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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 is moving closer to having a new county wide landfill, according to Ed Wagoner, chairman of both the Weston County Solid Waste District board and the Weston County Commissioners. He reported last week that an average of 12,000 yards a day of dirt is presently being moved to build pits...
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...
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...
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.
Roughly two dozen spectators settled into the upstairs courtroom at the Weston County Courthouse to view the conclusion of a lawsuit brought by the News Letter Journal and three residents against the Weston County Commission more than a year ago, but the matter was settled without any fireworks as...
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...
The City of Newcastle has had to file for an extension to its Landfill No. 2 permit because the proposed Weston County Solid Waste District landfill did not open before the original Newcastle Landfill No. 2 closure date of February 2022, according to Greg Stumpff, the city’s public works supervisor...
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...
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