The Voice of the Community Since 1909, Serving Moorcroft and Pine Haven, Wyoming
The Voice of the Community Since 1909, Serving Moorcroft and Pine Haven, Wyoming
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This couragous turkey is one of several that have taken to wandering the streets of Moorcroft recently. Despite this flagrant disregard for the season, its gamble appears to have paid off. We hope all our readers enjoy a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday weekend!...
A traveling girls basketball team, consisting of around nine fifth graders from Moorcroft and Gillette who call themselves the Black Widows, has requested a discount from the Moorcroft Town Center (MTC) Board to use the building’s gymnasium for practice games four times a month (twice every other week) during their season. Receiving no satisfaction through the board, team spokesman Dan Schutt and several supporters asked to be heard from the floor at Monday night’s meeting of the Moorcroft Council. Schutt explained that he and his ass...
Glenn Construction was on the job setting forms and tamping the fill to level before pouring the concrete foundation of the new restrooms at Noonan Park this week. The work will continue as weather allows before winter, then start again in the spring....
The second application for funding under the CARES Act has been approved by Moorcroft’s council and subsequently submitted to the State Land and Investment Board (SLIB). According to deputy clerk Jody Clark, this new application includes $40,000 for a heart monitor to be installed in the town’s second ambulance, $23,765 for bunker gear for the fire department, $6,478 upgrading phones and $52,600 sprayer system to better disinfect large areas and other needed personal protective equipment (PPE). The total amount requested is $242,500. Of the...
With the Pine Haven Community Center closed for the foreseeable future due to the reemergence of Covid in the neighborhood, the bid of $14,927 from Powder River Heating and Air Conditioning was accepted to upgrade lighting and heating at the center to be completed within the next couple of months. This bid was more than $2000 less than the next of the three bids presented to the town for approval. Mayor John Cook expressed his pleasure with the decision of the governing body. “They do a lot of work out here for us. They know us and they know h...
Minta Gray, 85 of Sundance, Wyoming, passed away on November 13, 2020. Minta Eileen (Tate) Gray was born November 24, 1934, to Merrill and Norine Violet (McDougall) Tate in Riverton, Wyoming. Minta was the first daughter in the family, where she joined three brothers, Ronnie, Cecil and Duane, later to be joined by the youngest member, Sharon. The family lived in Chugwater, Wheatland and Riverton, before settling in Newcastle. Here Minta attended school and met the man who become her partner in life for 67 years, Earl Gray. Minta and Earl were...
Thank You From the Family of Ryan Neiman Our heartfelt thanks to our family, friends and neighbors for all your kindness during this difficult time, for your visits, calls, flowers, food and donations to Kaycie, Sutton and Royce. Thank you to Isburg Funeral Home, the pallbearers, Chip Neiman and Trey Wasserburger for the beautiful service for our beloved Ryan Forever in our hearts, Sonnie, Kaycie, Sutton and Royce Kent and Criss and family Casey and Nellie and family Thank You The Board of Directors of the Moorcroft Interfaith Community would...
CASPER – When the Wyoming Department of Health announces that more COVID-19 patients in the state have died from the disease, it is often announcing deaths that actually occurred weeks if not months before. The lag in reporting is a result of the time it can take for death certificates to be filed, department spokeswoman Kim Deti said. The department does not count a patient as a coronavirus death unless COVID-19 has been listed on his or her death certificate as the cause of death or a contributing factor. And the time it takes for those c...
CASPER — There’s a new organization in town, and it’s been making the rounds in the Wyoming Legislature’s interim committee meetings. Meet Powering Up Wyoming. The group describes itself as a grassroots organization promoting the use of an “all of the above energy strategy” to prepare the state for an uncertain economic future. The team lobbies for some relative newcomers to the energy landscape here: wind and solar energy, as well as storage technology. Last week, the organization announced it had formed an inaugural advisory board of director...
Yellowstone sees record visits in October CODY (WNE) — Yellowstone National Park posted another record month in October to close out its 2020 summer season, shattering the previous record for that month with more than 110,000 additional people visiting this year. In total, the Park hosted 360,034 recreation visits during the month, up 110% from October 2019. The previous October record was set in 2015, when 252,013 people came through the gates. It was also the busiest October on record at the East Entrance with 12,182 people visiting. This w...
For many people, enjoying leftovers in the days following Thanksgiving is as integral a part of the beloved holiday. Leftovers need to be correctly handled. Here are answers to Thanksgiving leftover questions, which will keep your Thanksgiving feast leftovers as safe as they are delicious! How long can you leave your Thanksgiving dinner on the table before running the risk of it spoiling? The danger zone, where harmful bacteria multiply the fastest, is between 41 and 135°F. If you are keeping so...
The Moorcroft Interfaith Community released its food pantry figures for November. “Our numbers continue to climb substantially,” says MIC President Rev. Monte Reichenberg. “We saw substantial increases in both our regular food pantries held on the first and third Thursdays of each month and the Wyoming Food Bank of the Rockies Crook County Mobile Pantry held on the second Thursday of each month.” The regular pantries for November served a total of 449 families representing 1572 individuals of which 749 were children (0-17), 648 adults (18-59) a...
L to R: Randy Peters, Dekken Mayer, Hunter Garoutte, Zane Linder and Lane Wood....
Kids Paint class December 4 at 10 a.m. Age nine and older. Call the library to sign up with Miss Lacey. New Arrivals! K-3 Go Diego Go The Great Roadrunner Race by Sarah Willson, Creaturepedia (non-fiction) by Adrienne Barman, Blunderbuss Wanderlust Being an Account of the Temporal Travels of Colonel Victor Von Vector and the Eras of His Ways by David Shapiro, DC Super-Pets Krypto! The Origin of Superman’s Dog by Michael Dahl, Jake and the Never Land Pirates The Croc Takes the Cake by Melinda LaRose, The Ninjago Movie Lloyd: A Hero’s Jou...
A Douglas man has been given a suspended sentence for possession with intent to deliver after allegedly informing a police officer who spotted him walking drunkenly through town that he was taking a bag of marijuana from one friend to another. On January 7 at around 8:30 p.m., a Moorcroft Police Officer observed a man stumbling down the street, later identified as Brock Allen Smith. The officer reports that Smith was on the roadway, despite there being a sidewalk available, and appeared to be intoxicated. According to court reports, Smith made...
Nov. 16 – Two VIN checks. Traffic stop. Gun call; unfounded. Sexual assault investigated. Civil assist. Fingerprints for outside employment. Assist another agency. Assist motorist. EMS page. Nov. 17 – Two VIN checks. Three paper services. Two traffic stops. Fingerprints for outside employment and conceal carry. Assisted Sundance Police. Nov. 18 – Two VIN checks. Paper service. Three traffic stops. Fingerprints for outside employment. Two arrests on warrants. Subjects booked into jail. Assist motorist. Assisted Wyoming Highway Patrol. Remov...
Veris, the subcontractor performing the solids removal, is repairing their track hoe this week. They need to complete these repairs before they can continue on with solids removal on lagoon cell 1. They will pick back up on work after Thanksgiving weekend....
The name of George Kreber was added to the Crook County War Memorial this fall. George graduated from Sundance High School in 1969 and enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1970. He was discharged in 1974, last serving on the USS Simon Lake. The USS Simon Lake was a submarine tender, named for a pioneering designer of early submarines. After his discharge, George went to work as a welder at Ellsworth AFB, SD. He retired after 40 years and now lives in Piedmont, SD. The original portion of the Crook...
