By Sarah Pridgeon Ex-Hulett police officer Brice R. Tucker has been denied early release on his jail sentence for two counts of sexual battery involving contact with a child and one of sexual assault in the third degree. Tucker’s attorneys requested a sentence reduction on the grounds that Brice has applied himself to his...
Last week, I asked all of you to conserve water and now I will explain why. The town has two sources of water, the Cole Well Field to the East and the West Well. Separate water sources give us protection from a catastrophic event. In other words, if the Cole Field goes down, we have...
By Sarah Pridgeon Sharing my attempts to adapt to my newfound climes with you usually involves first accepting my own ineptitude and then steeling myself to admit it. I have, for example, already confessed to my inability to stalk wild animals and my baffled efforts to steer a vehicle in the snow. This week,...
By Sarah Pridgeon Details tend to define us all. For me, aside from a love of scones and cups of tea, there is also the fact that I am an Elizabethan. I’ve always thought it must be awfully peculiar not to have one’s own monarch but, in the wake of the news that HRH...
Editor, This is in regard to all the people at the National Forest Service and Park Service who oversee Devils Tower. While I applaud their desire to help Mother Nature, I believe they are failing miserably. After Tuesday’s attempt to do so, two things should be painfully clear. One – you can’t control Mother...
By Sarah Pridgeon I’ve been thinking recently about my fellow representatives of all things British. Not the charming fellow emigrants I’ve encountered in this county and beyond, but those who are helping America form impressions of us through movie screens and television sets. I’m a little concerned to see the channels flooded by Gordon...
By Sarah Pridgeon I have now been fingerprinted for a second time by the government of my new homeland and taken another step along the long and winding road to citizenship. They already had my fingerprints on record but decided to repeat the exercise, presumably on the off-chance that I have replaced myself with...
Editor, I would like to respond to the article on the city co-funding a building inspector. I could not believe when I read in the article that the county thinks that they do not have a need for a building inspector at this time. The county is in more of a need for a...
To Editor, I would like to remind everyone who got notices of value for property taxes to check and make sure they are correct. After May 6 you are stuck with what you got. You must contact the Assessor and if an agreement is not reached it can be appealed to the county board...
By Sarah Pridgeon I’ve made an offensive move in the Battle of the Biscuit and I think my new tactics might have worked. After baking and distributing the evidence, at least a dozen members of this community are now aware that those things you eat with gravy are definitely not biscuits – they’re...
