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Newcastle is one step closer to adopting a backyard chicken ordinance — a proposal that has been months in the making — when the City Council approved the ordinance on first reading at its Nov. 7 meeting.  Before the meeting, the Newcastle Planning Commission board reviewed the ordinance and made...
Weston County has requested that the city of Newcastle continue to provide dispatch services at the “status quo” until both entities’ dispatch projects can be completed.  As previously reported by the News Letter Journal on Sept. 22, earlier that month City Attorney Dublin Hughes had penned a...
LARAMIE — A local rental company has dropped its appeal to a court decision on a new housing code in Laramie.  Bell Leasing, LLC brought a lawsuit against the city of Laramie earlier this year after the city passed an ordinance requiring landlords meet a set of basic habitability standards for each...
In the most recent episode of the city of Newcastle and Weston County Board of Commissioners dispatch saga, the city warned the county in a letter that the contract for dispatch services would be terminated in 60 days if a new agreement was not met. The commissioners discussed the letter during...
Alexis Barker & Bob Bonnar NLJ News Editor & NLJ Publisher    Michael Stulken resigned as Newcastle’s city attorney via email, effective July 31, the same day that Alex Berger resigned as Weston County’s elected attorney, according to City Clerk-Treasurer Greg James. “After much...
Alexis Barker NLJ News Editor   Property owners in Newcastle who have crumbling retaining walls will face fines and/or jail time if they fail to repair them. The Newcastle City Council has approved an ordinance it hopes will enforce repair of damaged retaining walls on private property. The...

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