By Sarah Pridgeon This year’s Crook County Health Fair will feature a diverse line-up of vendors, offering visitors a comprehensive opportunity to find out how to get healthy and stay healthy. The fair is scheduled for April 27 at the Sundance High School gymnasium. Among the vendors on offer, a representative of the...
By Sarah Pridgeon Powder River Energy Corporation has filed a complaint with District Court, the latest development in a dispute that began in the early 1990s. The issue of who has the right to serve power to Cam-Plex, an 1100-acre events facility and RV park that sits on the city’s boundary, rests on whether...
By Sarah Pridgeon Oneok Partners are preparing to place the Bakken pipeline in service, carrying raw natural gas liquids from the Bakken Shale in North Dakota to the Overland Pass Pipeline in Colorado. Pressurized testing is now taking place and product is expected to be flowing through Crook County by the end of the...
Organizers for this year’s annual Crook County Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinner knew they were fortunate to have Liz Cheney on hand to speak at their annual event but they got even more it turned out that Liz’s father, former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, also made the trip. Speaking at the event, held...
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department will hold two public meetings to address population objectives for elk in the Black Hills. The meetings will also include information and presentations on proposed 2013 big game hunting seasons, and public input will be taken. The dates and times for these meetings are as follows: • Sundance...
By Sarah Pridgeon There is light at the end of the tunnel for the Public Works Department, which for the past two years has quietly toiled to keep the Cole Water Storage Tank in service. While most of us have been taking our faucets for granted, a constant battle has waged behind the...
Cole Tank becoming increasingly unstable By Sarah Pridgeon The new zoning ordinance for the City of Sundance returned to the council’s attention this month and smoothly passed its first reading. A meeting had been held between council meetings at which “verbage was smoothed out,” said Mayor Paul Brooks. No significant issues with...
By Sarah Pridgeon Senator Ogden Driskill shared his thoughts on this year’s Legislative Session with the County Commissioners last week, explaining why he voted for the “Hill Bill” and his disapproval of the fuel tax increase. His thoughts on the change to condemnation proceedings, meanwhile, caused debate within the commissioners’ room. The new...
By Sarah Pridgeon There are certain experiences in this life that many of us are tempted to try, but never quite get round to mustering the courage for. In Marjorie Goodson’s case, skydiving no longer falls under that category. To celebrate her 90th birthday, Goodson chose to jump 13,000 feet from an airplane, freefalling...
By Sarah Pridgeon The 2013 Legislative Session wrapped up last week having seen a total of 429 bills considered, a supplemental budget adopted that includes cuts in most state departments and plenty of surprises. Governor Matt Mead thanked Legislators for having the courage to tackle “tough issues” that included education reform, fuel tax hikes,...
