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BERKELEY’S LONG COURSE

Campbell County junior swimmer has 4, and aims for 2 more, state titles, D1 DON’T FORGET It’s the end of daylight saving time, so set your clocks back 1 hour tonight

LIVING LITTLE Students build careers with tiny house project, B1

A record month for COVID-19 Campbell County, state show marked increase in positive cases over past few weeks

By JAKE GOODRICK NEWS RECORD WRITER jgoodrick@gillettenewsrecord.net

News Record Photo/Mike Moore

Thunder Basin High School student Kaitlynn McKinsey turned 18 just two weeks before the 2020 election, and will cast her first ballot in an election this year.

Beyond the ballot Cross-section of voters brings perspective to potentially historic election

By NEWS RECORD STAFF

to an alarming, and even dangerous, point, others are optimistic that those emotions are prompting millions of traditional non-voters to cast ballots this time around.

Today, the News Record examines a cross-section of local voters from a range of views, including a firm Republican, a Democrat, a blue-collar worker, first-time voter, local pastor and a third-party supporter.

While Gillette politically is a firm red town, there is still enough political diversity to spark lively debate.

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DECISION 2020 On the ballot

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KAITLYNN MCKINSEY The 18-year-old will vote in her first election Nov. 3

states,” McKinsey said. “I think we can have somewhat civil discussions here because I do know people that have different opinions than me and we can still have civil discussions.”

Perhaps the truest mark of her relative newness to the electoral process is her open-mindedness, a trait that seems lacking among older voters in much of the online discourse about this year’s candidates and issues.

“I’ve always thought it was important to know about politics and to know about

JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT 8-year term/Vote yes or no Lynne Boomgarden Kari Jo Gray DISTRICT COURT OF THE 6TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT

More inside ✳✳ See more voter profiles on Page A8 and Page A9.

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Thomas W. Rumpke John R. Perry CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 6TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT

U.S. SENATE

4-year term/Vote yes or no

GOP

Cynthia M. Lummis

DEM

6-year term/Vote for 1

Merav Ben David

Wendy M. Bartlett News Record Photo/Mike Moore

Louis Ramos smokes a cigarette while walking past a host of local political signs on East Third Street in downtown Gillette last week.

Election Day Q&A

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GOP

Liz Cheney

DEM

Lynnette Grey Bull

CON

Jeff Haggit

LIB

2-year term/Vote for 1

Richard Brubaker

Local election officials expect large turnout Tuesday

By JONATHAN GALLARDO S NEWS RECORD WRITER jgallardo@gillettenewsrecord.net

State races

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lection Day is Tuesday, and while many people have already voted early or absentee, if history is any indication, thousands of voters in Campbell County will be voting in-person.

In the 2016 presidential election, 18,351 Campbell County voters cast a ballot, and about 65% of them did it at their polling place on Election Day. County Clerk Susan Saunders, whose office is in charge of elections, has worked in local elections for 40 years, starting in 1980. She said the local election process is secure and ensures every verified ballot is counted, whether one votes early or at the polls Nov. 3.

Below is a Q&A with Saunders on voting at the polls Tuesday.

Saunders’ answers have been edited for clarity.

Here are the candidates for Wyoming state offices that will appear on Tuesday’s general election ballot. Republican candidates are marked “GOP.” Democrats are marked “DEM.” STATE SENATE DISTRICT 24

GOP

4-year term/Vote for 1 Troy D. McKeown

STATE HOUSE DISTRICT 3

GOP

2-year term/Vote for 1 Eric Barlow

STATE HOUSE DISTRICT 31

GOP

2-year term/Vote for 1 John Bear

STATE HOUSE DISTRICT 32

GOP

Timothy Hallinan

DEM

2-year term/Vote for 1

Lynne Huskinson

What can I expect to see on Election Day at my polling place?

At Cam-plex, where the majority of the precincts vote, we will have a couple of tables outside of the voting area looking people up to see if they’re already registered, trying to keep the lines down. If they’re already registered, they will be directed to their precinct. If they’re not registered, they’ll go in further and register and then go to their precinct.

Here are the candidates for Campbell County, city of Gillette and town of Wright offices on the Tuesday general election ballot.

Except for nonpartisan races, Republican candidates are marked “GOP.” Democrats are marked “DEM.” CAMPBELL COUNTY COMMISSION 4-year term/Vote for 2 Colleen Faber Del Shelstad Wes Johnson

GILLETTE CITY COUNCIL WARD 1 4-year term/Vote yes or no Bruce Brown Eric Hanson GILLETTE CITY COUNCIL WARD 2 4-year term/Vote yes or no Mark Junek Billy Montgomery

Will I be required to wear a mask at the polling place?

No. You are welcome to wear a mask, but we do not require that you wear a mask.

What measures will be in place to allow for in-person voting during the COVID-19 pandemic?

The election judges have the plastic barriers, they will have some type of face covering on. We will have hand sanitizer throughout. Election workers will be giving the voters a pen that they can keep so we don’t have to worry about dirty pens and they’ll wipe down the voting areas.

Matthew F.G. Castano

Local races

GOP

LIB

Jo Jorgensen/Jeremy Cohen

6-year term/Vote yes or no

GOP

DEM

Joseph R. Biden/Kamala Harris

DEM

GOP

Donald J. Trump/Michael Pence

IND

4-year term/Vote for 1

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Judicial retentions

Here are the candidates for the presidential, u.S. Senate and u.S. House races that will appear on the Nov. 3 general election ballot.

Republican candidates are marked “GOP.” Democrats are marked “DEM.” U.S. PRESIDENT

what’s going on, and to form your own opinions on what politics are,” she said.

“My family has helped me a lot in that.

A lot of times there would be things that I thought and that my family would disagree with. All they would tell me was to educate myself, and when I did, I realized I agreed with my family a little more than I — or a lot more than I originally thought I would. My family has always been one of those pushing factors for me to educate myself.”

McKinsey talked about voting like other teenagers might talk about getting a driver’s license; it’s a rite of passage.

“I know a lot of people decide not to vote, but in our house, voting has always been a very important thing,” she said. “If you don’t play a part in your government or in who is your president, then you don’t really have a right to complain about it.”

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On the ballot

National races

GILLETTE CITY COUNCIL WARD 3 4-year term/Vote yes or no Laura Chapman News Record Photo/Greg Johnson

Early and absentee voting around the country and in Campbell County has been brisk this election season.

If I’m voting at the polls, why can’t I wear a shirt that supports a particular political candidate?

State statute prohibits campaigning within 100 yards of the building where the polling place is located.

This is so you’re not swaying anyone’s vote to one party or another.

Everything is neutral. And it’s not just clothing. It also includes hats, buttons What happens to a ballot once I and other campaign materials. vote at the polls? How is it counted?

Do you have extra security this When you put your ballot into year at polling places? an election machine, your votes are No. Similarly to four years ago, stored on a thumb drive. After the there will be law enforcement at the polls close, poll workers will take the doors of the Wyoming Center to thumb drive out of the machine and make sure no one gets in line to vote it gets put into a computer and the after 7 p.m. votes are tabulated that way.

No, that does not work in Wyoming. In order to register, they need to come here, their town clerk or city clerk. Yes, you can register by mail, but it has to be notarized, and we have to have a copy of your driver’s license. Wyoming does not allow voters to register online.

Shay Lundvall GILLETTE CITY COUNCIL WARD 3

DECISION 2020 Your primer for Tuesday’s general election, including a listing of all candidates and issues on the ballot, profiles and local stories, STATE HOUSE DISTRICT 52

2-year term/Vote for 1 GOP

tion, and as a result, she’ll cast her first ballot this year.

Although she’s paid attention to politics since she was 16, the realization that she’d actually be voting in this year’s election dawned on her just a week or so before her birthday. The fact that the news she’d ingested for years now was something that she would actually use to make her voice heard was “kind of a scary thing,” she said.

McKinsey is a senior at Thunder Basin High School, and she participates heavily in journalism and yearbook clubs. She is squarely a member of Generation Z, and therefore a lot of her life exists online.

She’s seen the discourse about this year’s election online, and she’s no fan of it.

Reality has proven kinder, she said.

“I think that even people who don’t agree with my personal beliefs in Wyoming, or people who do, I think that in Wyoming specifically, people are more accepting maybe than when you look online and see the situation in other

“I’ve always thought it was important to know about politics and to know about what’s going on, and to form your own opinions on what politics are.”

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First-time voter stresses the importance of civic engagement aitlynn McKinsey made it in just K under the wire. She turned 18 years old just two weeks before the 2020 elec-

GILLETTE NEWS RECORD

A voter’s guide for Tuesday’s election

Bill Fortner

STATE HOUSE DISTRICT 53

2-year term/Vote for 1 GOP

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hile 2020 may be historically remembered as the “Year of COVID19,” it also should be the year America regained its passion for the electoral process.

After decades of lamenting low voter turnout numbers after primary and general elections, Tuesday’s presidential election has all the makings to be record-setting on many levels.

Emotions are running high, and at times raw, with a growing political divide in the United States. While some argue that schism has grown

For Jason and Stephanie Robinson, the COVID-19 pandemic hit home earlier this month.

Jason, 48, felt a “light cold” start to develop. When he heard that someone he knew, and had recently been around, tested positive for COVID-19 and was in quarantine, he decided to get tested.

When the test came back positive, he and his household all quaran- More tined. It wasn’t until a few days later inside that Stephanie’s 74-year-old father, who lives with them, started showing ✳✳ Area churches symptoms.

They said his symptoms began mild dialing and progressed, starting with a head- back on ache and body aches and developing in-person into a cough. When the symptoms services worsened, they took him to Campbell because of County Memorial Hospital, where he surge, Page A10 tested positive for COVID-19.

“The first couple of days, he thought he was going to die,” said Stephanie, 46.

By the fourth day in the hospital, her father was on the mend and by day five, he was released.

Throughout their quarantine, Stephanie said the rest of the household also got sick, but only Jason and her father were tested.

“I didn’t get it very bad, but within a week my father-in-law had to go to the ICU with all of the symptoms that you commonly think of when it’s discussed,” Jason said. “It makes you think about how you can have it and not be that bad or you can have it and the worst can happen.”

Roy Edwards

State issue

There is one constitutional amendment on Tuesday’s general election ballot for Wyoming voters.

AMENDMENT A Vote for or against

This amendment will remove the constitutionally specified limit of the amount of debt a municipality can create for sewer projects and would allow the Legislature to prescribe by law the debt limit of municipal sewer projects.

Local issue

There is one ballot issue on Tuesday’s general election ballot for Campbell County voters.

BALLOT PROPOSITION NO. 1 Vote for or against the county lodging tax

Inside Shall Campbell County impose a four percent (4%) lodging excise tax as set forth in Wyoming statute 39-15203(a)(ii), within Campbell County, Wyoming, on lodging services, which means the provision of sleeping accomodations to transient guests which shall include the providing of sites for the placement of tents, campers, trailers, mobile homes or other mobile sleeping accomodations for transient guests?

The last time I voted was in the 2016 presidential election. Why do I need to register again?

In Wyoming, voter rolls get purged every two years. If you did not vote two years ago in the 2018 general election or the primary election in August, odds are you’ll need to register again. Call the elections office at 686-1892 to see if you’re still registered.

There’s a long line of people waiting to register to vote, but I’m already registered. Do I still need to wait in line?

If the voters know what precinct they are, and they’re already registered, they can just go straight there.

They don’t have to wait in line. To find out your precinct beforehand, call the elections office at 307-6861892.

If it’s past 7 p.m. and I’m in line but I haven’t voted yet, can I still cast a ballot?

Yes. We’ll get everyone in that building. Anyone in line by 7 p.m. will be able to vote.

Social media platforms have been telling users to register to vote and are linking to voter registration websites. If I see a website saying I can register to vote online, does this work?

When will the ballots cast on Election Day start being counted?

None of the precincts can start closing down until the voters are out of the building. As the thumb drives get brought in to the elections office, we will put them into the machine.

If there’s a lull in between, we’ll run reports. The absentees we will be starting earlier that day, so we’ll start running them through the machine, but we won’t run any reports until after 7 p.m.

How do you guarantee that a ballot is counted? What causes the counting machine to reject it?

As you put the ballot into the machine, it tells you that it has taken it. If it doesn’t take it, if you have over-voted, it will tell you that it’s not going to take it. You’ll have a chance to either accept it or you can spoil that ballot and get a new one.

If a person feels threatened at a polling place, what should they do?

If they’re at Cam-plex, they should report it to the registration table. If they’re at any other polling place, they should call the elections office at 307-686-1892.

If you turn in an absentee ballot and then try to vote at the polls on Election Day, what happens?

On the precinct list, anyone who has voted absentee has an “A” by their name. In the event someone has an “A” by their name and says, “that isn’t me,” we would check at the elections office.

Do I need to bring an ID in able to vote in person?

We just require an ID to register.

Bring a valid driver’s license if you plan on registering at the polling place.

County commission candidates ........................Page 2 ■ Hospitall district trustee candidates.................Page 2 ■ Cemetery district candidates ............................Page 3 ■ Write-ins have a steep learning curve ...............Page 3 ■ Legacy residents have to vote absentee...........Page 4 ■ Voters to decide county lodging tax..................Page 4 ■ Where to vote ......................................................Page 4 ■ Historic voter turnout.........................................Page 4

Bob Vomhoff

4-year term/Vote for 4

Susan Patricial Bennett Ken L. Clouston Lisa Durgin

Heidi J. Gross

Heidi L. Herrmann anne Ochs

Larry D. Steiger

CAMPBELL COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT 4-year term/Vote for 3 Randal Hite

Kristina Leslie Tom Murphy

CAMPBELL COUNTY CEMETERY DISTRICT 4-year term/Vote for 3

Early vote totals top 2016 ..................................Page 5 ■ How the aP gathers votes, calls races ..............Page 5 ■ Will non-battleground states matter? ...............Page 5 ■ School district trustee candidates ....................Page 6 ■ 4 local judges up for retention ...........................Page 6 ■ Local state legislative candidates ..................... Page 7 ■ Gillette City Council candidates ........................Page 8 ■ Wyoming Constitutional amendment a ...........Page 8

arlene Bryant

Tommie M. Butler

Dean Vomhof

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Nathan McLeland

CAMPBELL COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT TRUSTEE

J.D. Jones

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2-year term/Vote yes or no

OTHER CANDIDATES See Page 2 for candidates for Wright Town Council and the Campbell County Conservation District.

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He was more fiery after he kept hearing it played.

“He is using my words and my LOS ANGELES — From the voice to portray a message that I do beloved, “heard there was a secret not endorse,” Fogerty said in an Oct. chord” opening lines of Leonard 16 tweet announcing a cease-and-deCohen’s “Hallelujah” to the rousing, sist order. children’s-choir conclusion of the That the president’s rallies are potenRolling Stones’ “You Can’t Always tial spreaders of the coronavirus may Get What You Want,” President be adding intensity to artists’ desire not Donald Trump’s campaign rallies have to have their music contribute. been filled with classic songs whose “It’s not a great look for the artists, authors and their heirs loudly reject if their music is aligned with somehim and his politics. thing seen as unsafe,” Kaufman said.

It’s become a sub-cycle in the endless Many social-media observers pointcampaign cycle. The Trump campaign ed out that, given its title, Collins’ “In can hardly play a song without the The Air Tonight” was especially toneartist denouncing its use and sending deaf when it was played at Trump’s a cease-and-desist letter. Neil Young, Oct. 14 rally in Iowa. Collins’ attorJohn Fogerty, Phil Collins, Panic! At neys promptly demanded the camThe Disco and the estates of Leonard paign stop using the song.

Cohen, Tom Petty and Prince are just a Legally, politicians don’t necessarily few of those who have objected. need direct permission from artists.

Campaigns have been turning popCampaigns can buy broad licensing ular songs into theme songs for more AP File Photo packages from music rights organizathan a century, and American artists tions, including BMI and ASCAP, that Mick Jagger, center, Keith Richards, right, and Ronnie Wood, left, of have been objecting at least since 1984, when Bruce Springsteen denied the Rolling Stones perform during the “No Filter” tour in Oro-Medonte, give them access to millions of songs BMI said the Rolling Stones had the use of “Born in the U.S.A.” to the Ontario, in 2019. The group is among several musicians who object to opted out of inclusion in those licenstheir songs being used at President Donald Trump’s campaign rallies.

Ronald Reagan reelection campaign. es, and it informed the Trump camBut this year, the issue has reached Other artists have been more befud- paign that if it did not stop playing an unprecedented saturation point, Few have objected as adamantly as “You Can’t Always Get What You indicative of a wide cultural divide Young. The fiercely opinionated rock dled than angry about the playing of Want,” a Trump favorite in regular songs whose themes are the exact between the president and his Hall-of-Famer is the rare musician rotation at his rallies, the campaign opposite of the messages Trump is supporters, and overwhelmingly who has gone beyond demands and would be in breach of its agreement. sending. left-leaning musicians, who virtually filed a lawsuit over the repeated use of But even if their songs can be Fogerty said he was baffled by never make the same demands of his songs. played contractually, artists can still Trump’s use of “Fortunate Son,” his Democratic candidates.

“Imagine what it feels like to hear object. That usually just means a pub1969 hit with Creedence Clearwater “I’ve been covering this beat for ‘Rockin’ in the Free World’ after this Revival, whose condemnation of priv- lic demand to the campaign. probably 20 years, and this is probPresident speaks, like it is his theme “A lot of the time it just takes the ably as stark a division I’ve seen as song,” Young wrote on his website in ileged children of rich men who did cease-and-desist to tell them not to not serve in Vietnam sounds like a far as artists not wanting a politician July. “I did not write it for that.” use it, that’s already enough for the to use their songs,” said Billboard That feeling that they’ve been draft- tailor-made slam of Trump. artist to get their message out that “I find it confusing that the presicontributor Gil Kaufman, who has ed onto Team Trump clearly fuels they’re not associated with the camdent has chosen to use my song for been covering the convergence of many artists’ anger. paign and did not approve the use,” his political rallies, when in fact it music and politics for the record trade “Their music is their identity,” said Heidy Vaquerano, a Los Angeles seems like he is probably the fortumagazine during the campaign. “The Kaufman said. “It’s important to them attorney who specializes in entertainchoice is so stark for a lot of voters, to not appear as though they are tacit- nate son,” Fogerty said in a video on ment law and intellectual property.

Facebook in September. and it is for musicians too.” ly endorsing Trump.”

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CORRECTION The News Record incorrectly identified a photo Tuesday as being taken last year during trick-or-treating at the Campbell County Senior Center, when it actually was at the Cottonwood Apartments. Also, the Senior Center remains open.

Blotter HIT AND RUN ENZI DRIVE AND SLATE STREET: A 16-year-old boy was ticketed for hit and run Thursday afternoon. A 29-year-old woman in a 2002 GMC told police she was hit by a 2011 Chevy, which then left the scene. The driver, the 16-year-old boy, went home and told his mom about the crash, said Police Lt. Brent Wasson.

His mom then called the police to report it. The boy told police he didn’t see the GMC while he was changing lanes, and when he hit it, he didn’t know what to do, so he drove home. Damage is more than $1,000. No one was hurt, and the boy was ticketed for hit and run and improper lookout.

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SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY SOUTH GARNER LAKE ROAD AND HIGHWAY 14-16: An 18-year-old man

reported a man in a Jeep was holding a handgun while stopped at the railroad crossing Thursday afternoon. Police found the Jeep later in the day and spoke with the driver, a 28-year-old man, and his passenger, a 21-year-old man. The passenger admitted to holding an airsoft handgun and showing it to the driver, Wasson said.

He said he was dancing with the gun in his hand and did not point it at anyone. The driver was ticketed for no insurance and driving under suspension.

ACCIDENT 200 BLOCK COTTON AVENUE: A 38-year-old woman was ticketed after allegedly hitting a 39-year-old woman with her truck Thursday afternoon.

The 39-year-old was walking in front of a home when she was hit by a 2012 Ram, driven by the 38-year-old woman, as it was backing up. The two women

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800 BLOCK GILLETTE AVENUE: A 32-year-old woman was bitten by her English bulldog Tuesday while she was trying to break up a dog fight. Police spoke with her Thursday at Black Hills Urgent Care. She had puncture wounds on her left hand, Wasson said. The dog is current on its rabies vaccination and will be quarantined at home.

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700 BLOCK VIVIAN STREET: Two people were ticketed for underage drinking and a third person was ticketed for giving them alcohol early Friday morning. Police met with a 16-year-old boy and a 22-yearold man who appeared to be sneaking around. The boy was drunk, and he told officers he had been drinking in a 21-yearold woman’s apartment. Officers met with the woman, who admitted to buying a half-gallon of whiskey, Wasson said. A 20-year-old woman and a 17-year-old boy were in the apartment as well, and the

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20-year-old was drunk. The 16-year-old boy and the 20-year-old woman were ticketed for underage drinking, and the 21-year-old woman was ticketed for endangering the welfare of a minor.

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exchanged words before the 38-yearold drove off, said Undersheriff Quentin Reynolds. The victim had bruises on her left arm and thigh but refused medical treatment. When deputies spoke with the driver, she denied hitting the victim. She was ticketed for improper backing.

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QUESTION FOR THE EDITOR?: Contact Ann Turner at aturner@gillettenewsrecord.net

EDITORIAL

A pledge to nowhere?

No taxes contract can only stymie solutions to state’s financial crisis Last winter, the Wyoming Department of Transportation spent $2.4 million plowing the highways in this region to keep them open and clear of snow.

This winter, it estimates that it will have only $800,000 available to do the same job.

In other words, Wyoming residents and the travelers who help pay the state’s bills will have service cut by two-thirds. With a budget cut by two-thirds, highways won’t be cleared as often or as well.

That affects school buses trying to get kids to and from school, a fact that alarmed school officials sufficiently to bring it up for discussion this week about the winter ahead.

That affects coal miners and oil field workers who depend on Highways 59 and 50 to get to their jobs — which still pay a significant portion of the state’s bills.

That affects people who live in the rural areas of this county and other counties who need to travel.

That affects people like you and me who simply need to get to work.

Who it evidently doesn’t affect are those who have pledged that the state Legislature absolutely will not pass — or perhaps even consider — any new taxes.

Four Campbell County legislators have proudly signed a pledge that they will not vote for any new taxes and that they will not spend any of the state’s rainy day funds. To say that is short-sighted is an understatement.

It is worth noting that three of those legislators essentially won their offices in the primary election.

None of them — Sen.-elect Troy McKeown, Rep.elect John Bear and Rep.-elect Bill Fortner — has ever served a day in public office. They have never dealt with a budget the size of Wyoming’s and they never have had to legislate.

In essence, they have signed a pledge without having all of the facts, an action that could hamper Wyoming for years to come.

The state has severe financial problems brought on not so much by mismanagement as culture-shifting phenomena that officials have no control over. The world’s desire to control climate change and its view of fossil fuels cannot be ignored. The industry that has paid our bills for so long cannot be relied on to do so at the same level as the past.

That leaves two options: wither away into nothing or come up with new ways to help pay the bills.

Assuredly, government budgets can be cut. But they can’t be smashed to smithereens without significant impacts to services we rely on.

We choose to think that a thriving education system, robust post-secondary education, healthy health care, dependable state law enforcement and a safe road network are important and should be protected.

Wyoming’s citizen legislators have an unenviable task ahead of them in trying to move this state forward into the next decade and beyond. We would not be in the same position in Wyoming today if legislators in the 1970s didn’t come up with a plan to tax the mineral industry — against prevailing public opinion that to do so would limit development — and prepare for our future. That plan has carried us for 50 years. It can’t continue to do so — something the Legislature knew 20 years ago, and yet it has repeatedly kicked the can down the road.

It now encounters a roadblock — or maybe a 40-foot snowdrift. How the Legislature plows through it will help determine Wyoming’s future for the next 50 years.

Simply saying that any tax measure has a snowball’s chance in hell does nothing to address the problems ahead.

Quotes of the week “If you have symptoms, don’t automatically assume it’s nothing. Plenty of people have done that and spread the virus among their families and friends and at their workplaces.”

DR. ALEXIA HARRIST The state health officer commented after Wyoming set a new record of more than 800 new cases in a single day over the weekend.

“ … I know it sounds weird to accentuate the positive, but there’s also something very cathartic in getting a case solved and getting it to a legitimate resolution so the survivors have legitimate information as to what happened.”

ERIC SEEMAN The Campbell County Sheriff’s Office captain about his work and being selected as Law Enforcement Officer of the Year by the American Legion.

Other opinions

Chocolate-less Halloween seems wrong For many people, Halloween is the best day of the year because they can dress in costume, eat candy, watch scary movies and decorae houses so they look like graveyards.

But for me, it’s just the last day of October.

Nothing special.

Jonathan It goes back to my childhood. I never went trickGallardo or-treating. The whole concept didn’t make sense to me. Why is it on this one day of the year, it’s OK to take candy from strangers, the one group of people that your parents tell you not to take candy from?

And the whole costume thing? I didn’t get that either. You can buy a costume or spend a lot of time making a costume, only to use it once a year, which isn’t a very efficient use of time or money.

I also didn’t like the idea of strangers coming to my house asking for candy while disguised to hide their real identities.

Luckily, my neighborhood was not a hotbed for trick-or-treaters, so I did not have to face my fears very often.

As I grew older, my fears of these candy-loving strangers went away, but my love, or lack thereof, for Halloween did not increase.

I’ll put on the “Stranger Things” soundtrack to get into the Halloween mood. But that’s all. Well, that and watch

Jimmy Kimmel’s “I Told My Kids I Ate All Years of eating Skittles and Starbursts Their Halloween Candy” challenge, where while other kids ate Reese’s Pieces and parents film their kids reacting to the revButterfingers must have taken away the litelation that their hard-earned candy is all tle enjoyment that I had during Halloween. gone.

I was jealous of other children whose lives Even though it were better because of chocYears of eating Skittles advocates parents olate. lying to their children, and Starbursts while other I have since outgrown my I find it hilarious for chocolate allergy and have kids ate Reese’s Pieces some reason. tried several different candy And I do appreciate and Butterfingers must bars, from Hershey’s to creative Halloween Snickers to Twix. decorations. There Now, this may offend have taken away the little seems to be a lot some of you, but I think they enjoyment that I had during all taste the same, and that more variety in people’s front lawns taste is “not good.” On a Halloween. I was jealous in October than in scale of 1 to 10, I’d give all of other children whose December, for whatchocolate a 2.4. ever reason.

I tried a Hershey’s candy lives were better because But other than bar Thursday just to refresh that, I just can’t get my memory, and it’s as bad of chocolate. into Halloween. As as I remember. I don’t like a kid, the idea of buying as much candy as the smell. I don’t like how it sticks to my I wanted really appealed to me. But today, teeth. I don’t like how I have to take a big I don’t even go to the store the day after gulp of water just to wash out the aftertaste.

Halloween to get those big bags of deeply If you like chocolate, I’m happy for you. discounted candy.

I’m sure it is as good as everyone says it is. I The main culprit behind my not liking wish I could enjoy it like everyone else.

Halloween, I think, was being allerMaybe I’ll like it one day. Perhaps my gic to chocolate. Sure, there are plenty tastes will evolve and one day my taste buds of non-chocolate candies out there, will suddenly decide that chocolate isn’t but chocolate is king. You can’t have that bad after all.

Halloween without chocolate. That’s just I can only hope. unnatural. It’d be like trying to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day without beer, or trying to Jonathan Gallardo is a reporter with the go through fall without a pumpkin spice News Record. Contact him at latte. jgallardo@gillettenewsrecord.net.

Trump is one of the best conservative presidents in history WASHINGTON — The “mute” button at the second presidential debate worked wonders. And its success provokes an interesting thought experiment: How would the Trump presidency be seen with a mute button on?

President Donald Marc Trump says a lot of things dismay even his Thiessen that supporters. But what if we turned off our TVs, stopped looking at Twitter and looked at what he has done in office over the past four years? With the sound off, Trump’s is one of the greatest conservative presidencies in modern American history. Consider the record: His victory over Hillary Clinton stopped Democrats from replacing the late justice Antonin Scalia with a liberal activist, saving the Supreme Court’s conservative majority.

He appointed three fantastic new justices and has had more than 200 judges confirmed to the lower courts.

He signed the first comprehensive tax reform in three decades; removed the wet blanket of Obama-era regulations smothering our economy; scrapped the TransPacific Partnership that advantaged China and brokered new trade deals with Mexico, Canada, Japan and South Korea. Before the coronavirus pandemic, unemployment reached record lows, including for Blacks and Hispanics. And even in the midst of a pandemic-induced economic crisis, 56% of Americans say they are better off now than they were four years ago.

Trump delivered for African Americans, passing criminal justice reform, creating opportunity zones to rebuild our inner cities and securing permanent funding for historically black colleges and universities.

He signed opioid and sex-trafficking legislation, and a new “Right to Try” law giving dying Americans access to experimental medications. He implemented the Protect

Life Rule, which prohibits federal famibetter with the mute button on. What has ly-planning funds from going to abortion hurt public perception of the president’s clinics, and defended the religious liberty of pandemic performance is not, primarily, the Little Sisters of the Poor. what he has done but what he has said — He made the United States an energy the jarring fights with reporters during press superpower — getting rid of President briefings, stream of consciousness about Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan, withbleach, reluctance to embrace masking and drawing from the Paris climate accord, and suggestions the virus will “disappear.” supplanting Russia and Saudi Arabia as But what about his actions? He shut the world’s largest oil producer — which down travel with China in January, saving has transformed the nationcountless lives. He procured al security landscape in the What has hurt public nearly 200,000 ventilators and United States’ favor. deployed the U.S. Army Corps perception of the He drove the Islamic State of Engineers to build $660 milfrom its caliphate and killed president’s pandem- lion worth of emergency field its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghhospitals across the country, dadi. Unlike Obama, he twice ic performance is most of which never treated launched military strikes a single patient. He launched against Syria for using chemi- not, primarily, what Operation Warp Speed to try cal weapons against civilians. he has done but to produce the fastest delivery Trump withdrew from the of a vaccine for a novel virus what he has said ... disastrous Iran nuclear deal in history, as well as lifesaving and reimposed crippling therapeutics. The Paycheck sanctions on Iran, forcing the regime to cut Protection Program he signed into law has funding for its terrorist proxies — and he helped American businesses survive the locktook out Iran’s terrorist mastermind Qasem down. And his push to reopen the economy Soleimani. He moved the U.S. Embassy to is working, producing a record-breaking Jerusalem and brokered three Arab-Israeli 7.4% GDP growth in the third quarter. peace accords — the first in more than a There have, of course, also been serious quarter century.

— sometimes shameful — mistakes in poliHe shipped Javelin antitank missiles cy, including family separations at the U.S. to Ukraine, got NATO allies to spend border; his aborted invitation of the Taliban billions more on our common defense, to Camp David; withdrawing U.S. forces withdrew from the Intermediate-Range from Syria and giving Turkey a green light Nuclear Forces Treaty and launched a to invade and attack our Kurdish allies; cyberattack on Russia to deter its 2018 asking the president of Ukraine to investielectoral interference. He increased defense gate Hunter Biden, among others. And of spending and created the Space Force. He course, we cannot simply ignore his words. took on China’s predatory trade practices, His noxious tweets and offensive rhetoric signed the Hong Kong Human Rights and have driven away voters who might otherDemocracy Act, and sanctioned Beijing wise be supporting him next Tuesday. for its suppression of the Uighurs. His tarBut as troubling as some of Trump’s iff threats forced Mexico to crack down words are, his actions matter more. And on illegal immigration, and he freed more by that standard, the Trump presidency is Americans from foreign captivity in four among the best of my lifetime — with the years than Obama did in eight. mute button on.

And he is the first president since Ronald Reagan not to start a new war.

Follow Marc A. Thiessen on Twitter, Even his COVID-19 response looks a lot @marcthiessen.

With the exception of articles labeled specifically as “Editorial,” opinions expressed on this page do not necessarily reflect viewpoints of the News Record, but are offered in the spirit and interest of public debate and discussion.

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Obituaries Tylyr Jayms Gray

Larry Glen Riehemann

Tylyr Jayms Gray, 18, of Gillette lost his battle with polycystic kidney disease Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020, at the Wyoming Medical TYLYR Center.

GRAY A celebration of life begins at 11 a.m., Tuesday at Walker Funeral Home.

He was born March 8, 2002, to Jack Gray and Christina Bond.

He attended Campbell County High School and Westwood High School, where he made many friends who loved him.

He was the youngest of four children with brother, Jack Gray; and sisters, Mysty Gray and Kaylee Peterson.

He was a kind soul who lived his life to the fullest through simple pleasures like spending time with friends and family and listening to or creating music.

He was not only an amazing uncle, son, brother and friend, he was an amazing person who will never be forgotten by anyone who ever met him.

Donations and memorials may be sent in care of Walker Funeral Home, 410 Medical Arts Court, Gillette, WY 82716. You can donate online at walkerfuneralgillette.com or by texting “518679” to 347-407-8808.

Condolences also may be expressed at walkerfuneralgillette.com or attached to the obituary at gillettenewsrecord.com.

Larry Glen Riehemann, 64, of Moorcroft died Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020, at his home of natural causes.

He was born May 5, 1956, in Sundance to William C. and Ledel (Baldwin) Riehemann. He lived on the family ranch outside of Osage until 1963, when the family moved to Upton and he attended school through the fifth grade.

In 1966, the family moved to Moorcroft, where he attended school, graduating in 1974. Following graduation, he enlisted in the Navy.

After his discharge from the Navy, he

Travis G. Roach Travis G. Roach, 31, of Gillette passed away Monday, Oct. 19, 2020, at his home.

He was born May 7, 1989, in Sheridan, the son of Debora TRAVIS Roach Harms ROACH of Gillette.

He attended Campbell County schools.

He formerly was a lube truck technician at North Antelope Rochelle coal mine. His dream job and career was to be in the coal mining industry.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Nov. 8 at Cam-plex Frontier Hall.

He is survived by his mother, Debora Harms; stepfathers, Jerry Harms and Kevin Guedesse; his brother, David (Krysal) Bauer; and two nephews, Lacion and Korbin Bauer. He also leaves his maternal grandmother, Geraldine Roach, also of Gillette; several aunts, uncles and cousins who loved him dearly; and his close friends.

In lieu of flowers and donations, the family asks that you consider making donations to Debora Harms to assist in covering the cost of funeral expenses.

They may be dropped off at Gillette Memorial Chapel.

This paid obituary was provided by family and friends.

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For details, call 307-6829306, ext. 201. Email obituaries to obits@gillettenewsrecord.net.

Jerome J. Schantz Jerome J. Schantz, 72, of Spotted Horse passed away Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020, peacefully surrounded by his loved ones.

Mass of Christian Burial begins at 10 a.m. Thursday at St. Matthew’s Catholic JEROME J. SCHANTZ Church in Gillette with the Rev. Bryce Lungren officiating.

The service will be livestreamed at walkerfuneralgillette.com with a link attached to Jerome’s obituary.

A luncheon and time of fellowship will take place following mass at Recluse Hall. Burial will be the following day in Sheridan.

Jerome was born April 27, 1948, in Elgin, North Dakota, to George J. and Tecla (Anton) Schantz. He grew up in Glen Ullin, North Dakota, graduating from high school in 1966, and worked the family farm with his dad and brothers.

In 1968, he married Susan Horst.

Together they had two daughters, Jennifer and Stephany.

James Rickman Murray James Rickman Murray, 77, passed away peacefully but unexpectedly Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020.

An outdoor funeral service begins at 10 a.m. Nov. 5 at St. JAMES Mark’s Episcopal MURRAY Church in Little Rock, Arkansas. The family will hold an outdoor visitation at 5:30 p.m. the day before at the Allsopp Park pavilion on Cedar Hill Road.

Jim was born July 28, 1943, in Washington, D.C., to Ernest Burgin Murray and Adelaide Sweatt Murray.

Jim was an Eagle Scout and a graduate of Boca Ciega High School in Gulfport, Florida, before joining the U.S. Air Force in 1961.

Soon after, they made their way to Wyoming, where they helped operate the KOA Campground with the Horsts. Susan and Jerome later divorced, but remained close friends.

Jerome was a jack-of-all-trades and did everything from school bus driving to serving as vice president of Barter Bank of America. In 1991, he found his calling in Spotted Horse, when he bought the bar and never looked back.

He later met Coleen Eisele and they made a home and life together in Spotted Horse.

Jerome was liked by everyone who met him. He was always willing to give a hand to those who needed it or have a beer with his many dear friends at the bar. He loved going back to North Dakota to help with the crops, and we are so happy he got one last harvest in this year.

Jerome was a collector of many things and couldn’t go pass an antique store without stopping in.

His greatest joys were his daughters and two grandkids, Kylie and Cameron.

He was such a proud grandpa when he was able to catch a hockey game or a marching band performance. It also made his heart so happy that Jennifer and her husband, Brian, moved to

Spotted Horse this summer.

He loved spending time with all of his siblings, nieces, nephews and other family members. Whether it was going out hunting, fishing or just sitting around and talking, Jerome always enjoyed time with his family.

Jerome will be deeply missed by his children, Jennifer (Brian) McLaughlin of Spotted Horse and Stephany (Garrett) Beaver of Mandan, North Dakota; grandchildren, Kylie and Cameron Beaver; his partner in life, Coleen Eisele; brothers, Donald (Polly), Ernest (Mary), George (Joanne) and Nick (Leann); sisters, Patsy Glasser, Janice (Nick) Mosbrucker, Joanne (Stanley) Heinemeir, Bonnie Nelson and Carolyn (Jim) Opp; and many, many dear nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents, George and Tecla (Anton) Schantz; two brothers, Eugene and Richard; and one sister, Mary Sue. Memorials and condolences may be sent in care of Walker Funeral Home, 410 Medical Arts Court, Gillette, WY 82716.

Condolences also may be expressed at walkerfuneralgillette.com.

In the Air Force, Jim rose to the rank of staff sergeant and earned a Bronze Star for meritorious service during an extended tour in Vietnam.

After leaving the military, Jim became a law enforcement officer and graduated magna cum laude from St. Leo College.

Following his graduation from the University of Florida College of Law in 1979, Jim embarked on a lengthy and diverse legal career that took him from Florida to Wyoming and back again. At every point in his legal career, Jim meticulously applied the principle that, “If a job is worth doing, it’s worth doing right.”

Jim was a lifelong Episcopalian and diligently sought to do what was right in the eyes of the Lord. Jim loved God’s creation.

He was an avid outdoorsman and hunter, a gunsmith and competitive shooter, a woodworker and a traveler.

He was welcoming; few met Jim who

weren’t offered the chance to join him on his next adventure. But most of all, he loved spending time with his family and friends, whether around a campfire or a kitchen table.

Jim is survived by his beloved wife of nearly 47 years, Julia; children, Ronald James Murray, Kathryn Murray Irby (Scott) and Julianne Murray VanLaningham (Chris); grandchildren, Ryan Murray, Mary-Kathryn Royce Irby, William James Irby, John Elton Boyd Irby, Benjamin Matthew VanLaningham, Andrew Scott VanLaningham and Elizabeth Mairet VanLaningham; and siblings, Thomas Murray (Debbie) and Marion Curry (Mike).

