BY SARAH PRIDGEON County Treasurer Mary Kuhl locked horns with the Wyoming Oil & Gas Commission last week over the sale of distrained equipment from an oil company that was delinquent on its taxes to the tune of over $150,000, including interest. Although the county had priority lean on the equipment, the commission removed...
BY JEFF MOBERG jeff@sundancetimes.com Nearly 70 folks from around the region turned out at the Courthouse basement on Thursday to participate in the Wyoming Game and Fish’s public meeting aimed at making significant changes to the mountain lion hunting season within a portion of Crook and Weston Counties. The proposed addition of a new hunt...
Mark your calendars! June 9 and 10 are the dates for this year’s Hulett Rodeo. The weekend will kick off with the parade down Main Street at 10 a.m. The theme this year is “Cowboy up for Freida.” Freida has helped with the parade for many years and the Hulett Chamber of Commerce thought...
What do you do when your child has an earache or cough on Friday night? You either take them to the Emergency room or you wait and hope they are okay until Monday. Well no more! Crook County Medical Services District and the Sundance Clinic are pleased to offer clinic hours on Saturday mornings...
By Sarah Pridgeon sarah@sundancetimes.com The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), along with the Powder River Basin Resource Council (PRBRC), has been granted permission to challenge Strata Energy’s proposed license for in-situ leach uranium mining in Crook County. The decision from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) was unanimous, based on votes from five commissioners. The...
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Draped in their traditional caps and gowns, 29 Sundance High School seniors were honored at Sunday evening’s graduation ceremony. Class President Ashley Klocker, Salutatorian Brooke Ingalls and Valedictorian Allison Kerkvliet each took to the podium and spoke highly of their classmates and of the teachers and staff who led them down their educational paths. Todd Kahler and Kara Mouat serenaded the graduates and guests with country music star Jason Aldean’s “Tattoos on This Town” while SHS Principal Mark Broderson and Guidance Counselor Alice Willey offered congratulatory and inspirational words to the former students.
Crook County Fire Warden Gari Gill has announced that the burning restrictions have been lifted effective Monday May 14, 2012. He would like to remind residents that although we have received some moisture and everything is greening up, extreme caution should still be exercised with any burning activity. Fire restrictions can be re-imposed at...
By Sarah Pridgeon This month’s regular meeting of the Sundance City Council saw land traded and premises loaned, with Dick Proctor’s long-awaited lot exchange finalized and the Food Pantry granted permission to inhabit the old daycare building. The meeting began with an update on the West Street Crossing and Alley/Pathway projects, both of...
By Sarah Pridgeon Fourteen pounds of methamphetamine were seized by Highway Patrol on Sunday, April 22, hidden inside a television set in the back of a U-haul truck. The vehicle was stopped for unsafe driving on I-90 and a subsequent search, with the help of a K-9, revealed a cargo of meth with an...
By Sarah Pridgeon Oneok Partners have conducted an additional geological field survey of the Spearfish Formation, says Brad Borror, Supervisor of External Communication. The survey was commissioned in response to landowner concerns about the geological safety of the proposed route of the Bakken Pipeline. The survey was conducted by Ground Engineering Consultants (GEC) of...
