Rep. Hans Hunt
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...
Chairman Ed Wagoner and Vice Chairman Nathan Todd, of the Board of Weston County Commissioners, raised concerns about an informal meeting attended by the other three commissioners — Vera Huber, Garrett Borton and Don Taylor — with technology professionals the week before the board’s regular March 7...
Judge Stuart S. Healy III, for the District Court in the Sixth Judicial District, has accepted the News Letter Journal’s lawsuit challenging the legality of a secret ballot, and also ruled that the hearing on the lawsuit will take place in Weston County in June. Healy ruled during a hearing on Feb...
Residents of Weston County who have been demanding to see the findings of an outside investigation into actions of the Weston County Commissioners are unlikely to ever have those demands met, because it doesn’t appear any “findings” actually exist.
Months before the News Letter Journal and other...
Public denied the right to comment
The News Letter Journal intends to continue with its lawsuit against the Board of Weston County Commissioners despite a Nov. 1 statement from the board revealing its votes for the replacement of former Rep. Hans Hunt more than a year after they used secret...
Candidates for Hunt’s replacement selected
Alexis Barker
NLJ News Editor
The Republican Central Committees for Goshen, Niobrara and Weston counties selected three names – Lusk’s Greg Matney, Newcastle’s Allen Slagle and Lusk’s J.D. Williams – during their Oct. 14 meeting to nominate a replacement...
Alexis Barker
NLJ News Editor
Sen. Ogden Driskill, R-Devils Tower, and Rep. Hans Hunt, R-Newcastle, say they are encouraged by the redistricting process that both are engaged in as members of the Joint Corporations, Election and Political Subdivision Committee. The pair met with the Board of...
Bob Bonnar
NLJ Publisher
When the U.S. Census Bureau released preliminary figures from its 2020 census on Monday, it officially signaled the start of the debate in the Wyoming State Legislature over legislative redistricting. Lawmakers tasked with redrawing the boundaries of the state’s...
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