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Wounded Warrior Project, the NRA Whittington Center or the Arkansas Game and Fish Foundation.

Former Gillette resident Lucas Alan Lehman, 31, died Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020, at St. Cloud Hospital in LUCAS St. Cloud, LEHMAN Minnesota, of renal failure.

Lucas was born Feb. 13, 1989, in Gillette to Curtis and Merrie (Borsvold) Lehman. He graduated from Campbell County High School in 2007 and from Minnesota State University Moorhead in 2013 with a bachelor’s degree in construction management.

He returned to Gillette and worked as a project estimator for DRM Inc. for several years. Lucas continued to work in construction and most recently worked for S.J. Louis Construction in St. Cloud.

He was a passionate and accomplished golfer and bowler, winning many tournaments and awards throughout his lifetime. He also enjoyed fishing, travel, playing Super Nintendo and spending time with family and friends.

He was an avid Minnesota Vikings and Twins fan, and you could always find him watching a football game on Sunday afternoons. He loved playing cards with his grandparents and was always up for a game of horse collar or rook.

Lucas is survived by his parents, Curtis and Merrie Lehman of Talmoon, Minnesota; sisters, Megan Nelms of Gillette and Allison Lehman of Pineville, Louisiana; two nephews; and grandparents, Bud and Elaine Wisnewski of Lidgerwood, North Dakota.

He was preceded in death by his maternal grandparents, Ernest and Ella Borsvold; and one uncle.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks everyone to cherish their time with loved ones a little more. There will be no services at this time.

A celebration of life and remembrance of Lucas will take place in Gillette in spring 2021.

Condolences may be attached to the obituary at gillettenewsrecord.com.

This paid obituary was provided by family and friends.

This paid obituary was provided by family and friends.

Carolyn Ann “Carrie” Burke, 38, passed away Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020, in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Graveside rites begin at 10 a.m. Saturday at Mount Pisgah Cemetery.

She was born Feb. 19, 1982, in Gillette to William CAROLYN L. “Bill” Burke and Susan BURKE (McCorison) Burke.

Carrie was raised in Gillette, where she attended Hillcrest Elementary School, Twin Spruce Junior High and Campbell County High School, graduating with the class of 2000.

Carrie ran cross-country and track, competed in tennis, played flute in band and visited Europe as part of the foreign language club during the summer of 1999.

She began her college career at the University of Wyoming, later transferring to Metropolitan State University of Denver, where she graduated in 2004 with a BS degree in Health Care Management and a minor in Marketing.

Carrie worked in the Animal Science Department at the University of Wyoming, where she was honored with the “Tip of the Cap

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friends.

Mr. Riehemann is survived by his friend, Verlene Reynolds; brothers, Bill, Ray and Bob, all of Upton, Carl of Gillette and Paul Baker of Moorcroft; and many nephews, nieces, cousins and friends.

He was preceded in death by his parents; wife, Connie; stepfather, Paul Baker; and one nephew.

Cremation has taken place and services are pending.

Online condolences may be written at fidler-isburgfuneralchapels.com or attached to the obituary at gillettenewsrecord.com.

Carolyn Ann ‘Carrie’ Burke

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Lucas Alan Lehman

returned home and worked various oil field jobs. In 1984, he went to Daytona, Florida, and attended motorcycle mechanic school. He continued working in the oil field industry until his retirement in 2018.

After returning to Moorcroft in 1985, he met and married Connie Ehman.

Connie died in 2002.

Mr. Riehemann loved animals and spending time with his family and friends. He also enjoyed traveling, and especially cruises and trips with his friend Verlene. He also loved to fish.

He had a contagious smile and laugh and he will be missed by his family and

This paid obituary was provided by family and friends.

Award” nominated by students and awarded as outstanding staff member. She also worked at Mountain West Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. in Laramie as a marketing specialist.

In 2013, she moved to Fort Collins, Colorado, where she attended The Healing Arts Institute, graduating from its Massage Therapy Program.

In Fort Collins, Carrie worked at Qualfon as a travel and lifestyle benefit specialist. At the time of her death, she was employed as an insurance agent in Fort Collins.

Carrie was sweet, loving and caring and was always concerned about others. She made friends easily and was loved by all who knew her. She enjoyed hiking in the beautiful Colorado Rockies and was a member of a hiking club.

She will be sadly missed by her family and her many friends.

Carrie is survived by her loving parents, Bill and Susan Burke of Gillette; and two brothers, Aaron Burke of Riverton and Paul Burke of Moscow, Idaho.

Condolences and memorials may be sent to Walker Funeral Home, 410 Medical Arts Court, Gillette, WY 82716 and at walkerfuneralgillette. com.

This paid obituary was provided by family and friends.

Rhoda Irene (Hall) Tate Rhoda Irene (Hall) Tate died Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020. For the record — cancer, which she battled for over 20 years — didn’t beat her. It was RHODA TATE a tie and it died when she passed away.

Rhoda loved her husband if 40 years, Dave; her children, Vick Morgan and Joy Haskell; and her grandson, Tristan Haskell. She also loved her sometimes eccentric siblings, Deanna (Art) Gallegos, Nancy (Pam Crist) Butcher and Kurt Hall.

She was preceded in death by her father, Dean W. Hall; and mother, Eldee Swope Hall.

Everybody dies, but not everybody really lives. Rhoda lived!

She and Dave moved to the ranch north of Gillette in 1989, where they raised happy cows.

Rhoda worked in the coal mines for 10 years to afford the ranching

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habit. She was a member of the Campbell County Cattlewomen and even served as president.

She was part of a Bible study group (the church ladies) that she truly enjoyed. She liked reading and had the healthiest habits of anyone.

She loved to walk with her dogs, and I swear she could out-walk most horses.

She was happiest on the back of her big grey Owen gathering miscreant cows. Many friends and family will picture her on the horizon riding out.

Rhoda’s burial was a beautiful ceremony attended by her closest friends and family. It took place at the family ranch Oct. 12.

Please have any memorials you may wish to offer sent to Stillwater Hospice of Lovell.

To all her friends and family who brought joy to her in the last months of her life, thank you. And especially to Pam Laue, whose kind presence, in the worst of times, was the best.

This paid obituary was provided by family and friends.

GPA-TV is now streaming in High Definition Gillette Public Access Television is now streaming all three channels in High Definition.

The web address has changed for our channels.

Be sure to visit www.gillettewy.gov/gpa to find the updated links.

Fingerprinting Services The Gillette Police Department will be changing the days that they provide fingerprinting services to the public.

Starting Nov. 2, the GPD will be providing fingerprinting services to the public on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 1 - 4:30 p.m.

Currently, fingerprinting services are provided on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 1 - 4:30 p.m.

These days will remain in effect until Friday, Oct. 30.

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District Court SEXUAL ASSAULT QUINTON BODEAN ERICKSON, 21, was acquitted by a jury Oct. 9 of attempted first-degree sexual assault and attempted second-degree sexual abuse of a minor. He was convicted of delivery of alprazolam. The case involves a 15-year-old girl who was described as being “super intoxicated” during an alleged assault in September 2019. A man had given the girl a ride from school at lunchtime that day at her request because she was having a bad day and didn’t want to remain in school, she later told investigators. They stopped to pick up Erickson at a store and then went to the other man’s house. The girl told police that she was given half of a Xanax tab by Erickson, who told her that it would make her black out and not care about anything for a couple of hours. She also drank two partial bottles of alcohol and they then sat and listened to music. She told police she started to feel “weird” and then the details became hazy. She said she remembered Erickson kissing her and the other coming into the room to tell him, “You’re 20, you can’t do this,” according to court documents. The two accused each other of sexually assaulting her.

BURGLARY JACOB ROBERT BAHNER, 20, was given a suspended two- to five-year prison term Oct. 14 for conspiracy to commit burglary. Judgment had been withheld pending a pre-sentence agreement, but after a review of the investigation, District Judge Thomas W. Rumpke entered the conviction. He also ordered Bahner to pay $810 in fees and to complete Intensive Supervised Probation during his his two years of probation. He also must complete intensive out-patient substance abuse treatment. Bahner was with Missy Buffalomeat and Joseph Robert Hyne on Sept. 23 when they decided to go car hopping to get money. They were in the Westridge Subdivision at about 11:45 p.m. when a man up late working on his computer noticed a black car driving around. Then he saw three people walk near his home and get into a pickup parked at the end of his driveway. He saw them shining a flashlight around inside the pickup. They started to walk up the driveway but abruptly turned around when they looked up and saw a surveillance camera, according to court documents. They were arrested shortly after.

JESSE HODGES, 35, pleaded guilty Oct. 16 to burglary and possession of heroin, both felonies, and a misdemeanor count of theft. In a plea agreement, counts of possession marijuana and interference with a peace officer were dismissed. Prosecutors will recommend suspended three- to five-year sentences on the felonies and three years of supervised probation.

He also must pay restitution of $480. They’ll recommend credit for time served on the theft charge. District Judge Michael N. “Nick” Deegan revoked his bond pending sentencing. A man reported to police May 18 that items were missing from his garage and were taken sometime after May 13. Two days later, a friend said he saw those items listed for sale on Facebook.

Listed were a hand power sander, Kawasaki power drill, Black & Decker leaf blower, Skilsaw

and a hedge trimmer, which matched those missing from his garage. Police identified the person posting the items as Hodges, who lived about 100 feet away from the man whose items were stolen. Police got a search warrant and found the missing tools in a closet in the home, according to court documents. While police were in the house, Hodges came home, saw them and took off running before he was tackled. Police found THC resin in his pocket and when he was taken to jail, he said he had something in his pocket, which turned out to be 1.75 grams of black tar heroin. The latest charges are felonies since he had two prior convictions for possession in 2007 and 2014, according to court documents.

AGGRAVATED ASSAULT The felony case against JASON J. BAHAM, 40, has been remanded to Circuit Court as part of plea negotiations in which an aggravated assault and battery will be reduced to a misdemeanor count of battery and a charge of conspiracy to deliver meth will be reduced to a misdemeanor count of possessing meth. He was one of three men who were charged in a case described as “a drug deal gone wrong” that sent a man to the hospital with several broken bones in his face and a cut on his head that took two staples to close. The man reportedly asked Baham to front him $200 to buy 2 grams of meth after he’d gotten out of jail. Baham was accused of making the arrangements with the other two men to sell the meth, according to court documents.

them, according to court documents.

ENDANGERING CHILDREN DAVID ANDREW YOUNG, 36, pleaded guilty Oct. 15 to endangering children and in a plea agreement, another count of endangering children and using a controlled substance were dismissed. He’ll also admit violating a program on an earlier case. Sentencing recommendations were not part of the agreement. Police were called to his house about 10:30 a.m.

Aug. 22 by a 911 call where they found Young showing signs of extreme paranoia, including not believing that the uniformed police officers were actually police. In searching the house, they found two used syringes in the trash can that tested positive for meth. One of them was at the top of the trash where it was accessible to the two children living there. McKayla Shea Lang said she’d used meth about 3 a.m. and Young said he had used 20 hours before, according to court documents. Both were on supervised probation for drug endangered children.

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CURTIS W. SCHOLTEN, 28, pleaded no contest Sept. 17 to strangulation of a household member. In a plea agreement, prosecutors will recommend a three- to five-year prison sentence, suspended in favor of a 60-day split sentence in county jail and then three years of supervised probation. He also must pay restitution. Scholten was accused of grabbing his girlfriend of eight months by the throat and slamming her up against a wall April 20, making it difficult to breathe. She got free by kicking him in the groin and grabbed a knife from the kitchen in self-defense, which he grabbed and took away, cutting himself. The fight moved outside on the deck and he allegedly again grabbed her by the throat. When she got free a second time, she left without her phone and walked to the Arbuckle Lodge to call police. He told police there was no physical fight between

JARED ROBERT MILLARD, 31, was sentenced Oct. 19 to five to seven years in prison for possessing meth and eight to 14 years for possession with intent to deliver meth, which are to be served concurrently. He also was sentenced to 269 days each for misdemeanor counts of possessing marijuana and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, all of which have been served. Rumpke also fined him a total of $2,360. Millard was pulled over Nov. 5 in a 2001 Ford Escort that had been reported stolen earlier in the night. He said the passenger, who ran when they were pulled over, had arranged with a friend to use it. He claimed one of three backpacks in the car, which contained a gram of marijuana and 0.25 grams of meth. Also inside the car were about 500 jeweler-size bags and two digital scales that had meth residue on them. He was arrested and on the way to jail, was moving around in the back seat. Officers searched the caged area of the patrol car and found 23 grams of meth, according to court documents.

SCOTT T. PILCH, 20, was given a suspended three- to five-year prison sentence Oct. 13 for possessing meth. He also was sentenced to 121 days in jail (all served) for driving while under the influence. Perry also suspended a $5,000 fine and ordered him to pay $1,910 in fees. Police found him Jan. 1 parked on Rohan Avenue with the engine running and marijuana shake on his pants. In the car, police found a small bag of meth and a small amount of marijuana, some of which he said he had smoked earlier. In a satchel, three shooters of alcohol were found, according to court documents. The possession charges were felonies because he had two prior convictions for possession.

Fines include any order to pay court costs, a contribution to the Crime Victims Compensation Fund and attorney fees.

District court items are taken from court documents filed in the Clerk of District Court Office.

Their availability may have been delayed while judges signed the court orders.

Hofer ✳✳ James Allen Douglass and Rachael Ann Becker ✳✳ Troy Alan Akins and Amanda Lyn Forister ✳✳ Joseph Anthony Gutierres Jr. and Rebecca Ann Barrett of Williston, North Dakota

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ESCAPE AMAREE J. ROBERTSON, 26, was sentenced Oct. 13 to 15 to 30 months in prison for escaping from the Volunteers of American community corrections facility. It is to be served consecutively to three previous Sublette County cases. District Judge John R. Perry also fined him $760. Robertson was convicted in March 2016 in Sublette County of burglary and went to Boot Camp and then the VOA. He was supposed to be released from the VOA in June 2017, but a sentencing modification was denied two weeks before he escaped, according to court documents.

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In case you missed it CCH upgrades security since ransomware attack

Local GOP supports Republican contract

Going from dealing with a ransomware attack to a pandemic in the past year has been a challenge for Campbell County Health’s information technology department.

“I would love to say that I believe in the morality of humans, but during this COVID response, we have not experienced that from a cyber side,” said Matt Sabus, vice president of IT for CCH, during a recent hospital board retreat.

“Health care has been targeted and they come at health care very hard,” he said.

The COVID-19 pandemic has only upped the stakes of ongoing attempts to breach hospital security systems, Sabus said, adding that “we are pretty much in a full cyber war.”

I fact, federal agencies warned that cybercriminals are unleashing a wave of data-scrambling extortion attempts against the U.S. healthcare system designed to lock up hospital information systems, which could hurt patient care just as nationwide cases of COVID-19 are spiking.

In a joint alert Wednesday, the FBI and two federal agencies warned that they had “credible information of an increased and imminent cybercrime threat to U.S. hospitals and healthcare providers.” The alert said malicious groups are targeting the sector with attacks that produce “data theft and disruption of healthcare services.”

The cyberattacks involve ransomware, which CCH is familiar with since aransomware incident that began in September 2019 thath temporarily shut down CCH’s computer systems and interfered with operations for months. Since then, the organization has undergone an IT overhaul, updating systems and reinforcing its security.

“Where we’ve come to and where we were right after the cyber incident to now has been significant,” Sabus said.

As part of the revamped security efforts, CCH replaced many computers; retired, updated or archived more than 200 old servers; and emphasized securely implementing remote access to its systems. A multi-factor authentication system will be integrated within the next 90 days, Sabus said.

Also, CCH replaced its wireless system in the hospital and Sabus said it is working toward doing the same for the Legacy Living and Rehabilitation Center by the end of November.

The Campbell County Republican Party Central Committee passed a resolution Tuesday night supporting the Republicans of Campbell County Contract, which outlines four legislators’ vision for the next two years.

Rep. Roy Edwards and three incoming legislators — Troy McKeown, Bill Fortner and John Bear — came together earlier and committed to 10 goals covering personal freedoms, government accountability and the economy.

During a meeting Tuesday night at Prairie Sky Venue, a former church turned event venue about 10 miles south of Gillette, the central committee approved the resolution on a 31-20 vote.

All of Campbell County’s lawmakers were given the chance to sign the contract, but some of them did not sign it for one reason or another. One of those legislators was Rep. Dr. Timothy Hallinan, R-Gillette.

He said he liked most of the points of the contract, but he could not sign it because of the first two items, which are committing to voting for no new taxes and developing a balanced budget that does not use the state’s rainy day fund.

Hallinan supports raising taxes on cigarettes and gas by 24 cents and 3 cents, respectively, to make up for inflation since they were initially imposed, and increasing the wind electricity tax by $1 per megawatt-hour.

The Consensus Revenue Estimating Group report released this week forecast a $451 million revenue shortfall for the fiscal cycle ending in 2022, nearly half of the $877 million revenue shortfall that was predicted in May. The Wyoming School Foundation budget can be reduced by $200 million without cutting teacher pay or classroom expenses, Hallinan said. He said the rest of the deficit can be made up with the rainy day fund.

Hallinan said that by signing the contract, the four legislators are “going to have to go down there and defend those points of view. And those points of view, I don’t believe, would make us look good down in the Legislature.”

The 10 tenets of the contract include: ✳✳ Commit to voting for no new taxes. ✳✳ Develop a budget that balances without using Wyoming’s rainy-day funds. ✳✳ Provide voters transparency in state spending. ✳✳ Advance a “Baby Born Alive” bill. ✳✳ Advance a bill to establish

Campaign contributions Tuesday was the deadline for candidates to file their campaign contribution reports with the Campbell County Elections Office.

As of Thursday afternoon, most of the candidates had submitted their reports, but the elections office still had not received reports from several candidates.

The following candidates reported their contributions: CAMPBELL COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT ✳✳ Heidi Gross: She raised $4,589.53, including $100 from herself, $1,427.22 from Joanne Tweedy, $894.09 from Jerry Tystad, $500 from Rick Stewart, $500 from Michael Von Flatern, $220 from a fundraiser, $173.22 from Norine Kasperik, $100 from Larry and Peg Smith, $100 from Joe and Deb Lawrence, $100 from Terry Sjolin and Neil Outzen, $50 from Leland Hove, $50 from Gregg and Jackie Blikre, $50 from Alex and Vicky Gilmour, $50 from Brenda Schladweiler, $50 from Marilyn Mackey, $50 from Katrin Wagner, $50 from Dan Clouston and $25 from John and Sue Howard.

As of Thursday afternoon, the elections office had not received contribution reports from Anne Ochs, Heidi Herrman, Lisa Durgin, Ken Clouston, Larry Steiger or Susan Bennett.

CAMPBELL COUNTY COMMISSION ✳✳ Colleen Faber: She reported $926.95 in personal contributions. ✳✳ Del Shelstad: He reported $3,750 in personal contributions.

Wes Johnson had not filed his contribution report by Thursday afternoon.

HOUSE DISTRICT 31 ✳✳ Lynne Huskinson: She raised $1,294, including $250 from James Huskinson, $100 from the Campbell County Democratic Party, $100 from Jean Barash, $100 from Susie Wilson, $50 from Helenanne Cathey, $30 from JP Caffee, $100 from Kathy Vader, $25 from Madeline Dalrymple, $50 from Christy Gerrits, $32 from Laurie Zelesnikar, $25 from Sam Miller, $50 from Michelle Thorson, $50 from Justin Smith, $25 from Pamela Paris, $25 from Mirta Kozolc, $100 from Andrea Chalupa, $50 from Erin O’Doherty, $32 from Laurie Zelesnikar, $25 from Jason ■■■

Bloomberg, $50 from Sheila Myers and $25 from Patricia Boyer. ✳✳ Timothy Hallinan: He raised $3,150, including $1,000 from the Wyoming Realtors PAC, $200 from the Wyoming Stock Growers’ Ag PAC, $100 from the Common Values PAC, $100 from Roy Edwards, $200 from the Trucking Industry PAC, $200 from the Wyoming Mining Association PAC, $500 from the Crook County Republican Party Central Committee, $500 from the PAW Political Action Council, $100 from the Coalition to Elect John Bear and $250 from the Black Hills Corporation PAC.

Wyoming as a Second Amendment Sanctuary state. ✳✳ Advance a bill to increase criminal penalties for sexual crimes against a minor and human trafficking convictions. ✳✳ Advance a bill restricting the government from quarantining the healthy and forcing people to be vaccinated. ✳✳ Advance a bill to allow for the recall of all elected officials in the state. ✳✳ Advance a bill to allow family members to visit their loved ones in nursing homes. ✳✳ Advance a voter ID bill.

Senator-elect Troy McKeown said the state is five years behind on local government audits, and the Legislature shouldn’t add taxes when it doesn’t know how its money is being spent.

“We don’t even know where we’re spending money … and we’re going to discuss new taxes? How do we know we need new taxes?” he asked.

Worst month for COVID includes elected officials In October, Gillette and Campbell County have experienced the worst wave of COVID-19 since the pandemic began.

Amid the rise in local cases, there have been several local elected officials who have contracted the novel coronavirus.

Hospital Board Trustee Adrian Gerrits is still in quarantine and dealing with the symptoms of his positive COVID-19 diagnosis.

County Commissioner Del Shelstad and Commission candidate Wes Johnson have both said they had bouts with the virus this month.

“It speaks to the prevalence of the virus in our community,” Gerrits said.

“We’re a community that doesn’t ... no one really masks and there isn’t really a sense of fear about it. I think there’s probably a ton of cases out there that just aren’t getting tested because people don’t want to get quarantined.”

On Wednesday, Campbell County reached 894 confirmed cases of COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic. Additionally, there are 75 probable cases and 446 active cases in the county, according to the Wyoming Department of Health. Of those active and probable cases, 485 have recovered.

In the two weeks from Oct. 14 to Oct. 28, Campbell County jumped from 467 to 894 confirmed cases. In that same time, Wyoming added more than 3,000 new cases, bringing its total above 10,000 confirmed cases. Also, 20 new deaths have been attributed to

Remote learning not an end to snow days – yet Technology can give, and technology also can take away.

The Campbell County School District has taken great strides to make technology like laptops or electronic tablets available to every student, and such efforts made remote learning possible this past spring when COVID-19 forced the closure of schools across the state.

Those technological leaps now threaten a treasured part of childhood: the snow day.

At Tuesday’s Board of Trustees meeting, Kirby Eisenhauer, deputy superintendent, announced that the state had approved a plan submitted by the district to use its remote learning plan already in place because of COVID19 to avoid using snow days if classes needed to be canceled for inclement weather.

Despite the state’s approval, Eisenhauer said the district likely would not use the plan this year because of logistical challenges.

“After visiting with our principals and thinking this through, districtwide we don’t think that is possible at this time,” Eisenhauer said. “It’s probably more doable at our secondary level.

“The board has done an excellent job creating one-to-one opportunities for students with their devices, but at the elementary level, we’re not sending those home with students daily.”

Since decisions on cancellations are often made in the early morning hours, Eisenhauer said the challenge to getting devices to elementary students would be too great.

He said the district would continue to look into the possibility of using the remote learning plans for weather-induced cancellations, namely by creating a committee to research options.

Chickens in the city?

2 laws to be drafted Two ordinances will be drafted that would allow chickens in city limits, and for advocates it is a starting point in what has been a years-long effort to convince the City Council to befriend the fowl.

Sara Marchbank has been the leader of a group of residents wanting the city to allow more residents to own chickens. One reason is that it would enable them to become more self-sufficient.

The city addressed the chicken ordinance a handful of times over the past several years, including 2015 when the City Council did not take up the issue and in June when it decided to not to consider the request that was made by residents like Marchbank.

In July, however, it decided to put the item back on the city’s radar and a couple of months later a task force was created.

The group met for three hours Sept.

23 and came up with two proposed ordinances.

One would allow chickens for residents who live in the suburban residential (R-S), single-family residential (R-1), single- and two-family residential (R-2) and mobile home (M-H) districts.

The other, which goes into the specifics of owning chickens, was not as controversial as the zoning ordinance.

It includes: ✳✳ Allowing for up five chickens per residence ✳✳ Chicken coops must be at least 4 square feet apart and be enclosed in a properly, ventilated and predator resistant pen ✳✳ People 18 years old or older could own chickens ✳✳ Chickens would be considered “at-large” if they are outside their pens and the owner’s possession ✳✳ Gillette Animal Control stated chickens should be allowed to be adopted after three days, the same as dogs and cats ✳✳ All feces must be covered by an enclosed structure with a solid roof ✳✳ Add the term “slaughter” to the city’s animal control ordinance as the term “butchering” applies only to dead animals ✳✳ Allow animal control to handle the entire license process: The initial permitting fee and renewal fee would be $50 and $15, respectively From News Record stories posted online this week. Read the full stories at gillettenewsrecord.com and visit daily for breaking news and updates.

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HOUSE DISTRICT 32 ✳✳ John Bear: He raised $2,300, including $1,500 from Susie Bear, $50 from Melissa Younger, $50 from Joseph Maycock, $50 from Kristi Jordan, $200 from Jason Jackson, $50 from Ashley Fischer, $100 from Bob Hollander, $150 from the House Republican Caucus and $150 from the Black Hills Corporation PAC.

COVID-19, bringing the state’s total to 77, of which 3 are from Campbell County.

Gerrits said he has been quarantining since Friday when he got his positive COVID-19 test result. His wife was exposed to somebody who tested positive earlier in the week, so the whole family got tested, he said. Despite having no symptoms at the time, he was the only one to test positive.

The symptoms came the next day.

“Like a freight train, it hit me Saturday,” Gerrits said. “I lost my smell and all that and it’s like every day I’m short of breath, kind of a concerningly low oxygen saturation, pretty bad fever.”

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GILLETTE CITY COUNCIL ✳✳ Billy Montgomery: He raised $2,225, including $2,000 from himself, $100 from the Campbell County Democratic Party, $50 from Tommy and Sara Neyer, $50 from Lucas Fralick and $25 from Edward and Judith McDonald. ✳✳ Eric Hanson: He raised $857.31, including $657.31 from himself and $200 from Roy Edwards. ✳✳ Nathan McLeland: He raised $8,900, including $7,900 from himself and $1,000 from John Corkery. ✳✳ Bruce Brown: He reported $304 in contributions, all of it his own money. ✳✳ Laura Chapman: She raised $854, including $554 in personal contributions and $300 from Randy Sinclair.

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Misinformation ‘biggest threat’ to 2020 election

By NICK REYNOLDS CASPER STAR-TRIBUNE Via Wyoming News Exchange

CASPER — The Wyoming Secretary of State’s Office says the state’s biggest threat to election security this year is not foreign interference or the risk of voters contracting COVID-19 at the polling place, but rather misinformation spread by Wyoming residents themselves.

Though the national concern has centered on the pandemic and the potential for foreign influences, Secretary of State Ed Buchanan said Wednesday that his biggest concern in maintaining the integrity of next week’s general election is the rumors and speculation circulating on social media platforms like Facebook.

“We have mechanisms in place where we are constantly monitoring social media for disinformation, mis-

information, because that’s really been the biggest threat we’ve seen this election cycle,” Buchanan said in a news briefing about the safety protocols his office has put in place for Tuesday.

“You have a lot of third-party groups — who do I think their heart is in the right place — but they give conflicting information or wrong information about voter registration, where to go to vote, what types of ways you can vote, etc. And so there’s a lot of misinformation out there that confuses people.”

While the intangible influences on this year’s elections have proven challenging, what the state can control — the actual experience for voters at the polls — is expected to go off without a hitch.

Like in the primary election, Buchanan said polling places around the state will be outfitted with various forms of personal protective equipment for poll workers and that ballots

will be filled out using disposable pens and machines he said will be cleaned regularly.

The use of absentee ballots, Buchanan said, will likely be critical in ensuring things run smoothly, particularly given spiking case numbers of COVID-19 in communities around the state.

As was true in the primary, state election officials are already preparing themselves for a record-setting number of absentee ballots due to the COVID19 pandemic.

County clerks, like in the primary elections, will have both Thursday and Friday to process any absentee ballots their offices had already received, giving them ample time to tally the results on Election Day and deliver a speedy result that evening.

No ballots will be counted before the polls close, Buchanan said, and no absentee ballots received after the

deadline will be counted.

The extra time will likely be necessary for county clerks: As of Monday, 101,248 absentee ballots had already been filed out of the nearly 120,000 sent to voters this year, an amount equivalent to roughly 23% of the state’s voting aged population.

For comparison, turnout in the 2016 election — which was unusually high in Wyoming — amounted to roughly 58% of the voting age population.

For those voting in person, both the Democratic and Republican parties have been recruiting poll watchers to ensure everyone who attempts to vote will have the ability to.

Bound by a specific set of rules, poll watchers will be seated behind the election judges and keep watch over what voters are told about casting their ballot, and are able to summon legal assistance in instances where they feel someone’s access to the ballot is being

Powell police create memorable birthday for isolated 4-year-old

By CONNIE BURCHAM POWELL TRIBUNE Via Wyoming News Exchange

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Powell Police Sgt. Matt McCaslin delivers a gift to Brooklyn Radecki for her 4th birthday. The little girl has respiratory complications and was unable to have a birthday party, so the police pitched in to help make the day special for her.

Fremont County district judge bans racial slurs from evidence

By CLAIR MCFARLAND THE RANGER Via Wyoming News Exchange

RIVERTON — Acknowledging race-based unrest in the nation, a local judge ordered racial slurs to be removed from audio evidence in an upcoming trial.

Riverton man Alfonso Roman, 32, is charged with conspiring to deliver methamphetamine, which in this case is punishable by up to 40 years in prison and $50,000 in fines — a harsher penalty than usual because he also has been convicted of drug delivery before, for cocaine.

Although his in-person trial was stalled for months by COVID-19 restrictions, Roman is scheduled to stand before a jury next month.

When considering which evidence is allowed at trial, Fremont County District Court Judge Jason Conder ordered Oct. 13 that a jailhouse phone call in which Roman discusses “snitches,” should be partially silenced to remove the pejorative term commonly referred to as the N-word. The judge wrote that Roman’s use of racial slurs could bias the jury against him for perceived bad character.

“Although (the recording is) relevant, there is a real concern that the (crime-proving) value of this evidence may be outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice caused by the repeated use of these racial slurs,” he said.

In criminal law, evidence is allowed at trial if it is relevant to the crime charged, as long as its potential to prejudice a jury against the defendant does not outweigh its demonstration of the facts of the case.

From inside the Fremont County Detention Center, Roman spoke to his brother by phone for 15 minute and 37 seconds, after being informed the call would be recorded.

The pair discussed several people, “and what should happen to them because of their cooperation with law enforcement,” Conder wrote in his order.

The two men contemplated what type of harm should come to the “snitches.”

They also used some derivative of the offensive word about 40 times.

R o m a n ’s d e f e n s e a t t o rney, Fremont County Public Defender supervisor Jonathan Gerard, argued before Conder that Roman’s use of the pejorative term would “elicit the jury’s emotions and result in unfair prejudice to the defendant,” due especially to nation-wide conflict related to racial tensions.

Fremont County Attorney deputy Tim Hancock countered Gerard’s concern, writing that “the jury hearing the word... may cause prejudice against the defendant. However, the state does not believe that hearing the defendant speak these words would unfairly prejudice him.”

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The reinfection was detected by testing performed at Stitches Acute Care Center, and calls into question long-held hopes for herd immunity.

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The possibility of reinfection also carries implications for an eventual vaccine. At the outset of the pandemic, medical professionals and lay people alike hoped society could achieve herd immunity or a vaccine — vaccines being a technology that seeks to recreate herd immunity without the death toll a natural herd immunity often entails.

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In the meantime, and staring down an uncertain future, Surdam reiterated the importance of doing all one can to stem the spread, such as frequent handwashing, social distancing, and wearing masks.

“And we’re going to need to continue those behaviors, for probably quite a while, until we know the full extent of how this virus acts and behaves and morphs, and if we will be able to develop an effective vaccine or not,” she said.

Out of concern for the patient’s privacy, Surdam said she would not say whether the reinfected county resident was young or old, or had pre-existing conditions.

COVID-19 reinfections are rare, and Department of Health spokesperson Kim Deti said Wyoming has not yet seen any likely reinfections.

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“All those lights, we were shocked!” Lacey Radecki said.

“She was shocked. It was so beautiful. She said, ‘Those are police officers.’ “ But the lights and cars were only the tip of the birthday iceberg. The officers brought Brooklyn a stuffed toy, a uniform patch and a Powell Police challenge coin. There was also a card, signed by everyone in the department, even the K9 officer.

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gesture behind the invitation was heartbreaking.

So Lacey called the Powell Police Department and spoke to Sgt. Matt McCaslin and asked if he could arrange to send a patrol car by the house with lights flashing for Brooklyn on her birthday. He agreed on the phone to send a single car.

Instead of just one car, however, he sent every available on-duty patrol car, lights flashing. Some off-duty officers

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POWELL —Brooklyn Radecki is a typical little girl.

She loves people and dance and unicorns.

But because she was born with immune and respiratory complications, her parents have always had to be careful about exposing her to illnesses.

Every fall and winter Brooklyn would be susceptible to standard colds and flu, but they posed a big risk to the little girl. So big that at 2, her mother, Lacey, decided Brooklyn could no longer attend her dance classes. When COVID19 appeared on the scene, the family had to work even harder to keep Brooklyn safe.

“She can’t be around anyone because of her complications,” Lacey said.

As Brooklyn’s fourth birthday approached, she asked for a birthday party. Her parents explained that could not be, and the little girl seemed to take it in stride.

However, the day after that discussion, Brooklyn made a card all in blue. She told her mother it was an invitation for the police department to come to her birthday. Dutifully, Lacey took the invitation and pretended to mail it, but the

“But when they got out of their cars and started singing ‘Happy Birthday’ my husband and I just lost it,” Lacey said. Her voice cracked as she described the department’s kindness.

The family moved here two and a half years ago and the closeness of the town is what they love about it.

“I love our little town,” Lacey said. “What they (the officers) did for her was really, really sweet and special. That’s what people need to see these days.”

Lacey said Brooklyn is very into law enforcement and wants to be an officer herself one day.

“She looks out for us and the animals. She’s very protective and tells me not to talk to strangers,” Lacey laughed.

After the officers left the front yard, where they had socially distanced the song and gift presentations, Brooklyn apologized to her parents for being so shy.

The whole family hopes that one day, not too far in the future, COVID will be a bad memory and Brooklyn can return to school and dance class. And maybe, just maybe, to a officer’s job at the Powell Police Department.

improperly obstructed.

While Democrats have fielded poll watchers for years, the Wyoming Republican Party — in conjunction with the Republican National Committee and President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign — has made a concerted effort to recruit poll watchers this year and, like the Democratic Party, has recently hosted a number of trainings on how to be an effective advocate at the polls.

The role is important for getting out the vote as well, said Susan Simpson, president of the Wyoming League of Women Voters.

“They’re not to talk to the voter,” she said. “They sit behind the election judge and listen to what a voter says so they can cross the person off their list, because then they go back to their headquarters and call the people who haven’t voted yet to try and get them to the polls.”

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If Biden wins the election, ‘it’ll be a very sad day’ n 2016, Shelby Bachtold voted for Ia vote Donald Trump for president because for him was a vote for not just

her family, but Campbell County and Wyoming.

“When he started running, everything that he was saying, it was 100% to benefit my family and what he could do for our state,” she said.

Four years later, her attitude has not changed. Her husband works a job that depends on the oil industry. Thousands in Campbell County depend on healthy fossil fuel industries. Joe Biden has not been shy about his intentions to push for renewable energy over coal and oil.

Bachtold is bothered by Biden’s statement that he doesn’t see “red states or blue states. What I see is American.”

“Well, if you saw Americans, you’d see a side of the country that would do nothing but suffer” if Biden were elected, she said.

She feels Trump’s chances are “pretty good,” but they would be much better if it weren’t for the COVID-19 pandemic.

It’s complicated his campaign and has given Democrats yet another thing to criticize the president for.

“What irritates me the most is they hold him accountable for all these deaths,” she said. “Really, he did what he thought was best. It’s not his fault, it’s a virus.”

It bothers her that people think Biden can “make it all better” when Trump has “the right frame of mind” to deal with the pandemic.

“He’s trying to keep our country open so we can survive,” she said. “We depend on that paycheck, we have to

work. We have to open. I don’t think people understand it is extremely crucial that we open up our country.”

Since he’s been in office, Trump has faced nonstop opposition from Democrats and the media, who are “extremely blind to the good that he’s done,” Bachtold said.

She wishes people who support Biden would be able to explain why they’re voting for him without mentioning that they hate Trump.

She does not think Biden will automatically make things better if elected and that he doesn’t think for himself.

“Joe says things that he’s told,” she said. “He doesn’t seem like he knows exactly what he’s talking about.”

She also can’t stand vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris.

“I think she’s a liar, and I think she’s very condescending and manipulative,” Bachtold said. “I don’t think she’s for the women of our country, and I don’t think she’s for the American people.”

If Trump is elected, Bachtold expects things to go similarly to his first four years, adding that it would be “100 times better than if Joe got elected.”

“I think it’s going to look a lot like the first (term with) never-ending stories from the left trying to bring him down,” she said. “I would think that he’ll continue to do the things he’s wanting to do.”

However, if Biden wins, “I think you’d have a lot of scared people and concerned families,” she said.

“I think it’ll be a very sad day.”

— JONATHAN GALLARDO

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Republican Shelby Bachtold said she will once again vote for Donald Trump, considering a vote for him as a vote that will aid her family and energy-reliant Campbell County.

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Lucas Fralick, a local Democrat and a national committeeman for the Wyoming Democratic Party, said President Donald Trump has done some good things during his time in office, but also hasn’t acted entirely as a president should.

Local Democrat says he’s ‘not a fan,’ but won’t bash Trump ucas Fralick isn’t as critical of Donald LFralick, Trump as many of his Democratic friends. a local Democrat and a national

the Democratic nomination. He likes Biden’s moderate views and thinks the former vice president is the “most practical” choice for committeeman for the Wyoming Democratic winning a general election.

Party, said some “fellow Democrats call me “I will admit he is very old, as is Donald naive” for his stance on Trump.

Trump,” Fralick said. “I feel like we could have “I’m not a fan, but it’s not done better with younger that I hate the man. He’s “He’s done decent things. The candidates.” still the president,” Fralick Fralick only watched the problem is his attitude for said, adding that not all of first presidential debate, Trump’s policies have been which he thought was “horoffice is not what I consider bad. But he’s not a fan of the rible” for both sides. president’s rhetoric. presidential,” he said. “I don’t “Biden didn’t do a good “He’s done decent things. job either. That was horrifsee him as a Republican.

