Continuing the Crook County News Since 1884
Continuing the Crook County News Since 1884
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Dear Editor: In his letter to the editor last week, Ted Davis implies that if Wyoming did not allow so-called “switch voting” that Foster Friess would have been the Republican nominee, rather than Mark Gordon. Mr. Davis states that statewide there were 10,392 Democrats who voted in the Republican primary, and implies they most likely cast their ballots for Gordon, the more moderate candidate, thereby “stealing” the nomination from the candidate who would have been the choice of the party faithful. I think I agree with Mr. Davis that a majorit...
For the first couple of years after I sailed across the pond, I sometimes felt as though I were speaking into a vacuum. I found myself stuck in a surreal no man's land where my meaning was being dismissed or ignored and I couldn't work out why. It turned out that I was using all the wrong words. A respected polling company back in the UK has just explained this phenomenon. As if I hadn't already had ample opportunity to work it out for myself, YouGov performed a survey that proved Britain and...
By Karissa Niehoff, Executive Director of the National Federation of State High School Associations and Ron Laird, Commissioner of the Wyoming High School Activities Association If you are the mother or father of a high school athlete here in Wyoming, this message is primarily for you. When you attend an athletic event that involves your son or daughter, cheer to your heart’s content, enjoy the camaraderie that high school sports offer and have fun. But when it comes to verbally criticizing game officials or coaches, cool it. Make no mistake a...
Once upon a time, before it became normal to eat a miniscule bag of pretzels while staring down at a cloud, we had no other option but to go about our business via sea. Coming from a maritime town, I know as well as anyone that our relationship with the waves is deeper, stronger and much more abiding than the one we now hold with luggage tags and drinks trolleys. And with all those seafaring centuries behind us, it’s no surprise that the bottom of the ocean is a museum all of its own. It i...
Dear Editor, “Let’s send President Trump a message ‘Wyoming is not Trump country!’ by beating Foster Friess and electing Mark Gordon.” This message from Switch For Wyoming was on my answering machine the evening prior to the August Primary election. Did it work? Gordon 38,951, Friess, 29,842, Difference 9,109. Total crossover votes from Democrat and unaffiliated voters 10,392. The $150,000, Switch for Wyoming budgeted to get Gordon elected worked! Conservatives were wrangled out of a fair election in the Wyoming Republican Party Primary!...
When I told my husband the other day that I was thinking of renaming the cat “Widow Twankey” because she always seems to be behind me no matter how many times I turn around, I wasn’t expecting quite the confusion I was met with. It seems, even now, there are still some holiday traditions that seem perfectly normal to my people…but might not be so understandable everywhere else. Widow Twankey, you see, is a traditional character from a type of play put on all across the UK over the holiday...
The international news may seem filled with doom and gloom, but that’s not always the case around Christmas. One of my favorite things about the season is watching the kindness and generosity – and, of course, having the occasional giggle at silly ideas. Such as the 500 wiener dogs (known in my part of the world as sausage dogs) who gathered with their humans in London’s Hyde Park last week, every single one of them wearing a Christmas outfit. I assume the event was not their own idea, but t...
CONCEPT(ual) “My soul waits in silence for God only; from Him is my salvation.” Psalm 62:1 A “concept” is an abstract idea, a general notion or plan. It is the framework that commences with a thought and progresses as things are put together, tried, kept or rejected until the final product is realized. It can be much or mean very little. What it cannot be is a single equation with multiple unknowns for that results in a present that has no future. All life runs for a single purpose, without many realizing the holy framework it is draped upon. M...
If there’s one thing we Brits excel at, it’s the passive aggressive response. One could argue that pinning us down can be frustrating because we dance so delicately around every subject, but you can’t deny that, every so often, the results are worth the effort. As was the case when a prestigious American newspaper made the mistake of suggesting it might be about to say something negative about my nation’s capital. It wasn’t an untrue something negative, and it was nice they were reaching...
Our home is under siege, defenses have been eroded, damage has been done and its occupants are living in terror. All of which wouldn’t be too much of an embarrassment if it weren’t that our attackers are three inches long. We have mice, for the first time since I moved to this country. However it is that we’ve managed to live out in the sticks for this long without spotting a single rodent, it doesn’t seem to be working any more. I was first alerted to the infiltration late one evening, as I sa...
I’m sure there are many nice things I could say about a blanket made from banana bark but, as I have no intention of investing in one, I shall be forced to remain ignorant of its merits. The same will no doubt soon be said of a village down the road from my home town. Let’s set the scene for this tale, which I am confident will soon attract your empathy. Imagine the most English village it would be possible to build, replete with thatched cottages, duck ponds, a humpbacked stone bridge that has...
Merry Christmas friends and neighbors! Have you heard of the newest group in Crook County? We are called Healing Strong™. Our group is volunteer and nonprofit. The group does address cancer head-on and also supports the wellness of individuals with any illness. The goal of Healing Strong™ is to help educate, encourage and equip with tools and strategies for healing in our communities. The information is very powerful. Increasing knowledge helps deal with any illness. I would like to encourage you to attend the next Healing Strong™ meeti...
The ‘Opinions’ section of our newspaper belongs to you, the readers. We encourage you to use it to express your opinions. The Sundance Times does not solicit any particular viewpoint and publishes most all letters we receive. Letters are not published when they cannot be verified, when they arrive unsigned, when they are libelous, when they are not considered in good taste or when they are meant personally for one reader. Letters are edited when they contain potentially libelous content or when language is in poor taste. All letters must inc...
