a new ordinance at the Aug. 15 meeting, where a proposed ordinance was met with conflicting views.
Jennifer Proffer, who supports adopting a backyard chicken ordinance, expressed her frustrations with...
The fiscal year 2023 budget for Weston County totals $19,167,041.85, an increase of $1.17 million over last year’s budget.
The budget was approved by the Board of Weston County Commissioners on July 19. Fiscal 2023 began on July 1 and will run through June 30, 2023.
Most general fund line items...
Weston County School District No. 1 is experiencing staff shortages in several areas, and it has led to creative thinking to fill some roles. Newcastle High School athletic director Mike Gregory last week asked sports parents with commercial driver’s licenses to consider driving activities buses to...
Newcastle will no longer have a city engineer after the resignation of Mike Moore on Aug. 15. The City Council accepted Moore’s resignation and, after an executive session, voted to not fill the position in favor of creating and hiring a grant writer for the city.
Moore’s resignation followed the...
Hacker’s Brief 8/22/2022
Text Survey Alert: A Sheridan citizen reported a text from Research-Polls.com asking her to respond to a survey about “local issues in Oregon.” The text had a picture that said “Your Opinion Matters!” When CyberWyoming investigated, we found that Research-Polls.comwas a...
For students with allergies and asthma, back to school means more than getting their backpacks filled with paper, pencils, and any needed odds and ends. Keeping your child safe and healthy involves creating a proactive plan to be implemented both at home and at school. Allergy doctors refer to...
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