The problem is his attitude ic,” he said. for office is not what I While some have called Most of my friends are all consider presidential,” he Trump the worst president Republicans, and that’s not said. “I don’t see him as a in the nation’s history, Republican. Most of my Fralick said one can’t judge how they act.” friends are all Republicans, a president’s legacy while and that’s not how they act.” Lucas Fralick he’s still in office.

Trump has received a lot The Campbell County Democrat “I may not like him, but of criticism from Democrats explains that while he’s not a Trump we can’t deny he has most on how he’s handled the hater, he also doesn’t support the definitely been one of the COVID-19 pandemic. incumbent for re-election most impactful (presiFralick isn’t willing to pin dents),” Fralick said. all of the 220,000-plus U.S. With all of the federal COVID-related deaths on the president. judges and Supreme Court justices that he’s “It’d be easy for me to say he did a horrible appointed during his first term, Trump’s decijob,” Fralick said. “But I don’t think it’s his sions will affect the legal landscape of the fault it happened.” country for decades to come, he said.

The main thing Fralick wishes Trump would Fralick also doesn’t see the seemingly have done differently is not politicize the panever-growing partisan divide getting any better. demic, particularly when it came to wearing He believes it started with the rise of the Tea face coverings.

Party in the early 2010s and has since become “People would have politicized it anyway, worse. but the president made it such a big deal,” he “I don’t think there’s any candidate that has said.

He understands why Trump has been hugely shown up that can heal that divide,” he said, and this presidential election is no different. popular in coal country. Fralick said he owes Going into Tuesday, Fralick said he thinks the coal industry “a very large debt,” because Biden will win, but that it will be much closer he’s lived in Gillette nearly his entire life. than a lot of his Democratic friends think. He “But I think, the thing with that is, we’ve won’t be completely shocked if Trump comes had almost four years of the Trump adminisout on top, either. tration and coal hasn’t really improved, fossil “He’s surprised us before, he could surprise fuels have not become a bigger, better thing,” us again,” Fralick said. he said. “I’m not sure what Biden will end up doing besides hasten the decline.”

— JONATHAN GALLARDO Fralick said Biden was his first choice for

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of blind men.

The blind men had never encountered an elephant before. When they approached it, none could see the full scale of the animal, but each touched a different part and formed an opinion of what it must be like. By only feeling a part of the elephant, each man imagined and described a different animal.

Of course, they were all misguided, but none of them knew that.

Olsen said politics today, and its reliance on a two-party system, is not so different.

“I think people, they’re finding one thing that is actually true — that one particular ideology — and they latch on to that one thing that’s true,” he said. “And since that’s true, it must mean that the rest of the ideology is correct, when ultimately, I think it’s bits and pieces of each ideology.”

But the piecemeal ideologies of Democrats and Republicans have not swayed Olsen, 24, toward either of this election’s frontrunners: Repblican President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, a Democrat.

There are underlying values attached to liberal and conservative viewpoints that Olsen said leave him cold to both of the major political parties.

“Personally, I’m rather conflicted between liberal and conservative,” Olsen said. “I see the values of both. I am Libertarian.”

For that reason, Olsen said he will vote for third-party Libertarian candidate Jo Jorgensen for president.

“I’m a milquetoast fence-sitter, really,” Olsen said. “I’m mostly just confused. I’m politically homeless.”

Olsen attends Gillette College, where he is studying mechanical engineering.

Despite lacking a mainstream political party to pay his allegiance to, he stands by his Libertarian stance with confidence.

He is opposed to the country engaging in “useless wars” internationally while also continuing the war on drugs domestically. In regard to America’s penal system, he believes in the jurisprudent notion of corpus delicti, or, the idea that if something is not hurting anyone, it should probably be legal.

“If a crime produces no injured body I would argue that it shouldn’t be a crime,” he said.

All of those are ideas that Jorgensen mirrors as a presidential candidate, he said.

Although apathy may be a factor keeping some voters who opt out of making a clichéd choice between “the lesser of two evils,” that is not the case for Olsen.

Calling Jorgensen a long-shot is too generous. She is a virtual lock to lose the election.

However, Olsen does not consider his vote futile.

On the heels of an election cycle where the country has grown increasingly polarized, Olsen views the validation of a third political party as a potential solution to the current two-party system that effectively guarantees either a Republican or Democratic candidate.

“I think that it is by design intended to create gridlock and keep the same people in positions of power,” Olsen said.

Olsen did not vote in the last presidential election. While the United States was reeling from the unexpected 2016 election results, Olsen was doing mission work in Italy, thousands of miles away from the county he is casting his ballot from in 2020.

If he did vote in the last election, he said he probably would have voted for Trump because of his then-status as a political newcomer.

“I agree with more of what (Joregenson) says, she hasn’t actually been a politician yet so there’s no historical precedent of things that she’s done,” he said.

This time around, both Biden and Trump have an established body of political work. Olsen said those track records prove the differences between the values they campaign on and the policy they actually affect.

“Both of the other candidates have things that you can look at and say, ‘This is what they’ve done,’” he said.

“So, it will be a good predictor of what they will do in the future. And most of what they’ve done, I disagree with.

Both of them.”

To his Biden-voting brother, a vote for Jorgensen is a vote for Trump. But for his pro-Trump father-in-law, it’s a vote for Biden.

“I didn’t know I have three votes,” he said.

So, with or without a solution to that paradox, Olsen already has his mind made up. Come Election Day, he is voting for neither.

With no chance of winning, and with no hesitation, Olsen is voting for Jorgensen.

— JAKE GOODRICK

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Tyson Olsen, 24, holds his 9-month-old son Alexander on the kitchen table Wednesday afternoon. Olsen said he will vote third-party this election as neither Trump nor Biden have swayed him.

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Pastor wants nation to get back to core values irst United Methodist F Church Pastor Samara Jenkins has already voted.

She recently did her civic duty the same day she picked up her Wyoming driver’s license.

Jenkins moved to Gillette from Las Vegas, Nevada, this summer to become the pastor of First United Methodist.

While she admits she does not personally know many local candidates or all of the issues they support, she has been doing research to get herself caught up.

But one thing she does know is that it is important for people to vote.

“We have to be the change we want to see, so I’m looking forward to the election,” Jenkins said. “We can’t talk about what’s wrong if we don’t attempt to make a change.”

A couple of important issues to her are human diversity and the COVID-19 pandemic.

It is about more than the government helping people and trying to stimulate the economy, she said. “(It’s) how do we get back our core values as people?” she asked. “It’s really getting back to, how do we continue to function as people in our communities and also, how do we make (a) contribution with the rest of the world?”

Jenkins didn’t say who she

thinks will win any of the races, but she does have a prediction.

“I think we’re going to see historic levels of people coming out to vote,” she said. “I think this is going to be a voter drive and push for something we have not seen in years.”

Jenkins also is making a push to spread positivity in the community.

She recently issued a challenge to her congregation by suggesting that members buy a pack of Post-It notes, write something positive on each one, then randomly leave the messages in places “so people can be encouraged with kindness,” Jenkins said.

Spreading positive messages is an important thing to do, especially during an election season that is filled with intense and bitter local, state and national politics.

“Political affiliation doesn’t matter to me, it’s the humanness that matters to me,” Jenkins said, adding that while some people will be excited with the results and others will not be as enthusiastic, what ultimately matters is the day after Election Day, then the next day after that.

“Nov. 3 is going to come and be over with, but we still have to exist in this place together,” she said.

— GREGORY HASMAN

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First United Methodist Church Pastor Samara Jenkins looks out a window in her home Tuesday afternoon.

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James Pyke, who works as a service rig operator, is afraid that if former Democratic Vice President Joe Biden is elected as the 46th president, he will be out of a job.

Choice is simple for oil field worker the eyes of someone who has dedimuch of his life to working in oil Iandncated natural gas, the upcoming election is

pretty cut and dry, said James Pyke, who works as a service rig operator.

“If Biden wins, we are not going to be working,” Pyke said, noting Biden’s promise to stop new fracking on public lands if elected president. “He’s stated it multiple times and (Democratic Vice President candidate Kamala) Harris said she is against fracking, and without fracking, I can’t do what I do.”

Simply put, the election is coming at the worst possible time for someone like Pyke.

The first blow was a historic crash in the oil market at the onset of the COVID19 pandemic early in the year that shuttered rig sites throughout the state at an alarming rate. At one point, there were no rigs operating in Wyoming at all and many workers went without jobs for months.

Pyke was without work from July 14 through Sept. 26.

“It almost rocked our company and took our company out,” Pyke said of the

oil crash and its effects. “We were fighting to get back to work.”

His job is to produce oil. It is something he has had his hand in for the better part of 22 years, along with working in natural gas at sites around the country. He settled on making a life in Gillette six years ago.

After it is drilled, the oil goes to a refinery and then to vehicles. Without oil, he’s also scared of a historic spike in gasoline prices that will become a new normal for Americans.

“If he doesn’t win, we’re going to be paying $8 for a gallon of gas,” Pyke said about President Donald Trump. “I’m 100% worried about it. On the day of voting, I’ll be there.”

Pyke said it isn’t even that he is 100% in favor of Trump, as he believes the current president has a “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer” way of operating. But he also believes Trump has kept America in a good place during hard times.

If viable, he said voting third party would be his answer, but he believes that doing so would be stealing a vote from a

major party.

The upcoming election has been weighing on the minds of him and his fellow oil field workers as they travel to and from jobs together in the same vehicle.

“We talk about it every day,” he said.

“We’re all wondering what we’re going to do if this happens or that happens. Pretty much everyone I work with is on my side of the fence on this.”

He is at a loss of what to do because his future is practically out of his control. All he can do is hope and vote. If, in fact, Joe Biden becomes the 46th president, Pyke said he will have to roll with the punches and adapt.

“If he is elected, I’m gonna have to find a different line of work,” he said. “I don’t wanna give it up, but it may be something that has to happen.”

He doesn’t believe oil production will halt immediately, but will see a slow reduction over time.

“I’m gonna have to learn how to build some windmills or something,” he said.

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Around Wyoming EWC turns to online, hybrid classes TORRINGTON — Eastern Wyoming College in Torrington will transition to online and hybrid delivery of courses due to an increased number of student COVID-19 cases, the college announced on Oct. 27.

According to EWC Director of College Relations Tami Afdahl, the college originally planned to wrap up courses the week of Nov. 16 and transition online, prior to the Thanksgiving holiday. As of press time Wednesday, five positive COVID-19 cases have been identified among students and 40 students are quarantined in on-campus housing due to exposure.

“Due to the exposure and the number of students we have quarantined, we just felt like it was time to limit the number of students on campus,” Afdahl told The Telegram.

EWC’s Douglas campus will continue to operate normally.

“We are not closing the campus down,” Afdahl said in a press release. “We are trying to limit the number of students on campus and in the residence halls for safety reasons.

The safety of our students, our employees and our community is our primary concern.”

Delivery of each course will vary, depending on the professor and the class. Afdahl said the college hopes professors will be able to transition by the end of the week as they take time to prepare students for remote delivery.

“Some of our faculty have already been doing a blended mode of delivery,” Afdahl said.

“Some will transition a little easier than others.”

Black bear has to be euthanized in Story SHERIDAN — A 2-year-old male black bear was euthanized in Story on the morning of Oct. 23 after receiving repeated food rewards at residences and businesses for several weeks.

On Oct. 2, Sheridan Game Warden Ryan Kenneda received a call about a bear entering a garage and chicken coop. A trap was set for two days but was unsuccessful in capturing the bear.

On Oct. 14, the bear got into trash at a ranch outside Story. Kenneda visited with the ranch owner and the dumpster was later secured, but the bear returned on Oct. 17. On Oct. 19, a resident reported the bear on a porch on Mitchell Drive and getting into a chicken coop and unsecured garbage.

On Oct. 22, Warden Kenneda received a complaint of a bear between Robertson Road and Cottage Lane. When he responded, he found the bear breaking into a trash bin on Ponderosa Drive. Kenneda hazed the bear and it traveled to the North Piney Creek area.

On Oct. 23, the Sheridan County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of the bear accessing trash on Loucks Street. The SCSO contacted Kenneda who authorized the responding deputy to euthanize the bear at approximately 8:45 a.m.

“Unfortunately, after its extensive history of accessing unsecured residential and commercial garbage, there were no other management options for this situation,” Kenneda said.

Victim in Togwotee Pass fatal identified RIVERTON — Authorities have confirmed the identity of a 62-year-old old woman who died last week in a two-vehicle collision on Togwotee Pass.

The Wyoming Highway Patrol says Jo Anne Meeker, 62, of Wyoming, was the driver of a westbound Nissan passenger car that was struck by an eastbound International straight-truck at about 6:20 a.m. Oct. 21 near Moccasin Basin Road on Togwotee Pass — about 25 miles west of Dubois.

Officials said the driver of the straight-truck — who also was injured in the crash — had fallen asleep.

“The (truck) crossed the centerline into the opposing lane of travel and impacted the Nissan in an offset head-on type collision,” the WHP said.

Meeker was wearing a seatbelt, officials said, and neither vehicle rolled. Roads were dry.

Road conditions were dry, and the weather was cloudy and overcast, according to the report.

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A closed sign is posted at an entrance to First United Methodist Church on Thursday, citing a COVID-19 exposure.

Some churches re-adapt to a surging pandemic

By GREGORY HASMAN NEWS RECORD WRITER ghasman@gillettenewsrecord.net

Some Campbell County churches are reverting back to online-only services.

For a good part of the spring many churches closed its doors and ramped up its online presence as the pandemic spread across the country and state rapidly.

There was a lull for a few months that has given some residents a false sense of security, but as the past several weeks have shown Campbell County residents are not immune to the novel coronavirus. The community has seen an uptick in cases and this includes some members of local churches.

New Life Wesleyan Church pastor Mike Wilson and multiple staff members recently tested positive for the novel coronavirus. As a result, the church has decided to stop its regular services and only put on Zoom services on Sunday.

While no decision has been made regarding the Nov. 8 services, it is likely that it will be online-only as well.

Fortunately, Wilson has a sermon that is ready to roll on Sunday.

“I do a practice run through of the sermon every week and we did it on Monday,” Wilson said. “I told guys, ‘We should video record this in case something happens.’ It happened. We will play the video recording.”

As for Wilson, he said he is doing OK. “It feels like a bad cold,” he said, adding that it feels like he has chest congestion and has been exhausted at times.

Members have reached out to those who have tested positive to make sure they are doing all right, Wilson said.

Church attendance had been lower than usual the last few weeks. Some of that is because people who are hesitant to come because of the increase in cases.

The church recently conducted a survey asking how many of its members have tested positive for COVID-19 at some point and of the estimated 100 responses, about a third said they contracted it at some point.

“Recently people started wearing masks (and are) telling me they’re a little more concerned than they have been in the past with these spikes,” Wilson said, adding that he admitted that not

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Sheila Huckins works to clean and sanitize the sanctuary at First United Methodist Church in May as part of her weekly cleaning of the facility. At the time, the church was preparing to reopen the building to services beginning in June. Now it’s closed again propmeted by a recent surge in local COVID-19 cases. many people wore masks when the church resumed in-person services in the spring.

“I think people are concerned about the spike and are ready to get past it so we can get back to normal,” he said.

The church had to recently find another pastor and funeral home to conduct a service that was supposed to take place this weekend.

It also has postponed another upcoming service as well.

One thing that is continuing is the work to add 5,000 square feet of space to the church to be used in part for children’s classrooms especially since the workers have not been in contact with church staff.

Other churches affected New Life Wesleyan is not the only church that will be conducting online-only services Sunday, however. Others include: ✳✳ First United Methodist Church: The church will be closed to in-person services for at least the next couple of weeks. Pastor Samara Jenkins had been in quarantine after her husband contracted COVID-19.

Additionally, the church has had a contingency plan in place to monitor the amount of active cases. For example, if the number exceeded 1% of Campbell County’s population, then it would switch to online-only,

which it has.

“Due to the strain on public health, the length of time it is now taking to receive test results, and the lack of available contact tracers, we will welcome you to online worship, livestreamed here, and ask that any outside activities or gatherings be done virtually as well, for a period of 30 days,” the church stated on a Facebook post.

The task force will meet again on Nov. 15. ✳✳ Central Baptist Church: Central Baptist has canceled in-person services and meetings until Wednesday.

“This is the last thing I want to do, but given our situation and the amount of people with COVID or exposed to COVID, I feel it’s a necessity,” Pastor Scott Clem said on the church’s Facebook page.

Some churches, including Family Life Church and First Assembly of God, will continue to host its regular services. However, First Assembly will not host its children’s classes, which have been shut down until Nov. 8.

The church also canceled its trunk-or-treat Halloween event that was scheduled to take place on Saturday afternoon.

A n o t h e r c h u rc h , J o u r n e y Church, also canceled its Halloween event, Harvest Festival due to COVID-19, but it is scheduled to host services on Sunday.

NEW YORK — This weekend, CNN’s Sam Feist will distribute to his staff copies of the testimony news executives gave to Congress when they tried to explain how television networks got 2000’s disputed election so spectacularly wrong.

It’s required reading — perhaps never more than this year. Media planners are preaching caution in the face of a surge in early voting, high anxiety levels overall and a president who raises the specter of another disputed election.

“We need to prepare ourselves for a different kind of election night,” said Feist, CNN’s Washington bureau chief, “and the word I keep using is ‘patience.’”

Nearly half of people polled recently by the Pew Research Center said they intend to follow election night returns closely. It’s easy to see this year eclipsing 2008’s record of 71.5 million people who watched for results, and many will have laptops, tablets or smartphones ready for a multi-screen experience.

CBS News built a new studio where pop stars once visited MTV’s “Total Request Live,” and Fox News hired the makers of the “Fortnite” video game to design whiz-bang graphics, an illustration of the money and planning that goes in to the quadrennial event.

Live television coverage will extend into the early morning of Nov. 4 and perhaps beyond. NBC News has mapped out a schedule to stay on the air for days if necessary, said Noah Oppenheim, NBC News president.

Besides the traditional broadcast and cable news networks, there will be livestream options from the likes of The Washington Post and others, including websites filled with graphics and raw numbers.

“There is an odd combination of anticipation and uncertainty about this election night, more than any other election night I can remember,” said David Bohrman, a television veteran who this year is producing the CBS News coverage.

Election nights always have surprises, but the worry this year is being driven by the large number of people voting early or by mail, in part driven by the coronavirus. By many estimates, the early vote will eclipse the number of people going to polling places on Election Day for the first time.

That’s an extraordinary change: In 1972, only 5 percent of votes were cast prior to Election Day, and by 2016 it was 42.5 percent. That profoundly affects how the results are reported.

Some states begin counting early votes as they come in. Some wait until Election Day or even after polls close. Some key states count absentee ballots only if they are postmarked by Election Day. Elsewhere, ballots can arrive as late as Nov. 13, as is the case in Ohio.

Some states have enough experience that their counts usually go quickly and smoothly. Other counts are more problematic. Florida and North Carolina are two battleground states that have, historically, done well at counting and posting the results of mail ballots.

Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are prohibited by state law from processing mail ballots until Election Day. It can be a cumbersome process, and since neither state has experience counting as many ballots as are expected this year, it may be days before their results are known.

Wi t h m o re D e m o c r a t s t h a n Republicans voting early, the pace of how votes are reported is also important.

Some states will release early votes before the Election Day tallies. That can make the first numbers shown on the screen appear deceptive, said Steve Kornacki, elections guru at MSNBC. The challenge is knowing all those idiosyncrasies and communicating them clearly, he said.

“When I say I want a few more days (to study), that’s why,” he said.

Instead of listing how many voting precincts are reporting, ABC News will tell viewers the percentage of expected votes that are in so far, said Marc Burstein, senior executive producer who’s been in charge of ABC election coverage since 2000.

Record month: Campbell County averaged more than 45 cases a day in 1 week Continued from Page A1

For Campbell County and Wyoming as a whole, October has been the worst month of the pandemic in terms of case count, deaths and, like the Robinson family experienced, hospitalizations.

Through Oct. 29, Campbell County has had 958 confirmed COVID-19 cases since the pandemic emergency began in March.

In one week alone, from Oct. 22 to Thursday, the county added 317 confirmed cases of COVID-19 for an average of just over 45 new confirmed cases per day.

In the same amount of time, Wyoming added 2,052 new confirmed cases for an average of about 293 new confirmed cases each day.

As of Thursday, there have been 10,589 confirmed cases of COVID19 in the state, according to the Wyoming Department of Health.

Hospitalizations, positivity rate and deaths have all soared in the county and state, dispelling the notion that the increased numbers are based solely on increased testing.

In Campbell County, the rolling two-week average percentage of positive cases is 23.33% as of Thursday, according to the Wyoming Department of Health. For comparison, Wyoming’s two-week positivity percentage is 9.79%, a relatively high mark that is still dwarfed by Campbell County’s rate.

There have been 87 COVID-19related deaths recorded in Wyoming since the pandemic began.

A c c o rd i n g t o t h e Wy o m i n g Department of Health, there were 109 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 throughout the state as of Thursday. That is the most coronavirus-related hospitalizations that the state has had at any one time. Since crossing the threshold of 100 hospi-

talized patients Sunday, the state has remained steadily above that count.

Campbell County Memorial Hospital had seven COVID-19 patients Thursday, one of whom was in the ICU, said Dane Joslyn, Campbell County Health spokeswoman.

Jason remembered back to the beginning of the pandemic, when people skeptical of the pandemic would ask “but, do you know anyone who got it?”

At the time, the answer was “no.”

Since then, after knowing of about 10 friends and family who have gotten COVID-19, he and Stephanie can answer that with a resounding “yes.”

“There are friends and relative in California, Montana who have gotten it,” Jason said. “Some have gotten lucky and had minor symptoms, some that had some pretty severe symptoms and some that actually

died from it.”

The high uptick in COVID-19 cases this month, including many hospitalizations, an increase in deaths and several local elected Campbell County officials testing positive, serves as a high-water mark for the pandemic in the county. So far.

“I’ve seen some change in attitudes and thoughts from some people, just being more cautious. More people wearing masks, sanitizing, stuff like that,” Jason said. “It slowly is kind of catching up to this area, where other areas it hit a lot faster, harder.

“I can’t call it a political thing.

You hear some people saying, ‘Oh, it’s just political and it will be gone

by Election Day.’ Everybody has all these crazy, weird thoughts. I just know that people get sick and there are different levels of it. If you don’t want to get it, you try to do what you can and take the precautions.”

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Campbell County High School senior Devin Barnhart, at left, makes a cut to an interior wall to be installed in a tiny house the school’s construction class is working to complete. When the house is done, it will be sold with profits going to buy materials for the next class.

Living little CCHS builds strong futures with construction project of tiny house

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n unattended and quiet construction site is a waste to those who yearn to work with their hands. Knowing that they can’t come to finish it offers a taunting call to those dedicated to a job’s completion.

Rilee Hauber, 17, felt that acutely in the spring after COVID-19 closed area schools and he could no longer work in Campbell County High School’s woodworking and construction workspace. The tiny house he and his classmates were building from the ground up would go unfinished.

“Just knowing it was sitting here and not getting worked on was tough,” Hauber said.

The return to the classroom for the 2020-21 school year was celebrated by students, parents and teachers across the county because, conventional wisdom said, virtual learning just couldn’t match in-person instruction.

Perhaps no classes suffered from the time away quite as much as technical education, where the very essence is defined by students’ ability to physically drive a nail or measure and cut a piece of wood.

The hands-on component and the acquisition of skills is the point.

It was a Tuesday morning in September, and the shop was abuzz with students tending to their specific tasks. Some were inside the house working on a door frame. Others were on the roof, stooped over and busy.

Being back in the shop comes with

Campbell County High School’s tiny house sits in the garage as construction students work on the interior of the build Thursday morning. its own challenges, said Pete Stocker, CCHS’s woodworking and construction instructor. COVID-19 restrictions have added layers of complexity to otherwise mindless happenings in a construction workspace.

“During my demos during

woodworking or for this, if I wanted to take these guys in this tiny home and show them how this interior wall is installed, I mean, we’re touching shoulders,” Stocker said. “You don’t even think that you’re that close until this all happened. It’s just, ‘Mask up,’

and I tell them that, and they respond really well to that.”

The tiny house, while framed, is far from complete. This is the school’s first attempt at a tiny house, which See LIVE A LITTLE, Page B 4

POWELL — Joe Kondelis was out of state when he started feeling sick.

By the time he tested positive for COVID-19, the Cody resident was being hit hard by the symptoms.

“It has absolutely whipped my [butt],” he said in announcing his diagnosis. And he cautions skeptics, “It’s scary how contagious it is.”

“I’m guilty in thinking this was merely an overreaction to a new cold virus,” Kondelis said. “I was one of those skeptics and guys who thought I wouldn’t get sick or be asymptomatic.”

Kondelis, sales manager for Tanager Beverages and president of the Western Bear Foundation, is in his 40s and in great shape. He goes to gym at least four days a week and stays active on the weekends. He’s a noted hunter and capable of navigating terrain where many fail. Yet, the disease has humbled him.

“I’ve experienced every symptom under the sun and a few that aren’t even listed,” he said. “It’s such a yo-yo virus. One day you’re fine, next day you feel like you’re dying.”

Kondelis’ condition is complicated by guilt.

He fears he infected his three closest friends while they camped during a hunting trip last week. His family are prisoners in their house.

His daughter can’t go to school, play sports, trick or treat or see friends or family for two weeks because they’re living in a house with positive cases.

“It’s a huge burden on family,” he said.

The impact followed him to work.

One by one, employees started showing symptoms.

Kondelis called Park County Public Health and, under their recommendations, scheduled tests of all employees at the distribution company. He went public with the situation in an effort to be totally transparent.

After getting the results back, two more positive cases were identified.

All staff currently working have received negative test results.

The company was forced to look into where staffers with positive tests had been and ultimately determined that no infected employees came into close contact with retailers or other employees while they would have been the most contagious.

“In the time in quarantine you’re left thinking about contact with others,” Kondelis said, “who you may have infected, your lack of diligence in reducing virus spread and how it has affected the lives of coworkers, friends, family.”

But even now, 10 days after first feeling symptoms from the virus, Kondelis is still physically suffering.

There could be long-term damage, like heart and lung damage or longterm issues with his nervous system.

As he sits in isolation, all he can think about is wishing he had taken this all seriously.

Dr. Aaron Billin, Park County health officer, did the testing at Tanager Beverages. He said the company did it right and feels minds were changed through the process.

Typically, he said, minds are changed as cases in their inner circle See SKEPTIC, Page B3

Two local girls find a hot product to generate some cold cash

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Two Gillette girls braved record cold temperatures to serve some hot cocoa to local motorists last weekend.

Amelia Young, 9, and her 8-year-old cousin Paysen Kelley were outside bundled up making snow angels in 8-degree weather when an idea came to them: Make some hot cocoa and sell it to others shivering in the cold.

“We were bored, so we wanted to have a hot chocolate stand,” Young said.

It was a spur of the moment idea. They were playing outside late Sunday morning when they asked Young’s parents, Bryan and Kristin Young, about putting up the stand in front of their house, Bryan said.

“I told them no because it was so cold out,” Kristin said.

But later they changed their minds.

“At first I was like, I don’t know about that, then why not?” he said.

Amelia Young and Kelley took out a television tray, a bucket and put them on a crate they got from the shed.

“We were really excited,” Amelia said.

“We were screaming, ‘Hot cocoa for sale!’ really loud. Then finally, the first customer came and we we’re really excited. They bought two cups. They were really cold.”

The girls kept the cocoa warm inside a thermos before pouring it into cups and

adding marshmallows for customers. Young and Kelley ran out of hot cocoa so quickly that Amelia’s parents had to make a pit stop for more at Walmart.

The two young ladies made $48 during the two hours they operated the stand.

“People were very generous,” Kristin said.

“They served 10-12 cups, but they were only asking a dollar for it.”

The girls were outside for a few hours mixing business with snow pleasure.

Between sales, they ran around in the white stuff. They even tried to go sledding down their street.

“They were troopers all day,” Bryan said.

It was not Amelia’s first rodeo with selling beverages to friendly customers. In the past, the girls have sold lemonade to thirsty people during warmer months. Because of the pandemic, they didn’t sell lemonade this year.

“We’re going to do this in the future,” Amelia said about setting up another hot cocoa stand. “Definitely more in the winter.”

Is a friend or neighbor doing something noteworthy? Please send story ideas to News Record Writer Gregory Hasman at ghasman@gillettenewsrecord.net or call him at 307-682-9306, ext. 206.

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Eight-year-old Paysen Kelley, left, and her 9-year-old cousin Amelia Young stand outside a hot cocoa stand they created Sunday. They made $48 selling hot cocoa.

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Senior menus LUNCHES

and cake and ice cream

Sunday: Closed Monday: Salsa chicken, Mexican rice, mixed veggies, baked apples and garlic toast Tuesday: Hot ham and cheese, macaroni salad, peach/pear medley and a chocolate chunk cookie Wednesday: French bread pizza, cucumber tomato salad and tapioca pudding Thursday: Taco salad, refried beans, chuckwagon corn and apple crisp Friday: Roast beef, mashed potatoes, five-way veggies, dinner roll

ACTIVITIES Most activities are on hold because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Campbell County Senior Center at 701 Stocktrail Ave. is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Monday-Friday.

Meals are served to seniors age 60 and over from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Cost for meal is a suggested $4.50 contribution and non-senior guests are $9. Please RSVP for your meal by 1 p.m. the day before.

School menus SECONDARY and WESTWOOD LUNCH

ELEMENTARY BREAKFAST

Monday: Spicy or regular chicken sandwich with sweet potato tots Tuesday: Beef burrito bowl with chips and queso Wednesday: French toast breakfast sandwich with hash brown patties Thursday: Three-cheese chicken Alfredo bake with corn Friday: Pepperoni pizza sticks with cottage cheese (sack lunch for Westwood)

Monday: Cereal Tuesday: Mini waffles Wednesday: Yogurt cup with Scooby Snacks Thursday: Cereal Friday: Long john doughnut

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LUNCH All elementary schools offer one entree. Milk and unlimited fruit and vegetables are offered daily.

Monday: Chicken strips with sweet corn Tuesday: Meatballs with mashed potatoes, gravy and biscuit Wednesday: Chicken and veggie egg roll with fried rice Thursday: Pulled pork, cheese fries and a breadstick Friday: Chicken tacos with apple churro

SECONDARY and WESTWOOD BREAKFAST Monday: Cereal Tuesday: Mini waffles Wednesday: Yogurt cup with Scooby snacks Thursday: Cereal Friday: Long john doughnut

BREAKFAST in the CLASSROOM Monday: Cereal Tuesday: French toast in a bag Wednesday: Cereal Thursday: Yogurt with Scooby Snack Friday: Long john doughnut

Elementary breakfast: student, $1.25; adult, $1.75.

Elementary lunch: student, $2.50; adult, $3.75.

Secondary breakfast: student, $1.50; adult, $1.75; super student, $2.25; super adult, $2.50.

Secondary lunch: student, $3; adult, $3.75; super student, $3.50; super adult, $4.25.

Can I drop Halloween during the pandemic?

Officials say traditions should look different this year to reduce the spread of COVID-19

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Can I celebrate Halloween during the pandemic?

Yes, but probably not like you normally would. Health experts say some Halloween traditions like crowding on doorsteps for candy and inching your way through haunted houses heighten the risk of spreading COVID-19 and should be avoided.

But there are ways to adapt celebrations.

places where it’s allowed, there are ways to make it safer.

Various devices such as plastic grabbers can help you hand out candy without any physical contact, says Dr. Nipunie Rajapakse, a pediatric specialist at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.

Marking 6-foot spacing on sidewalks and driveways with duct tape or chalk can also discourage people from gathering at the front door.

Those with any COVID-19 symptoms, known exposures to the virus or pending tests results should stay home, according to the CDC. And experts say to avoid indoor parties and haunted houses since a lack of ventilation could make it easier for the virus to spread.

As Michigan health officials put it: “The only thing scary about Halloween should be the costumes.”

Outdoor pumpkin carving, a virtual or neighborhood costume parade or a scary movie marathon at home are some options that minimize contact with strangers.

“There are lots of creative ways to approach this and make this year memorable,” said Dr. Colleen S. Kraft, who specializes in infectious diseases at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.

If you’re venturing out, experts say to keep a 6-foot distance from others and sanitize hands regularly as you normally would.

Protective face coverings — plastic costume masks don’t count — should also be a part of every Halloween get-up, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Some cities have discouraged or even banned door-to-door trick-or-treating. In

How does the novel coronavirus affect the heart?

Even though it’s known as a respiratory virus, doctors believe it can directly infect the heart

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

How does COVID-19 affect the heart?

Even though it’s known as a respiratory virus, doctors believe the coronavirus can directly infect the heart muscle and cause other problems leading to heart damage.

In some people, as COVID-19 decreases lung function, it may deprive the heart of adequate oxygen. Sometimes it causes an overwhelming inflammatory reaction that taxes the heart as the body

tries to fight off the infection.

The virus can also invade blood vessels or cause inflammation within them, leading to blood clots that can cause heart attacks.

Clots throughout the body have been found in many COVID-19 patients. That has led some doctors to try blood thinners, although there is no consensus on that treatment.

Dr. Sean Pinney of the University of Chicago says people with heart disease are most at risk for virus-related damage to the heart. But heart complications also have been found in COVID-19 patients with no known previous disease.

A recent review in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology notes that evidence of heart involvement has been found in at least 25% of hospitalized coronavirus patients. At some cen-

ters, the rate is 30% or higher. And some studies have found elevated enzyme levels and other signs suggesting heart damage even in patients with milder disease.

It is not known whether that damage is permanent.

One small study found evidence of the virus in the hearts of COVID-19 patients who died from pneumonia. Another, using heart imaging, found inflammation of the heart muscle in four college athletes who had recovered from mild COVID-19 infections. There were no images available from before the athletes got sick, and therefore no way to know if they had pre-existing heart problems.

Dr. Tom Maddox, an American College of Cardiology board member, says it’s unclear if the virus can cause a normal heart to become dysfunctional.

“There’s still so much we don’t know,” Maddox said.

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of friends and family help them realize the virus isn’t a political issue.

“No amount of browbeating will change people’s minds,” Billin said of online COVID-related communications with the public. “Now I hope to convince one person at a time.”

One change has been the amount of negative comments on his Facebook posts.

When he started his social media campaign, there were a lot of trolls.

Now, as people have started to hear stories of the effects of the virus from people they know, the trolls are slowly diminishing.

“The virus will be here the day after the election,” Billin said Wednesday.

Dr. Deborah Birx, the response coordinator for the White House Coronavirus Task Force, visited Billings on Tuesday and Riverton Wednesday. While in Fremont County, she met with Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon and participated in a roundtable with community, tribal and health officials. She’s advocating for wearing masks and routine testing to identify those who are infected, yet asymptomatic.

“The only thing that will prevent the next wave is us,” Birx said at a recent appearance, adding, “If you wait until people have symptoms, you’ve waited too long.”

Wyoming ranks among the top states of people refusing to wear a mask, though health officials have repeatedly urged people to wear facial coverings in public settings if physical distancing isn’t possible.

Kondelis is a “new believer” in masks, which have been shown in studies by the Centers for Disease Control to slow the spread of the virus.

“I don’t wish this on anyone.

If there is anything you can do to keep yourself healthy and safe and prevent lasting effects on friends and family, I encourage you to do so,” Kondelis said in a Wednesday interview. “I appreciate and really like the ability to choose what to do about masks; I’m not for much government oversight, and I like the ability to make our own decisions.

I don’t want people to think I’m a crazy political mask guy.”

“This whole thing has changed my perspective on it,” he continued.

“I will choose to wear a mask, if not for me, for others.”

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CODY — Kara McCoy was having problems with her mustache. It wouldn’t stay on her face.

“I don’t know how men deal with these,” she says, wrinkling her nose.

It was part of the routine of the Wyoming Area Spirit Posse. McCoy is half of the ghost hunting team checking Meeteetse’s Cowboy Bar for signs of the supernatural.

The posse dresses up in period-adjacent attire (in this case, including false facial hair) and brings “trigger objects” to the sites of their paranormal investigations, hoping to entice spirits with things and sights familiar to them from their time among the living.

“We’re looking for anything – spirits, ghosts, the flesh-impaired, as Kara and I like to joke,” says Tami Currie, the other half of the posse.

Understanding the history of the places they investigate is part of the job, and the Cowboy Bar’s history is rich. Frequented by the rough and tumble of the Wild West, it’s been the home of funerals, shootouts, and plenty of sightings of apparitions.

At one point Meeteetse was a major hub in the Big Horn Basin.

Currie says in the 1890s the population was over 1,800 and there were more brothels than banks in the city limits, in part because there was no law enforcement.

Over the decades the Cowboy Bar was frequented by the famous and the infamous, including Butch Cassidy, Amelia Earhart and local outlaw Earl Durand. Tucked away above the bar a noose hangs, once used to hang a cattle rustler.

McCoy throws open the saloon doors and walks up to the bar, asking for some “Florida Milk,” apparently a code term used by bootleggers and lushes alike during Prohibition to get some of the good stuff at their local speakeasies, including the Cowboy Bar. “I think you’ve had enough,” Currie says, playing the role of the ever-gruff bartender.

“I’ll decide when I’ve had enough,” McCoy retorts, placing a toy pistol on the bar top with all too clear an intent.

They crack up at the bit. Currie and McCoy try to keep their enact-

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Kara McCoy with the Wyoming Area Spirit Posse takes a K2-EMF detector around the Cowboy Bar in Meeteetse during a paranormal investigation Tuesday. The detector picks up electronic flow that, in theory, helps detect potential spirits. ments lighthearted, but also just can’t help themselves.

“It kind of feels like we’re bringing life into that era,” Currie says.

“But we also like to have a lot of fun.”

Currie’s husband Justin starts talking about some of the historical figures who have made pit stops at the bar. A device at the other end of the room lights up and jingles when he says, “Butch Cassidy.”

McCoy springs into action, running an electromagnetic field detector around the device, searching for electrical activity. The noise stops almost as soon as it starts. The field detector comes up empty. Currie starts a recording, asking questions that span the history of the bar, about Florida Milk, about Cassidy, about Durand. Nothing happens – until she plays it back.

“Earl Durand? I heard you robbed a bank in Powell,” Currie says on the recording, now amplified on a small speaker.

There’s a pause, nothing, then a man’s voice whispering two words: “Sounds familiar.”

Currie and McCoy met at a chocolate party in 2013. WASP started soon after with six members, dwindling down to two – and right now, they’re not looking to bolster their ranks. The duo is a well-oiled para-

normal hunting machine.

“Sometimes, we freak people out because we don’t say anything,” McCoy says. “It’s just instinct.”

They’ve parlayed those instincts into a YouTube channel (Wyoming Area Spirit Posse) with some minor success and so many investigations they’ve lost track of how many they’ve done.

Their hobby, or calling, depending on which ghost hunter you ask, has taken them all over the West, mostly in Wyoming and Montana but also to Utah and Nevada.

McCoy has also done an investigation in Detroit.

Even though several hours now keep them apart, it’s hard to separate them. Searching for the supernatural may bring them together, but their bond goes beyond ghouls and ghosts.

