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  • All-Conference basketball players announced

    Mar 16, 2023

    The 1A Northeast All-Conference players have been announced for boys' and girls' basketball teams. For the girls, Kaydence Olson and McKenna Kromarek were both placed on the honor team. For the boys, Aiden McAmis, Hunter Reilly and Kyle Smith were nominated and placed on the All-Conference team. Coach for the Red Devils, Brandon Ackerman was also named Coach of the Year for Boys 1A Northeast District....

  • Commission hears two exemption requests from large-acre rules

    Sarah Pridgeon|Mar 16, 2023

    Two very different requests came before the Crook County Commissioners last week from landowners hoping to sidestep the new regulations for large-acre subdivisions. While the first was for a single chunk from a personal property that the owner would like to sell, the second was a subdivision containing more than 30 individual tracts that was completed by a developer around the time the new rules came into being. In the first instance, the request was for a 36.7-acre parcel south of Pine Haven. Colt Massie explained that he had bought several pa...

  • Input needed for hazard mitigation plan

    Mar 16, 2023

    Northeast Wyoming is in the process of updating the plan used to protect this area against natural hazard and is seeking input from the public to assist in identifying both risks and the best way to reduce their potential hazards. The Wyoming Region 1 Hazard Mitigation Plan encompasses Campbell, Johnson, Sheridan and Weston counties, as well as Crook County. Its purpose, says Emergency Management Coordinator Ed Robinson, is to analyze the region’s vulnerabilities to natural and human-caused hazards and identify mitigation actions that j...

  • Glenn Groves

    Mar 16, 2023

    Glenn Groves, 91, of Hulett, Wyoming, passed away on March 7, 2023 at Legacy Living Rehabilitation Center in Gillette, Wyoming. Glenn was born on August 8, 1931 in the Gillette Hospital to Howard and Cecilia (Schlautmann) Groves. He attended and graduated from Campbell County High School. He married Frances Shaw on December 13, 1952. He changed from a ranch hand to cutting hair then a car salesman, freight manager at Wolff Auto Parts. All the time still a rancher and built two houses, one in Campbell County and one in Crook County. Glenn loved...

  • Elizabeth Janice Schelldorf

    Mar 16, 2023

    Elizabeth Janice Schelldorf, 90, of Sundance, Wyoming, died Tuesday, February 28, 2023, at Crook County Nursing Home in Sundance. Memorial services will be held on Friday, April 21, 2023, at 2 p.m. at the Sundance United Methodist Church. Janice was born on April 26, 1932, to Clyde D. "Scotchie" and Frances (Barr) Roberts in Sundance. She attended grade school in Sundance and graduated from Sundance High School in 1949, after completing high school in just three years. Janice went to Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, for her freshman year...

  • Weed & Pest back on track

    Sarah Pridgeon|Mar 16, 2023

    When Paul Stille of Leo Riley & Associates presented this year’s county audit, it once again included reference to an issue within the Weed & Pest department that suggested operational difficulties severe enough to have caused a “near complete breakdown in the accounting process”. However, he was quick to note that the issue has now been solved and only appeared in the audit because the timeline spilled over into the fiscal year of 2021-22. “This will be gone this year,” he said. “Last year I came and met with you about the problems th...

  • Author meet and greet Mar. 22

    Mar 16, 2023

    Come to the Hulett Branch Library, March 22 at 2 p.m. to meet the award winning author T. K. Conklin. The author is a Wyoming native and had her first book published in 2017. Her books are set in Wyoming in the 1800s and provide adventure, passion and romance. The books follow four families for three generations. At the meet and greet, you may bring a book to have the author sign it, buy a book and enjoy some refreshments with the author....

  • Sheridan College honor rolls

    Mar 16, 2023

    Sheridan College is pleased to recognize students named to its honor rolls for the fall 2022 semester. Sheridan College has three honor roll lists: the President’s Honor Roll, Vice President’s Honor Roll and the Part-Time Honor Roll. Hulett’s Rachel Morgan was named to the President’s Honor Roll. There was 86 Sheridan College named to the President’s Honor Roll and earned a perfect 4.0 GPA for the semester with 12 or more credit hours. Sundance’s Nevada Gill and Nate Schommer were named to the Vice President’s Honor Roll. The Vice Presiden...

  • Extra releases from Flaming Gorge suspended

    Dustin Bleizeffer, WyoFile.com|Mar 16, 2023

    The Bureau of Reclamation suspended extra “drought response” releases from Flaming Gorge Reservoir Tuesday at the request of Wyoming and the other three Upper Colorado River Basin states. The reservoir, which straddles the Wyoming-Utah border, was tapped for an extra 500,000 acre-feet of water starting in May 2022 to help ensure that water levels downstream at Lake Powell don’t drop low enough to threaten hydroelectric power generation at Glen Canyon Dam this year. An estimated 463,000 acre-feet of extra water was delivered before offic...

