Continuing the Crook County News Since 1884
Continuing the Crook County News Since 1884
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A doe and fawn pronghorn forage east of Sundance just off Fuller road on Tuesday. With temperatures falling closer to seasonable numbers, man and beast alike were able to enjoy a bit more time outdoors....
A fire that flared back up several days after it was first reported neared 300 acres in size before it was contained last week. Though structures in the area were threatened, none were ultimately lost. The Ridge Fire was located on Douglas Rd southwest of Sundance and was first reported at 2 p.m. on July 9. It was discovered to be a flare-up from a previous fire on July 6. On day one, according to Fire Warden Charlie Harrison, it displayed extreme fire behavior and the rate of spread was rapid,...
The Wyoming Department of Transportation would like to remind motorists of the new penalties for violating highway closures to light and high profile vehicles that went into effect July 1. The "Light and high profile vehicle closures bill" (SF0113) passed in the 2024 legislative session. The bill language notes that, "any person who willfully fails to observe any sign, marker, warning, notice or direction" for closures to light, high-profile vehicles is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon...
Wyoming has narrowed its definitions for who can bid on state oil and gas lease parcels, disqualifying parties that intend to conserve the land rather than produce the mineral resources. The change, made under emergency rulemaking in June, was mandated by House Bill 141 – State land oil and gas leases-operator requirement, which the Legislature passed during the budget session. Rep. Cyrus Western (R-Big Horn) brought the bill on behalf of the Petroleum Association of Wyoming. The association r...
GILLETTE - The last several months have been a whirlwind for Crook County ranchers Shondah and Randall Otwell. They have been putting the finishing touches on their product, the water rippler, which they hope will make life easier for ranchers all across the country when it hits the market this fall. The water rippler solves a problem that has plagued the agricultural industry for generations. In the winter, water tanks freeze over and ranchers have to go out to each tank and break the ice...
Northeast Wyoming’s residents will be far outnumbered by visitors this August as rallygoers from the east collide with an estimated 60,000 guests at Gillette’s Camplex. Both the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and the International Pathfinder Camporee will be taking place during the first week of August and officials are warning that locals will feel an impact. Save yourself some inconvenience, says Crook County Emergency Management Coordinator Ed Robinson, by planning ahead to have everything you need on hand before the influx begins. What’s Camporee...
The choice of where to locate the new Wyoming State Shooting Complex has come down to two options, and the Crook County Commissioners are supporting the more local one. Campbell County has made the shortlist alongside Park County. At a special meeting on Monday, the commission signed a letter of “enthusiastic support” for the multi-million-dollar complex to be built just across the county border. “We believe that locating this facility in Campbell County would provide significant benefits not only to Northeast Wyoming, but also to shoot...
Wyoming’s smaller towns may now have an easier path to obtaining federal grant funding through a new state program that aims to fill the gaps in knowledge and capability. Governor Mark Gordon announced last week that the Wyoming Grant Assistance Program (WYGAP) is now active through the State Budget Department and will be looking to assist local governments, nonprofits and small businesses in finding, pursuing and managing the grants they need. The program acknowledges the hurdles that often f...
PRECorp employee volunteers will once again be raising funds with a walking taco booth the corner of the Crook County Courthouse lawn, the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally “Burnout Wednesday” at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, August 7. The booth will feature the same menu of a bag of nacho chips, hot taco fixings and bottled water, affordably priced to encourage sales and support for the local charitable work of Veteran support groups. Last year, PRECorp raised more than $2500 each for long-term and palliative care at Crook County Medical Services District, and...
1 Years Ago July 17, 1924 It may have been noticed in and about Beulah that for the past few weeks Sheriff Otis Zimmershied and Deputy Frank C. Haselton have been devoting some time to whipping the Sand Creek stream, but it now develops that the sheriff and his deputy were not so much interested in the finny members of the tribe disporting themselves in the Creek as in a much larger fish located further up on Sand Creek. The fishing operations were apparently a well-planned screen for a thorou...