“We’ve also been through some really hard times,” McCoy says.

“When we first started, we were both married. Both marriages went terribly bad. But we had each other.”

Their lives have since branched out. McCoy now lives in Montana, and Currie married again and moved to Meeteetse. But they still meet to sate a curiosity, a need to know more.

“I’ve always been interested,

I don’t even know why,” Currie says. “I had strange occurrences as a kid, with my brother’s toy going off randomly in the middle of the night, things appearing where they shouldn’t be.”

The possibilities were endless, and when the opportunity arose to check for the paranormal in a cemetery, Currie jumped at the chance.

“I said, ‘What are we waiting for?

Let’s go.’ That ignited a fire that has never died,” Currie says.

For McCoy, it was more about pairing history with the search for the unexplained.

“My grandparents were always into antiques,” she says. “I remember just being little and being like, ‘Oh, that has a story. What’s the story? What’s the story?’ I just never let go of that… Then, having lifetime tragedies happen and seeing things, it just kind of built from there.”

There may be no one more skeptical of the work of the Posse than the Posse themselves. They constantly check each other on the things they observe and question what they see and hear. Research on the supernatural is imperfect.

They welcome skepticism and don’t care for self-proclaimed experts.

“The paranormal, we don’t know what it is,” Currie says. “So if you’re claiming to be an expert in a field that doesn’t even actually exist yet?

I don’t believe that’s true. How can you be an expert about something that’s constantly changing?”

“We’re continuously collecting evidence,” McCoy says, “but it’s not something you can really prove.”

Investigation techniques are different for every ghost hunter, and the Posse says not every technique works in every situation. Some spirits, they say, are scared off by bright lights from their machines others by the loud noises.

In the back room of the Cowboy Bar, an app flipped through channels searching for words.

Somehow, a spirit was supposed to be able to strengthen a broadcast signal and the app would pull the words from thin air.

Disembodied. Samuel. Shining.

Victoria. Alexis. The words flashed on the screen at random times.

Some seemed to be connected.

Then, a phrase.

“Find me.”

They didn’t, at least not that Tuesday night. But for these two, the search will go on.

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has all the aesthetic appeal of a fullsized home but in a package with the floorspace of a small studio apartment one would expect to find in big cities like New York City or San Francisco.

Stocker hopes to capitalize on the nationwide popularity of the tiny house trend, which grew out of a larger movement toward minimalism, or the belief that less is more when it comes to physical possessions and a simpler existence is the ideal.

Tiny houses are nothing new. An early form of the idea can be seen in 1854 when Henry David Thoreau published Walden, his account of two years of living simply in the woods on the banks of Walden Pond. In the first chapter, he details the procurement of materials and the construction of his 150-square-foot cabin.

The trend grew in the aftermath of the 2008 housing crisis, as did the accompanying and related trend toward minimalism, which encouraged people to downsize their possessions and adopt a mindset that allowed them to feel more satisfied with less.

“Tiny homes are a huge movement right now,” Stocker said. “Maybe not so much in Gillette, Wyoming, but all around the country. If you look up tiny homes, they are all over the place.”

If done right, Stocker said the school’s tiny home can be self-sustaining as well.

“I’m just hoping that it’s a good enough that someone here has 10 or 15 acres up on the Big Horns or in the Black Hills and they’re like, ‘I’ve been thinking about building. You know what? If I can buy this (from the class) for the materials ...’ because in my mind, this is a no-brainer,” he said.

“If we have $20,000 in the materials here and you can buy this for $20,000 or $25,000, you don’t have to do the work, you provide an experience for the kids, and it’s cheaper than you paying somebody to do it because we’re not making money off the labor,” he said.

The CCHS tiny house boasts a floor plan that is 8½ feet by 24 feet, or a whopping 204 square feet. But inside that space, Stocker and his students hope to provide a complete living experience for the eventual buyer.

“I would like to be able to put a fridge, a stove and have this thing fully furnished,” Stocker said.

He said the interior will have shiplap walls and homemade cabinets built

by Hauber, who’s participating in the SkillsUSA cabinetmaking competition.

“There’s not enough room for a kitchen table, so we’re thinking like a hightop slab that’s going to be on hinges and have it right in front of the living room window so you can sit there with two

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Rilee Hauber, at left, and Luke Martinez share a fist bump at the conclusion of the construction class period Thursday morning at Campbell County High School. high stools and look out and eat there, say you’re up in the Big Horns or wherever you take this thing to,” Stocker said.

Stocker’s choice to build a tiny house was not purely a response to the popularity of the trend. Two years ago when auctioning off the cabin the students had built, Stocker said they had to factor in a flat-rate to ship the cabin. It wasn’t cheap, costing $8,000 to move it no more than 20 miles.

“We were very clear with that advertisement saying this is going to cost you eight grand to move this, and that turned a lot of people away,” Stocker said.

Now with the tiny house being built on a trailer, he said someone can “hook onto it with a three-quarter ton pickup and pull this thing.”

Though it’s the first tiny house that Stocker’s classes have built, it’s nowhere near the first time the school’s career and technical education program has built houses from scratch. The learning experience began at least two decades ago, and students have since been reaping the benefit of the hands-on learning.

“When you come out here and are working in the shop and you do something right, you get the immediate feedback, you know. ‘It looks good; I did it

Junior Abel Barajao makes a cut while working with construction classmates on the tiny house. right; It’s set up well for the next step,’” Hauber said. “If you do something wrong, then it shows you that you did it wrong right away.

“You have a direct understanding of why it’s wrong, how it’s wrong, what it’s going to impede in the future, what it impedes now in terms of the steps in the building process.”

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Hauber has a unique perspective because he has a foot in both worlds at the high school. He’s involved heavily in the career and technology education courses at CCHS as well as the academic, classroom-based courses. He hopes to attend the University of Wyoming next year, where he’ll start his college career on a pre-med track.

“In class sometimes you can get confused with all these lessons and different side projects that teachers get caught up in,” he said. “And it’s hard to really understand when you went wrong — why, how, like how it affects you instead of it just being like, ‘OK, well I got a 75 on this test.’ It’s a lot easier to learn when you’re learning with your hands.”

When Stocker needs help bringing this kind of real-world experience and education to students, he turns to the Northeastern Wyoming Contractors Association.

“One thing that I do lean on heavily is contractors,” Stocker said. “I’ve had quite a few contractors, which has been really nice. I say, ‘Hey, we’re doing electrical. I need a certified electrician. You know we don’t have the money. Is there any time you can come in? I’m flexible.’

“I mean, we can run wires; I can help them do that stuff. But it’s just really nice to get a contractor in working with them because kids respond differently to a contractor than a teacher than their parents.”

Liz Mussell, who serves as NEWCA’s chair, said the organization’s partnership with high schools is geared to encourage a career in the trades.

“As NEWCA, we are very much an advocate for local contractors, and we’re aware that there’s such a shortage of skilled labor in the market,” Mussell said. “It’s hard to find anybody that’s got any skilled-labor knowledge. We’re trying to get kids of a high school age interested in it and aware that a college education isn’t necessarily the only route to go.”

Mussell said NEWCA has hosted job fairs at both high schools, taken educators on bus tours of job sites around Campbell County and given presentations on how lucrative such jobs can be.

“We’re trying to get the educators to not only push kids toward college, but say, ‘Maybe school isn’t your thing, but you’re really good at working with your hands, you’re really good at welding,’” Mussell said. “Some of these kids might really shine in some of these hands-on classes and not so much in English.”

NEWCA’s support doesn’t come only in the form of contacts with local contractors. It also awards scholarships to students pursuing careers in the trades.

Once CCHS auctions off the tiny house after the spring semester, Stocker’s class will first recoup its spending on materials, which will allow the next year’s classes to buy materials for their own project. Any amount of money in excess of the materials cost goes to NEWCA’s scholarship fund.

“I think it’s just a great opportunity for kids, a great opportunity for our community and a great opportunity for our employers,” Stocker said.

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Briefcase Virus duties add to work for school employees NORFOLK, Neb. — Before the sun rises every weekday, some essential school employees are already hard at work, preparing buses and vans to transport students safely.

Afterward they are bustling around school buildings — cleaning, repairing and problem-solving.

But this year has brought added responsibilities for school custodians and maintenance workers.

School facilities can potentially be a minefield for COVID-19.

Employees have to continuously work to reduce the risk of virus spread after students touch anything and everything — from a lone desk chair to a cafeteria full of lunch tables.

Don Kellogg, director of maintenance for Norfolk Catholic parish and schools, said the added cleaning has accounted for a few extra hours of work each day per staff member.

“It isn’t so much harder, but there’s just more time involved,” Kellogg said. “I am here about another hour and a half each day than normal, spraying down the rooms. The churches get sprayed down after each mass and that’s three times on Sunday. It’s pretty much a daily task.”

Diversity training order faces lawsuit NEW YORK — Three civil rights groups filed a lawsuit this week challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order that prohibits federal agencies, contractors and grant recipients from offering certain diversity training that the president deems “anti-American.”

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund filed the complaint in federal court in Washington, D.C., along with the National Urban League and the National Fair Housing Alliance. The lawsuit argued that Trump’s order violates free speech rights and strangles workplace attempts to address systemic race and sex discrimination.

The National Urban League and the National Fair Housing Alliance both have federal contracts and plan to apply for future ones.

The executive order “unconstitutionally forces Plaintiffs to choose between censoring speech on these important issues or forfeiting any opportunity to enter into a federal contract,” the groups argued in the complaint.

Trump’s executive order, signed last month, called out workplace trainings that explore deep-seated racism and privilege that the administration says could make white workers feel “discomfort” or guilt. The president ordered the Labor Department to set up a hotline to investigate complaints about training sessions that Trump has called “anti-American” and “blame-focused.”

Woman strives to sew comfortable masks AURORA, Neb. — Even though Allisha Suing and her family have made more than 2,500 face masks, she doesn’t just throw them together.

She is careful about doing a good job.

The first three months of her work, Suing used ribbons for her masks instead of elastic. A friend of hers found his mask uncomfortable. “And I didn’t want that for my customers,” said the Aurora woman.

Eventually, she switched to elastic. But she kept looking until she found a soft version of elastic.

Suing wants her masks to be comfortable, and to fit her customers’ faces. That’s why she makes her product in five sizes — adult XL, adult, youth, teen, toddler.

If a customer says his mask doesn’t fit, she sends him a better one.

How picky is she about materials? She finally found a pipe cleaner that fit her standards.

“I’ve gone through a lot of different brands. But I finally found one I liked,” she said. Pipe cleaners go into each mask to form across the nose.

Suing’s work began when she made masks for her family. She and her husband, David, have two kids, Zee, 9, and Zolee, 4.

Then she made more masks for the friend who’d found his mask uncomfortable — an emergency room nurse who lives in Suing’s native state of Ohio.

He helped Suing design the mask that was outfitted with ribbons. She sent 10 masks to Toledo for the nurse and his friends.

Suing hadn’t sewn on a sewing machine since she was in a seventh-grade life skills class in her hometown of Defiance, Ohio.

But she did well in that class, and she’s doing well today.

She kept her nose to the sewing machine when people started asking for more.

After the initial batches, she has been charging $5 for each mask.

She said she didn’t want to gouge customers like some people do.

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A crew from Wisconsin brought in to harvest hemp grown in Park County by Mother’s Hemp Farm works its way through a field near the west side of Powell. It was the first crop of hemp grown in the county to be harvested.

Pharm to market Powell area’s first hemp crop harvested

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he Powell area’s first hemp crop produced about 190 tons of hemp, averaging about 5 tons per acre.

Two fields were planted in June, one near Deaver and the other near Powell, totaling about 137 acres according to Mother’s Hemp Farms owner Dale Tenhulzen. However, the crop grown on the 107 acres in Deaver had to be destroyed.

“It came in too hot,” said field manager Terry O’Neill.

Regulations require that any in August that the market for or bougie crop that people are hemp produced under licenses hemp-derived CBD products going to be able to grow on small from the Wyoming Department had become oversaturated. As an acreages.” of Agriculture maintain a THC example, he said some 117,000 Loeffler said he sees the most level no greater than 0.3%. The acres of hemp were planted for potential for Wyoming hemp in chemical is the main psychoacCBD production last year, while fiber products. tive ingredient in marijuana. If U.S. processors were only able to Tenhulzen said in June that, the plant tests higher than that, handle 22,000 acres-worth. since marijuana remains illegal in the entire crop is lost.

Wyoming, it’s an attractive place for growing “It would have been “Right now there is a lot of 2019 crop that still hemp for CBD. In other an excellent harvest,” states, cross pollination O’Neill said of the has not been extracted into oil or made into from marijuana fields destroyed Deaver field. products, which is allowing for a lot of cheap is a constant threat to Fortunately, the crop CBD crops, and the outside of Powell tested biomass being bought — and the market just fields need to be separatwithin the limit and was ed by miles. able to be harvested. hasn’t recovered.”

Shipping hemp across From that field, O’Neill state lines has been a said they harvested 197 JUSTIN LOEFFLER problem, with numerous bales weighing about Wyoming Hemp Association president cases of law enforce1,800 to 2,000 pounds ment agencies seizing each. hemp shipments on the suspicion “Right now there is a lot of Mother’s Hemp Farms is they’re marijuana. O’Neill said he 2019 crop that still has not been shipping the bales to South contacted all the transportation Carolina, where the hemp will be extracted into oil or made into departments in the states the products, which is allowing for processed for CBD, a non-psychoactive chemical in hemp that shipment will pass through to a lot of cheap biomass being consumers believe has medicinal make sure the company wouldn’t bought — and the market just value. It is currently one of the have any problems. The officials hasn’t recovered,” Loeffler told more profitable uses of hemp. the Legislature’s Joint Agriculture in other states told him that, as However, Wyoming Hemp long as they could produce the Committee on Aug. 27, adding, Association President Justin lab results showing it was under “on the CBD level, we’re still Loeffler told state lawmakers seeing this as more of a boutique See HEMP, Page C 3

DOUGLAS — For a couple of months now, folks have been optimistic that maybe things are looking up in the energy industry. And although we appear to be in the middle of the busted part of an often recurring boom-andbust cycle, the prevalent attitude in the industry appears to be one of cautious optimism.

Industry watchdog Oil and Energy Insider (oilprice.com) researcher and senior editor Julianne Geiger said U.S. and Canadian oil rig counts continue to rebound.

The energy news website reported Enverus Drilling Info’s daily U.S. rig count as of Monday is up to 335 rigs, an increase of 2% in just 24 hours.

Wyoming Oil & Gas Conservation Commission Supervisor Mark Watson reported a few days ago that 376 applications for drilling permits were received in September, an increase of 98 over August.

“The latest rig count is five; one in Campbell County, two in Converse County, one in Niobrara County and one in Sublette County,” Watson said Monday.

Last year at this time, Wyoming boasted 33 rigs, according to Baker Hughes.

“Production has gone up a bit, but will soon start to drop because of the low rig count. Remember, production from horizontal wells drop by 50% in the second and third year of production,” he said.

As of noon Oct. 26, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) dropped 3.46% from $38.47 a barrel, losing $1.38; Brent Crude showed a high Monday morning of $40.38 but also lost $1.39, coming in at a 3.33% loss.

Worldwide watchdogs are blaming further decreasing oil prices on a second wave of coronavirus cases and the U.S. presidential election.

“Obviously there are unknowns associated with the election. There are concerns that if the Democrat is elected we will see a radical shift away from oil.

Fundamentally, we have a diminishing consumption of oil, likely pandemic driven, which is playing into it. Until we see a change in that — in development, prices will stay quite depressed,” Converse County Commission Chairman Robert Short said.

Short, whose family businesses are involved in the oil and gas service sectors, said the good news is that gas prices are up.

According to Oilprice.com writer Irina Slav, three trades for liquefied natural gas cargoes executed by commodity trading major Vitol made the company the talk of the LNG town as it pushed the Asian regional LNG benchmark up by as much as 20 percent.

Slav reported the deals included one purchase of an LNG cargo from PetroChina, one from Gunvor, and one from Trafigura. The prices varied from $6.62 per mmBtu for the first cargo to $6.87 per mmBtu for the third one.

Following these trades, the JapanKorea Marker benchmark surged 20 percent to $6.761 per mmBtu — the year’s high, she said.

“We’re lucky in Wyoming,” Short said. “We have an abundance of gas. Gas has been very strong for us.

However, we shouldn’t believe there is going to be any radical elimination of oil. Oil will stall, but we still need oil for all types of chemicals (and) compounds which can’t be made without oil. We’re not going to see it disappear, but if we See WIND, Page C 3

Funeral home searches for permanent places for backlogged cremains

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SHERIDAN — When Shawn Wright and Johnie Garner gained access to a new area of the funeral home where they work, they uncovered a small closet that housed a big project.

“What happened is our current owner took over this facility about a year and a half ago. When we got in here, we realized there were many cremains that had not been given to family members,” Wright said, explaining when Kevin and Carla Sessions bought out a previous partnership at Champion Funeral Home.

In that transaction, they gained access to a new part of the facility they previously had not maintained.

In a medium-sized coat closet in one of the hallways, there were at least 60 urns stacked neatly on high shelves lining the ceiling. Each one was labeled with identifying information, including a range of death dates that went back 40 or more years. Wright and Garner are now working to find appropriate burial sites for each one with the ultimate goal of emptying out that closet.

They are about halfway there.

“Whenever we get time, we do research on them and try to get them buried or with a family member or

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In a medium-sized coat closet in one of the hallways at Champion Ferriers Funeral Home there are at least 60 urns stacked neatly on high shelves lining the ceiling. Each one is labeled with identifying information, including a range of death dates that go back 40 or more years. whatever we can,” Garner said, indicating the process of finding the nextof-kin takes sleuthing and a little bit of luck, as many contacts are scattered all over the country.

The team started with the one that

had been there the longest: a woman named Hulda Miller, who died in 1916 and was cremated in Seattle. Her artisan-crafted copper urn was shipped to Sheridan in a nondescript cardboard box addressed to Frank E. Miller.

“We were like, ‘Wow! Why did she come here?’” Wright said, indicating that being cremated back at that time was rare.

Garner delved into research and was able to piece together Miller’s family line. She learned that Miller’s son, Fred Miller, became a well-known photographer of the Crow Tribe. He was eventually accepted into the tribe and married a native woman.

“We figured she was being shipped back here so her son could come get her cremains and take her back to the ranch he had out there on the reservation,” Garner revealed. However, the urn was never picked up from the funeral home.

“We don’t know what happened,” Garner said. “I do know they had a horrible snowstorm that year and (Fred Miller) lost most of his cattle. That could be a reason he never made it to Sheridan, or maybe he forgot about her—we just don’t know.”

Whatever the reason, Hulda Miller’s ashes stayed in storage at the funeral home for 103 years (along with a growing collection of others) until their recent “discovery” by the conscientious funeral home employees. Garner ultimately found Hulda Miller’s living descendants.

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SILVER SPRING, Md. — Tupperware relied on social gatherings for explosive growth in the mid 20th century. In the 21st century, it is social distancing that is fueling sales.

Restaurant pain has turned into Tupperware’s gain with millions of people in a pandemic opening cookbooks again and looking for solutions to leftovers. They’ve found it again in Tupperware, suddenly an “it brand” five decades after what seemed to be its glory days.

The company had appeared to be on life support, posting negative sales growth in five of the last six years, a trend that seemed to be accelerating this year.

Long gone was the heyday of the Tupperware Party, first held in 1948, which provided women with a chance to run their own business. That system worked so well, Tupperware took its products out of stores three years later.

But it has struggled as more families gave up making dinner from scratch and also dining out more.

Then the pandemic struck.

Profit during the most recent quarter quadrupled to $34.4 million.

The explosion of sales caught almost everyone off guard and shares of Tupperware Brands Corp., which had been rising since April, jumped 35% to a new high for the year. Shares that could be had for around $1 in March, closed at $28.80 on Wednesday.

Tupperware stands apart from most other companies that have thrived in the pandemic. Unlike Netflix, Amazon.com, Peloton or even DraftKings, it doesn’t rely on a hi-tech platform.

However, it’s certainly not alone as the pandemic bends how we spend our time more rapidly perhaps than any point in our lifetimes.

Last week, Tupperware reported quarterly earnings of $1.20 per share, triple what Wall Street had expected.

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A woman shops at a clothing store in New York. The U.S. economy grew at a sizzling 33.1% annual rate in the July-September quarter — by far the largest quarterly gain on record — rebounding from an epic plunge in the spring, when the eruption of the coronavirus closed businesses and threw tens of millions out of work.

Surge in virus a threat to economic rebounds

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP ECONOMICS WRITER

WASHINGTON — The resurgence of coronavirus cases engulfing the United States and Europe is imperiling economic recoveries on both sides of the Atlantic as millions of individuals and businesses face the prospect of having to hunker down once again.

Growing fear of an economic reversal coincided with a report Thursday that the U.S. economy grew at a record 33.1% annual rate in the July-September quarter. Even with that surge, the world’s largest economy has yet to fully rebound from its plunge in spring when the virus first erupted. And now the economy is slowing just as new confirmed viral cases accelerate and rescue aid from Washington has dried up.

If many consumers and companies choose — or are forced — to retrench again in response to the virus as they did in the spring, the pullback in spending and hiring could derail economic growth. Already, in the United and Europe, some governments are re-imposing restrictions to help stem the spread of the virus.

In Chicago, where Gov. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois has banned indoor dining and drinking, Grant DePorter, who runs Harry Caray’s Restaurant Group, worries that the blow to restaurants and employees could be severe.

When indoor dining was first shut down in the spring, he noted, employees could get by thanks to a $600-a-week federal unemployment benefit. That benefit has expired.

“Everyone is incredibly disappointed by the state’s decision,” DePorter said.

In France, President Emmanuel Macron has declared a nationwide lockdown starting Friday. And in Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel announced a four-week shutdown of bars, restaurants and theaters. Merkel warned of a “difficult winter” as Germany’s daily reported coronavirus cases hit a new high Thursday.

A major uncertainty is whether most people will abide by government directives or whether the resistance to lockdowns and other restrictions that have emerged in parts of the United States and Europe will slow progress in controlling the pandemic.

President Donald Trump, facing an election in five days, has denounced states and cities that have imposed restrictions on businesses to help control the pandemic. And many of his supporters have registered their agreement.

The U.S. government’s estimate of third-quarter growth showed that the economy has regained only about two-thirds of the output that was lost early this year when the eruption of the virus closed businesses, threw tens of millions out of work and caused the deepest recession since the Great Depression.

WASHINGTON — Trying to pull back the veil on health care costs to encourage competition, the Trump administration on Thursday finalized a requirement for insurers to tell consumers up front the actual prices for common tests and procedures.

A major health insurance industry group said the regulation would have the opposite effect, raising premiums.

The late-innings policy play ahead of Election Day comes as President Donald Trump has been hammered on health care by Democratic challenger Joe Biden for the administration’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and its unrelenting efforts to overturn “Obamacare,” the 2010 law providing coverage to more than 20 million people.

A related Trump administration price disclosure requirement applying to hospitals is facing a federal lawsuit from the industry, alleging coercion and interference with business practices.

The idea behind the new regulations on insurers is to empower patients to become better consumers of health care, thereby helping to drive down costs.

But the requirements would take effect gradually over a fouryear period, and patients face a considerable learning curve to make cost-versus-quality decisions about procedures like knee replacements or hernia repairs.

Add to that political uncertainty about the policy’s survival if Trump doesn’t get reelected, and the whole effort is running into skepticism.

Administration officials are adamant the changes will stand, arguing the goal of price transparency transcends political partisanship.

“It will be impossible to walk backwards on this,” Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said. “How do you fight transparency on prices? How do you actually articulate the argument that you should conceal what something costs from the person trying to purchase it?”

Insurance companies contend that the rules will boomerang economically, by undercutting their ability to bargain with hospi-

tals, drug companies, doctors and other industry players. Providers now accepting discounted rates will press to get paid more once they see what their upper-end competitors are getting.

“The final rule will work to reduce competition and push health care prices higher — not lower — for American families, patients, and taxpayers,” Matt Eyles, president of America’s Health Insurance Plans, said in a statement. “This is precisely the opposite of what Americans want in their health care.”

The new rules are being issued jointly by HHS, the Labor Department and the Treasury, which share jurisdiction over health insurance plans. They would: ✳✳ Starting in 2022, require insurers to make available data files on the costs of various procedures, allowing technology companies to design apps that let patients see costs not only under their own plan but other insurers’ plans as well. ✳✳ Starting in 2023, require insurers to make available to their policyholders cost-sharing details on 500 specific services, medical equipment and other items, as called for by the government. ✳✳ Starting in 2024, require insurers to make cost-sharing information available on all the services and goods they cover.

Patients would use an online shopping tool from their plan to see the negotiated rate between their doctor and the insurer, as well as an out-of-pocket cost estimate for procedures, drugs, durable medical equipment and any other item or service they may need.

The information would be available ahead of time, enabling an informed decision. Currently, most patients find out what they owe after they get back from the hospital and receive their “explanation of benefits” statement.

“We need to keep pricing on the front end, not the back end,” said Seema Verma, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. “We have seen in every single industry that when this information is provided to consumers, it creates a new era of consumerism.”

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the 0.3% THC threshold, they wouldn’t have a problem.

Wyoming Department of Agriculture Director Doug Miyamoto had reported some issues with THC compliance during August’s legislative meeting. He said two unnamed growers — one in the Big Horn Basin and one in Lincoln County — had crops that came in over the 0.3% threshold. The highest level the department had seen was 1.1% and he specifically referenced a crop that had tested at 0.64%.

“That’s still not a high level of THC concentration, but it’s over the standard,” the director said. For comparison, the THC content in some strains of marijuana can top 15% — 50 times higher than the limit on hemp.

Tough weather conditions that stress plants, such as the drought seen this summer in Wyoming, tend to drive up THC levels in cannabis plants, Miyamoto added. Regardless of the reason, the state has no authority to deviate from the 0.3% standard set by the 2018 U.S. Farm Bill, which means noncompliant crops must be destroyed.

“That’s something that I don’t like very much and ... I really don’t want to plow people’s crop’s under; I have no interest in doing that,” Miyamoto said. “But then by the same token, because hemp is regulated at the federal level, I don’t have any latitude. I don’t have anything akin to prosecutorial discretion where I can decide what I’m going to do with these crops.”

Loeffler said the industry is working to gather data on which varieties of hemp will grow the best in Wyoming, suggesting that cultivars from Oregon and Colorado may wind up producing too much THC in this climate. “... we are a very great climate for growing hemp,” he said. Particularly with the state’s clean headwaters, “that puts us on the map to be able to produce this at a really, really high level and high quality,” Loeffler said. “But we have to do our due diligence first.”

Across the state, the Department of Agriculture had issued 27 licenses for the 2020 growing season as of August, covering about 1,010 acres of open ground and 18,200 square feet of greenhouse operations.

Despite the loss of Mother Hemp Farms’ plants near Deaver, O’Neill said it was an overall success for a first-year crop in an emerging industry. He thinks the future of hemp in Wyoming looks promising.

“Hopefully this gets more farmers psyched,” O’Neill said. “This shows that hemp is definitely something to pay attention to.”

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“Doing the research, I found out her grandson was Carroll O’Connor,” she said, referring to the actor with a 40-year career that included playing the character Archie Bunker in the 1970s the sitcom All In the Family.

During the entirety of his famous career, O’Connor’s grandmother’s ashes were stored in Sheridan, waiting to be claimed.

“I tracked down (O’Connor’s) sister-in-law’s children, who were great-grandchildren, that still have land out there on the reservation.”

Mary Reynolds, a violinist in the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, knew of her Great Grandmother Hulda only via online research on genealogy websites. When she got the call from the Sheridan funeral home saying the remains were still unclaimed, it immediately made sense.

“I knew exactly where every one of my other relatives were at,” she said, indicating she had specifically

looked up burial plots of her ancestors during her family research. “But I knew nothing about where Hulda was… It is incredible that she was there at that funeral home for 103 years,” Reynolds said. “When I made the connection, we were just blown away. (Garner) said, ‘What do you wish to do?’”

Reynolds coordinated to have her great grandmother’s remains be buried in the Hardin, Mont., cemetery, next to her son, the photographer.

“I thought I wouldn’t find it right, having never known her, to have her shipped to Dallas. It was clear as a bell she should be with her son,” she said. “I felt it was the right thing to do.

I really found it fell on me, and not in a bad way. This has come through all of this connection, and I was left with the beautiful duty to lay her to rest.”

In addition to the large geographic spread that naturally occurs as generations live out their lives, an additional challenge has been the phenomenon that people often use more than

one name in their lifetime.

“Back in that time, sometimes people used their middle name or just randomly used some other name,” Wright said, referring to the case of a woman named Sarah, who had died in 1920. She often used other generic feminine names, like Jane. “She had so many aliases.”

Even the names on her urn and the box containing the urn were different.

After everything was straightened out, those remains were buried at the cemetery in Big Horn.

“So now, she is buried with her husband’s former wife, and he is buried in California,” Wright laughed, admitting that situation is still better than perpetually sitting in a closet at the funeral home.

Wright, who also serves as a Sheridan County Deputy Coroner, said they got substantial help from Tammy Mansfield to get many urns buried at the Oregon Trail Veterans Cemetery.

“She works with missing Americans

and she helps bury veterans. She came and helped us clear out some.

She did a lot of research and paperwork and found out which ones were veterans, and she got them buried in Evansville last June,” Wright said.

“Sometimes, we can bury a veteran’s spouse with them, so she took some wives with her. We sent down 20.”

The staff at Champion Funeral Home is working, as time permits, to find permanent resting spots for the rest of the cremains that have come into their custody. They generally work on one case at a time in order to keep the details of the individual’s family structure intact and distinct from other cases.

It is unclear why so many cremains piled up in the custody of the funeral home. Informal calls to several other similar businesses around the state confirm that while funeral directors sometimes hold on to ashes for a period of time due to myriad reasons, the accumulation of more than five dozen urns is unusual.

Wind: County has a lot of oil and gas activity, with a new industry emerging Continued from Page C1

move to electric cars we may see less of it consumed. We’re still going to need it.”

Meanwhile, Converse County and state officials are anxiously awaiting the Bureau of Land Management’s pending record of decision on the 5,000 oil and gas well proposal.

The final comment period ended in August, and the BLM has a 90-day window in which to issue the decision on whether to move forward with all, part or none of the huge drilling effort here proposed by five energy companies.

That decision could come any day, or the BLM could delay it and miss its own 90-day deadline, although Wyoming’s congressional delegation has called upon the federal agency to rule quickly.

The final environmental impact statement on the companies’ effort was issued in July, with a preferred alternative of allowing the project in full and providing a variance to rules prohibiting drilling during certain times of the year.

On the flip side, oil and gas aren’t the only energy sources bringing big revenues into Converse County.

T h e r e ’s w i n d , s o m e t h i n g Wyoming is known for, and NextEra Energy Resources is capitalizing

on that with their Cedar Springs Windfarm outside of Douglas and Glenrock between WYO 59 and WYO 93.

The $600 million, 400 megawatts investment into Cedar Springs Wind Farm will see 192 turbines erected by Dec. 31.

The recent rise in Converse’s countywide sales tax revenues for the second straight month – from $3.5 million in June to $6 million in July and $9.2 million in August – is credited to the Cedar Springs Windfarm, according to Converse County Treasurer Joel Schell.

NextEra Energy Resources Project Manager Ryan Fitzpatrick agrees his company has invested heavily in the county.

“The Cedar Springs project represents an investment in Converse County of over $600 million. The project has employed approximately 400 people during construction, including about 50 oil and gas workers displaced due to the unfortunate recent downturn in the oil industry,” he said.

The project’s total construction workforce has consistently maintained approximately 400 workers for several months.

Fitzpatrick said NextEra has been able to hire more county and Wyoming workers and contractors than what they typically see on

wind projects, based on the availability of companies who service the oil field, and some of the synergies between oil field contractors and wind farm construction.

“When looking to build a wind project, we look for areas with great wind resources and in close proximity to ideal transmission interconnection points. Converse County has that and it’s been such a great host for the Cedar Springs projects.

Everyone has been very welcoming and supportive,” Fitzpatrick said.

Thus far, the company has erected 132 of 192 wind turbine towers.

Although still and silent for now, he said they are on schedule to be operational by the end of the year.

The spate of cold winter weather has not inhibited the project for the most part.

“There is work we can do out there during almost any type of weather, but we do need pretty low to moderate wind speeds to build the top sections of the wind turbines. The crews are able to move quickly if we get breaks from the wind, and sometimes we’ll utilize a 24-hour work schedule to erect turbines if overnight winds are forecast to be a little less breezy,” Fitzpatrick said.

Once the project is completed, the company expects to employ 20 full-time employees “who will live

in the area and become part of the local community.”

Fitzpatrick expects they’ll be a good fit, as the county has been a great host to the Cedar Springs’ crews.

“It’s been our pleasure to support the local economy during these difficult times. That support is going to continue with the property and generation taxes the project will generate through its operational life,” he said.

“We’re fortunate in Converse County to have gas. We have a terrible uncertainty in oil. As to Cedar Springs, I am happy to see the continuing development. We should not be prejudiced either way as the development is good for our state and the people in our state. If we can harness natural resources which are renewable it allows for economic opportunities for everyone,” Short said.

As to the diminishing market for coal, Short said it is completely associated with investors losing interest in it.

“We can deny it all we want to, but (coal investors) are telling us the marketplace is no longer favorable to thermal coal. Do we want to hide our heads in the sand or revamp our economy to take advantage of those investors and where they want to put their dollars?” he said.

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Trevor Lawrence positive for COVID Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence has tested positive for COVID-19, putting into doubt whether the face of college football will be available to play the top-ranked Tigers’ biggest game of the season.

Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said in a statement released by the school that Lawrence is in isolation with mild symptoms.

Swinney said Lawrence would miss Clemson’s game Saturday against Boston College. The Tigers are scheduled to play No. 4 Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, on Nov. 7.

Individuals who test positive for COVID-19 must isolate for a minimum of 10 days..

The junior from Georgia is a leading contender for the Heisman Trophy and potentially the top overall pick in next year’s NFL draft.

He led the Tigers (6-0, 5-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) to a national championship as a freshman and back to the College Football playoff championship game last season.

Tony La Russa, 76, to manage White Sox CHICAGO — Tony La Russa, the Hall of Famer who won a World Series with the Oakland Athletics and two more with the St. Louis Cardinals, is returning to manage the Chicago White Sox 34 years after they fired him.

The 76-year-old La Russa rejoins the franchise where his managing career began more than four decades ago. He takes over for Rick Renteria after what the White Sox insisted was a mutual agreement to split.

La Russa inherits a team loaded with young stars and productive veterans that made the playoffs for the first time since 2008, only to sputter down the stretch and get knocked out in the wild-card round.

He becomes the oldest manager in the major leagues by five years.

Houston’s Dusty Baker is 71.

Prep volleyball

Bolts end Camels’ season at regionals

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Thunder Basin High School cheers after beating cross-town rival Campbell County earlier this season. The teams played for the third time in 2020 at the regional tournament in Casper, with the Bolts ending the Camels’ season.

Close volleyball matches tend to be back-and-forth affairs.

Thursday’s first-round regional matchup between Thunder Basin and Campbell County high schools was anything but. It was a streaky match the Bolts walked away from with a 3-1 victory.

The loss ended the Camels’ hopes of making the state tournament next weekend in Casper. It also guaranteed the Bolts a spot at state.

Thunder Basin went into the first regional match without head coach Winnett Martin after she tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday.

Assistant coach John Bayles took over the head coaching responsibilities while Martin and her husband watched the game from their couch at home.

“I love playoff time, I truly love it. I thrive in that environment,” Martin said. “Tonight watching on my computer on the couch was the most stressful thing I’ve ever done.

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Campbell County came out with fire in the first set of the match.

While the Camels came into the regional tournament as the No. 3 seed with a 1-5 conference record, they played like a playoff team early on.

Thunder Basin battled in the first set and forced the win-by-two rule tied at 24. The Camels responded with two straight points to take the first set 26-24.

Even without their head coach on the bench, the Bolts didn’t look back. The second set was close at 16-14 before the Camels went on a six-point streak to bring the score to 22-14.

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Campbell County High School swimmer Berkeley Christensen is already a four-time champion going into this year’s state meet. The Camel junior’s goal is to add two more gold medals to her collection next weekend in Laramie.

Berkeley’s long course CCHS swimmer Berkeley Christensen aims to win twice more

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Thunder Basin High School freshman Eve Tuckett dives into the water while competing in the 200-yard freestyle during the Last Chance Meet at the Campbell County Aquatic Center Thursday afternoon.

Last Chance The Campbell County and Thunder Basin High School swimming and diving teams hosted their last regular season meet before the state meet Thursday at the Campbell County Aquatic Center.

The meet was an opportunity for swimmers to try and qualify for the state meet one last time. While the Camels and Bolts didn’t qualify any more swimmers at the Last Chance meet, Campbell County enters state with nine swimmers qualified and Thunder Basin will bring four swimmers and four divers.

For Campbell County, state-qualified swimmers are Skye Rehard, Berkeley Christensen, Allison Granat, Ryann Drube, Zoe Gallion, Cydney Pfaff, Haily Creary, Katie Edmonds and Jaisley Mathes.

The Bolts qualifiers include Kaylee Robertson, Madi Zach, Hailey Walter and Anna Talbott in swimming and Maleah Cope, Brooke Zipperian, Sara Madsen and Malia Andersen in diving.

The Last Chance meet also included Newcastle and Buffalo.

Thunder Basin’s Anna Talbott won the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 6 minutes, 31.99 seconds while Campbell County’s Jaisley Mathes took first in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 2:13.84.

he adrenaline of beating a personal record in the pool doesn’t last long for Berkeley Christensen.

The Campbell County High School junior is used to the feeling. In her third year on the girls swim team, she’s won four individual events at the state meet.

Swimmers are limited to two individual events at state, meaning Berkeley is a perfect 4-0 so far in her prep swimming career.

She said she enjoys pushing her mind and body to reach those faster times. Looking up after a race and seeing a new personal record is the most gratifying feeling in the sport, Christensen said.

“I like seeing what you’re able to do,” Christensen said. “You spend all that time practicing and you get to see all your hard work pay off. It’s one of the best feelings in swimming.”

But the satisfaction never lingers long for Christensen. After a race, she picks herself out of the water and goes back to her team. While she swims all eight individual events, she remains adamant that swimming is a team sport.

“You spend pretty much all of your time training and trying to help your team out,” Christensen said. “That’s what I’m thinking about in the water.

Helping my team.”

A humbling reminder of the importance of team in the Campbell County Aquatic Center is the 19 banners hanging from the walls in the pool area. Each represents a CCHS state championship earned since 1992.

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Inspirational BU hockey icon Roy dies at 45 BOSTON — Travis Roy, the Boston University hockey player who was paralyzed 11 seconds into his first college shift and went on to become an advocate for spinal cord injury survivors both in and outside the sports world, has died. He was 45.

