Don Taylor
After being informed of email issues plaguing two different county offices, the Board of Weston County Commissioners voted on Sept. 5 to move their online communications into the future by upgrading all county offices to Microsoft Office 365.
As previously reported in the story “County officials...
Weston County has encountered plenty of technology issues at the courthouse in recent years, and email problems for at least two elected officials seem to be the county’s newest technological tangle.
Tina Cote, Weston County’s district court clerk, reported to the Board of Weston County...
Commissioner’s bill to county for the service raises immediate red flag
Commissioner Don Taylor believed he had provided a solution to the challenges presented by the county’s legal responsibility to perform Title 25 transfers. Problems related to the occasional need to transfer individuals...
The Board of Weston County Commissioners plans to do more outreach with volunteer and commission-appointed boards after Commissioner Vera Huber suggested during the board’s Aug. 1 meeting that board members begin attending other board meetings.
According to Huber, various board members had...
Photo by Walter Sprague/NLJ
Chevron signs warning drivers of the sharp turn at the corner of Kenwood Drive and Painted Hills Drive can be seen on the left in this image, along with the most recent damage to Scott Hradecky’s fence. Hradecky reported to the Board of Weston County Commissioners that his fence has been hit three times in the last 12 months.
In the past 12 months, Scott Hradecky’s fence on Kenwood Drive has been hit three times by drivers of vehicles that miss the 90-degree turn at the top of the hill he lives on. He asked the Board of Weston County Commissioners on June 20 to help find a possible solution to what he calls a dangerous...
The Board of Weston County Commissioners, minus Nathan Todd, voted to amend the minutes from Nov. 2, 2021, to accurately reflect what took place during the meeting.
As previously reported, the minutes from that Nov. 2 meeting stated that County Attorney Michael “Stulken answered all questions...
The regular meeting of the Weston County Commissioners for June 6, 2023. Video by Walter Sprague of the News Letter Journal.
After more than a year and a half of back and forth between the News Letter Journal and the Board of Weston County Commissioners regarding the secret ballots used to select the replacement for former Rep. Hans Hunt in 2021, a judge will finally determine if the voting method used by the...
Depositions held ahead of May hearing for secret ballot case
The majority of county commissioners questioned by the plaintiff’s attorney in a lawsuit over the use of a secret ballot by elected officials admitted they had misgivings over the manner in which they voted, but the group’s leader...
Tone has changed but the result is so far unchanged
The Newcastle City Council took what appeared to be a first step towards a deal that would have meant Weston County would only have one dispatch center for all emergency responders, but the Board of Weston County Commissioners declined to accept...
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