  • Circuit Court

    Mar 16, 2023

    Speeding – Lexi Dettman, Box Elder, SD, 85/75, $105; Laison Rosenlund, Sheridan, WY, 86/75, $115 Fail Duty Upon Colliding With Unattended Vehicle or Property – Robert Joseph Anderson, Moorcroft, WY, $250 Use Electronic Handheld Device to Read, Write or Send Text While Driving – Delaina L. Grieves, Upton, WY, $95 Expired Temporary License Permit/Improper Registration – Douglas Grudniewski, Rapid City, SD, $140 No Valid Driver’s License – Mariah Flowers, Lusk, WY, $140 Operate CMV Without CDL – Tisten J. McKillop, Gillette, WY, $190 No Drive...

  • Crook County Sheriff's Office

    Mar 16, 2023

    Mar. 6 – Three VIN checks. House watches. Business check Mar. 7 – Eight VIN checks. Four traffic stops. Civil assist. Commercial alarm. Citizen assist. Protection order violation. Suspicious circumstance. Business checks. Assist to Wyoming Highway Patrol. EMS page. Mar. 8 – Three VIN checks. Domestic disturbance. Arrested subject with warrant. Welfare check. Business checks. Suspicious circumstance. Mar. 9 – Four VIN checks. Paper service. Four traffic stops. Crash with injuries. Motorist assist. Welfare check. Search warrant. Traffic hazard....

  • Blood drive held

    Mar 16, 2023

    A community blood drive was held last Wednesday at the Hulett Civic Center. Coordinator Ronnie Johnson reported that 15 units were collected at the drive. A blood drive is held every quarter in Hulett and always at the Civic Center....

  • Urban Golf this weekend

    Mar 16, 2023

    Urban Golf four-person scramble will be held in Hulett at 2 p.m. on Sat., March 18. The event will start at the Greater Hulett Community Center and end at the Ponderosa Cafe. Call or text Andy at 952-232-9463 to sign up your team. What is Urban Golf? Golf on the streets of Hulett with one golf club per player hitting a tennis ball. It is fun for all ages and abilities. Tennis balls and golf clubs are provided. The event is raising money for the high school ecology class trip. This is a week-long educational trip through the state of Wyoming....

  • Hulett Museum seeking input

    Mar 16, 2023

    The Hulett Museum is working on a new project to describe ranching in one word or a couple of words. They know that might not be an easy task, but give it a go. Please call the museum at 467-5292 or email [email protected] to give them your word(s)....

  • Wind developers retain powers

    Nicole Pollack, Casper Star-Tribune Via Wyoming News Exchange|Mar 16, 2023

    CASPER — Private wind farm developers will retain the same right to eminent domain afforded to other energy projects, after Gov. Mark Gordon blocked an attempt by state lawmakers this winter to bring back a wind-specific land use restriction. Under current state law, companies building energy generation facilities have the right to cite some infrastructure — including power lines used to carry electricity away from wind turbines — on private property, even if landowners say no. The Wyoming Legislature barred wind developers, specifically, from...

  • UW Meat Judging Team finishes spring season strong with win at Iowa State

    Mar 16, 2023

    The University of Wyoming Collegiate Meat Judging team wrapped up a successful spring season with a first-place finish at Iowa State University Saturday, March 4. It was a great day in the coolers last weekend, reports UW Collegiate Judging Coordinator McKensie Phillips. The UW team was named champion overall, placing first in all but one team division. Team members excelled individually as well, with all ten students earning a spot in the Top 10 Total Contest or Top 10 Alternate Division. The...

  • Wyoming News Briefs

    From Wyoming News Exchange Newspapers|Mar 16, 2023

    Attempted murder charge reduced, man faces up to 10 years in prison GILLETTE (WNE) — The attempted second-degree murder charge against a man accused of stabbing and swinging a knife multiple times at his daughter’s boyfriend last summer has been reduced to aggravated assault and battery. He now faces up to ten years in prison and will argue for probation at his sentencing hearing. Umar Farooq, 48, pleaded guilty Feb. 13 to aggravated assault and battery. In a plea deal with prosecutors, the charge was reduced from an original attempted sec...

  • Commissioners

    Mar 16, 2023

    PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AT THE COURTHOUSE IN SUNDANCE, CROOK COUNTY, WYOMING Tuesday, March 7, 2023 8:30 o’clock a.m. Present were Chairman Fred M. Devish, Vice-Chairman Kelly B. Dennis and County Clerk Melissa Jones. Member Bob Latham was absent. The Pledge of Allegiance was recited to the Flag. Kelly moved to approve the minutes from February 7 & 8, 2023. Fred vacated the chair and seconded, Kelly voted aye, Fred vacated the chair and voted aye, motion carried. Kelly moved to approve the following resolution: R...

  • Bids

    Mar 16, 2023

    Public Notice Crook County Weed and Pest Control District is giving notice that the district will begin receiving applicator bids for 2023 noxious weed control program. If you are interested in bidding for the noxious weed program bids will be either mailed to the District at P.O. Box 7, Sundance, WY 82729 or hand delivered to the District office at 802 11th Street South. Bids must be presented to the Office Manager no later than 6:00 p.m. April 12, 2023. Bids can be found at the local Weed and Pest Office or online at WWW.Crookcountyweeds.com...