Our Thanks Thank you to Josh Franzen and family for their donations during the recent youth rodeos. Your generosity is much appreciated and will be a big help with our upcoming projects. American Legion Post #45 Our Thanks Thank you to all of our family, friends, and neighbors who came to fight the fire on John Creek south of our house on June 11. Thank you for bringing your big equipment to build trails around the fire and smooth roads so vehicles could get into the fire area. Thank you for bringing food and water for the firefighters. Thank... Full story
Kidnapped man lands up to 14 years in prison GILLETTE (WNE) — A Gillette man who pleaded guilty to the second-degree sexual abuse of a minor received has been sentenced to ten to 14 years in prison. Zackery Minard, 22, was found in bed with a 14-year-old girl by the girl’s mother, who called her boyfriend, Timothy James Ott. Ott, 30, and a friend beat up Minard, put him in a car trunk and drove him out of town, eventually abandoning him on a country road. The temperature outside was about 35 degrees. According to Minard, Ott told him to wal...
It won’t surprise anyone who stuck their nose out of the air conditioning over the last week that the county is heading back into drought conditions. The National Integrated Drought Information System reports that more than a quarter of the county is now in a condition of moderate drought – a 23% increase on the previous week. The drought zones, which account for 27.4% of the county, are located along the northern border and also the southern border and southeast corner. Streamflows on the Belle Fourche River at the South Dakota border are cur...
The Wyoming Judicial Branch is warning citizens that any demand for a cash deposit from someone claiming to be connected with the courts or law enforcement is almost certainly a scam. According to a press release, there is currently a trend of individuals pretending to be associated with the judicial system to con members of the public out of large sums of money. Those who have been contacted by such individuals have been told they have arrest warrants in place for failing to appear for jury duty or similar reasons. The scammers then tell...
Speeding – Denis Cote, Orleans, ON, Canada, 74/65, $113; Jian Zou, Edmonds, WA, 89/70, $155; Bryan Jackson, Minot, ND, 80/75, $15; Emmanuel Bolee, Fargo, ND, 91/75, $140; Keith R. Reinhard, Gillette, WY, 79/70, $103; Richard Chambers, Keyport, WA, 84/80, $10; Brennan Michael Aga, Spearfish, SD, 85/70, $135; Barbara Iwan-Limbo, Rapid City, SD, 80/75, $15; Will Collier, Gillette, WY, 94/75, $155 No Valid Driver’s License – Jose M. Dominguez Varela, Gillette, WY, $150 No Daily Use Permit – Emerly L. Spoonhunter, Gillette, WY, $85 No Camping...
July 8 – Four VIN checks. Project Lifesaver. Traffic stop. Citizen assist. Two assist other agency. Welfare check. Two motorist assists. Citizen dispute. Traffic hazard. Three business checks. Trespassing. Suspicious circumstance. July 9 – VIN checks. Three business checks. Traffic stop. Motorist assist. Threatening. Accident. EMS page. Three fire pages. July 10 – Two VIN checks. Theft. Traffic stop. Two motorist assists. Animal complaint. Traffic hazard. Civil standby. REDDI report. Suspicious circumstance. Business check. July 11 – Five VI...
A Minnesota woman was killed last week in a motorcycle crash on U.S. Hwy 14. The incident took place near Sundance at milepost 191.4 on July 5 at around 11:15 a.m. The 61-year-old driver, Kelly Pierson, was traveling eastbound. According to the Wyoming Department of Transportation, witnesses said she was traveling well under the speed limit. Pierson had just exited from a curve onto a straight stretch of road. Marks on the roadway indicate that she lost control of the motorcycle, laying it over. Pierson was separated from the motorcycle and...
