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With Moorcroft Mayor Dick Claar gravely ill, the town’s regular Monday night council meeting was directed by Mayor Pro Tem Ben Glenn.

Talking trash trucks

Moorcroft has been holding onto two town-owned garbage trucks for the possible event of picking up and transporting community waste again. After years of inactivity, though, the machines, a 1999 Peterbuilt and a 1994 Ford, are not reliable, according to Public Works Director Cory Allison.

“If we were going to keep doing our own garbage, we would have to get a new truck,” he said.

Councilman Austin Smith voiced concern regarding se...