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The News Letter Journal would like to offer a huge shout-out to all the individuals and boards that made an effort to have at least one board member in attendance at the board training hosted by the the Weston County Extension Office on Oct. 11. The training was well attended, although we were...
As the fall sports seasons start drawing to a close, I’m betting Dogie fans (like me) are beginning to look toward the winter. As I turn my sights toward basketball, swimming and wrestling, it got me wondering who we will see suiting up for each of those sports.
In the not-so-distant past, I would...
There is a cost for transparency in government, despite the continued assumption of several individuals and agencies who claim to champion openness but refuse to expend any energy or resources to help us provide
information to you. These groups fight to remove legal notices from newspapers, avoid...
In the LORD I take refuge; how can you say to my soul, “Flee like a bird to your mountain, 2 for behold, the wicked abend the bow; they have fitted their arrow to the string to shoot in the dark at the upright in heart; 3 if the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”(Ps 11.1-3)
To...
In March 2020, before the full impact of the coronavirus pandemic started to sink in, I traveled from my home in South Dakota to Newcastle after the death of my grandmother. I had no inkling at that time that my work situation was about to change drastically.
I spent my time with family, and upon...
Last week I talked about the shortage of people willing to coach middle and high school sports, but the crisis in school sports programs doesn’t end there.
A couple of weeks ago, we had to move our regularly scheduled football game against Upton/Sundance from Friday to Thursday, due simply to the...
As our long hot summer of holidays, barbecues, beaches and lake time comes to its dreaded close, I was left pondering that beloved drink, beer.
It was recently pointed out to me by an old friend that Wyoming has a beer tax. Who knew there was a tax specifically targeted
for beer?
Now before you...
It’s been looming on the horizon for quite a few years now, but the reality is drawing ever nearer. High school sports are in a crisis which, if not averted, could mean the demise of programs.
The crisis is that fewer and fewer adults are stepping up to be coaches and officials, and without them,...
We are in the political doldrums between the high-energy primary election in August and what likely will be a low-event Wyoming general election in November. Accordingly, it is a fitting time to return to my vision of what the future of our state might look like. Rather than focusing on rural...
Rattlesnakes are common in Wyoming. Just about everybody has a favorite story. Here is mine:
We lived in an area called Squaw Creek (now Popo Agie Creek) outside of Lander for 21 years. It is a beautiful area dominated by big red rocks and was well-known as a snake haven.
One day our dog scared...
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