UW looks to become less reliant on state funds
By Jeff Victor Laramie Boomerang Via Wyoming News Exchange LARAMIE — Just more than half of the University of Wyoming’s $400 million annual budget comes in the form of a state block grant — money...
View ArticleDodson jumps to GOP ticket
By Joel Funk Wyoming Tribune Eagle Via Wyoming News Exchange CHEYENNE – The candidate field in the Republican primary in Wyoming’s U.S. Senate field just got a little bigger, as Jackson’s Dave Dodson...
View ArticleJackson chuckwagon show to stop using “redface”
By Johanna Love Jackson Hole Daily Via Wyoming News Exchange JACKSON — The Bar T 5 Covered Wagon Cookout and Show will no longer use white actors to portray Native Americans. Less than a week after the...
View ArticleSeven homes destroyed, two injured in Campbell Co. twister
By Perrin Stein Gillette News Record Via Wyoming News Exchange GILLETTE — After receiving an emergency weather alert on his phone Friday afternoon, Matt Mcquin looked out the window of his house and...
View ArticleFour tornadoes seen in Campbell Co. Friday
By Patrick Filbin Gillette News Record Via Wyoming News Exchange GILLETTE — Damage wreaked on 19 homes in the Oriva Hills area on Friday wasn’t the result of just one tornado. The National Weather...
View ArticleDemocrat Rex Wilde enter’s governor’s race
By Joel Funk Wyoming Tribune Eagle Via Wyoming News Exchange CHEYENNE – A Democratic candidate to be Wyoming’s next governor promised last week his campaign will be as wild as his name. It’s not Rex...
View ArticleWyoming gets half of needed funds for new voting equipment
By Max Miller Cody Enterprise Via Wyoming News Exchange CODY — Wyoming is about halfway there. In an omnibus appropriations bill passed by the U.S. Congress this spring, legislators designated $380...
View ArticleWPA stands down in open records fight
By Andrew Graham, WyoFile Rules allowing state agencies to charge for public records received a surprising endorsement last month from the Wyoming Press Association, a traditional advocate for...
View ArticleOfficials hope Kanye visit boosts tourism
By Frederica Kolwey Jackson Hole News&Guide Via Wyoming News Exchange JACKSON — Well-known celebrities have been spending vacation time in Jackson Hole for years. Reports of Sandra Bullock floating...
View ArticleDUI blood test refusals could end up a Supreme Court issue
By Emily Mieure Jackson Hole News&Guide Via Wyoming News Exchange JACKSON — Time behind bars is pending for two people who were arrested on charges of driving under the influence in December. They...
View ArticleJUNE (GOULD) STREETS
June 30, 1921–May 31, 2018 June Streets, resident of Newcastle, Wyo., died May 31, 2018, at Weston County Manor. Services will be held at Weston County Senior Center, 629 Pine St. in Newcastle on...
View ArticleCONNIE ANNE WENZEL
May 7, 1966-May 21, 2018 Connie was born in Newcastle, on May 7, 1966, four hours and forty minutes before her mother’s birthday on Mother’s Day. She passed away peacefully into God’s arms on May 21,...
View ArticleANITA A. WETZEL
Dec. 26, 1926–Feb. 3, 2018 Anita A. Wetzel, born Dec. 26, 1926, passed away on Feb. 3, 2018, in Cheyenne, Wyo. Graveside services will be held June 9 at 11 a.m. at the Greenwood Cemetery in Newcastle,...
View ArticleTake your bow
By Shane Sellers You know me as ‘the theatre guy.’ I teach acting. I stage plays. I deliver entertainment. You’d expect a Shakespeare quote from a theater guy, so here it is, from Act-II,...
View ArticleA few bad apples don’t spoil the capitalist bunch
Dear Editor, Jerry Baird seems to have a rather distorted view of capitlism. (re: “Capitalists are nothing like average people,” May 31, 2018, page 2) Capitalism is the lynchpin of our economy and...
View Article“I gave the order to shoot down that plane”
By Bill Sniffin You could hear a pin drop as former Vice-President Dick Cheney described what it was like to be at the White House during the 9-11 crisis that occurred Sept. 11, 2001. He was speaking...
View ArticleNothing like advertising with staying power
By Pam Penfield I found it interesting and coincidental that Bill Sniffin’s column last week dealt with the extinction of landlines in Wyoming. At the time, I was working on my own column on the very...
View ArticleFirst State Bank’s origin in Newcastle
The History on Main series with Leonard Cash takes a bit of a detour starting this week, as we begin covering the timeline of block 7, lots 1 and 2, which are now home to First State Bank. While the...
View ArticleInterest in hunting on rise in Wyoming, says G&F director
By Sarah Hale Star Valley Independent Via Wyoming News Exchange AFTON — Around the country there may be less interest in combing the mountains for wild game. But, in Wyoming, that is not the case,...
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