His death was confirmed by the BU athletic department and the Travis Roy Foundation.

Roy was a 20-year-old freshman making his debut for the reigning NCAA champions in the 1995-96 season opener when he crashed headfirst into the boards after checking a North Dakota opponent. The accident left him a quadriplegic.

From his wheelchair, he gave as many as 40 motivational speeches a year. The message he shared: Do the best with what you have and don’t dwell on your misfortune.

Since he created the Travis Roy Foundation in 1997, it has raised more than $9 million — half for research, and half to provide equipment for those with spinal cord injuries.

Roy, who was able to control the joystick that maneuvered his chair, regained little movement after the injury and had no feeling below the middle of his chest.

“I was helpless. All you can do is helplessly watch.”

Thursday was the third and final meeting between the two Gillette schools this season. The first two matches in the regular season both went to five sets with the Bolts winning both.

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NYC Mayor mum on potential sale of Mets NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio deflected questions about whether he wants to block the sale of the New York Mets to hedge fund manager Steve Cohen.

Asked about the proposed sale at a news briefing, de Blasio said the city law department is legally obligated to review the sale because Citi Field, where the Mets play, is on city land.

“It’s our land,” said de Blasio, a Boston Red Sox fan. “There is a legal requirement that if there’s an ownership change it has to be evaluated. Our law department is doing that evaluation based on the law.”

A provision in the city’s lease agreement says any new owner of the team cannot be someone who has been convicted of a felony or is an organized crime figure.

Cohen’s former company, SAC Capital Partners, pleaded guilty in an insider trading case in 2014 and paid $1.8 billion in fines.

Cohen himself, though, was not charged in the case.

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GENEVA — Russia’s status as an Olympic team, and its reputation as a serial cheater in international sports, goes on trial next week in more legal fallout from the country’s state-backed doping saga.

At an undisclosed location in Lausanne on Monday, the Court of Arbitration for Sport will start hearing four days of evidence and testimony about a manipulated database from the Moscow testing laboratory.

The three-judge panel has been asked by the World Anti-Doping Agency to ban Russia’s name, flag and anthem from the Tokyo Olympics and 2022 Winter Games in Beijing, plus four years of world championships.

WADA would let Russian athletes compete only if not implicated in doping or cover-ups. Russia’s right to host and bid for world championships could also stop for four years.

The case formally pits WADA against its Russian affiliate, known as RUSADA. The Russian agency was ruled non-compliant last December. That decision and the proposal of sanctions is being disputed.

But it is the Russian state that is effectively on trial for its handling of the database. It was given to WADA investigators — belatedly in January 2019 — after the laboratory had long been sealed. WADA says details of doping tests and emails were deleted or changed, and false trails created to frame whistleblowers.

RUSADA denies wrongdoing and claims the punishments are “unfounded, lacked legal basis ... and violated the principle of proportionality,” CAS said this week.

The Russian government has often blamed a western conspiracy since the WADA investigations opened in 2014.

Previous doping revelations led to chaotic late selection vetting that let hundreds of Russians compete at the past two Olympics. The International Olympic Committee refused WADA’s request to ban Russia outright from the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games.

Postponing the 2020 Tokyo Olympics by one year during the coronavirus pandemic gave more time to resolve this case.

The hearing opens two weeks after more allegations of Russian misconduct in Olympic circles.

Russian military intelligence officers were indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice for alleged cyberattacks, including on the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Britain’s government said Russia also targeted the Tokyo Games.

A CAS verdict is not expected for at least several weeks. A further appeal is possible at Switzerland’s supreme court.

Russian doping programs were first reported by media and then detailed

by WADA-appointed investigations led by two Canadian lawyers, veteran IOC member Richard Pound and long-time CAS judge Richard McLaren.

Evidence included steroid cocktails, orders to hide doping cases, and state agents helping to swap athlete samples through a hole in the wall at the 2014 Sochi Olympic testing laboratory.

At its heart was Moscow and Sochi lab director Grigory Rodchenkov. He fled Russia and is in the witness protection program in the United States.

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Lots of division matchups to spice up Week 8

By BARRY WILNER

Thursday’s Game

AP PRO FOOTBALL WRITER

For NFL fans who relish division rivalries, this is your week.

Some of them are headliners: the 49ers at the Seahawks, Steelers at the Ravens, and slumping Patriots at the Bills. Others — Vikings at Packers, Chargers at Broncos, Cowboys at Eagles — not so much.

Regardless, when familiar foes face off, it makes for intriguing storylines.

Take the 49ers at the Seahawks. The previous time they met, Seattle tight end Jacob Hollister was tackled inches from the goal line on the final play, San Francisco won the season finale and took the NFC West. Soon after, the Niners were in the Super Bowl.

It’s a terrific rivalry usually marked by big plays, which the Seahawks specialize in: making them with star quarterback Russell Wilson, allowing them with a spotty defense.

Unfortunately, both the 49ers (4-3) and Seahawks (5-1) have injury problems that could diminish the quality of Sunday’s game. San Francisco will be without leading rusher Raheem Mostert (ankle), RB Jeff Wilson Jr. (ankle), and No. 1 receiver Deebo Samuel (hamstring). Seattle could be missing top running backs Chris Carson (foot) and Carlos Hyde (hamstring) and cornerback Shaquill Griffin (concussion).

The action began Thursday night when Atlanta finally was able to hold onto a late lead, beating Carolina 25-17 in the rain. The Falcons (2-6) had blown three games with fourth-quarter collapses. The Panthers fell to 3-5 with a third straight defeat.

Off this week are Arizona (5-2), plus Houston, Washington and Jacksonville, all 1-6.

Pittsburgh (6-0) at Baltimore (5-1) Brutal.

As in the kind of hits fans will see in the NFL’s most physical (and probably best) rivalry. Each defense and special teams sets the tone early and doesn’t relent.

Baltimore has forced a turnover in 19 straight games, the longest active streak in the league. Baltimore and Pittsburgh are tied atop the NFL in QB hits with 64. The Steelers lead with 26 sacks, the Ravens have 22. The Steelers h ave at least one sack in 63 straight games, the third-longest string in NFL history.

Atlanta 25, Carolina 17

Sunday’s Games Indianapolis at Detroit, 11 a.m.

L.A. Rams at Miami, 11 a.m.

Las Vegas at Cleveland, 11 a.m.

Minnesota at Green Bay, 11 a.m.

N.Y. Jets at Kansas City, 11 a.m.

New England at Buffalo, 11 a.m.

Pittsburgh at Baltimore, 11 a.m.

Tennessee at Cincinnati, 11 a.m.

L.A. Chargers at Denver, 2:05 p.m.

New Orleans at Chicago, 2:25 p.m.

San Francisco at Seattle, 2:25 p.m.

Dallas at Philadelphia, 8:20 p.m.

Open: Houston, Jacksonville, Arizona, Washington

Monday’s Game Tampa Bay at N.Y. Giants, 6:15 p.m.

Justin Herbert’s 308.4 passing yards per game lead the AFC. Former Chargers RB Melvin Gordon leads the Broncos in rushing yards (349) and touchdowns (five) but he also has three fumbles, two last week.

AP Photo/Rick Scuteri

Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson throws as Arizona Cardinals outside linebacker Devon Kennard defends during the first half of a Cardinals win Sunday. matchups, with the 43-34 victory in the season opener indicative of where these teams were headed. Packers coach Matt LaFleur is 8-0 in NFC North games. That doesn’t mean Aaron Rodgers is complacent about facing Minnesota.

During their three-game winning streak, the Ravens have 16 sacks and 41 QB hits.

New England (2-4) at Buffalo (5-2) If ever the Bills are going to put aside the torture that has been their matchups with the Patriots for nearly two decades, it’s now.

The Patriots have won seven straight in the series and are 35-5 against the Bills since Bill Belichick took over as coach in 2000. Tom Brady was 32-3 against Buffalo and set the NFL record for most wins against one opponent.

New England’s 76 wins over the Bills are their most against anyone.

But these Patriots have dropped three in a row, struggling in all phases on the field and the sideline.

Not that the Bills are setting the NFL afire. Buffalo has combined for 51 points, 998 yards and 692 yards passing in the past three games. In Buffalo’s first four games, the offense generated 123 points, 1,639 yards and 1,326 yards passing.

Dallas (2-5) at Philadelphia (2-4-1) Lots of stats comparing these two disappointments, but more appropriate would be the attitudes in Dallas (timid, even passive) and Philly (resourceful and aggressive).

Sure, both sides have experienced major injuries, with the Eagles missing nearly half their starters and the Cowboys down to a third-string quarterback if No. 2 Andy Dalton (concussion) can’t go. At least the Eagles have shown some grit in the face of adversity.

As for the stats, the Cowboys are last in turnover margin (minus-13) and giveaways (16), and tied for last in takeaways (3) and interceptions (1). They’ve allowed the most points in the NFL, 34.7 per game.

Los Angeles Chargers (2-4) at Denver (2-4)

Minnesota (1-5) at Green Bay (5-1)

The least of the division games, with both of these clubs also-rans in the AFC West.

The Chargers have lost seven consecutive AFC West games, but rookie

This usually is a prime NFC North game. Obviously not in 2020 with the Vikings floundering.

The Packers have won the past three

Our congratulations to this week’s

Los Angeles Rams (5-2) at Miami (3-3) Tua Time. Strange timing, perhaps, considering the havoc Aaron Donald and Leonard Floyd could cause in the starting debut of QB Tua Tagovailoa.

But coach Brian Flores opted to make the move during Miami’s bye week even though Ryan Fitzpatrick was on a hot streak. The Dolphins are on pace for their highest-scoring season since 1986, averaging 26.7 points per game.

New York Jets (0-7) and Kansas City (6-1) Can a 19-point spread seem too low?

In this case, probably.

The Jets gained 4 total yards in the second half last week against Buffalo.

Sam Darnold returned from a shoulder injury and was sacked six times.

Chiefs coach Andy Reid can tie Curly Lambeau (229) for the fifth-most wins in NFL history. QB Patrick Mahomes has thrown a TD pass in 18 consecutive games, the longest streak in franchise history and currently the longest string in the NFL. Anyone want to bet the Jets will get in the way of Reid or Mahomes?

Indianapolis (4-2) at Detroit (3-3) Although Philip Rivers has been sacked a league-low six times, look for the Colts to establish Jonathan Taylor in the run game against a leaky run defense ranked 26th.

Detroit has won consecutive games for the first time in more than a year,

but needed yet another unfathomable collapse by Atlanta to do so. Matthew Stafford led the 36th game-winning drive of his career against the Falcons.

Las Vegas (3-3) at Cleveland (5-2) Four of the Browns’ five wins have come against tailenders, and they have four such opponents remaining on the schedule. The Raiders are somewhere in between good and bad, but Las Vegas is the only team to allow at least 24 points in every game. Only eight teams in the Super Bowl era have allowed at least 24 points in the first seven outings.

At least the Raiders won’t have to face WR Odell Beckham Jr. (knee).

The Browns are looking to go 4-0 at home for the first time since 1963.

Tennessee (5-1) at Cincinnati (1-5-1) Two clubs in need of a defensive makeover, but at least the Titans have overcome those shortcomings: Tennessee has won four games with a scoring drive in the final two minutes of regulation or overtime.

Cincinnati can’t stop the run, and even good defenses struggle with Titans star RB Derrick Henry. At least top overall draft selection Joe Burrow is producing, with five 300-yard games.

He’s the first rookie in league history to do that in seven games.

New Orleans (4-2) at Chicago (5-2) The Saints have won five straight in this series. Alvin Kamara leads the NFL with 824 yards from scrimmage, an average of 137.3 per game, and Drew Brees is heating up even without No. 1 target Michael Thomas.

The Bears rank 29th in yards per game and 27th in scoring (19.7 points), and their ground game is virtually nonexistent. Their defense wore down when Chicago was pummeled by the Rams on Monday night.

Tampa Bay (5-2) at New York Giants (1-6) New York had some success against Brady, including two Super Bowl victories. But those Giants were far more talented than this lot.

Brady was sensational in picking part Las Vegas last week, has more playmakers than he can keep happy, and the Tampa defense is stepping up.

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The Bolts answered with a 10-point steak of their own, bringing the set to 24-22 in Thunder Basin’s favor before closing out 25-23 to even the match at a game each.

The third set consisted of even more streaks. The Camels went on a five-point swing and the Bolts reversed it with another 10-point streak of their own. Four more points in a row for the Camels was followed by five for the Bolts.

Ultimately, the Bolts had the last streak to win 25-19.

With their backs against the wall, the Camels fought for their season in the fourth game. Down 14-7 at one point, Campbell County battled back to bring the deciding game down to the wire.

The Camels took the lead at 19-18, but the Bolts had the last streak, outscoring CCHS down the stretch to win 25-21 and close the match at 3-1.

The Camels ended the season with a 6-12 record while the Bolts (16-3) will move on as the No. 2 seed out of the East in the cross-quadrant portion of the regional tournament.

County program that’s been known for swimming for so long and just being a part of it and helping the team out,” Christensen said. “It keeps me and the girls motivated to try and remember what those banners mean.”

Thunder Basin moves on The Bolts will enter the cross-quad regional tourn a m e n t S a t u rd a y a s t h e Northeast No. 2 seed after losing to Kelly Walsh. The Trojans clinched the No. 1 seed.

While all teams participating in the cross-quad competition will make the state tournament, matches Saturday will determine seeding.

The Bolts will play Laramie in the first round at noon in Casper. Laramie (19-0) is the No. 1-ranked team in the WyoPrep.com coaches and media volleyball rankings.

“It’s playoff time. You want to beat everybody,” Martin said. “You’re going to have to beat everybody if you want to win it all, so it doesn’t matter who you play.

“The importance of this weekend is it opens you up for the following weekend.”

The Bolts could potentially rematch Kelly Walsh on Saturday, which would be the third time the teams would play in the last week.

“There’s a lot of flaws in this year’s bracket and it feels like they’re rushing everything.

Practice pays off

News Record File Photo/Mike Moore

Campbell County juniors Abi Williams, left, and Azia Fichter hug before the team’s senior night match earlier this season.

They’re trying to do everything in one day,” Martin said.

“Every other sport, they didn’t change anything with them and I think a lot of kids are being denied opportunities because of COVID.” While sports like tennis, golf, swimming and diving and football have had limited changes to playoff formats this year due to COVID-19, volleyball has faced a completely revamped playoff format that has left one Gillette high school team out of the mix.

“Unfortunately, us beating (Campbell County) knocks them out,” Martin said. “I think they would be going to state if it was a normal year with a normal regional tournament. Campbell County is a quality team and I think they’re a playoff team.”

Camels stay home Campbell County had a long two-hour bus ride home from Casper after losing to Thunder Basin on Thursday, said coach Marcy Befus.

“I had a good feeling going into (Thursday) and I thought the girls came out and competed,” Befus said. “It’s frustrating and it’s hard and it’s sad.”

The Camels had four seniors who played their last match in the Campbell County purple and gold Thursday night. It’s for them Befus feels the most emotion.

“Those seniors weren’t ready to be done,” Befus said. “They could have folded earlier in the season because we had a losing record. That’s when it gets

hard to show up to practice every day.

“I appreciate them for continuing to show up. They all brought something different to the table and they all had big hearts. They were team players from start to finish. They kind of set the tone for expectations in the program.”

Campbell County senior Taylor Fischer said it was an emotional loss for the team and its four seniors.

“It was really upsetting and it was an emotional one in the locker room just because we knew that was it for us,” Fischer said. “We knew that it was the last time we’d ever play together.”

Looking back on her four years in the CCHS volleyball program, Fischer said she wouldn’t trade the experience for anything.

“It’s really taught me a lot of things, like how to be a leader and how to keep pushing when times are tough,” Fischer said. “I think the best thing that I’ve gotten out of it was the friendships that will stick with me for many, many years.

“I always knew I had people that would back me up.”

The loss and another missed state tournament this year has lit a fire under Befus and the players who will return next year, she said.

“Some teams rebuild and some reload. We’ve kind of been rebuilding and I think that’s going to change,” Befus said. “I’m tired of being the team that doesn’t go to state.

It’s time to change that.”

Christensen takes advantage of every 6 a.m. practice.

The proof is in the numbers, which traces the success of any competitive swimmer.

As a freshman, Christensen at state won the 200-yard freestyle event with a time of 1 minute, 56.11 seconds and the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 57.81. The following year, she improved on both of those times, winning the same events with times of 1:54.64 in the 200-yard freestyle and 56.87 in the 100yard butterfly.

Going into Thursday’s Last Chance meet, Christensen’s state-qualified time in the 200-yard freestyle was 2:00.69. Her time of 59.49 in

the 100-yard butterfly is the best time in the state and the only time under 1 minute.

Her goal is to continue to cut down her times.

“It makes you feel kind of good, but you still never know what’s going to happen,” she said about having the best time in the state.

“You can’t get inside your own head in any way and start thinking that it’s going to be easy or thinking that you can’t do it.”

Campbell County coach Phil Rehard has plenty of flexibility in which swimmers he uses in the individual races this year at state. As of Thursday, the Camels have qualified nine swimmers in the eight individual events.

Both Christensen and teammate Skye Rehard have qualified in all eight of the swimming events. This allows the coach to pick and choose which swimmer he wants to use in any given event.

“It’s really good to have that, especially if you have a lot of girls who have a lot of (qualified) times you can

kind of put them in different spots to try and get the most points,” Christensen said.

“It’s really good that we have a few girls that have qualified in every single event to be able to do that.”

Team goals While Christensen’s individual goal is to remain undefeated at state, she’d also like to contribute to a solid finish for Campbell County as a team.

“We want to try to do the best that we can and score the most points that we can,” Christensen said. “It’s kind of unreasonable to shoot for first or second place because of how small our team is, but we just want to aim for those top places in every event to get as many points as we can.”

The Camels wrapped up the regular season Thursday at home and now have their sights set on the state meet in Laramie on Thursday and Friday.

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NASCAR THIS WEEK THROUGH THE GEARS

SPEED FREAKS

QUESTIONS & ATTITUDES

Does Martin Truex threepeat at Martinsville or does someone else grab the fourth playoff spot?

Any surprise at Kyle Larson resurfacing at Hendrick Motorsports?

GODSPEAK: That’s a mighty tall order on a very short track, but I think it will happen.

KEN’S CALL: Hate to be nondramatic, but I think the top four remains there. Logano, Harvick, Hamlin and Kez.

The original headline was an eye-opener, of course, but after a mere moment of thought, it seems to make perfect sense.

Rick Hendrick has long been a respected and popular member of the NASCAR world, probably as well-liked as any team owner ever. He’s the perfect fit for Larson’s 2020 missteps and resurrection. Competitively, I’d think Hendrick had coveted Larson for quite a while, given the driver’s wide-ranging abilities behind the wheel. Big things will be expected.

Did Kyle Busch’s Texas win re-establish him as a championship favorite for 2021?

GODSPEAK: Considering his age, talent and resources, I’d say 2020 was a bump in the road for Busch.

Let’s hope all things go back to normal in 2021.

KEN’S CALL: It appears that Kyle’s 2021 chances will be helped if NASCAR returns to its preCOVID norms in terms of allowing practice time. He was apparently affected by the new procedures forced upon everyone.

And those other moves …?

Expect Chase Briscoe to hit the ground running in the No. 14 as Clint Bowyer’s replacement.

You don’t win nine Xfinity races this year by happenstance. Erik Jones to the No. 43 has sleeper potential. That team, under its current set-up, has never hired a driver with Jones’ Cup-level credentials. If the equipment there is decent, he’ll help that team find another gear.

GODWIN’S PICKS MARTINSVILLE WINNER: Martin Truex Jr. REST OF TOP 5: Denny Hamlin, Brad Keselowski, Chase Elliott, Kyle Busch FIRST ONE OUT: Joey Logano DA RK HORSE: Jimmie Johnson DON’T BE SURPRISED IF: Truex?

Three in a row at Martinsville?

What the heck.

Ken Willis, ken.willis@news-jrnl.

Kyle Busch is all smiles under that helmet after keeping his NASCAR win streak alive at rainsoaked Texas. JARED C. TILTON/NASCAR GETTY IMAGES

Worth the wait for Busch Godwin Kelly Daytona Beach News-Journal USA TODAY NETWORK

The NASCAR Cup Series race at Tex­ as Motor Speedway was a weird, strange and time­agonizing event, starting Sunday afternoon and ending Wednesday night because of varying degrees of precipitation.

When the checkered flag was mercifully displayed, NASCAR had another first­time 2020 winner. Kyle Busch kept his season­ to­season winning streak alive by using every molecule of fuel in his No.18 Toyota.

Busch has won at least one Cup race each year since 2005. After being thrust from the stock­car playoffs after Round 2, winning became his primary priority.

“We finally got it,” Busch said after his 57th career victory. “I was so nervous — I was nervous the whole last run. I’ve been in this position so many times. The last three laps though, that’s like winning the championship — that’s how nervous I was.”

For the record, Busch has two titles and is the defending Cup champion.

“It means a lot just to keep that win­ ning streak going,” he said. “That’s the biggest thing I was hoping for and obviously wanting to accomplish this year before the year was out.”

According to the unofficial stat book, this four­day red flag pales to one at Bristol in 1973. Frontstretch.com’s Zach Sturniolo found a Bristol race that was started, logged 52 laps, then got rained out — for two weeks.

Oddly enough, Cale Yarborough led all 500 laps after play resumed.

On to the penultimate Cup race of the season at Martinsville …

BY THE NUMBERS

7

Years since Martinsville polesitter won the race

14

Drivers who have won Martinsville race in last 10 seasons

99.905

All-time record qualifying speed in mph by Jamie McMurray (2014)

143

Cup Series races staged at Martinsville since 1949

1,500

Purse money earned by Red Byron for winning 1949 Martinsville Cup race

DAYTONA MOTOR MOUTHS Our guys never get eliminated from the playoffs.

First gear After what seemed like the World’s Longest Race, Hendrick Motorsports teammates Alex Bowman and Chase Elliott find themselves 25 points behind fourth­ place Brad Keselowski and 27 behind third­

2020 CUP SERIES SCHEDULE AND WINNERS Feb. 9: Clash at Daytona (Erik Jones) Feb. 16: Daytona 500 (Denny Hamlin) Feb. 23: Las Vegas (Joey Logano) March 1: Fontana (Alex Bowman) March 8: Phoenix (Joey Logano) May 17: Darlington (Kevin Harvick) May 20: Darlington (Denny Hamlin) May 24: Charlotte (Brad Keselowski) May 27: Charlotte (Chase Elliott)

May 31: Bristol (Brad Keselowski) June 7: Atlanta (Kevin Harvick) June 10: Martinsville (Martin Truex Jr.) June 14: Homestead-Miami (Denny Hamlin) June 22: Talladega (Ryan Blaney) June 27: Pocono (Kevin Harvick) June 28: Pocono (Denny Hamlin) July 5: Indianapolis (Kevin Harvick) July 12: Kentucky (Cole Custer) July 15: Charlotte All Star Race (Chase

place Denny Hamlin.

Bowman and Elliott represent Chevrolet’s interests in the Cup playoffs. The last time a Chevy driver made it to the Championship Four was Jimmie Johnson in 2016. He won his seventh title that year in the No. 48 Hendrick Chevrolet.

Second gear Silly Season is about over, or is it? Erik Jones finally landed a 2021 seat when he signed with Richard Petty Motorsports to replace Bubba Wallace, who will drive for a new team next season.

Xfinity Series star Chase Briscoe is moving up to replace retiring Clint Bowyer in the No.14 Stewart­Haas Ford. During the Texas rain delay, Kyle Larson was signed by Rick Hendrick to drive the No. 5 Chevy.

And Jimmie Johnson inked a con­ tract with car owner Chip Ganassi. What?

Johnson is leaving NASCAR to race a part­ time IndyCar Series schedule with Ganassi next season.

Third gear

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NASCAR CUP STANDINGS 1. Kevin Harvick ..................4,137 2. Denny Hamlin ............ 4,122 3. Brad Keselowski . . . . . . 4,120 4. Alex Bowman . . . . . . . . . . . 4,095 5. Chase Elliott . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,095 6. Joey Logano ................4,094 7. Martin Truex Jr. . . . . . . . . . 4,084 8. Kurt Busch . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,039 9. Kyle Busch . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,270 10. Ryan Blaney . . . . . . . . . 2,251 11. Austin Dillon . . . . . . . . . 2,244 12. William Byron . . . . . . . . 2,213 13. Clint Bowyer . . . . . . . . . 2,199 14. Matt DiBenedetto . . . . . 2,190 15. Aric Almirola . . . . . 2,181 16. Cole Custer . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,169 17. Erik Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833 18. Jimmie Johnson . . . . . . . . . 791 19. Tyler Reddick .............. 749 20. Christopher Bell . . . . . . . 636

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Did you know that Jamie McMurray holds the qualifying record at Martinsville Speedway?

In 2014, driving for Ganassi Racing, McMurray was clocked at 99.905 mph over the cramped .526­mile track.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. won that race. It’s the only time he won at Martinsville in 35 starts.

(All times Eastern) CUP SERIES: Xfinity 500 SITE: Martinsville Speedway (.526-mile oval) TV SCHEDULE: Sunday, race (NBC, 2 p.m.)

XFINITY: Draft Top 250 SITE: Martinsville Speedway

Fourth gear Martinsville Speedway tested NASCAR This Week’s mental acuity with the name of its Cup Series race this weekend.

The Xfinity 500 will be the name of Sunday’s race, not to be confused with the Xfinity Series, which stages a race at Martinsville on Saturday.

Almost got us. Almost.

Elliott) July 19: Texas (Austin Dillon) July 23: Kansas (Denny Hamlin) Aug. 2: New Hampshire (Brad Keselowski) Aug. 8: Michigan (Kevin Harvick) Aug. 9: Michigan (Kevin Harvick) Aug. 16: Daytona Road Course (Chase Elliott) Aug. 22: Dover (Denny Hamlin) Aug. 23: Dover (Kevin Harvick)

TV SCHEDULE: Saturday, race (NBC, 3:30 p.m.)

GANDER RV & OUTDOORS TRUCK SERIES: NASCAR Hall of Fame 200 SITE: Martinsville Speedway TV SCHEDULE: Friday, race (Fox Sports 1, 8 p.m.)

Aug. 29: Daytona (William Byron) Sept. 6: Darlington (Kevin Harvick) Sept. 12: Richmond (Brad Keselowski) Sept. 19: Bristol (Kevin Harvick) Sept. 27: Las Vegas (Kurt Busch) Oct. 4: Talladega (Denny Hamlin) Oct. 11: Charlotte Roval (Chase Elliott) Oct. 18: Kansas (Joey Logano) Oct. 25: Texas (Kyle Busch) Nov. 1: Martinsville Nov. 8: Phoenix

KEN WILLIS’ TOP 10 NASCAR DRIVER RANKINGS

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KEVIN HARVICK Feet in Martinsville head is in Phoenix

JOEY LOGANO Also allowed to look ahead

MARTIN TRUEX JR. Win and in, lose and cruise

ALEX BOWMAN Look who has a chance!

DENNY HAMLIN Bad time for a mini-slump

CHASE ELLIOTT The Peoples’ Choice needs a good run

BRAD KESELOWSKI Won Martinsville last spring

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A voter’s guide for Tuesday’s election

DO YOU HAVE QUESTIONS? Call managing editor Greg Johnson at 07-682-9306, ext. 202 or email gjohnson@gillettenewsrecord.net

On the ballot

On the ballot

National races

Judicial retentions

Here are the candidates for the presidential, U.S. Senate and U.S. House races that will appear on the Nov. 3 general election ballot.

Republican candidates are marked “GOP.” Democrats are marked “DEM.”

JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT 8-year term/Vote yes or no Lynne Boomgarden Kari Jo Gray

U.S. PRESIDENT

DISTRICT COURT OF THE 6TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT

GOP

Donald J. Trump/Michael Pence

6-year term/Vote yes or no

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Joseph R. Biden/Kamala Harris

Thomas W. Rumpke

LIB

Jo Jorgensen/Jeremy Cohen

John R. Perry

IND

4-year term/Vote for 1

Brock Pierce/Karla Ballard

CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 6TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT

U.S. SENATE

4-year term/Vote yes or no

Election Day Q&A

U.S. HOUSE

GOP

Liz Cheney

DEM

Lynnette Grey Bull

CON

Jeff Haggit

LIB

2-year term/Vote for 1

Richard Brubaker

Local election officials expect large turnout Tuesday

By JONATHAN GALLARDO S NEWS RECORD WRITER jgallardo@gillettenewsrecord.net

State races

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lection Day is Tuesday, and while many people have already voted early or absentee, if history is any indication, thousands of voters in Campbell County will be voting in-person.

In the 2016 presidential election, 18,351 Campbell County voters cast a ballot, and about 65% of them did it at their polling place on Election Day. County Clerk Susan Saunders, whose office is in charge of elections, has worked in local elections for 40 years, starting in 1980. She said the local election process is secure and ensures every verified ballot is counted, whether one votes early or at the polls Nov. 3.

Below is a Q&A with Saunders on voting at the polls Tuesday.

Saunders’ answers have been edited for clarity.

Here are the candidates for Wyoming state offices that will appear on Tuesday’s general election ballot. Republican candidates are marked “GOP.” Democrats are marked “DEM.” STATE SENATE DISTRICT 24

GOP

4-year term/Vote for 1 Troy D. McKeown

STATE HOUSE DISTRICT 3

GOP

2-year term/Vote for 1 Eric Barlow

STATE HOUSE DISTRICT 31

GOP

2-year term/Vote for 1 John Bear

STATE HOUSE DISTRICT 32

DEM

GOP

2-year term/Vote for 1 Timothy Hallinan Lynne Huskinson

STATE HOUSE DISTRICT 52

GOP

2-year term/Vote for 1 Bill Fortner

STATE HOUSE DISTRICT 53

GOP

2-year term/Vote for 1 Roy Edwards

State issue There is one constitutional amendment on Tuesday’s general election ballot for Wyoming voters.

AMENDMENT A Vote for or against This amendment will remove the constitutionally specified limit of the amount of debt a municipality can create for sewer projects and would allow the Legislature to prescribe by law the debt limit of municipal sewer projects.

Local issue There is one ballot issue on Tuesday’s general election ballot for Campbell County voters.

BALLOT PROPOSITION NO. 1 Vote for or against the county lodging tax Shall Campbell County impose a four percent (4%) lodging excise tax as set forth in Wyoming statute 39-15203(a)(ii), within Campbell County, Wyoming, on lodging services, which means the provision of sleeping accomodations to transient guests which shall include the providing of sites for the placement of tents, campers, trailers, mobile homes or other mobile sleeping accomodations for transient guests?

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What can I expect to see on Election Day at my polling place?

At Cam-plex, where the majority of the precincts vote, we will have a couple of tables outside of the voting area looking people up to see if they’re already registered, trying to keep the lines down. If they’re already registered, they will be directed to their precinct. If they’re not registered, they’ll go in further and register and then go to their precinct.

The last time I voted was in the 2016 presidential election. Why do I need to register again?

In Wyoming, voter rolls get purged every two years. If you did not vote two years ago in the 2018 general election or the primary election in August, odds are you’ll need to register again. Call the elections office at 686-1892 to see if you’re still registered.

There’s a long line of people waiting to register to vote, but I’m already registered. Do I still need to wait in line?

If the voters know what precinct they are, and they’re already registered, they can just go straight there.

They don’t have to wait in line. To find out your precinct beforehand, call the elections office at 307-6861892.

If it’s past 7 p.m. and I’m in line but I haven’t voted yet, can I still cast a ballot?

Yes. We’ll get everyone in that building. Anyone in line by 7 p.m. will be able to vote.

Social media platforms have been telling users to register to vote and are linking to voter registration websites. If I see a website saying I can register to vote online, does this work?

Here are the candidates for Campbell County, city of Gillette and town of Wright offices on the Tuesday general election ballot.

Except for nonpartisan races, Republican candidates are marked “GOP.” Democrats are marked “DEM.” CAMPBELL COUNTY COMMISSION 4-year term/Vote for 2 Colleen Faber Del Shelstad Wes Johnson

GILLETTE CITY COUNCIL WARD 1 4-year term/Vote yes or no

Eric Hanson GILLETTE CITY COUNCIL WARD 2 4-year term/Vote yes or no Mark Junek Billy Montgomery GILLETTE CITY COUNCIL WARD 3 4-year term/Vote yes or no Laura Chapman News Record Photo/Greg Johnson

Early and absentee voting around the country and in Campbell County has been brisk this election season.

If I’m voting at the polls, why No, that does not work in can’t I wear a shirt that supports a Wyoming. In order to register, they particular political candidate? need to come here, their town clerk State statute prohibits campaignor city clerk. Yes, you can register by ing within 100 yards of the building mail, but it has to be notarized, and where the polling place is located. we have to have a copy of your drivThis is so you’re not swaying anyer’s license. Wyoming does not allow one’s vote to one party or another. voters to register online.

Everything is neutral. And it’s not just clothing. It also includes hats, buttons What happens to a ballot once I and other campaign materials. vote at the polls? How is it counted?

Do you have extra security this When you put your ballot into year at polling places? an election machine, your votes are No. Similarly to four years ago, stored on a thumb drive. After the there will be law enforcement at the polls close, poll workers will take the doors of the Wyoming Center to thumb drive out of the machine and make sure no one gets in line to vote it gets put into a computer and the after 7 p.m. votes are tabulated that way.

When will the ballots cast on Election Day start being counted?

None of the precincts can start closing down until the voters are out of the building. As the thumb drives get brought in to the elections office, we will put them into the machine.

If there’s a lull in between, we’ll run reports. The absentees we will be starting earlier that day, so we’ll start running them through the machine, but we won’t run any reports until after 7 p.m.

How do you guarantee that a ballot is counted? What causes the counting machine to reject it?

As you put the ballot into the machine, it tells you that it has taken it. If it doesn’t take it, if you have over-voted, it will tell you that it’s not going to take it. You’ll have a chance to either accept it or you can spoil that ballot and get a new one.

If a person feels threatened at a polling place, what should they do?

If they’re at Cam-plex, they should report it to the registration table. If they’re at any other polling place, they should call the elections office at 307-686-1892.

If you turn in an absentee ballot and then try to vote at the polls on Election Day, what happens?

On the precinct list, anyone who has voted absentee has an “A” by their name. In the event someone has an “A” by their name and says, “that isn’t me,” we would check at the elections office.

Do I need to bring an ID in able to vote in person?

We just require an ID to register.

Bring a valid driver’s license if you plan on registering at the polling place.

County commission candidates.........................Page 2 n Hospitall district trustee candidates..................Page 2 n Cemetery district candidates.............................Page 3 n Write-ins have a steep learning curve................Page 3 n Legacy residents have to vote absentee...........Page 4 n Voters to decide county lodging tax...................Page 4 n Where to vote.......................................................Page 4 n Historic voter turnout..........................................Page 4

Shay Lundvall GILLETTE CITY COUNCIL WARD 3 2-year term/Vote yes or no Nathan McLeland Bob Vomhoff CAMPBELL COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT TRUSTEE 4-year term/Vote for 4 Susan Patricial Bennett Ken L. Clouston Lisa Durgin Heidi J. Gross Heidi L. Herrmann Anne Ochs Larry D. Steiger CAMPBELL COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT 4-year term/Vote for 3 Randal Hite Kristina Leslie Tom Murphy CAMPBELL COUNTY CEMETERY DISTRICT 4-year term/Vote for 3 Arlene Bryant Tommie M. Butler J.D. Jones

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Will I be required to wear a mask at the polling place?

No. You are welcome to wear a mask, but we do not require that you wear a mask.

What measures will be in place to allow for in-person voting during the COVID-19 pandemic?

The election judges have the plastic barriers, they will have some type of face covering on. We will have hand sanitizer throughout. Election workers will be giving the voters a pen that they can keep so we don’t have to worry about dirty pens and they’ll wipe down the voting areas.

Matthew F.G. Castano

GOP

Louis Ramos smokes a cigarette while walking past a host of local political signs on East Third Street in downtown Gillette last week.

GOP

Merav Ben David

Wendy M. Bartlett News Record Photo/Mike Moore

DEM

GOP

Cynthia M. Lummis

DEM

6-year term/Vote for 1

Early vote totals top 2016...................................Page 5 n How the AP gathers votes, calls races...............Page 5 n Will non-battleground states matter?................Page 5 n School district trustee candidates.....................Page 6 n 4 local judges up for retention............................Page 6 n Local state legislative candidates...................... Page 7 n Gillette City Council candidates.........................Page 8 n Wyoming Constitutional Amendment A............Page 8

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CAMPBELL COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT TRUSTEE

Colleen Faber

Wes Johnson

Del Shelstad

Randal Hite

Kristina Leslie

Tom Murphy

✳✳ Age: 52 ✳✳ Occupation: Rancher and small business owner; retired environmental manager for Anadarko ✳✳ Party: Republican ✳✳ Experience: Appointed to the Campbell County Commission in February 2020, finished second in the Republican primary in August. ✳✳ On creating a sustainable source of funding for the Gillette College: “Campbell County has invested greatly into Gillette College and I would support a funding model that will not increase taxes on our county residents and industries.

This will take cooperation, collaboration and good faith efforts by all stakeholders.”

✳✳ Age: 42 ✳✳ Occupation: Owner of 4 Seasons Events ✳✳ Party: Democrat ✳✳ Experience: This is his first campaign for elected office. He serves on the YES House Foundation Board and the city of Gillette Parks and Beautification Board. ✳✳ On the role of social media in local politics: “We have to realize that social media is a part of our everyday lives now.

We have to learn to recognize that people make mistakes, and if the public overwhelmingly calls them out on it, it is their responsibility to address it. You can learn a lot about a person through their messaging on social media.”

✳✳ Age: 54 ✳✳ Occupation: Owner of The Range 307 ✳✳ Party: Republican ✳✳ Experience: Appointed to the Campbell County Commission in December 2018 and finished first in the Republican primary in August; former member of the Joint Powers Fire Board. ✳✳ On transparency: “The people deserve to know every single aspect of the county’s business.

The lack of transparency is what makes people lose trust in their local government. It is our job to engage with the people and not only answer questions, but also point out things that are happening in our county and get their thoughts.”

✳✳ Age: 50 ✳✳ Occupation: Physical therapist at Gillette Physical Therapy ✳✳ Experience: Hite served seven years on the hospital board before resigning in 2019.

Two of those years were spent as chairman. ✳✳ * More information: Hite did not respond to phone calls and emails for more information about his candicacy.

✳✳ Age: 37 ✳✳ Occupation: Doctor of behavioral health, licensed marriage and family therapist and board-certified behavior analyst ✳✳ Experience: She has a master’s degree in clinical psychology, a doctorate in clinical health and said she has worked in the behavioral health field, in one form or another, since she was a teenager. ✳✳ On applying her past experience to the hospital board: “I am still learning.

