Grace Moore

After years of craft fairs and occasion openings, She Shed owners Linda Humes and Renie Bunner have combined their beautiful abilities with fabric and thread before their work to Moorcroft as a store front in the Moorcroft Town Center (MTC), between the Starfish Secondhand Store and the daycare center. The She Shed is open Tuesday through Saturday, from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m. The adventure began when Humes' father, who worked with wood, passed away and the two women eventually sold his tools,...

Grace Moore

Pine Haven Public Works has been dealing with a complete failure of one of the town's two water well pumps and a drastic drop in the operation of the second. Department director Sean Glass was not able to revive the first pump and the latter, which is supposed to draw more than 100 gallons per minute, was pumping only 20 as of Tuesday morning. Mayor Karla Brandenburg said that if they could get one of these motors to work as they were intended, "We'll be ok." A Code Red had been sent out to...

Hot Iron, the construction company installing the water main along Pine Haven's Boe Drive, is currently laying pipe along the north side of Woodland Drive working east from Boe Drive to Sunrise Court. Hot Iron will tie in the water main at Boe Drive and Pendleton Drive later this week. They have installed 16 new fire taps to date, including the eight in the C-Bar Subdivision and have three remaining to be installed, two on the north end of Lakeview Drive and one within the Enloe Street...

Mary Edna (Neiman) Barbour, 97, of Hulett, Wyoming, died Thursday, July 11, 2024. She went to meet her Savior peacefully with family by her side, in the same home she lived in for the past 73 years. Mary was born August 8, 1926 in Eads, Colorado, to Albert Carmel and Annie Mable (Gerber) Neiman. She was the sixth of eight children. During her early years, Albert worked in the sawmill industry, resulting in the family moving often to where there was available timber. They lived in Colorado and...

Helen Farnsworth, age 92, entered the arms of our Lord on July 13, 2024, passing of natural causes in Newcastle, WY. Helen was born on April 1, 1932, to Roy and Myrtle Scruggs in Lead, SD. She was the youngest child in the family and they all knew her as "Babe." Her father died when she was very young, so she was raised by her mother and stepfather, Newton Dillavou. From there, she lived in Whitewood, SD and then moved on to live in Newcastle. She went to high school in Newcastle, but did not...

Fair week kicked off on Saturday with the youth rodeo as kids from around the county showed off their skills on horseback. The weekend rounded out with team roping and the horse show and was followed by a week of livestock shows, fashion revues and entertainment. Events will conclude with the much-anticipated parade day on Saturday, which will begin with a color run and bike relay, followed by the parade itself at 10 a.m. The Crook County Rodeo Royalty will be crowned an hour later, followed...

Grace Moore

Moorcroft’s popular Rib Rally, which takes place every year during Sturgis’ Bike Week, has quickly become a mainstay of Moorcroft’s summer events. In previous years, the Moorcroft Area Chamber of Commerce (MACC) worked with Diehl’s Grocery Store to bring a shady intermission to bikers, tourists and locals alike from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. on Wednesday to relax, have a seat under the canopy and eat a tasty meal of a rack of ribs, beans and a free bottle of water before continuing down the road. Visitors could talk to neighbors from around the...

July 29: Country fried steak, mashed potatoes and gravy, corn, ambrosia, chocolate cake July 30: Beef with mushroom gravy, egg noodles, pineapple, cobb salad, sugar cookie July 31: Indian taco with lettuce, tomato, onion and cheese, tapioca, angel food cake Aug. 1: Wieners and kraut, fries, green beans, mandarin oranges, cherry crisp Aug. 2: Barbecue riblet sandwich, coleslaw, beets, fruit cocktail, ice cream Available at Donna’s Diner Aug. 1: Beef tips over mashed potatoes, California...