Did you know we have a Library of Things collection? You can check out lots of fun kits for a variety of activities. Check out our “Stamp” kits. These are rubber stamps and ink pads for card making and scrapbooking. We have a wide range of stamps for different occasions and ink colors. Come see what you can create with these great take home kits. LIBRARY HAPPENINGS: MEETINGS: Crook County Library Board meeting Thur., Aug. 8 at 1 p.m. in Sundance. Crook County Library Foundation meeting Wed., Oct. 16 at 1 p.m. in Moorcroft. Sundance Friends of t...
The University of Wyoming accorded degrees upon the following students from Crook County at the completion of the 2024 spring semester: Katrina Bauman (Bachelor of Science in Architectural Engineering) and Alessandro Mastrovito (Bachelor of Science in Business) of Hulett; William Tyler Hoese (Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering), Megan Kay Lovitt (Certificate), Reagan S. Mullaney (Bachelor of Science in Business), Elizabeth Peterson (Bachelor of Arts) and Aubrey Ryann Schelling Hoard (Bachelor of Arts) of Moorcroft; Avery Maxner...
Laramie County Community College is proud to announce those students earning a place on the president’s and vice president’s honor rolls. Students earning president’s honor roll recognition have earned a cumulative 3.75-4.0 GPA, and students on the vice president’s honor roll have earned a cumulative 3.5-3.74 GPA. McKaya Jo Gillespie of Sundance is on the president’s honor roll and Anna Bossman of Moorcroft is on the vice president’s honor roll....
STATE OF WYOMING COUNTY OF CROOK IN THE DISTRICT COURT SIXTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARJORIE A. GRINDE, Deceased. Probate No. 2024-CV-0009033 NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR DECREE OF DISTRIBUTION TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN SAID ESTATE: YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that on July 1, 2024, PAUL W. GRINDE, filed in the above-named court an Application for Decree of Distribution for the purpose of distributing, by summary procedure, certain real property interests consisting of minerals/royalties in the following described lands in... Full story
COUNTY OF CROOK IN THE DISTRICT COURT SIXTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT Probate No. 2024-CV-0009020 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: STANTON THOMAS DODSON, Deceased. NOTICE OF PROBATE TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN SAID PROBATE: You are hereby notified that on the 24th day of June, 2024, the Last Will and Testament of the above-named decedent was admitted to probate by the above-named court, and Kimberly McCann was appointed Personal Representative thereof. Notice is further given that all persons indebted to the decedent or to the estate are requested to... Full story
STATE OF WYOMING COUNTY OF CROOK IN THE DISTRICT COURT SIXTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT Civil No. 2024-CV-0009035 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: EDWARD WILLIAM GANTZ, JR., a/k/a EDWARD W. GANTZ, JR., Deceased. NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR DECREE OF DISTRIBUTION TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN SAID ESTATE: You are hereby notified that, pursuant to W.S. §2-1-205, Donna G. Gantz has filed a sworn Application for Decree of Distribution with the Clerk of the above-entitled court wherein she prays that the following-described property be set over and... Full story
Bankholding Company Change in Control Schloredt Family Revocable Trust and Jett Schloredt as co-trustee with Dolly Schloredt, previous approved, all of Sundance, WY, intends to apply to the Federal Reserve Board for permission to acquire shares of Sundance Bankshares, Sundance, Wyoming (the Company), and join the Richard Durfee Family Group, a group acting in concert that controls 25 percent or more of the Company. The Company controls Sundance State Bank, Sundance, Wyoming. The Federal Reserve considers a number of factors in deciding whether... Full story
WYOMING DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION LEGAL NOTICE INVITATION TO BID The Wyoming Department of Transportation will receive bids uploaded to the Public Purchase website, until 11:00 A.M., Mountain Time on August 22, 2024, at which time they will be publicly opened and read for FURNISHING JANITORIAL MAINTENANCE AT THE SUNDANCE REST AREA. A MANDATORY Pre-Bid Inspection will be held at 1:00 P.M., Mountain Time on Tuesday, August 6, 2024 at the Sundance Rest Area located just off I-90 at Exit 189, Sundance, Wyoming. Only bids received on Wyoming Depa... Full story