I’m looking forward to the opportunity to learn more about the various fields that I’ve been involved with on the backside, but wouldn’t have had exposure to previously. I think that my background in behavioral health and integrated care, and the merging of the two, which is the direction Medicare seems to be going, will be helpful as the hospital grows and moves forward.”

✳✳ Age: 62 ✳✳ Occupation: Self-employed owner of total Lawn Care ✳✳ Experience: Murphy was formerly the mayor of Gillette and a City Council member for six years. He spent another six years of public service on the Public Works and Utilities Advisory Committee. Most recently, he lost in the August Republican primary election when he ran for the state House of Representatives District 53 seat. ✳✳ On areas of emphasis he would focus on as a new hospital board member: “I don’t know that I have any kind of agenda. I feel like in the health care industry there is consolidation going on, but the best health care facility in northeast Wyoming is an asset we cannot afford to be without. Anything that helps us preserve that asset needs to be done.”

WRIGHT TOWN COUNCIL Doug Schrader

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Age: 45 Occupation: Campbell County Sheriff’s Office deputy Experience: Morgan said he has had experience working with the Town Council over the years.

On community: “I’ve worked closely for a majority of my career with Town Council, however never held a seat. I believe strongly in my community and wish to hold the Town Council seat to represent and serve the citizens of the town of Wright.”

Age: 52 Occupation: Wright JuniorSenior High School math teacher Experience: Schrader is an incumbent on the Wright Town Council.

On the economy: “The current economic situation has made the budget for the town a little tighter than usual, so decisions may need to be made that are both thoughtful and creative in order to provide the current levels of service that the people of our town have become accustomed to.”

Age: 50 Occupation: Wright JuniorSenior High School teacher Experience: None On keeping the community clean: “The most important issue to me is to keep the town looking nice as far as grass, trees and roads. I have worked at the visitor center at Panther Pond for seven or eight years and that is one comment we hear. What a wonderful stop it is. The area is so pretty and so well-kept, and I want that to be a priority for years to come.”

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DECISION 2020 CAMPBELL COUNTY CEMETERY DISTRICT

Write-in candidates have to learn fast

By GREGORY HASMAN NEWS RECORD WRITER ghasman@gillettenewsrecord.net

Arlene Bryant ✳✳ Age: 81 ✳✳ Occupation: Retired; worked as an insurance agent and a banker ✳✳ Experience: She first served on the board from 2002 to 2008. She then was elected in 2012 and again in 2016. ✳✳ On beautifying the district’s smaller cemeteries: “We must continue to take care of the rural cemeteries of our district. We recently put one of our sculptures at the Rozet Cemetery and the feedback is they love it. We plan to put one sculpture in each cemetery, if possible. We have seven rural cemeteries, including Bethlehem, ER, Four Mile, Kintz, Rozet, Savageton and Wright.”

Tom Butler ✳✳ Age: 85 ✳✳ Occupation: Retired ✳✳ Experience: He was first elected to the board in 2010. He has been reelected twice since then. ✳✳ On maintaining the district’s cemeteries during economic downturns: “Hopefully we can continue to operate within our long-term rolling budget without cutting down in any areas. As long as we operate according to our long-range strategic plan, we should be able to get through these economic downturns.”

Unlike candidates who filed prior to the May deadline and automatically made it onto the General Election ballot, the four Gillette City Council write-in candidates have not had as much time to campaign.

City spokesman Geno Palazzari said he does not recall another time four writeins advanced to the general election on a single ballot.

The County Clerk’s Office reports the same. Campbell County spokeswoman Ivy Castleberry-McGowan pointed out that “they aren’t technically write-ins on the general election ballot” because they qualified to be listed on the Nov. 3 ballot.

All four Gillette City Council races are contested with incumbents facing primary election write-ins. They are: ✳✳ Ward 1: Bruce Brown and Eric Hanson ✳✳ Ward 2: Billy Montgomery and Mark Junek ✳✳ Ward 3: Laura Chapman and Shay Lundvall ✳✳ Ward 4: Nathan McLeland and Bob Vomhof All are for four-year terms except for the Vomhof/McLeland race, which is for a two-year term.

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✳✳ Age: 66 ✳✳ Occupation: Owner of Wild West Hot Dogs ✳✳ Experience: He was first elected to the board in 2012, and he was reelected in 2016. ✳✳ On the cemetery’s future plans: “The cemetery board has a 100-year plan that we are using to look at not only what we need for the next year or two, or even four, but far into the future. We are using public funds to the best of our ability on spending and investments.

This allows us to extend the life of those funds so we are not relying on maxing out our mill levies to survive even in a time of declining revenues.”

✳✳ Age: 65 ✳✳ Occupation: Retired after a career in the coal industry ✳✳ Experience: This is his first time running for public office. ✳✳ On the board’s use of public funds: “They currently are operating on less than 1 mill levy when they could be taking up to 3 mills by law. There’s always room for improvement, but so far this board has shown real leadership with the revenue received, and I’m sure that we will continue to work toward that goal.”

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Hanson said the biggest hurdle during his campaign has been “getting my name out there, letting them know that there are two candidates running and what my positions are.”

Junek did not even know until days before the primary if he would run for Montgomery’s seat. Because of that, the biggest challenge for him has been campaigning in a short time window.

“Had I been a candidate from the beginning of the filing process, I would definitely have been able to reach more people,” Junek said. “I was asked to enter the race just two weeks before the primary, but even then the support was amazing.”

Getting personal When Chapman learned she had the most write-in votes for the Ward 3 race she was relieved.

“It was like a huge breath of fresh air, knowing my name will be printed next to my opponent’s on the general ballot,” she said. “That is huge, because it helps level the playing field. It doesn’t mean you stop working, but it was an incredible morale boost, and humbling in the support shown to me.”

Earning the most write-in votes was the first step for Chapman who is running against Lundvall, a former city council-

Signs line a front yard on West Seventh Street and 4J Road in Gillette. This year’s City Council race has drawn a handful of write-in candidates. man who resigned in June. Chapman was appointed to fill out the final months of Lundvall’s term, but had not filed to run in the election, so needed to be a write-in.

Lundvall was already on the general election ballot because he had filed to run for the position in May. He said not running as an incumbent as he had originally thought forced him to re-evaluate his campaign game plan.

The political climate in Gillette has been chippy since Lundvall’s resignation and movement that grew out of that to oust the mayor and sitting council. That’s made this election a little more personal for some.

“For me, the biggest challenge has been dealing with unfounded personal attacks on my family,” McLeland said. “My family and I have been accused of participating in conspiracies to undermine our local government. Those accusations are made without any factual support and without accountability.

“I understand people might disagree with decisions I make as an elected official, and they might feel upset with me.

That is part of the job. But it has been difficult to see our community go from

respectfully disagreeing with each other to the bitter division and anger we have seen.”

For others, it has been about civility.

“I think myself and my opponent have been really good toward each other even though we’re opponents in the political ring,” Hanson said. “We’re all human when it comes down to it. I think the both of us have been really good with running a clean campaign. Dignity should be a top priority.”

Lessons learned For the primary write-in candidates, the last few months have been a learning experience.

Junek said it has been gratifying to see more people get involved in his campaign, including his wife, who has been his “right-hand supporter, encourager and manager.”

Chapman said she has learned a lot between being on the City Council and political campaigning.

“I’m an optimist by nature, so I think it has been going well. I’m also a political newbie, so this has been one heck of a learning curve,” she said.

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Peggy Frasier fills out paperwork required to conduct an in-person visit with her 91-year-old mother Lila Dudrey as she is wheeled outside for the visit at the Legacy Living and Rehabilitation Center last month. After another surge in local COVID-19 cases, visiting restrictions at the assisted living facility have been tightened again. Another casualty for residents is in-person voting. Those who wanted to vote did so via absentee ballot.

Voting from isolation A dozen Legacy residents cast absentee ballots able to get out and campaign for anyNEWS RECORD WRITER body,” she said. “I’m just grateful that we were able to vote and get ahold of ghasman@gillettenewsrecord.net newspapers and (watch) TV to at least get some knowledge about what peoFor Legacy Living and ple stood for.”

Rehabilitation Center residents, the During prior elections, Legacy resCOVID-19 pandemic has not only idents looked forward to going to the impacted their ability to see loved polls to select their preferred candiones, it also has changed the way they dates, but not this year. will participate in the upcoming gener“In years past, taking them out to al election. vote was kind of a big outInstead of getting ready to ing, kind of a big to-do,” go to Cam-plex to vote in-per“I had to have one of the people here read the Steinlicht said. “Voting this son on Election Day, Legacy year was a lot quieter, melresidents have been voting ballot to me and mark it for me, and that’s a lower, low-key. It kind of through absentee ballots. came and went.”

“One thing that was differfirst. That was very different.”

The mood to vote might ent was that we didn’t offer to be more subdued this year, take them to the polls. I think NORMA MCMANAMEN but the upcoming election most people who voted here The Legacy Living and Rehabilitation Cener resident about remains critical to peowere OK with that this year,” not being able to vote in-person this year because of the ple like Richardson and said Legacy activities employCOVID-19 pandemic McManamen. ee Diana Steinlicht, adding “I think this is very importthat one resident said it was ant, especially for Wyoming and the And I trust the post office.” his first time voting in pajamas.

West, because we’ve gone through Legacy staff asked if people wanted Residents Norma McManamen and some hard times and we really need to vote via absentee balloting, but only Dinah Richardson have already voted, some strong leadership especially with about 8%, or 12 of the 144 residents, but wish they could’ve made it to the our local leaders,” Richardson said. took them up on the offer. polling place in person.

“Most of us have physical disabilities, “A lot didn’t want to vote. A lot “It doesn’t seem as real as voting at and even with our physical disabilities weren’t able to keep up with the polithe polls to me,” McManamen said tics like they did in years past, so they we still have our minds and there are in a phone interview. “I prefer going had no interest in it. A lot of them a lot of things that are important like to the polls and standing in line and weren’t able to vote,” Steinlicht said. health care, Medicare and Medicaid. waiting, but I wanted to vote and this “The election office was good with Those things are important. worked out all right. With no COVIDworking with us. Even if (a resident) “It’s important for us to vote.”

19, I wouldn’t have had an absentee missed the deadline they worked with McManamen agreed. ballot.” them very well.”

“This is a crazy year. Everything is McManamen added that while she Richardson said while she was glad different,” she said. “With everything has voted absentee before, she had to she voted, she admits being unfamiliar going on with the pandemic, everyhave someone else fill out her ballot thing seems to be upside down. I feel with some of the local candidates. this time because of her poor eyesight. we need some sort of strong leadership “The only way we get information is “I had to have one of the people and that’s what I’m voting for, some from the paper or TV ads, and I don’t here read the ballot to me and mark strong leadership. We need help.” trust those TV ads much. We were not it for me, and that’s a first,” she said.

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“That was very different.”

For Richardson, the experience of filling out an absentee ballot did not feel that different than going to vote in person.

“It was in my room instead of at Cam-plex,” she said. “I wouldn’t have wanted to wait in line. I like the absentee balloting at this point in our lives.

It’s easier physically and you still have the time to do it and to think about it.

Campbell County voters to decide on renewing local lodging tax as state’s is set to kick in

By GREGORY HASMAN NEWS RECORD WRITER ghasman@gillettenewsrecord.net

Any time the word “tax” comes up, it typically brings with it a highly energized reaction.

Some people don’t mind paying it as much as others do.

But the county’s lodging tax is not like other taxes. It’s added to bills from hotels, motels, trailer camps and Airbnbs.

Campbell County Lodging Tax Political Action Committee Chairwoman Mary Silvernell said that what voters will consider Tuesday is not a new tax. Instead, what they will consider is whether or not to renew a 2% lodging tax as has been in place locally since 2008.

The city of Gillette and Campbell County Board of Commissioners gave the OK this summer to ask voters to renew the local 2% tax, which they did in 2012 and 2016.

If voters approve it this time around, it would bring the local lodging tax revenue up to 4% starting in 2021. That 4% also includes 2% of a new statewide lodging tax that legislators approved earlier in 2020 that goes into effect Jan. 1.

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During its last session, the Legislature passed a 5% statewide lodging tax. Of that revenue, 3% goes to the state while the remaining 2% to local entities. For Campbell County, that means that if its 2% is renewed, the overall lodging tax would be 7%.

If the voters turn the proposal down, the local lodging tax would remain at 5% because of the new state law.

There are some people who voted already or have made up their minds.

But for those who may be on the fence, below is a list of the pros and cons of the proposed lodging tax change.

Pros: ✳✳ The tax would not impact residents directly; instead, the tax would be for people who stay at local hotels, which means that visitors would be the ones to be affected. ✳✳ It would help increase tourism promotions, which in turn will attract more visitors who will likely shop at local businesses. ✳✳ Tourism puts people to work. About 1,200 jobs in Campbell County were related to the tourism industry in 2019, Silvernell said. ✳✳ Campbell County’s lodging tax is lower than other parts of Wyoming.

Several other counties, including

Sheridan and Natrona, already have 4% local lodging tax rates.

Money raised from the tax also go toward the Campbell County Convention and Visitors Bureau’s grant program. The grant money would go to groups and organizations that bring in events that have a history of attracting a lot of people to an area or are likely to bring in many visitors.

Some of the grantees include the Pyrotechnics Guild International, which put on last year’s fireworks shows, the National High School Finals Rodeo and the New Year’s Eve Buck & Ball.

Campbell County Commissioner Del Shelstad, who voted against putting the lodging tax question on the ballot, told the Campbell County Joint Powers Lodging Tax Board last month that it needs to let people know that money from the tax has helped attract big events to the community.

Cons: ✳✳ Leaving the local lodging tax rate at 2% would keep prices lower for visitors.

Increases could deter people from staying at Campbell County hotels. ✳✳ The proposal contains the infamous word “tax.”

Ultimately, it will come down to the voters.

The following list shows where you can vote. Each district and precinct has specific areas defined by the county. If you live in those areas, you must report to the corresponding polling station. Questions? Call the County Elections Office at 307-682-5879.

DISTRICT:PRECINCT — Area of residence — POLLING PLACE ✳✳ 1:1-27: Within city limits: Cam-plex Wyoming Center ✳✳ 2:1: Champion Ventures, Wrangler Estates/Los Caballos Jodozi/Denison Subdivision: Cam-plex Wyoming Center ✳✳ 3:1: West of Gillette: Cam-plex Wyoming Center ✳✳ 4:1: Rozet, Adon Road: Rozet School ✳✳ 6:1: Green Valley Estates, Pine View Estates, Rawhide Village: Rawhide Elementary School ✳✳ 7:1: Recluse, west of Bowers Ute and Hart Road: Recluse Community Hall ✳✳ 8:1: Weston and Rockypoint, east of Bowers Ute and Hart Road: Little Powder School ✳✳ 9:1: North of West 4J Road, parts surrounded by city limits south of Interstate 90: Cam-plex Wyoming Center ✳✳ 13:1: South of Buffalo Cut Across to county line: 4-J Elementary School ✳✳ 14:1: Inside Wright: Wright Town Hall ✳✳ 14:2: Outside Wright: Wright Town Hall ✳✳ 18:1: Wyodak, Freedom Hills: Cam-plex Wyoming Center ✳✳ 19:1: Nickelson Little Farms, south of Union Chapel Road: Cam-plex Wyoming Center ✳✳ 22:1: East Sleepy Hollow Boulevard, East Irving Boulevard: Cam-plex Wyoming Center ✳✳ 23:1: Concho Valley, Small Buttes, Donkey Creek, Wind Dancer, part of Stonegate: Cam-plex Wyoming Center ✳✳ 24:1: West Sleepy Hollow Boulevard, West Irving Boulevard to Highway 59, Pinnacle Heights: Cam-plex Wyoming Center ✳✳ 26:1: Parts of the county in city, Country Club, East Second, Rawhide Subdivision: Cam-plex Wyoming Center

Addresses GILLETTE ✳✳ First Methodist Church: 2500 S. Oakcrest Drive ✳✳ Cam-plex Wyoming Center: 4101 Maverick Drive ✳✳ 4-J School: 2830 A Highway 50 ✳✳ Rawhide Elementary School: 200 Prospector Parkway ROZET ✳✳ Rozet Elementary School: 14054 Highway 51 RECLUSE ✳✳ Recluse Community Hall: 110 Greenough Road WESTON ✳✳ Little Powder School: 15902 Highway 59 North WRIGHT ✳✳ Wright Town Hall: 395 Lariat Way

Voter turnout The election, the number of votes and the %age of those pre- who vote: ✳✳ 1982 primary: ...............................................6,823 (75%) ✳✳ 1982 general: ................................................ 7,389 (68%) ✳✳ 1984 primary: ................................................7,341 (70%) ✳✳ 1984 general: ..............................................10,338 (82%) ✳✳ 1986 primary: .............................................10,396 (86%) ✳✳ 1986 general: ............................................... 8,842 (63%) ✳✳ 1988 primary: ............................................... 6,301 (57%) ✳✳ 1988 general: ............................................... 9,326 (80%) ✳✳ 1990 primary: .............................................. 8,020 (73%) ✳✳ 1990 general: .................................................8,572 (71%) ✳✳ 1992 primary: ............................................... 7,403 (66%) ✳✳ 1992 general: ............................................11,328 (87.8%) ✳✳ 1994 primary: ............................................8,904 (71.2%) ✳✳ 1994 general: ............................................11,134 (82.8%) ✳✳ 1996 primary: ............................................7,254 (54.9%) ✳✳ 1996 general: ........................................... 12,086 (87.3%) ✳✳ 1998 primary: ......................................... 6,693 (49.22%) ✳✳ 1998 general: ...........................................8,639 (61.92%) ✳✳ 2000 primary: ........................................ 6,028 (54.64%) ✳✳ 2000 general: ......................................... 12,737 (+100%) ✳✳ 2002 primary: ........................................ 9,205 (66.37%) ✳✳ 2002 general: .........................................10,401 (71.93%) ✳✳ 2004 primary: ..............................................6,801 (56%) ✳✳ 2004 general: .........................................15,295 (+100%) ✳✳ 2006 primary: ........................................8,205 (52.29%) ✳✳ 2006 general: ........................................ 11,080 (67.90%) ✳✳ 2008 primary: ...........................................5,789 (42.9%) ✳✳ 2008 general: ......................................... 16,385 (107.7%) ✳✳ 2010 primary: ............................................8,769 (52.3%) ✳✳ 2010 general:............................................ 11,464 (65.4%) ✳✳ 2012 primary: ............................................ 5,963 (43.1%) ✳✳ 2012 general: ............................................ 17,653 (117.1%) ✳✳ 2014 primary: .......................................... 7,758 (43.24%) ✳✳ 2014 general: ........................................ 10,824 (58.95%) ✳✳ 2016 primary:.......................................... 7,695 (56.29%) ✳✳ 2016 general: ............................................. 18,351 (124%) ✳✳ 2018 primary: .......................................... 8,948 (47.16%) ✳✳ 2018 general: ..........................................13,180 (67.70%) ✳✳ 2020 primary: ...........................................................9,730

Voting tips ✳✳ Voter registration: If you haven’t registered yet, you can visit the Elections Office through Monday to register and vote by absentee ballot. You also can register on Election Day at the polls. ✳✳ When to vote: Poll stations are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Tuesday. ✳✳ Who can vote: Voters must be 18 years old, a U.S. citizen, resident of Wyoming and registered in Campbell County.

Convicted felons and people ruled mentally incompetent may not vote. ✳✳ Bring a valid ID: Remember to bring your driver’s license if you are registering to vote. Other types of identification are accepted, but a driver’s license is best. ✳✳ Write in: Write-ins must have the precise name and have the oval next to the name marked to count as a vote.

According to Elections Office officials, the biggest mistake on write-in votes is that the oval is left blank, making the vote not count. ✳✳ Skipping a race on the ballot: Although the races on the ballot left blank will go uncounted, any other races on the ballot that are marked will be tallied. ✳✳ More info.: If you have questions about voting or your polling places, call the Campbell County Elections Office at 307686-1892 or stop by the Elections Office in the Courthouse, 500 S. Gillette Ave. ■■■

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DECISION 2020

Will non-battleground states make a difference?

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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This map shows states in which political redistricting is handled by legislatures and commissions.

There are still plenty of other races where your vote makes a difference.

In fact, voters in almost every state will have a chance to influence both national and local decisions through down-ballot races.

Voters in two-thirds of the states will be electing a U.S. senator. Each one of those races matters for control of the chamber, because Republicans currently hold only a slim majority of 53 of the 100 seats.

The importance of controlling the Senate is evident in the confirmation hearings for President Donald Trump’s

nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett. Because they control the Senate, Republicans are pressing to quickly confirm the conservative jurist. She would replace the late liberal icon, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and Democrats are virtually powerless to stop it.

Voters in 11 states also will be electing governors, who will shape the state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and other contentious issues, including abortion, crime, climate change and racial inequalities.

And voters in almost all states will be electing state lawmakers who will determine spending for such things

‘We don’t speculate’

Trump talks up fracking assault on Biden in Pennsylvania

How AP counts votes and calls the national races

By MARC LEVY ASSOCIATED PRESS

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

As it has for more than 170 years, The Associated Press will count the nation’s vote in real time on Election Day and report the results of presidential, congressional and state elections on Nov. 3 and beyond.

AP will use that vote count to declare winners in some 7,000 races, so the world knows who wins not only the White House, but control of Congress and every state legislature.

To do so, AP uses a 50-state network of local stringers who Scott said have trusted relationships with county clerks and other local officials built up over years of election night reporting.

These stringers collect votes at a local level, while other AP journalists gather results from state or county websites, as well as via electronic data feeds from states.

That vote count is then transmitted to AP members and customers across the country and around the world, Scott said, powering their election night maps and filling the vote total graphics shown online and on air.

On election night, statebased analysts and editors in Washington at AP’s Decision Desk also use that vote count to “call races,” or declare the winners. Along with the vote count, Scott said, the decision team uses additional information provided by AP’s election research team, such as demographic data about a state and statistics about advance voting, to make race calls.

How votes are gathered Shortly before polls close, roughly 4,000 stringers — temporary freelancers — arrive at county election offices. As officials begin to release results, these stringers phone in the raw vote totals to AP colleagues around the country.

More that 800 vote entry clerks, working remotely this year because of the coronavirus pandemic, answer those calls, take down the tally and enter the results into AP’s election database. Since many states and counties display their election night results on websites, some clerks monitor those sites and enter those results into the database, too.

Accuracy matters most The clerks who take the stringers’ calls ask questions to make sure the information they are receiving is accurate. These include asking whether there are problems in the stringer’s county and challenging the details if the results seem suspect.

As votes are entered, automated checks look for discrepancies or inconsistencies with a county’s previous voting history or other data.

When tabulating results, AP publishes the percentage of precincts reporting alongside the vote count. In many states, this figure is a reasonably accurate estimate of how many votes have been counted.

However, the percentage of precincts reporting can be deceiving in some states. In some jurisdictions, election officials report all of the advance vote as being from a single precinct. A precinct can also be counted as having reported even though it hasn’t released all of its results. This is why votes can be added to the count in a race even after 100% of precincts have reported.

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as public schools and colleges, infrastructure and health care for low-income residents.

This year’s legislative elections are even more important than usual.

That’s because they are the last before new round of redistricting based on the results of the 2020 census. There are more than 5,000 legislative races in 35 states where the winners will have a role in redrawing U.S. House and state legislative districts for the next decade. How they draw those voting districts could determine which party has an advantage in future elections, and thus which policies are pursued.

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Supporters of restoring Florida felons’ voting rights march to an early voting precinct, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The Florida Rights Restoration Coalition led marches to the polls in dozens of Florida counties. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Early vote total exceeds 2016; GOP chips at Dems’ advantage

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and ANGELIKI KASTANIS ASSOCIATED PRESS

With only days before Election Day, more people already have cast ballots in this year’s presidential election than voted early or absentee in the 2016 race as the start of in-person early voting in big states led to a recent surge in turnout.

The opening of early voting locations in Florida, Texas and elsewhere has piled millions of new votes on top of the mail ballots arriving at election offices as voters try to avoid crowded places on Nov. 3 during the coronavirus pandemic.

The result is a total of 58.6 million ballots cast so far, more than the 58 million that The Associated Press logged as being cast through the mail or at in-person early voting sites in 2016.

Democrats have continued to dominate the initial balloting, but Republicans are narrowing the gap.

GOP voters have begun to show up as early in-person voting, a sign that many heeded President Donald Trump’s unfounded warnings about mail-voting fraud.

On Oct. 15, Democrats registrants cast 51% of all ballots reported, compared with 25% from Republicans. On Sunday, Democrats had a slightly smaller lead, 51% to 31%.

The early vote totals, reported by state and local election officials and tracked by the AP, are an imperfect indicator of which party may be leading. The data only shows party registration, not which candidate voters support. Most GOP voters are expected to vote on Election Day. Analysts said the still sizable Democratic turnout puts extra pressure on the Republican Party to push its voters out in the final week and, especially, on Nov. 3. That’s especially clear in closely contested states such as Florida, Nevada and North Carolina.

“This is a glass half-full, glass half-empty situation,” said John Couvillon, a Republican pollster who tracks early voting closely. “They’re showing up more,” he added, but “Republicans need to rapidly narrow that gap.”

In Florida, for example, Democrats have outvoted Republicans by a 596,000 margin by mail, while Republicans only have a 230,000 edge in person. In Nevada, where Democrats usually dominate in-person early voting but the state decided to send a mail ballot to every voter this year, the GOP has a 42,600 voter edge in-person while Democrats have an 97,500 advantage in mail ballots.

“At some point, Republicans have to vote,” said Michael McDonald, a University of Florida political scientist who tracks early voting on ElectProject. org. “You can’t force everyone through a vote center on Election Day. Are you going to expect all those Republicans to stand in line for eight hours?”

Campaigns typically push their voters to cast ballots early so they can focus scarce resources chasing more marginal voters as the days tick down to Election Day. That usually saves them money on mailers and digital ads — something the cash-strapped Trump campaign would likely want — and minimizes the impact of late surprises that could change the race.

Trump’s campaign has been pushing its voters to cast ballots early, but with limited success, delighting Democrats.

“We see the Trump campaign, the RNC (Republican National Committee) and their state parties urging Trump’s supporters to vote by mail while the president’s Twitter account says it’s a fraud,” Tom Bonier, a Democratic data analyst, said on a recent call with reporters. “The Twitter account is going to win every time.”

But Bonier warned that he does not expect a one-sided election. “There are signs of Republicans being engaged,” he

said. “We do expect them to come out in very high numbers on Election Day.” That split in voting behavior — Democrats voting early, Republicans on Election Day — has led some Democrats to worry about Trump declaring victory because early votes are counted last in Rust Belt battlegrounds. But they’re counted swiftly in swing states such as Arizona, Florida and North Carolina, which may balance out which party seems ahead on election night.

Some of the record-setting turnout has led to long lines at early-vote locations and there have been occasional examples of voters receiving mail ballots that are incorrectly formatted. But on a whole, voting has gone relatively smoothly. With more than one-third of the 150 million ballots that experts predict will be cast in the election, there have been no armed confrontations at polling places or massive disenfranchisement that have worried election experts for months.

One sign of enthusiasm is the large number of new or infrequent voters who have already voted — 25% of the total cast, according to an AP analysis of data from the political data firm L2.

Those voters are younger than a typical voter and less likely to be white. So far similar shares of them are registering Democratic and Republican.

They have helped contribute to enormous turnouts in states such as Georgia, where 26.3% of the people who’ve voted are new or infrequent voters, and Texas, which is expected to set turnout record and where 30.5% are new or infrequent voters.

The strong share of new and infrequent voters in the early vote is part of what leads analysts to predict more than 150 million total votes will be cast and possibly the highest turnout in a U.S. presidential election since 1908.

“There’s a huge chunk of voters who didn’t cast ballots in 2016,” Bonier said.

“They’re the best sign of intensity at this point.”

HARRISBURG, Pa. — In a late gambit to win the battleground state of Pennsylvania, President Donald Trump and his GOP allies have intensified attacks on Joe Biden over fracking, hoping to drive a wedge between the former vice president and the white, working-class voters tied to the state’s booming natural gas industry.

That assault is playing out in a barrage of TV ads and conservative and right-wing websites, and is repeated at every Trump rally in the state.

It relies on a series of confusing statements from the former vice president — including remarks on the oil industry from last week’s debate — to claim he intends to “ban” or end national gas extraction, although that is not the Democrat’s official position.

Trump’s fracking play comes as polls show the president is struggling to overtake Biden in Pennsylvania and in need of a boost from the rural and exurban white voters who helped him to a narrow victory in Pennsylvania in 2016.

It also shoots to snap the tightrope that Biden is walking between the Democratic Party’s left wing, which is hostile to fossil fuels, and its bedrock blue-collar union base that is building an expanding network of gas pipelines, power plants and processing facilities in Pennsylvania.

Biden’s climate change plan aims to reach net-zero greenhouse gases emissions by 2050, and does not involve banning fracking, the process formally named hydraulic fracturing that along with horizontal drilling made the United States an oil and gas superpower over the past decade.

He argues that net-zero threshold can be achieved by helping eliminate emissions from natural gas infrastructure, while redirecting federal subsidies for oil and gas to cleaner energies.

“I do rule out banning fracking because ... we need other industries to transition to get to ultimately a complete zero-emissions,” Biden said in Thursday night’s debate.

For his part, Trump often ridicules the science behind increasingly urgent warnings for immediate action to stave off the worst of climate damage by cutting fossil fuel emissions.

But Trump’s attacks routinely cite various Biden statements — several made during the Democratic primary campaign — to muddy that position.

In one, Biden told a town hall questioner last year, “We’re going to end fossil fuel.” Biden’s running mate, California Sen. Kamala Harris, meanwhile endorsed a ban during her own bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.

How the 2020 election affects control of Congress

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The makeup of Congress will be determined by the general election, with both parties needing a majority to control the House or Senate.

Democrats seem to have a good chance at winning a Senate majority, while their control of the House is not in serious doubt.

Republicans hold the Senate

53-47. Democrats must gain at least three seats to win control, or four if President Donald Trump is reelected and Vice President Mike Pence can break a tie.

Only one-third of the 100 Senate seats up are for reelection since senators serve six-year terms. This year, 35 Senate seats are up for grabs, and around a dozen GOP-held seats and two Democratic-held seats seem

competitive.

In the 435-member House, Democrats are the ones defending the majority. Republicans currently hold 197 House seats and need 218 to win control. There are also four open seats that had been held by Republicans until they resigned and left office earlier this year.

A shift to mail voting is increasing the chances that Americans will not

know which party won the White House on election night, Nov. 3., and it could also delay a final call on control of the Senate. But that doesn’t mean the results will be fraudulent.

Election officials in some key battleground states have warned that it might take days to count the votes given what they expect will be a surge of ballots sent by mail.

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DECISON 2020 CAMPBELL COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT TRUSTEE

4 local judges up for retention

By JONATHAN GALLARDO NEWS RECORD WRITER jgallardo@gillettenewsrecord.net

Susan Bennett

Ken Clouston

Lisa Durgin

✳✳ Age: 61 ✳✳ Occupation: Retired school teacher, 27 years in the Campbell County School District ✳✳ Experience: This is her first time running for elected office. ✳✳ On high school education: “We need to make sure we’re properly preparing these students for the changing world, and instead of waiting for the change to happen, I want to be a part of the change. … I would like to see high school students paired with community members with internships over the summer.”

✳✳ Age: 51 ✳✳ Occupation: Physical therapist, CEO of Gillette Physical Therapy ✳✳ Experience: Clouston is in his fourth year on the board. ✳✳ On rural schools: “I think our rural schools are part of our identity of Campbell County.

All of those kids deserve the same education, and if you’re spending several hours a day on a bus, you’re not getting the education that you need.”

✳✳ Age: 49 ✳✳ Occupation: Business owner, MuscleShok ✳✳ Experience: Durgin is serving her 12th year on the school board and this is her fourth election. ✳✳ On the creation of Thunder Basin: “It was quite a change for our community and there were a lot of growing pains there with the change involved with the second high school, but no one can argue with the results. The basics of it was to establish more stability for students in their high school term.

They had three transitions to three different schools prior to this, so now they have one school in four years so they can establish those relationships, which is important for kids to feel like they belong to a school and continue to go to a school.

There are more opportunities for kids to get involved in activities and athletics now.”

Heidi Gross

Heidi Herrmann

✳✳ Age: 59 ✳✳ Occupation: Executive director for the Gillette College Foundation ✳✳ Experience: Gross is serving a three-year term on the Campbell County Public Land Board. This is her first time running for school board. ✳✳ On K-12 funding: “The biggest issue is K-12 funding, and we know the next two years, they’re funded through the state of Wyoming. That gives the school board two years to figure out what we’re going to do, because everybody knows there’s going to be some cuts.

We want any cuts we do make are fiscally responsible and are thoughtful and we’re doing them with the best interests of our educators and students in mind.”

✳✳ Age: 38 ✳✳ Occupation: Self-employed doing environmental consulting for Peabody Energy ✳✳ Experience: This is her first time running for elected office. ✳✳ On class schedules: “A few years ago our district switched from the block schedule to the seven-period schedule. CCSD was one of the first districts in the state to implement the block schedule. Other districts followed the lead of CCSD because of the success it had.

Block schedule allows students and teachers to stay in one class for a longer uninterrupted period. The change to the seven-period schedule has hampered student learning as well as effective teaching and also reduced opportunities that the students had.”

Anne Ochs ✳✳ Age: 68 ✳✳ Occupation: Retired school teacher and principal, 27 years in Campbell County ✳✳ Experience: Ochs is the current board chairwoman and this is her 10th year on the board. ✳✳ On why she’s running for another term: “We’re in the middle of a financial crisis in Wyoming right now, and there’s going to be a lot of decisions that will impact the kids that will be made next legislative session. It’s just a really critical time, between the COVID and the financial situation, it’s just important that we have experienced leadership in there.”

Larry Steiger S Age: 71 S Occupation: Retired school teacher and principal, 32 years in the Campbell County School District S Experience: Steiger ran unsuccessfully for the school board in 2018 and has not held elected office.

S On why he’s running for school board: “I have considerable countywide knowledge of our school system. Equity, excellence, engagement, safety and accountability are essential to each of the students’ successes.”

★ Re-Elect Billy MONTGOMERY ★

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On Nov. 3, voters will decide whether four judges in the 6th Judicial District should continue to serve.

District Court Judges John R. Perry and Thomas W. Rumpke are up for retention, as are Circuit Court Judges Wendy Bartlett and Matthew Castano.

According to the Wyoming State Bar’s judicial advisory poll, conducted this spring and released in early October, the four have varying levels of support from Wyoming attorneys, from average to unanimous support.

The poll is conducted every two years to get feedback from attorneys on how the judges are doing and whether they should remain in office.

District judges are up for retention every six years and circuit judges are up every four years.

In 2016, Bartlett was retained with 11,656 votes, or 73% in favor of her retention. Castano had 11,531 Campbell County voters supporting his retention, or 74%.

In 2014, Perry was retained with 81% of the vote, while Rumpke was retained with 75%.

In the judicial advisory poll, attorneys were asked to score judges in 11 categories on a scale of 1-5, with 1 representing strongly disapprove and 5 strongly approve.

Overall, 91.1% of attorneys thought Perry should serve another term, while 79.7% of attorneys thought Rumpke should be retained. The average score for a district judge up for retention was 86.4%.

As for the Circuit Court judges, 100% favored Castano’s retention, while 84.6% were in favor of Bartlett’s retention, which is right about the average for the 14 circuit judges. Castano was one of four judges to have 100% of attorneys in favor of his retention.

William Edelman, a district judge in Johnson County who serves the 4th Judicial District, had the lowest

JOHN R. PERRY

THOMAS W. RUMPKE

WENDY BARTLETT

MATTHEW CASTANO

approval rating of any judge, with just 51% of attorneys supporting his retention.

Perry scored above average in all 11 categories and scored between 4.42 and 4.6 in each area. He scored highest in integrity and ethics, with nearly 79% of the 90 attorneys surveyed strongly approving.

His average score was 4.52 out of 5.

There were 118 attorneys who were surveyed about Rumpke, and 12.3% of them strongly disapproved of his courteousness and politeness, but he scored highest in his preparedness for court proceedings with more than 89% either approving or strongly approving.

Rumpke’s average score was 4.20 out of 5.

Bartlett’s highest marks came in integrity and ethics and preparedness for court proceedings, with 73% of attorneys strongly approving of her work in those areas.

Her lowest score was in open-mindedness and impartiality, with nearly 16% of attorneys either disapproving or strongly disapproving.

She received an average score of 4.32 of 5.

Castano received high marks in all 11 categories, with his highest score for his attentiveness to arguments of counsel. He got a 4.84 out

of 5 in that area, with nearly 89% of attorneys strongly approving.

Castano’s average score was 4.6 out of 5.

Wyoming Supreme Court Justices Lynne Boomgaarden and Kari Gray also are up for retention and will appear on the ballot. They were both appointed by former Gov. Matt Mead.

Justices stand for retention every eight years.

Sharon Wilkinson, executive director of the Wyoming State Bar, said it’s rare that voters reject a judge’s retention, but it has happened six or seven times.

If the voters decide that a judge should not be retained, the Judicial Nominating Commission, made up of three lawyers elected by the state bar and three non-lawyers appointed by the governor, would put out a call for expressions of interest to fill the judge’s seat.

“It’s literally like when a judge retires,” Wilkinson said.

The commission would interview all of the applicants and select three finalists. The governor would then have 30 days to pick one of the three to be the new judge.

The full results of the judicial advisory poll are available online at tinyurl.com/y4ytbdex.

Actual Conservative Voter Guide The conservative Republicans of Campbell County believe in honesty and the conservative values of the Wyoming state Republican Party, and endorse the following people solely as a result of their commitment to the Platforms of the Republican Party, and it’s Timeless Truths.

Candidates for Office 2020 President - Donald J. Trump Vice President - Mike Pence Senate Dist. 24 - Troy D. McKeown House Dist. 31 - John Bear House Dist. 52 - Bill Fortner House Dist. 32 - Tim Hallinan House Dist. 53 - Roy Edwards

Commissioner Candidates Colleen Faber Del Shelstad

City Council – Write In Candidates Ward 1 - Eric Hanson Ward 2 - Mark Junek Ward 3 - Shay Lundvall 4 yr Bob Vomhof 2 yr

School Board Susan Bennett

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DECISION 2020 LOCAL STATE RACES SENATE DISTRICT 24

HOUSE DISTRICT 3

HOUSE DISTRICT 31

HOUSE DISTRICT 32

Troy McKeown

Eric Barlow

John Bear

Dr. Timothy Hallinan

Lynne Huskinson

Bill Fortner

✳✳ Age: 56 ✳✳ Occupation: Owner of Don’s Supermarket in Gillette and Wright ✳✳ Party: Republican ✳✳ Experience: He won the Republican primary in August.

It was his first time running for a state seat. He’d previously run for county commissioner in 2018. ✳✳ On future challenges facing the local GOP: “The party must find a way to ensure that the members follow the platform or the brand becomes watered down. You really have to ask yourself the question: Are people running as Republicans because they believe in a conservative platform or because that’s the only way they will get elected?”

✳✳ Age: 54 ✳✳ Occupation: Veterinarian and rancher ✳✳ Party: Republican ✳✳ Experience: He was first elected to the state House in 2012 and has been reelected three times since then. He’s served on numerous committees, and in 2020 he was a member of the management council and the Labor, Health and Social Services Committee, and he was chairman of the Select Committee on Coal/ Mineral Bankruptcies. He also was the House majority floor leader this past legislative session. ✳✳ On government’s role in economic development: “We must not believe government is the key to our future economy.

Government does have a role, but mostly we need to ensure it is not in the way and find ways to leverage Wyoming’s strengths. This is where the Legislature can likely have the greatest impact. This includes right-sizing regulations so they aren’t an impediment for entrepreneurs. We have these forwarding-thinking folks right here in Gillette. Let’s help them.”

✳✳ Age: 54 ✳✳ Occupation: Owner of Bear’s Dry Cleaners in Gillette, U.S. Navy veteran ✳✳ Party: Republican ✳✳ Experience: This is his first local campaign for elected office. ✳✳ On the effectiveness of masks: “Masks are ineffective and both the public and the medical professionals know this. If masks were effective, then we should have never shut down our economy. If masks are effective, then we should be able to visit our loved ones in nursing homes who so deeply need our companionship.”

✳✳ Age: 75 ✳✳ Occupation: Retired, longtime Gillette physician ✳✳ Party: Republican ✳✳ Experience: He served in the state House from 2007-09 and was reelected in 2016. If elected, this would be his third consecutive term. He’s on the House Labor, Health and Social Services and Revenue committees. ✳✳ On whether health officers need to be reined in: “I have favored a more hands-on approach from the Legislature in regard to the pandemic. To that extent, the health officers should be guided, but not reined in, by the Legislature.”

✳✳ Age: 60 ✳✳ Occupation: Retired after a career in coal industry. ✳✳ Party: Democrat ✳✳ Experience: This is her first campaign for local office. ✳✳ On the importance of a college during an economic downturn: “Workers deserve the opportunity to have access to retraining when they get laid off or furloughed. I know from personal experience in the Blackjewel bankruptcy that access to resources offered at Gillette College often makes the difference after job loss. By forming our own college district it will help us through this economic downturn.”

✳✳ Age: 61 ✳✳ Occupation: Oil field maintenance ✳✳ Party: Republican ✳✳ Experience: He’s been a precinct representative for the local Republican Party and has been active in Campbell County politics. ✳✳ On the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic: “It’s never OK for government at any time to seize the freedoms of the American people, and our governor should be held accountable for his actions in 2022.”

HOUSE DISTRICT 52

Roy Edwards ✳✳ Age: 66 ✳✳ Occupation: Owns and operates Edwards Tire Co. in Gillette ✳✳ Party: Republican ✳✳ Experience: He was first elected to the state House in 2014 and is seeking reelection to his fourth term. He’s also served on the Gillette City Council and Campbell County Commission. ✳✳ On the role of the Department of Health during a pandemic: “The Department of Health is to keep only those with contagious diseases separated from the general population, not tell healthy people to not go to work or wear masks. The United States is a republic, as also is the Wyoming Constitution, charged to protect the people from an overreaching government. Since COVID-19, the government has wanted to protect us by taking away our freedom.”

Vote for

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PRIORITIES

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• Control spending • Champion the mineral industry • Drive a balanced approach to capital projects • Promote a business friendly environment • Support educational opportunities to retain youth

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• I am for complete transparency in government and how it spends your money!

• I am for putting the control of government back in the people’s hands!

• I am for a sensible set of laws and ordinances, and for repealing or streamlining the excess!

Dr. Hallinan has been a steady and thoughtful voice in the Wyoming legislature. He has proven to be a consistent defender of the values that the people of Wyoming hold dear. Never a reluctant defender, he has shown vigilance in defending life and religious freedom time and again.

We are proud to endorse Timothy Hallinan for House District 32.

- Nathan Winters, Executive Director Endorsed by Family Alliance of Wyoming Paid for by Timothy Hallinan.

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• Above all, I understand that I am your public servant and am here to advocate for you.

Thank you, Gillette, for placing your trust in me to represent you as your next Senator for District 24.

And please remember to vote in the General Election!

We have several conservatives on the ballot. www.troymckeown.com

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DECISON 2020 GILLETTE CITY COUNCIL WARD 1

WARD 2

WARD 3

Bruce Brown

Eric Hanson

Mark Junek

Billy Montgomery

Lauren Chapman

Shay Lundvall

✳✳ Age: 64 ✳✳ Occupation: Accountant ✳✳ Experience: Brown has been a city councilman since 2018. He also serves on the Campbell County Joint Powers Fire Board. ✳✳ On the Fire Department: “I am the liaison to the City Council and a voting board member of the Joint Powers Fire Board. We must make sure we balance the equipment needs and staffing needs with the budget and the Fire Department’s ability to cover fires and accidents. I have been a certified professional accountant for 29 years and have a lot of experience managing multimillion-dollar budgets. I know how difficult it can be to balance conflicting needs when managing a budget. I want to use this experience to make sure we continue to have a topnotch Fire Department today and into the future.”

✳✳ Age: 47 ✳✳ Occupation: Maintenance technician at the Eagle Butte mine ✳✳ Experience: Hanson was in the military for 22 years and said he hopes to share the leadership skills and perspectives he developed there on the City Council ✳✳ On communication: “I want to make sure that I am communicating with the people that I represent. I’ll remain transparent and that I’m available to talk to anybody whenever I can.”

✳✳ Age: 63 ✳✳ Occupation: Retired Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad locomotive engineer ✳✳ Experience: Junek is running for his first elected position. He was recently involved with the Campbell County Republican Party. ✳✳ On the City Council: “While the past several months of controversy regarding the Gillette City Council is alarming and concerning, it has not directly involved me. Yet, it has certainly affected me in instilling a desire to help restore integrity and trust within our city government. Unfortunately, despite what may be genuine attempts to restore the community’s trust, it is unlikely to happen without significant changes.

Those changes must begin with new voices, better communication and improved transparency.”

✳✳ Age: 69 ✳✳ Occupation: Retired from Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad ✳✳ Experience: Montgomery was appointed as a Ward 2 city councilman in 2015 and was elected to a full term in 2016.

He has served as City Council president and is serving on various boards. Montgomery served on the Gillette Planning Commission for two terms and worked at the Campbell Country Coroner’s Office as a deputy coroner for five years. ✳✳ On the city’s future: “The city of Gillette will be looking at new challenges and opportunities in the coming years. l feel I have the leadership skills along with my experience and ability to work with people and other agencies to keep our city moving forward.

✳✳ Age: 38 ✳✳ Occupation: Owner of Alla Lala Cupcakes and Open Space LLC ✳✳ Experience: Chapman has served on the Gillette City Council since June. She is a small business owner with local board experience (Gillette Main Street and AVA), as well as previous experience marketing and business development at a high-tech engineering firm. ✳✳ On Gillette College: “I believe we should support this in any way we can. Gillette needs to be looking to our future, and be preparing for how our local industries are changing. We need to be having conversations about creating multiple revenue streams that aren’t so heavily influenced by outside market forces. If City leaders aren’t looking at our community holistically we are doing a disservice to our residents. ”

✳✳ Age: 36 ✳✳ Occupation: Business development manager at Earth Work Solutions ✳✳ Experience: Lundvall was a city councilman and has served on multiple community boards, including the advisory board for the Gillette College business department. He also has worked closely with state and federal officials on business-related issues. ✳✳ About COVID-19 and a struggling economy: “It is about working together and coming up with solutions to help the city and its residents under circumstances that are out of everyone’s control.”

Constitutional Amendment A This amendment will remove the constitutionally specified limit on the amount of debt a municipality can create for sewer projects and would allow the Wyoming Legislature to prescribe by law the debt limit for municipal sewer projects. ✳✳ Who may vote: Every Wyoming registered voter. ✳✳ Effect of not voting: A failure to vote on this issue counts as a “no” vote.

ARGUMENTS IN FAVOR

ARGUMENTS AGAINST

✳✳ The amendment will remove this limit from the Wyoming Constitution and allows the future debt limit to be set by the Legislature. ✳✳ This amendment is revenue neutral. It will not generate any new state spending or debt. It is intended to do away with an antiquated restriction.

✳✳ If the constitutional limit is removed, who knows what level the Legislature might choose? Lower? Higher? ✳✳ Residents don’t want to pay more for stormwater or sewer projects. ✳✳ This has the possibility of raising the indebtedness of cities and towns, probably raising fees or taxes locally.

— WYOMING LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS

WARD 3

Nathan McLeland

Bob Vomhof

✳✳ Age: 44 ✳✳ Occupation: Attorney and CEO of M&K Oil Co. Inc. ✳✳ Experience: McLeland has been on the City Council since 2018 and has served on the Juvenile and Family Drug Court Board, Gillette College Advisory Board and Campbell County Public Land Board. ✳✳ On the future: “A very important topic facing Gillette is keeping the city moving forward in a challenging economic environment.

The city will need to be strategic with its resources and invest in projects that provide economic benefits to the city and make Gillette attractive to businesses. Some projects may need to be held back until the economic outlook is more certain. As the CEO of a local oil and gas company that has doubled its size in a challenging economic environment, I know how to meet the challenges our community will face and I will bring that experience to the City Council. I will always work to make Gillette a great community.”

✳✳ Age: 36 ✳✳ Occupation: n/a ✳✳ Experience: He is running for his first elected seat. ✳✳ On the budget: “I believe budgeting needs versus wants changes as revenue changes.

We are all very blessed to live in a community that has historically had flourishing industry and disposable incomes; however, our industries have proven to be relatively volatile and unfortunately are at the mercy of outside factors like COVID. It’s important to let the citizens know what the city is currently going through financially is nothing new. These proposed changes in spending are merely a temporary necessity to get through this down time.”

My PROMISE to Campbell County • Establish a priority based list for our budget

• Push for more lanes for Highway 59 for the safety of our people

• Push for our own College District

• Continue to engage with the people of Campbell County and keep them 100% informed of what is happening in our county

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by Albany and respeccent, followed rose slightly in counties at 2.8 and 3.1 percent, County had in 14 counties, unchanged 5.1 percent, Teton a 1 ment fell and remained in tively. At rate, while Fremont County, grew to 21,918, eight counties decreases were the highest employed peopleover March, while the Big Horn County in one. The largest of the state. state. It’s a 4.9 percent, and second t rate in the in March percent increase people dropped. energy producing areas Campbell with 4.7 percent, were a close unemploymen of unemployed decrease in with the 4.2 percent also a numberstate unemployment rate reached Besides the decrease from 2008.

County’s unemploy- and third. last April. It’s The senior economist since November County, Natrona 5.3 percent to 4.3 perand 4.9 percent a state-leading 9 perDavid Bullard, its lowest levelWyoming’s seasonally of Workforce ment rate fell from sharp drop from t seen in April 2016 from 4.6 percent with the state Department jobless rates Last month, t rate was 3.8 per- cent, Sublette County County’s he expects the cent unemploymen of nearly 500 layMarch, and Converse Services, said the summer and that it adjusted unemploymen t rate in Campbell that came on the heels 3.9 percent in to 3.9 percent percent to 3.5 percent. to decrease in August or September. cent, down from Research and Planning The unemploymen3.9 percent, which coal mines. rate fell from 4.2 lowest unemployment was offs from area force of 22,807, Campbell the low in to of its April in hit will October according the County in Department perIn April, With a labor jobless rate County at 2.3 of only four counties section of the Wyoming its rate matches the the county saw rate was in Niobrara County was one in that category from Services.

2015, the last time percent Workforce to a year earlier, unemploysee an increase but it’s still 2 unem- to Compared this low. the national March to April, 2017. The number of It also matches percent for April. less than April of 3.9 ployment rate has the 10th lowest , A4 INSIDE OBITUARIES Campbell County A3 BLOTTER, A2 , B2-B5 OPINION,B1&B6 ■■■ CLASSIFIEDS SPORTS, A8 COMICS, A6

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Largest Consignment Store in the area.

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PROPERTY Office/ warehouse made up of 1700sf office space, 3,300sf warehouse. 1850 W. Warlow Drive, Units A and B. 682-8485.

1900 W. Warlow Drive Unit C, 3,750 total square footage. Five offices, large showroom, 1,640sf finished warehouse with rug floor.

682-8485.

Commercial Rental: 3805 S. Douglas Hwy. 2,000 sq. ft., $1,800.00/month.

Call 307-682-3009 ask for April.

2,000SF heated warehouse/ shop, 12' overhead door. 307-6820546.

Magnificent location.

Building for sale.

Echeta and 14/16.

605-269-4338.

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AKC Registered French Bulldog Puppies, FAWNS and BLUES! Ready on November 3 for their furever homes.

Loved and cuddled 24/7 in our home!

Located in Rapid City, 605-391-5003.

WE'RE STILL GROOMING. Country Critter Cuts, 610 Butler Spaeth, Gillette.

307-660-2092.

Forever Faithful Pet Crematory, Gillette, WY. Rita, 680-0316, leave message. www.ffpcgillette.com.

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Wanted: Pasture for horses. 307-680-9778.

High quality, home raised beef! Grain finished for 120 days, ready mid January.

Priced at $2.45 per pound hanging weight. Call to reserve yours today!

Megan Welles 307-217-2972 Butcher beef.

682-4196.

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Alfalfa/ grass mix, Gillette. 701-391-0758.

Good quality round, netted hay bales.

Please call 605-842-5515.

Big round bales, first and second cutting grass/alfalfa. One load of oat hay, one load of millet hay.

605-985-5257.

Quality horse hay, round bales, first, second and third cutting. 605-210-0987.

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Beckman Auction!

November 7, 10:00 a.m. 432 River Road, Alva, WY. John Deere 4230 with 565 Koyker loader, 560 Farmall, IH H Tractor, haying and farming equipment, tools and hunting. Go to sdauctions.com for complete listing and pictures. Tower Auction 605-892-5324, 307-467-5668.

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WANT TO BUY: A few tubular methane panels. Call Blaine at 307-752-9066.

MISC. MERCHANDISE Musical, recording equipment, printers, TV. Call 682-4938 leave message.

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Local non profit organization is seeking a part-time administrative assistant. Duties will include office management. Must be experienced with Quickbooks and payroll software or similar accounting software. Experience with Microsoft Word and Excel preferred.

Please send resumes to Blind Box 888, C/O Gillette News Record, P.O. Box 3006, Gillette, WY. 82717.

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HELP WANTED

Full-time experienced Certified Veterinary Technician. Mixed animal practice. Resume and references required. Information: Linda 307-283-2115, Crook County Veterinary Service, Box 767, Sundance, WY 82729.

Dental Office Manager.

Responsibilities includes: HR, bookkeeping, payroll, accounts payable, experience preferred but not required. Ideal candidate would be: self motivated, a team player, organized, able to multitask, able to analyze and solve problems, and have excellent communication skills.

Pay DOE. Send resume to dentaljobsgillette@gmail .com Kiewit is hiring experienced equipment diesel mechanics, truck drivers and welders for a mining project near Soda Springs, ID. Please call us at 1-833-226-2727 or go online to http://kiewitcraftjobs.com

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Seeking full-time and part-time janitorial workers starting at $11/hour.

1-800-358-7038.

PUBLIC NOTICE The following warrants drawn on the Major Maintenance Fund checking account exceeding $500 were approved for payment by the Campbell County School District No.1 Board of Trustees on October 27, 2020.

Powder River Power Inc 3,910.80 Campbell Cnty School District Gen Fund 3,659.86 Tetra Tech, Inc. 2,258.00 JLS Technology Consultants 2,000.00 Powder River Heating & Air 1,580.87 Norton Construction Inc 1,531.69 Long Building Technologies Inc 875.00 October 31, 2020

Campbell County School District and the Wyoming State Construction Department, School Facilities Division Request for Proposals Notice is hereby given that Campbell County School District and the Wyoming State Construction Department, School Facilities Division have issued a Request for Proposal (“RFP”) from firms/individuals for Design Services in support of Wagonwheel Elementary Parking Log “the Project”).

The RFP materials, project information, contract documents, and other important information, will be available for download by visiting the SFD website: https://stateconstruction.wyo.gov/schoolfacilities/projects Step 1 Select “Listing of Upcoming and Current Projects” Step 2 Select the Project at the left side of page, under category “Professional/Technical Services” Step 3 View and download project information All submitted Proposals shall be sealed and must be received by the Purchasing Department at 1000 West 8th Street, Gillette, WY 82716, no later than 2:00 pm on 11/30/2020. Proposals may be delivered in person, via US Postal Service, or via commercial parcel service. Proposals will not be accepted via facsimile transmission, email, or any other electronic or telephonic means. Only such Proposals that have been received by the District at the address, time, and date listed above will be considered.

Campbell County School District reserves the right to reject any and all Proposals deemed to be not in the best interests of the School District. The School District further reserves the right to cancel or amend the RFP materials and contract documents at any time and will notify all persons requesting proposal documents accordingly.

October 31, November 7, 2020 Department of Environmental Quality Division of Air Quality PUBLIC NOTICE In accordance with Chapter 6, Section 2(m) of the Wyoming Air Quality Standards and Regulations, notice is hereby given that the State of Wyoming, Department of Environmental Quality, Division of Air Quality, proposes to approve a request by EOG Resources, Inc. (CMP001619) to construct a new sweet crude oil and natural gas production facility, known as the Bolt 5 NWNW PAD (F029907), consisting of the Congo 0508-01H and 0508-02H wells, with one smokeless flare to control volatile organic compound and hazardous air pollutant emissions associated with the oil tanks and active produced water tanks, located in the NW1/4NW1/4 of Section 5, T42N, R72W, approximately eight (8) miles south-southwest of Bill, in Campbell County, Wyoming.

For the duration of the public comment period, the permit application, the agency’s analysis, and the public notice are available for public inspection online at https://openair.wyo.gov, utilizing facility ID F029907 and permit number P0028890 under permits. Additionally, during the state of emergency declared by Governor Gordon on March 13, 2020, if you have questions about or need assistance accessing the materials, please contact Nancy Vehr, Air Quality Division Administrator, Department of Environmental Quality, 200 West 17th St., Cheyenne, Wyoming 82002, by fax at 307-635-1784, via phone at 307-777-3746, or via email at Nancy.vehr1@wyo.gov. In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, special assistance or alternate formats will be made available upon request for individuals with disabilities.

Written comments may be directed to Nancy Vehr, Administrator, Division of Air Quality, Department of Environmental Quality, 200 West 17th St., Cheyenne, Wyoming 82002 or by fax (307) 635-1784. Please reference A0011251 in your comment. Comments submitted by email will not be included in the administrative record. All comments received by 5:00 p.m., Monday, November 30, 2020 will be considered in the final determination on this application. A public hearing will be conducted only if in the opinion of the administrator sufficient interest is generated or if an aggrieved party so requests. For the duration of the state of emergency declared by Governor Gordon on March 13, 2020, public hearings will be conducted telephonically. Para español, visite deq.wyoming.gov.

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Local, established water conditioning dealership needs a good service technician. Applicant must be professional in appearance and attitude. Water conditioning, appliance repair, plumbing or inventory experience helpful. Will train.

Smoke free work place. Wages dependent upon qualifications. Email resume to mark@westernwater.net NWCCD Openings: Maintenance Tech HVAC/R. Two openings- GC and SC. Requires five years experience. Full-time, with excellent benefits, great locations and facilities.

Apply online at: https://jobs.sheridan.edu.

EOE.

Devils Tower Forest Products- a lumber manufacturer in Hulett, WY is accepting applications for part-time cleanup HELP position (no WANTED 055 benefits), and a full-time night mill position. Benefit package includes company paid medical and dental insurance (including dependents), life insurance, company matching 401K retirement program, safety incentives, holiday pay, and paid vacation. As an added incentive you will receive a $500 "signing bonus" after 180 days attendance and safety conditions apply to sign on bonus. Mandatory employment and random drug testing conducted.

D.O.E. Contact Joe Ortner at 307-4675252, you can also send your application (neimanenterprises.com)

with resume to JoeO@dtfp.net. E.O.E.

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Dr. Bob's.

Your Tree Care Specialist. Serving Gillette 23 years.

307-257-2223.

Devils Tower Forest Products- a lumber manufacturer in Hulett, WY is accepting applications for part-time LEGAL NOTICES cleanup position (no 071 benefits), and a full-time night mill position. BePUBLIC NOTICE nefit package includes Pursuantpaid to the Wyoming Administrative Procedure company medical Act the insurance Wyoming Public Service Commission’s andand dental (Commission) Rules, the Commission hereby gives (including dependents), notice of PowdercomRiver Energy Corporation’s (PRElife insurance, Corp the Cooperative) panyormatching 401K Application for authority to increase its Cost of Power Adjustment by $3,786 per retirement program, annum, effective January 1, 2021, to reflect a change safety incentives, holi- power costs. in the average wholesale dayPRECorp pay, andispaid vacaa non-profit cooperative public utility tion.

As an in- § 37-1-101(a)(vi)(C), subject as defined in added Wyo. Stat. centive you will receive to the Commission’s jurisdiction pursuant to Wyo. aStat. $500 "signing bonus" § 37-2-112. after days attendOn 180 October 22, 2020, PRECorp submitted its ance and safety condiApplication seeking Commission approval to adjust tions apply on Adjustment (COPA) factors, its total Costtoofsign Power bonus.

Mandatory which will result in ema net change in the Cooperative’s revenues of $3,786 per annum, effective January 1, ployment and random 2021,testing pursuant to Commission Rule Chapter 3, Secdrug conducted. tion 26, and in accordance with the COPA procedures D.O.E. Contact Joe setOrtner forth atin307-467the Cooperative’s Billing Adjustments Tariff. is a mechanism by which the 5252,The you COPA can also send your application Existing (neimanenterprises.com) COPA Factor with resume to JoeO@dtfp.net.

E.O.E.except All Rate Classes

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Buchanan Excavating.

Foundation damp proofing, service taps, leach fields and much more, 307-670-2161

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Need something hauled away? Complete moving service. Call We'll Clean It Up. 682-3394.

Complete handyman services. Call Mike at 307-939-3109

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Nar-Anon meetings.

Contact Angie at 307299-1033 for more information.

Open Recovery 1:06 Group meetings Tuesday and Thursday at 1:06pm at Christian Church, 100 W Flying Circle Drive. Contact Jeff at 307-939-3105.

LEGAL NOTICES

CAMPBELL COUNTY PUBLIC LAND BOARD LEGAL NOTICE The Campbell County Public Land Board hereby announces it intends to make final settlement with Powder River Construction, Inc. for CAM-PLEX Streets Improvements (2019-2020) on the 41st calendar day after the first publication of this legal notice, providing that all contractual conditions have been met. This day being 10/28/2020.

Any claims against the work unsettled prior to 12/07/2020 should be known to: Jeff Esposito, Executive Director, CAM-PLEX, 1635 Reata Drive, Gillette, WY 82718. /s/ Jeff Esposito Executive Director CAM-PLEX Multi Events Facilities October 31, November 3, 7, 2020 Place your classified ad online now at www. gillettenewsrecord.com.

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Cooperative recovers and/or returns changes in its’ wholesale power cost relative to the amount of power cost embedded in base retail rates. The Cooperative’s Application outlines the proposed COPA factors, which reflect the projected cost of power for January through December 2021 using projected billing units for the period and the applicable wholesale rates from Basin Electric Power Cooperative (Basin), the Cooperative’s wholesale power supplier. Basin’s rates are subject to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) approval but are not proposed to change on January 1, 2021. In the event FERC makes any adjustments to Basin’s filed rates, PRECorp proposes to address these alterations by reflecting the changes in its balancing account. Additionally, the proposed COPA factors reflect the reconciliation of the COPA revenue for the months of October 2019 through September 2020, and the accrual of interest on any over-recovered balances during the true-up period.

The COPA factors proposed in this application and the resulting change in revenue are listed below: Proposed COPA Factor

Change in Revenue

LP-TOU Transmission, LPT and LPT-CBM

$(0.000935)

$(0.001203)

($203,916)

LPT-CBM

$(0.000308)

$0.008100

$50,051

L P - T O U Transmission

$0.000353

LPT

$0.000119

$0.000275

$0.001561

$144,324

$13,327

This is not a complete description of the Application. Interested persons may inspect the Application at the Cooperative’s business office located in Sundance, Wyoming and at the Commission’s offices in Cheyenne, Wyoming, during regular business hours, or online at: http://psc.state.wy.us/.

Anyone desiring to file a statement, public comment, protest, intervention petition, or request for a public hearing in this matter must file in writing with the Commission on or before November 25, 2020.

Any intervention request filed with the Commission shall set forth the grounds of the proposed intervention or request for hearing as well as the position and the interest of the petitioner in this proceeding. Please

mention Docket No. 10014-215-CP-20 (Record No. 15632) in your communications.

If you wish to intervene in this matter or request a public hearing that you will attend, or if you wish to file a statement, public comment, or protest, and you require reasonable accommodation for a disability, please contact the Commission at (307) 777-7427, or write to the Commission at 2515 Warren Avenue, Suite 300, Cheyenne, Wyoming 82002. Communications-impaired persons may contact the Commission through Wyoming Relay at 711.

Dated: October 28, 2020 October 31, 2020, November 7, 2020

Public Notice The following warrants drawn on the Combined Funds Checking Account exceeding $500 were approved for payment by the Campbell County School District No.1 Board of Trustees on October 27, 2020.

First National Bank - Net 7,189,736.17 First National Bank - Net 1,705,699.99 Archangel Tablets LLC 628,085.00 Swivl, Inc. 541,944.00 Gillette City Of (Utilities) 219,137.87 Campbell Cnty School District Gen Fund 185,931.95 First National Bank - Net 177,559.87 K12 Management Inc 126,814.50 Architectural Specialties LLC 106,178.03 B.O.C.E.S. - Northeast Wyoming 62,384.88 Lowe Roofing of Wyoming LLC 59,210.10 Dell Marketing LP 39,885.00 Powder River Energy Corp 38,010.34 Universal Athletics 33,075.73 Shell Fleet Plus - Wex Bank 28,231.54 Heartland Paper Co 27,805.07 Hellas Construction Inc 24,533.60 Blakeman Propane Inc 19,980.00 Fleet Services 18,797.75 Black Hills Energy 16,125.79 M G Oil Company Inc 15,554.26 Norco Inc 13,307.35 American Welding & Gas Inc 12,587.55 Thunder Basin Propane 12,422.38 Macmillan Publishing Services 10,889.79 Black Hills Energy 9,128.79 M G Oil Company Inc 8,551.02 Apple Computer Inc 8,285.00 William P Peterson/Associates 7,654.00 I-State Truck Center 7,440.91 Northwest Passage, LTD 7,311.00 Cummins Rocky Mountain LLC 7,297.29 Bennett, Weber & Hermstad, LLP. 7,000.00 Big Horn Tire Inc.- Gillette 6,234.04 Record Supply Inc 5,680.78 Firemaster 5,578.50 ITsavvy 5,452.60 Architectural Specialties LLC 5,394.49 NOPCO Distributor 4,800.00 Thunder Basin Propane 4,766.96 Harlows Bus Sales Inc 4,557.18 School Outlet 4,260.24 Cole Sports 3,910.80 Collins Communication Inc. 3,877.71 Adrenaline Fundraising 3,770.00 Black Hills Energy 3,743.64 Thor Guard, Inc. 3,500.00 Eduspire Solutions LLC 3,250.00 Scholastic Inc 3,196.43 Elder Equipment Leasing 3,066.57 Newsela 3,025.00 D & L Stained Glass Supply 2,868.95 Sport Supply Group Inc 2,864.04 Floyd’s Truck Center 2,820.37 Troxell Communications Inc 2,678.00 Black Hills Energy 2,669.05

American Reading Company 2,640.00 iDesign Solutions 2,602.72 CBH CO-OP 2,577.46 Collins Communication Inc. 2,536.50 Nearpod Inc 2,500.00 Stevens Edwards Hallock Carpenter & 2,484.00 Dick Blick 2,431.64 North Platte Physical Therapy 2,375.00 Open Jar Studios LLC 2,359.42 CBH CO-OP 2,340.37 Schutz Foss Architects Inc 2,340.00 Black Hills Energy 2,316.28 Institute For Career Research 2,274.00 Mystery Science 2,248.00 Western Psychological Services 2,168.30 Black Hills Energy 2,159.56 Math Learning Center, The 2,086.50 Follett School Solutions Inc 1,998.37 Alldata Corporation 1,950.00 APEX Mechanical LLC 1,801.25 Wyoming Water Solutions 1,756.85 N2Y Inc 1,700.99 Black Hills Energy 1,655.55 Novus Windshield Repair 1,609.68 Blakeman Propane Inc 1,448.55 Pepper At Eckroth 1,412.42 Thyssenkrupp Elevator 1,340.00 Black Hills Energy 1,297.62 TSA Consulting Group Inc 1,188.66 Coastal Chemical Company LLC 1,183.38 Intermountain Wood Products 1,095.79 Campbell Cnty Treasurer 1,080.84 Whites Frontier Motors 1,070.31 Xerox Corporation 1,054.42 Pioneer Valley Books 1,012.55 Campbell Cnty Treasurer 968.52 Johnson Controls Inc 916.63 Kelvin Electronics 904.65 Wyoming Music Educators Assn 860.00 Up-Front Footwear, Inc. 830.60 Marlins Auto Body 804.30 Paintbrush Services 795.00 Architectural Specialties LLC 726.64 Black Hills Energy 709.28 Campbell Cnty Officials Assn 708.00 MBA Research 695.00 Jeffers Handbell Supply, Inc 692.02 Karls TV & Appliance 679.99 Homax Oil Sales Inc 674.25 Schaffer, Shauna M 632.50 Black Hills Energy 599.44 Employment Testing Services Inc 589.00 Lakeshore Learning Materials 584.98 Centurylink-Long Distance Service 582.68 Southwest Plastic Binding 551.13 Paintbrush Services 549.60 Wyoming Assn Of Elem School Prin (WAESP) 545.00 Servall Towel & Linen Corp 518.61 Gander Publishing 514.75 Welch Allyn, Inc 514.75 October 31, 2020 ■■■

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Office of County Commissioners October 6, 2020 Gillette, Wyoming The Campbell County Board of Commissioners met in regular session, Tuesday, October 6cgpaychk, 2020.

Chairman Reardon called the meeting to order at 9:00 AM. Pastor Caleb Nelson led in prayer and Chairman Reardon led the Pledge of Allegiance.

Present were DG Reardon, Rusty Bell, Bob Maul, Del Shelstad, Collen Faber, Commissioners; Susan F. Saunders, County Clerk; Carol Seeger, Commissioners Administrative Director and Jenny Staeben, Deputy County Attorney.

The Commissioners presented Cliff Hill with a County Challenge Coin for his service and commitment to Campbell County.

The following consent agenda was presented: MINUTES: Board of Commissioners Directors Workshop, September 14, 2020; Board of Commissioners Regular Meeting, September 15, 2020; Board of Commissioners Museum Board Meeting, September 15, 2020; Board of Commissioners Lodging Tax Board Meeting, September 17, 2020; Board of Commissioners Public Health Board Meeting, September 17, 2020; Board of Commissioners Special Meeting, September 28, 2020; Board of Commissioners Executive Session, September 28, 2020 MONTHLY REPORTS: County Clerk – August 2020; Sheriff’s Office, Detention – August 2020; Campbell County Clerk – Census 2020 Report; Campbell County Treasurer – Census 2020 Report PAYROLL PAYMENTS: September 5, 2020; September 19, 2020 CATERING PERMITS: Pokey’s BBQ & Smokehouse for Miller & Bishop Wedding Reception at the Arthum Equine Barn on October 10, 2020.

MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE REQUEST: Adult Treatment Court – Michelle Johansen, Administrative Assistant POSITION VACANCY JUSTIFICATIONS: Sheriff’s Office – Administrative Assistant; Sheriff’s Office – Deputy Sheriff or Detention Officer PUBLIC COMMENT LETTER: Submission of a public comment letter to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service regarding the rule changes being proposed to the regulations for designating critical habitat to assist in the implementation of the Endangered Species Act. HAND WARRANTS: Campco Federal Credit Union, $276.01; Campbell County Clerk Tax Account, 301,129.39; Campbell County Parks & Recreation Activity Fund, 31.00; Campbell County Treasurer – HSA/FLX, 43,944.19; Great West Trust Company, 36,380.12; Wyoming Child Support , 1,688.38; Wyoming Department of Revenue & Taxation, 1,648.08; WAG – Division of Criminal Investigations, 39.00; Campbell County Clerk Tax Account, 301,604.13; Campco Federal Credit Union , 276.01; Campbell County Parks & Recreation Activity Fund, 31.00; Campbell County Treasurer – HSA/FLX, 43,853.88; Great West Trust Company, 35,430.00; Wyoming Child Support , 1,688.30; HM Life Insurance Company, 176,954.49; Gallagher Benefit Services (Reliance), 20,226.11; VSP of Wyoming, 8,292.00; CCEHBTA – Health , 769,583.51; CCEHBTA – Dental , 42,829.50; Delta Dental Plan of Wyoming, 1,930.50; WAG – Division of Criminal Investigations, 117.80 Commissioner Shelstad moved to approve the consent agenda as presented. The motion died for a lack of a second.

Commissioner Bell moved to remove the Position Vacancy Justifications for the Sheriff’s Office – Administrative Assistant and Sheriff’s Office – Deputy Sheriff or Detention Officer from the consent agenda. Commissioner Maul seconded the motion. All Voted-Aye. Commissioner Shelstad moved to approve the consent agenda as amended. Commissioner Faber seconded the motion. All Voted-Aye. Carried.

Commissioner Faber moved to approve the vouchers as presented. Commissioners Shelstad seconded the

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motion. All Voted-Aye. Carried.

Above Par Tech, P & R-Bell Nob Golf Course, $795.00; Absolute Auto, P & R-Parks, 23.70; Acord, Shawn, Fair-General Admin, 420.00; Action Lock and Key, Various Departments, 381.62; Air Tech Heating, Various Departments, 1,013.60; Airport Life Services, Northeast Wyoming Regional, 3,300.00; Albertsons Dist Ct, State & Fed Mandated Costs, 48.67; Albertsons Emer Mgmt, Emergency Management, 431.08; Albertsons Fair, Fair-General Admin, 135.44; Albin, Elizabeth A, Library-General Administration, 313.95; Alsco, Various Departments, 1,449.26; Alternative Propane, P & R-Ice Skating, 74.64; Altimus Distributing, Maintenance/Custodial, 1,582.86; Amazon Courthouse, Various Departments, 3,098.75; Amazon Library, Various Departments, 1,436.90; Ambiente H Two O, P & R-Bell Nob Golf Course, 676.36; American Antiquitie, Rockpile Museum - Gen Admin, 54.00; American Family Life, Campbell County General Fund, 103.02; American Library Order, Various Departments, 172.08; American Millennium, Commissioner’s-Gen Cnty Costs, 52.43; American Welding, P & R-Parks, 205.95; Andersons Pest Pros, Maintenance/Custodial, 100.00; Animal Medical Ctr, County Sheriff, 1,038.40; Applied Concepts, Various Departments, 576.00; Appraisal Institute, County Assessor, 60.00; Arbuckle Lodge, Fair-General Admin, 1,360.00; Architectural Spec, Various Departments, 44,386.99; Arete Design Group, Various Departments, 51,417.46; Arrow Printing Graphics, Library-General Administration, 761.70; Assn Bookmobile, Library-General Administration, 158.00; Associated Glass, Various Departments, 5,826.32; ATT Airport, Northeast Wyoming Regional, 269.62; ATT Assessor, County Assessor, 102.06; ATT Children’s Devel, Children’s Dev Svc-Spec Ed, 101.78; ATT Emergency Mgmt, Emergency Management, 165.07; ATT Park Recreation, Various Departments, 108.66; AutoZone, Fleet Department, 316.15; AV Tech, Capital Outlay-Sheriff, 3,000.00; Axis Forensic Toxicology, County Coroner, 1,429.00; Axon Enterprise, Capital Outlay-Sheriff, 147,436.65; B Concessions, Fair-General Admin, 380.00; Background Investigations, P & R-Recreational Division, 99.80; Baker Taylor Continuation, Various Departments, 75.64; Bargreen Ellingson, Various Departments, 38.23; Barney Graham, Commissioner’s-Gen Cnty Costs, 450.00; Basin Radio Network, Various Departments, 1,049.75; Bears Naturally, County Sheriff, 18.60; Bell, Russell, Fair-General Admin, 125.00; Bennett Weber Hermstad, Various Departments, 29,450.00; Besel, Shelly R., Northeast Wyoming Regional, 123.05; Big D Oil Company, P & R-Wright Center, 27.98; Big D Sanitation, Maintenance/Custodial, 920.00; Big Horn Tire, Various Departments, 3,135.33; Big O Tires, County Sheriff, 74.97; Bighorn Hydraulics, Various Departments, 693.54; Bighorn Mtn Radio, Various Departments, 45.00; Bio Medical Devices, Commissioner’s-Grants, 17,379.65; Black Cat Construct, Publ Work Capital Construction, 5,600.00; Black Hills Enrg Gas, Various Departments, 17,878.22; Black Hills Pioneer, Various Departments, 716.50; Bloedorn Lumber, Various Departments, 490.01; Blue Sky Ice, Fair-General Admin, 525.00; Bob Barker Company, Various Departments, 4,771.93; Bobcat of Gillette, Various Departments, 10,120.07; Bomgaars, Various Departments, 1,760.27; Boot Barn, Human Resources, 1,104.95; Border States Elec, Various Departments, 2,002.93; Bowman, Jennifer L., County Health Nurse, 14.38; Boys Girls Club CC, 1% Optional Sales Tax Fund, 4,169.36; Breannas Bakery, Human Resources, 30.00; Brink, Murel F., County Sheriff, 51.00; Buffalo Bulletin, Various Departments, 372.00; Buffalo Porta Potty, Road & Bridge, 125.00; Bulkley, Alexus J, Children’s Dev SvcSpec Ed, 100.00; Burns McDonnell Eng, Various Departments, 126,225.55; C B Operations, Road & Bridge, 276.30; Carrot Top Industries, Maintenance/ Custodial, 706.34; Cash WA Distributing, Sheriff-Jail Facility, 1,032.18; Caveman Sports, Human Resources, 1,236.90; CBH Co Op, Various Departments, 2,385.13; CC Chamber of Commerce, Various Departments, 110.00; CC Conservation Dist, 1% Optional Sales Tax Fund, 67,500.00; CC Dist Ct Rev Wit, State & Fed Mandated Costs, 4,826.02; CC Fire Dept, 1% Municipal Sales Tax Fund, 855,582.39; CC Health Misc, Vari-

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ous Departments, 55,397.00; CC Health Patient Acct, County Attorney, 20,603.12; CC Public Land Brd, Various Departments, 500,942.09; CC School Dist Coop, Various Departments, 948.99; CDW Government, Various Departments, 11,537.95; CelleBrite USA, County Sheriff, 3,700.00; Center Point Large, Library-General Administration, 227.10; Central CC I&S Dst, 1% Optional Sales Tax Fund, 3,936.25; CenturyLink Long Dis, Information Technology Service, 660.26; CenturyLink Phone, Various Departments, 16,441.09; Charter Comm Cable, Various Departments, 1,412.59; Chatfield, Todd, Northeast Wyoming Regional, 130.97; Chitwood, Cheryl E., State & Fed Mandated Costs, 6.98; Choice Advertising, Fair-General Admin, 198.00; City Gillette Bldg, Maintenance/Custodial, 50.00; City Gillette Misc, Various Departments, 3,875.00; City Gillette Util, Various Departments, 132,263.22; CivicPlus, Information Technology Service, 13,800.31; Clear Creek Counsel, City of Gillette A Drug Court, 170.00; CMI TECO, Road & Bridge, 2,450.87; Cole Sports, Various Departments, 5,000.00; Collection Prof, Children’s Dev Svc-Gen Admin, 96.03; Collins Comm, Various Departments, 1,938.19; Collins, Sue, Rockpile Museum - Gen Admin, 143.00; Colorado Golf Turf, P & R-Bell Nob Golf Course, 68.40; Communication Tech, County Sheriff, 807.00; Contractors Supply, Various Departments, 2,989.85; Council Community Svc, Various Departments, 14,807.17; Counseling Connect, Various Departments, 3,124.75; Cowboy State Rebuild, P & R-Parks, 199.00; Crescent Electric, Maintenance/ Custodial, 718.83; Croell, Road & Bridge, 1,177.50; Crum Electric Supply, Various Departments, 7,769.19; CSS, Sheriff-24/7, 3,156.97; Cummins Sales Svc, Road & Bridge, 7,443.96; CuraLinc Healthcare, Human Resources, 2,216.04; Curriculum Assoc, Children’s Dev Svc-Spec Ed, 402.08; Curtis, Carol L., Children’s Dev Svc-Gen Admin, 41.86; Dads Truck and Auto, County Sheriff, 354.50; Daktronics, 1% Optional Sales Tax Fund, 15,933.00; Damian, Nicole L., County Health Nurse, 42.55; Day Law, State & Fed Mandated Costs, 250.00; Demco, Library-General Administration, 713.02; Dermatec Direct, Various Departments, 2,869.50; Desert Mountain, Various Departments, 113,749.44; Design Construction, Publ Work Capital Construction, 32,168.60; DMC Wear Parts, Road & Bridge, 1,688.79; Dockery, Robin A., County Sheriff, 51.00; Douglas Budget, Various Departments, 520.00; DRM, Publ Work Capital Construction, 239,337.79; Dru Consulting, Commissioner’s-Gen Cnty Costs, 4,378.63; Duluth Trading Co, Various Departments, 338.97; Dustbusters, Publ Work Capital Construction, 11,126.74; Eaton Cooper Crouse, Various Departments, 21,100.00; Ecolab Pest Elimination, CCPL-Wright Branch, 121.14; Edible Prairie , 1% Optional Sales Tax Fund, 214.18; Election Systems, County Elections, 546.00; Elm USA, Various Departments, 324.45; Emerald Recycling, Landfill, 353.40; Employment Testing, Human Resources, 68.00; Energy Wash Systems, Various Departments, 20.00; Entenmann Rovin Co, County Sheriff, 20.00; Equitable Life, Campbell County General Fund, 37.25; Expresso Lube, County Sheriff, 722.00; EZ Auto Wash, Children’s Dev Svc-Spec Ed, 14.29; Family Health, Sheriff-Jail Facility, 7,281.00; Farmer Bros Co, Commissioner’s-Gen Cnty Costs, 368.52; Fast Break Screen, Fair-General Admin, 379.68; Fastenal Company, Various Departments, 1,218.31; Federal Express, Various Departments, 206.03; FIB Mstrcrd Airport, Northeast Wyoming Regional, 951.90; FIB Mstrcrd Library, Various Departments, 306.50; FIB Mstrcrd Park Rec, Various Departments, 1,682.87; Firemaster, Maintenance/Custodial, 1,167.00; First Natl Bank Visa, Various Departments, 17,097.57; Flash Forward, Emergency Management, 500.00; Fleetpride, Landfill, 272.82; Flowtech PCS, P & R-Bell Nob Golf Course, 882.42; Floyds Truck Center, Road & Bridge, 4,001.72; Forensic Medicine, County Coroner, 6,000.00; Fry, Kimberly D., Various Departments, 279.82; Fuller Schaedler Law, State & Fed Mandated Costs, 881.65; Fun on The Go, P & R-Recreational Division, 375.00; Furman, Craig M., County Sheriff, 300.00; Gale Cengage Learn, CCPLMain Branch, 172.04; Gallagher Benefit, Human Resources, 11,000.00; Galls, Various Departments, 68.00; Gillette Abuse Refug, Various Departments,

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9,485.91; Gillette College, Various Departments, 835.00; Gillette Printing, Various Departments, 228.15; Gillette Reprod Hlth, CSBG, 4,575.00; Gillette Sagehoppers, 1% Optional Sales Tax Fund, 1,500.00; Gillette Steel, Various Departments, 220.70; Gillette Winsupply, Various Departments, 12,340.69; Git R Done Site Svc, P & R-Bell Nob Golf Course, 1,470.00; Glaser, Jane C., County Health Nurse, 14.38; Golden West Tech, Capital Outlay-ITS, 34,020.00; Golf Course Super Am, P & R-Bell Nob Golf Course, 205.00; GoodHire, Human Resources, 133.24; Grainger, Various Departments, 866.10; Greasewood Water, Road & Bridge, 3,523.20; Grey House Publish, Various Departments, 330.00; Grimms Pump Industrial, Various Departments, 10,246.36; Grossenburg Implemnt, Road & Bridge, 174.49; Hakert, Richard J., Road & Bridge, 1,152.00; Hansen, Connie K., Women, Infant and Child (WIC), 497.38; Harris Public Health, County Health Nurse, 295.00; Hawkins, Various Departments, 5,092.55; HDR Engineering, Various Departments, 11,974.80; Heartland Kubota, Various Departments, 267.04; Heartland Paper, Sheriff-Jail Facility, 3,453.55; Henning, Robert A., Rockpile Museum - Gen Admin, 15.58; High Plains Press, Rockpile Museum - Gen Admin, 103.76; Historical Folk Toys, 1% Optional Sales Tax Fund, 572.50; Hobby Lobby, CCPL-Main Branch, 47.31; Holiday Inn Ex Gill, CCPL-Main Branch, 288.00; Homax Oil Sales, Various Departments, 33,228.19; Home Depot Children’s, Children’s Dev Svc-Spec Ed, 96.87; Home Depot Landfill, Landfill, 224.58; Home Depot Maint, Maintenance/Custodial, 40.62; Home Depot Museum, Rockpile Museum Gen Admin, 21.94; Home Depot Parks Rec, Various Departments, 550.67; Home Depot Sheriff, Sheriff-Jail Facility, 111.84; Home Fire Foods, Various Departments, 839.00; HR Specialist, Various Departments, 296.00; Hub International, Various Departments, 1,280.99; Humphrey Law, State & Fed Mandated Costs, 713.69; IBM, Information Technology Service, 35,600.90; Inland Truck Parts, Various Departments, 6,342.48; Insight Public Sect, CCPL-Main Branch, 944.30; Interstate Batt RC, Various Departments, 1,398.15; IT Outlet, Capital Outlay-ITS, 138,639.38; Ivory, Jennifer, County Sheriff, 50.00; James Tire Service, P & R-Parks, 51.80; Jimenez, Rebecca R., County Health Nurse, 20.13; Jim’s Heating AC Ref, Landfill, 4,200.00; Jirawitayakhom, Wanathaya, Sheriff-Jail Facility, 300.00; JLC Sign Graphic, Various Departments, 552.60; Kanopy, CCPL-Main Branch, 149.00; Kapco, Library-General Administration, 1,836.60; Karen’s Delivery Co, Road & Bridge, 28.00; Kay Casto Chaney, County Attorney, 425.00; Keyhole Broadcasting, Various Departments, 540.00; Kimball Midwest, Road & Bridge, 556.03; Kistler Tent Awning, Fair-General Admin, 13,890.00; Kronos, Payments In Lieu of Taxes Fund, 900.00; KSLT KLMP KTPT, Various Departments, 400.00; La Quinta Inn, Rockpile Museum - Gen Admin, 85.00; Law Office Curt Todd, County Attorney, 315.00; Lawriter, County Law Library, 500.00; Lesley, Douglas, State & Fed Mandated Costs, 675.00; Library Foundation, Library-General Administration, 76.48; Lightning Lube, Various Departments, 196.00; Little America Cheyenne, County Attorney, 96.00; Little Sprouts, Children’s Dev Svc-Spec Ed, 125.00; Lowe Roofing, Various Departments, 977.75; Lubnau Law Office, State & Fed Mandated Costs, 530.25; Lynde, Kathryn, Fair-General Admin, 1,110.00; Lynn’s Auto Repair, County Sheriff, 3,500.88; Mad Transportation, County Sheriff, 270.00; Maguire Iron, Publ Work Capital Construction, 107,750.00; Manning Wrecker Svc, Publ Work Capital Construction, 720.00; Mathews, Damon T., Northeast Wyoming Regional, 42.25; McKesson Med Surgic, Sheriff-Jail Facility, 1,850.92; McKinnon Flooring, Maintenance/Custodial, 2,241.73; McMahon, Pamela K., County Attorney, 346.25; McRae, Ashley D., Prevention Management Org, 51.75; Meadow Gold Dairy, Children’s Dev Svc-Preschool, 710.98; Means First Ext W&S, Road & Bridge, 110.00; Medical Arts Lab, Sheriff-Jail Facility, 3,702.00; Menards Airport, Northeast Wyoming Regional, 296.61; Menards Maintenance, Maintenance/ Custodial, 599.35; Menards Museum, Rockpile Museum - Gen Admin, 22.67; Menards Park Rec, Vari

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SIXTH JUDICIAL ) TO ALL PERSONS INDISTRICT ) TERESTED IN SAID ESss. ) TATE: PAGE F4 Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020 S GILLETTE NEWS WYOMING STATE OF RECORD) S GILLETTE, You are hereby notified WYOMING ) that, pursuant to W.S. §2COUNTY OF ) 1-205, Shirley J. Brown CAMPBELL has filed aLEGAL swornNOTICES ApplicaLEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES) 071 071 071 071 IN THE MATTER OF ) tion for Decree of DistriNOTICE OF THE ESTATE OF: ) bution with the Clerk of Continued from page F2 PUBLICATION KATHLEEN S. ) the above-entitled court NOTICE OF IN THE DISTRICT ) BROWN, ) wherein she prays that the PUBLICATION COURT ) Deceased. ) following-described propIN THE DISTRICT ) SIXTH JUDICIAL ) Probate No. 8793 ) erty be set over and disCOURT ) DISTRICT ) TO ALL PERSONS IN- tributed to Shirley J. SIXTH JUDICIAL ) ss. ) TERESTED IN SAID ES- B r o w n , T i m o t h y P .

DISTRICT ) STATE OF ) TATE: Brown, John J. Brown, ss. ) WYOMING ) You are hereby notified Benjamin E. Brown, Jesse STATE OF ) COUNTY OF ) that, pursuant to W.S. §2- D. Schilling, Gregory M. WYOMING ) CAMPBELL ) 1-205, Shirley J. Brown Brown and Nicole L. COUNTY OF ) IN THE MATTER OF ) has filed a sworn Applica- Brown, pursuant to the CAMPBELL ) THE NAME ) tion for Decree of Distri- Last Will and Testament RENA H. SCHLIPP ) CHANGE OF: ) bution with the Clerk of of the Decedent: ADVERTISEMENT AND Plaintiff, ) COLEMAN JACE ) the above-entitled court Lot 15C, INVITATION FOR BIDS Block 5A of vs. ) WORSLEY ) wherein prays&that the District the Resubdivision of Lots Wrightshe Water Sewer owns the following MICHAEL C. ) Petitioner. ) following-described prop15 thru 22, Block 5Asale & described items and is accepting sealed bids for the SCHLIPP, SR., ) Civil Action ) erty be set over and disLots 1 & 17, Block 5B, of these items: Defendant. ) Case No. 39408 ) tributed to ShirleyV28 J. 1/2” Westover 1. 1 Ea. Milwaukee CordlessHills, ImpactPhase DriverI, Civil Action 39455 ) You are hereby notified B r2.o 1wEa. n , Alltest T i m oDigital t h y PEngine . Campbell County, WyomN O T I C E T O M I - that a Petition For Change Brown, John J. Brown, ing Analyzer 3. 1 Ea. Snap-on Bearing Pulleraccording to the offiCHAEL C. SCHLIPP, of Name, Civil Action Benjamin E. Brown, Jesse cial plat thereof filed for 1 Ea. MAC Compression Tester SR., DEFENDANT, AD- No.39408 has been filed D.4.Schilling, Gregory M.Balancer record Puller February 17, 1982, 5.

1 Ea. Napa Harmonic DRESS UNKNOWN: on behalf of Coleman Jace Brown and Nicole L. in Book 3 of Plats, page 6. 1 Ea. 6” Gear Puller You are notified that a Worsley in the Wyoming Brown, pursuant to Gear the Puller 183 of the records of 7.

1 Ea. Snap-on 3” Complaint for Divorce, District Court for the Last Will and Testament Campbell County, Wyom1 Ea. Central Machinist Square Civil Action No. 39455, Sixth Judicial District, of8.the Decedent: ingWrench 9. 1 Ea. Snap-on 3/8” Torque has been filed in the whose address is 500 S. Lot 15C, Block 5A of If no objection to the ap10. 1 Ea. KD Piston Ring Compressor Wyoming District Court Gillette Ave, Suite 200, the Resubdivision of Lots plication has been filed 11.

1 Ea. Snap on 3/8” Drive Socket Set for the Sixth Judicial Dis- Gillette, WY 82716 , the 15 thru 22, Block 5A & within thirty (30) days of 12. 1 Ea. MAC Timing Light trict, whose address is 500 o b ject an d p ray er of Lots 1Lot & Railroad 17, Block 5B, the first day of publica13.

1 Ties and Posts S. Gillette Ave., P.O. Box which is to change the Westover Hills, Phase I, tion, to-wit, October 31, 14. 1 Lot Steel Trench Boxes 817, Gillette, WY 82717, name of the above-named Campbell Wyom2020, the Court shall enter 15. 1 LotCounty, Chain Vise Pipe Stands seeking dissolution of person from Coleman ing according to the offisuch a decree.

16. 1 Lot 4” Aluminum Water Pipe your marriage to Rena H. Jace Worsley to Coleman cial plat thereof filedRack for DATED this 23rd day of 17.

1 Ea. Steel Pipe Schlipp and a Decree of Jace Johnson. record February 1982, October, 2020.

18. 1 Lot Misc. 17, Water Line Pipe Divorce in her favor.

Any objection must be in19.

Book 3 5’ ofConcrete Plats, page STEVENS, 1 Ea. Manhole Extension EDWARDS, w/Cover Unless you file an An- filed with the District 183 of the records of HALLOCK, & 20.

1 Lot Bottle Scales and Electric Monitors swer or otherwise re- Court within 30 days fol- Campbell County, WyomCARPENTER, P.C. 21. 1 Ea. Cummins 12,000-Watt Generator on Wheels spond to the Complaint lowing the last date of ing Francis E. Stevens 22. 1 Lot Kerosene Heaters referenced above within publication of this notice, If to the ap#5-1540 23.no1 objection Ea. Propane Heater 30 days following the last or an Order Granting plication has been filed Attorney for 24. 1 Ea. Mercury 3.3 hp 2 Stroke Kicker Motor Estate date of publication of this Name Change may be within thirty (30) days Office Box 1148 25. 1 Ea. Wisconsin 3”of Gas TrashPost Pump notice, a default judg- granted without further the first day of publicaGillette, WY 82717 Items may be viewed by appointment only.

Appointment will be taken against notice. tion, to-wit, October 31, either Levi (307) 682-1444 ments must be set up with by calling 307 you and a Decree of DiDATED this 25th day of 2020, the Court shall enter October 31, November 7, 660 6004 or Josh by calling 307 299 5132.

All items vorce will be granted.

September 2020 such a decree.

2020 will be sold “as is”.

DATED this 15th day of BY CLERK OF COURT: DATED thiswill 23rdbeday of Sealed bids accepted

by Wright Water & SewOctober, 2020.

Cheryl Chitwood October, 2020. er District at the District Office, 15009 Hwy. 387, P.O.

BY CLERK OF COURT: Clerk of District Court STEVENS, EDWARDS, Wyoming 82732, until 2:00 p.m. the Cheryl Chitwood O c t o b e r 1 7 , 2 4 , 3 1 , Box 549, Wright, HALLOCK,2020, & at which time the bids will 5th day of November, Clerk of District Court N o v e m b e r 7 , 2 0 2 0 CARPENTER, P.C. be publicly opened and read aloud. This item of busiOctober 24, 31, NovemE. Stevens ness willFrancis be submitted to the Board of Directors for disNOTICE OF ber 7, 14, 2020 cussion and action#5-1540 at the regularly scheduled meeting APPLICATION FOR Attorney for Estate 12, 2020 at 7:30 p.m. at the on Thursday, November DECREE OF Post Office Box 1148 District Office.

DISTRIBUTION Gillette, WY 82717 ABANDONED Bids must be marked: IN THE DISTRICT ) (307)Bid 682-1444 VEHICLE for Wright Water & COURT ) October 31, November Ken Barkey selling SIXTH JUDICIAL Sewer District7,Surplus Equipment ) 2020 abandoned vehicle of DISTRICT and include item # and description. ) Tom Ginn. 2002 Ford ExWright Water & Sewer District reserves the right to ss. ) plorer, Grey, WY-17-P- STATE OF reject any and all bids. ) 2 4 9 6 .

V I N WYOMING Joseph W. Johnson, Chairman ) 1FMZU72EX2ZB38362. COUNTY OF Wright Water & Sewer District ) October 31, November 7, CAMPBELL October 17, 24, 31, 2020 ) 2020 IN THE MATTER OF ) THE ESTATE OF: ) 9,870.50; Sanofi Pasteur, County Health Nurse, Continued on page F3 KATHLEEN S. ) ous Departments, 855.19; Menards Road Bridge, 10,033.38; Schaeffer Manufacturing, Various DepartBROWN, ) Road & Bridge, 79.61; Merck Sharp Dohme, County ments, 461.64; Second Chance Ministries, 1% Optional Deceased. ) Health Nurse, 13,230.82; MFAC, P & R-Recreational Sales Tax Fund, 3,093.45; Sentinel Offender, Various Probate No. 8793 ) Division, 94.90; Michaels Construct, Publ Work Capital Departments, 202.50; Servall Uniform, Road & Bridge, TO ALL PERSONS IN- 1,022.86; ServiceWear Apparel, County Sheriff, 127.56; Construction, 33,639.22; MidAmerica Books, CCPLTERESTED INCo, SAID ES- Sherwin Williams, Various Departments, 7,550.00; Sign Main Branch, 814.20; Midland Implement Various TATE: Departments, 2,702.07; Midwest Tapes, Various Depart- Boss, Various Departments, 37,991.25; Simpsons PrintYou areRoad hereby ments, 883.74; Miller Welding, & notified Bridge, ing, County Treasurer, 1,613.00; Sir Speedy, Various 12,600.00; Morgan, Tobey that, J., County Sheriff, 200.00; pursuant to W.S. §2- Departments, 283.61; Sitech Wyoming, Landfill, Motorola Solutions Equip,1-205, Capital Outlay-Sheriff, Shirley J. Brown 532.14; Skaggs Companies, Various Departments, 35,756.21; Motorola Solutions Maint, Various Depart- 1,258.55; Smart Start, Adult Drug Court, 440.00; Snow has filed a sworn Applicaments, 68,959.37; Nannemann Maintenance/ tionBros for Auto, Decree of Distri- Crest Chemicals, Various Departments, 7,836.83; Custodial, 2,407.20; Naramore, J MD, butionJames with the ClerkSherof Source Office Tech, Various Departments, 3,067.35; iff-Jail Facility, 1,000.00; Naylor, Aspen T., Sheriff-Jail the above-entitled court Southland Medical, County Coroner, 247.99; Stevens, Facility, 300.00; Nelson Auto Glass,she Road Bridge, wherein prays&that the Stephanie S., Children’s Dev-Early Head Start, 16.98; 125.00; Newman Traffic Signs, Public Works, 269.34; following-described prop- Stulken Law, State & Fed Mandated Costs, 1,904.40; News Record, Various Departments, 13,531.83; Summit Food Services, Sheriff-Jail Facility, 53,724.73; erty be set over and disNorchem Drug Test, Various Departments, 2,525.80; Sundance Times, Various Departments, 325.00; Sundial tributed to Shirley J. Heating, Sheriff-Jail Facility, 30.80; Surf N Suds, Norco, Various Departments, 6,786.23; North Park B r o w n , T i m o t h y P . County Health Nurse, 28.35; Sysco Food Services, Transport, Rockpile Museum - Gen Admin, 272.83; John J. 2,000.00; Brown, Children’s Dev Svc-Preschool, 4,572.12; Temperature North Star Lighting, CapitalBrown, Outlay-Sheriff, Benjamin Brown, Jesse Novus Auto Glass, County Sheriff,E. 559.00; OAG Tech, Various Departments, 415.00; Tennant, Austin M., D. Schilling, Gregory M. County Sheriff, 10.00; Test Gauge, Maintenance/CustoFlightview, Various Departments, 476.92; Office Depot, BrownOffice and Shop, Nicole L. dial, 81.68; That Embroidery Place, Northeast WyoVarious Departments, 9,061.64; EmerBrown, pursuant to Pthe& ming Regional, 231.94; The Grease Barrel, Various gency Management, 150.70; Oilfield Machine, LastDigital Will and Testament R-Ice Skating, 980.00; Omni Prod, Rockpile Departments, 317.95; The Range, P & R-Gen Adm, of theOptum Decedent: Museum - Gen Admin, 300.00; Bank, Human 148.59; Thermo Fluids, Landfill, 150.00; Thomas Y Resources, 1,715.00; OReilly Lot Auto15C, Parts,Block County 5ASherof Pickett, County Assessor, 13,500.00; Thomson Reuters iff, 167.26; Oriental Trading Co, Library-General the Resubdivision of Lots West, County Attorney, 711.01; Thrailkill, Elizabeth D, Administration, 419.20; Oriva I&S,Block 1% Optional 15 Hills thru 22, 5A & County Attorney, 21.00; Thunder Basin Ford, County Sales Tax Fund, 6,031.00; Overdrive, Various DepartLots 1 & 17, Block 5B, Sheriff, 25.81; Titan Machinery, Various Departments, ments, 5,906.34; Overhead Door Co, Maintenance/CusWestover Hills, Phase I, 9,865.27; Top Office Products, County Assessor, todial, 49.00; Paintbrush Campbell Services, County, Various WyomDepart- 1,051.40; Tower Communication, Road & Bridge, ments, 2,293.93; Papa Johns Pizza, Various Departing according to the offi- 650.00; Tractor Supply P&R, P & R-Bell Nob Golf ments, 77.71; Paraclete Videos, Various Departments, cial plat thereof filed for Course, 40.16; Tractor Supply R&B, Road & Bridge, 79.45; Pathfinder Inspections, Publ Work Capital Con- 1,286.25; Tru Tech Products, Various Departments, record February 17, 1982, struction, 375.00; PB Global Attorney, County Attorney, 73.54; Two Rivers Terminal, FAA Cares Act, 9,998.45; Book Court, 3 of Plats, page 173.04; PB Global Dist Ct, inDistrict 540.87; PB Tyler Tech, Payments In Lieu of Taxes Fund, 29,280.66; 183 of the records of Uline, Library-General Administration, 1,027.38; Global Sheriff, County Sheriff, 173.04; PCA EngineerCampbell County, Wyoming, Publ Work Capital Construction, 487.50; Peak Unique Management, Library-General Administration, Engineering, 1% Optional ing Sales Tax Fund, 750.00; 402.75; United Parcel Serv, County Sheriff, 61.63; UniIf no objection to theCosts, ap- versal Athletic, Various Departments, 1,219.50; Urbin Pearson Oil Co., Commissioner’s-Gen Cnty plication has been filed Law Office, State & Fed Mandated Costs, 8,547.20; 21,967.74; Peregrine Global, Human Resources, within thirty (30) days of Verizon Adult Drug Ct, Adult Drug Court, 99.92; Veri2,860.00; Personal Frontiers, Various Departments, the first day of0.00; publica19,229.12; Pete Lien Sons, Road & Bridge, Peter- zon Attorney, County Attorney, 32.51; Verizon Emerg bilt of Wyoming, Road & Bridge, 250.77; PFM Asset tion, to-wit, October 31, Mgmt, Emergency Management, 38.52; Verizon Juv Management, Commissioner’s-Gen Cnty 2020, the Court shall Costs, enter Prob, Various Departments, 199.84; Verizon Public 9,615.64; PharmChem, such Sheriff-24/7, 1,256.20; Hlth, County Health Nurse, 251.73; Verizon Public a decree.

Pineview I&S District, 1% Optional Sales23rd Taxday Fund, DATED this of Works, Various Departments, 523.20; Verizon Sheriff, 17,609.82; Pizza Hut, Fair-General Admin, 99.32; Various Departments, 4,949.04; Veto Enterprises, VariOctober, 2020.

Plains Tire Battery, County Sheriff, 11,185.36; Plains- ous Departments, 1,052.02; Visionary Broadband, VariSTEVENS, EDWARDS, man Printing, County Clerk, 13,329.24; PMCH, PayHALLOCK, & ous Departments, 12,887.04; Visitation Advocacy, 1% ments In Lieu of Taxes Fund, 4,715.00; Pokeys BBQ CARPENTER, P.C. Optional Sales Tax Fund, 15,891.74; Vista Leasing Co, Smoke, Commissioner’s Executive, 157.50; Amy Various Departments, 3,156.80; Vital Records Control, Francis Poole, E. Stevens J., County Health Nurse, 112.13; Powder River Energy County Attorney, 43.90; Walker Funeral Home, County #5-1540 Util, Various Departments, 21,853.20; Powder River Health Officer, 1,700.00; Wallem, Kelly J., County Attorney for Estate Exam, Various Departments, 120.00; Powder River Attorney, 95.30; Walmart Children Dev, Various Office BoxPowder 1148 Departments, 276.19; Walmart Clerk, County Elections, Heating, Maintenance/Custodial,Post7,254.50; Gillette, WY 82717 River Worksafe, Human Resources, 275.00; Power 11.40; Walmart Dist Ct, State & Fed Mandated Costs, (307)ProElectric, 682-1444 80.12; Walmart Extension, Various Departments, Equipment Co, Road & Bridge, 2,269.33; October 31, November 7, 221.10; Walmart Juvenile Fam, Juvenile Drug Court Road & Bridge, 941.20; Professional Land Surv, Public 2020 Various Departments, Grants, 71.86; Walmart Landfill, Landfill, 32.48; Works, 125.00; Purvis Industries, 720.66; Push Pedal Pull, P & R-Recreational Division, Walmart Library, Various Departments, 569.48; 420.39; QT Petroleum Demand, Northeast Wyoming Walmart Museum, Rockpile Museum - Gen Admin, Regional, 1,425.00; Quadient, Library-General Admin- 49.96; Walmart Park Rec, Various Departments, istration, 236.52; Quick Lube One, Various Depart- 1,407.58; Walmart Public Hlth, County Health Nurse, ments, 608.93; Rain Locker Car Wash, Various Depart- 49.46; Wasson, Monica M., County Sheriff, 51.00; ments, 157.80; Ram Computer Supply, Children’s Dev Waste Connections, Various Departments, 2,749.41; Svc-Gen Admin, 136.89; Razor City Locksmith, Main- Water Guy, Various Departments, 11,060.00; Waypoints tenance/Custodial, 50.00; Razor City Rental, Various Wyoming, Commissioner’s-Gen Cnty Costs, 5,500.00; Departments, 94.87; Record Supply, Various Depart- Wesco Distribution, Various Departments, 276.50; ments, 5,364.23; Recreation Supply, Various Depart- Western Stationers, Extension Department, 236.63; ments, 1,209.71; Reeves, Cara M., Rockpile Museum - Western Waste Sol, Various Departments, 920.92; Gen Admin, 29.97; Reynolds, Quentin L., Fair-General Weston Co Gazette, Various Departments, 39.00; WestAdmin, 400.00; Rhomar Industries, Road & Bridge, wood Pharmacy, Sheriff-Jail Facility, 2,375.73; WEX, 801.07; RMS Instrument, Maintenance/Custodial, Fleet Department, 90.09; Whites Energy Motors, Vari886.00; Robinson, Celeste Renee, Various Departments, ous Departments, 41,497.24; Wilbur Ellis Company, P 234.96; Robinson, Cole, Fair-General Admin, 400.00; & R-Bell Nob Golf Course, 11,204.50; Windshield Rocky Mtn Business, Various Departments, 2,558.64; Paramedic, Various Departments, 515.00; Wolters KluRocky Mtn Discount, County Sheriff, 53.91; Rocky wer, Various Departments, 2,443.46; Work Warehouse, Mtn Fire Sys, Maintenance/Custodial, 106.81; Rocky Human Resources, 4,016.58; Wright Booster Club, P & Point W&S, 1% Optional Sales Tax Fund, 1,084.05; R-Recreational Division, 50.00; Wright Child Care, Rozet Ranchettes I&S, 1% Optional Sales Tax Fund, Children’s Dev Svc-Spec Ed, 810.00; Wright Commu■■■

erty be set over and dis- of the Decedent: tributed to Shirley J. Lot 15C, Block 5A of B r o w n , T i m o t h y P . the Resubdivision of Lots Brown, John J. Brown, 15 thru 22, Block 5A & Benjamin E. Brown, Jesse Lots 1 & 17, Block 5B, D. Schilling, Gregory M. Westover Hills, Phase I, Brown County, WyomLEGALNicole NOTICESL. Campbell LEGAL NOTICES 071 and 071 Brown, pursuant to the ing according to the offiLast Will and Testament cial plat thereof filed for of the Decedent: record February 17, 1982, Lot 15C, Block 5A of in Book 3 of Plats, page the Resubdivision of Lots 183 of the records of 15 thru 22, Block 5A & Campbell County, WyomLots 1 & 17, Block 5B, ing Westover Hills, Phase I, If no objection to the apCampbell County, Wyom- plication has been filed Continued page F5 of ing according to the offi- within thirtyon(30) days cial plat thereof filed for the first day of publicaOffice of County Commissioners record February 17, 1982, tion, to-wit, October 31, October 5, 2020 - Gillette, WY in Book 3 of Plats, page 2020, the Court shall enter Directors Workshop 183 of the records of such a decree.

The Campbell County Board of Commissioners met Campbell County, WyomDATED this 23rd day of for a Directors Workshop, Monday, October 5, 2020 at ing October, 2020.

1:30 PM. If no objection to the apSTEVENS, EDWARDS, Present were Rusty Bell, DG Reardon, Colleen Faber, plication has been filed HALLOCK, & Del Shelstad, Bob Maul, Commissioners; Susan F. within thirty (30) days of CARPENTER, P.C. Saunders, County Clerk; Carol Seeger, Commissioners the first day of publicaFrancis E. Stevens Administrative Director; Ivy McGowan Castleberry, tion, to-wit, October 31, #5-1540 Public Information Coordinator; Brandy Elder, HR Dir2020, the Court shall enter Attorney for Estate ector; Jeff Bender, Fire Chief; Kevin Geis, Road and such a decree.

Post Office Box 1148 Bridge Director; Kevin King, Public Works Director DATED this 23rd day of Gillette, WY 82717 and Jenny Staeben, Deputy County Attorney.

October, 2020.

(307) 682-1444 Discussion was held on position vacancy justificaSTEVENS, EDWARDS, October 31, November 7, tions for the Sheriff’s Department.

HALLOCK, & 2020 Commissioner Faber discussed issues and concerns on CARPENTER, P.C. State Lands and Chairman Reardon asked CommissionFrancis E. Stevens er Faber to contact State Lands regarding obtaining a #5-1540 written request from them if they want the County to Attorney for Estate perform a survey of Bittercreek Road.

Post Office Box 1148 Discussion was held on the signs at the Centennial Gillette, WY 82717 Section. Carol Seeger and Kevin Geis will work on the (307) 682-1444 sign issue.

October 31, November 7, Commissioner Faber discussed plugging of wells on 2020 the Centennial Section. Carol Seeger will review the file.

Carol Seeger provided an update of the Gillette College and Select Committee Participation. Commissioner Bell would like the public to know what is in the Gillette College application.

Carol Seeger provided information of the Commissioners calendar of events.

Carol Seeger updated the Commissioners on the proposed US Fish and Wildlife’s rules changes on Endangered and Threatened Wildlife; Plants and Critical Habitat Designation.

Brandy provided an update on the Safety Program participation, flu shots, AED training and effective January 1, 2021 our Blue Cross will be moving to the Wyoming Total Choice Network.

Kevin Geis provided a road report, update on moving to the new county shop location and CMAQ. Kevin King provided an update on Landfill #1 and #2 remediation, Airport Roof project and the parking garage project.

The Commissioners held a Workshop on Ionization products.

Commissioner Shelstad left the meeting at 3:50 PM. There being no further business to come before the Board the meeting was adjourned at 4:25PM. Susan F. Saunders, Clerk Board of County Commissioners DG Reardon, Chairman Board of County Commissioners October 31, 2020 nity, 1% Optional Sales Tax Fund, 639.73; Wright Water Sewer, Various Departments, 5,059.32; WY Conf Bldg Official, Public Works, 300.00; WY Dept Health Prev, Various Departments, 685.00; WY Dept Transport, County Sheriff, 29.53; WY Economic Develop, Public Works, 50.00; WY Envir Quality Air, 1% Optional Sales Tax Fund, 500.00; WY Retirement Life, Campbell County General Fund, 576.00; WY Retirement System, Campbell County General Fund, 438,102.22; WY Secretary State, Library-General Administration, 30.00; WY State Library, Various Departments, 23,000.00; Wyo Clerk Dist Ct, District Court, 150.00; Wyo Recreation Park, Various Departments, 250.00; Wyoming Machinery, Various Departments, 15,412.20; Wyoming Marine, P & R-Parks, 79.84; Wyoming Rents, Fair-General Admin, 750.00; Wyoming Water Sol, Various Departments, 1,411.56; Youth Awards Premium, Fair-General Admin, 13,199.00; Youth Emergency Serv, Various Departments, 27,693.64; Zip Printing, County Sheriff, 559.91; Zoll Medical, 1% Optional Sales Tax Fund, 1,476.93 Dr Patel, County Health Officer and Jane Glaser, Public Health Director provided an update on COVID 19.

Jane said that the COVID 19 testing at Public Health is going well. Mrs. Duncan expressed concerns on not being able to visit her husband at the Lasting Legacy.

Ivy McGowan-Castleberry gave a presentation on the County Flash Vote.

Commissioner Bell moved to approve Resolution Number 2053 Proclaiming October 2020 as Domestic Violence Awareness Month in Campbell County, as presented. Commissioner Maul seconded the motion.

All Voted-Aye. Carried.

Commissioner Bell moved to approve the agreement between the Wyoming Department of Health, Public Health Division, Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program and Campbell County to provide program benefits of the United States Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Services Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), in an amount not to exceed $360,712 for the period of July 1, 2020 to December 31, 2021, as presented. Commissioner Maul seconded the motion. All Voted-Aye. Carried.

Commissioner Faber moved to approve the contract between the Wyoming Department of Health, Public Health Division and Campbell County for funding in the form of a Community Service Block Grant (CSBG), in an amount of $214,138 for the period of October 1, 2020 to November 15, 2021, as presented. Commissioner Bell seconded the motion. All Voted-Aye. Carried.

Commissioner Bell moved to approve the contract between the Wyoming Department of Health, Public Health Division and Campbell County for funding in the form of a Community Service Block Grant (CSBG) Coronavirus, Aid, Relief, and Economic (CARES) Act, in the amount of $296,504 for the period of March 27, 2020 to September 30, 2022, as presented. Commissioner Maul seconded the motion. All Voted-Aye. Carried.

Commissioner Bell moved approve the subaward grant agreement between the Council of Community Services and Campbell County for CSBG CARES Act funding, in the amount of $296,504 for the period of March 27, 2020 to September 30, 2022, CFDA #93.556, as presented.

Commissioner Maul seconded the motion. All Voted-Aye. Carried.

Commissioner Shelstad moved to approve the student affiliation agreement between Eastern Washington University (EWU) and Children’s Developmental Services of Campbell County to provide clinical educational experiences for an occupational therapy student, as presented. Commissioner Faber seconded the motion.

All Voted-Aye. Carried.

Commissioner Colleen moved to appoint Zachary Poitra, Deb Shaw and Robert Maul to each serve on the McKenney Improvement and Service District until the next election to be held March 2021, as presented.

Commissioner Shelstad seconded the motion. Commissioner Maul abstained from the discussion and vote due to a conflict of interest. All Voted-Aye. Carried.

Commissioner Bell moved to approve the District Support Grant Application for the Pinnacle Heights

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PUBLIC NOTICE Pursuant to the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act and the Wyoming Public Service Commission’s (Commission) Rules, the Commission hereby gives notice of Powder River Energy Corporation’s (PRECorp or the Cooperative) Application for authority to revise its Small Power Production (SPP) rate tariff, effective January 1, 2021.

PRECorp is a public utility as defined in W.S. § 37-1101(a)(vi)(C), subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission under W.S. § 37-2-112.

On October 22, 2020, PRECorp submitted its Application to revise is SPP tariff, effective for billings or credits issued on or after January 1, 2021. PRECorp is a Class A member of Basin Electric Power Cooperative (Basin), from whom it secures its power requirements via agreements and contracts. PRECorp’s avoided cost is equal to Basin’s published avoided cost for its Common Use System/PacifiCorp System (CUS/PAC), adjusted for losses, as approved in Docket No. 10014178-CT-17. The Cooperative’s SPP tariff applies to residential and commercial customers who install facilities for generating electric power. The Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 requires PRECorp to purchase all the kWhs generated by Qualifying Facilities at its avoided cost, which it does through its SPP tariff.

Basin’s published avoided cost of delivery to its Class A members located in CUS/PAC system for 2021 is $0.0144 per kWh. PRECorp’s rate adjusted for losses is $0.014694. The Cooperative is therefore requesting authority to increase the rate currently available under its SPP rate, from $0.01337 to $0.014694 per kWh, to reflect Basin’s published avoided cost for 2021 adjusted for losses.

This is not a complete description of the Application.

Interested persons may inspect the Application at the Cooperative’s business office located in Sundance, Wyoming and at the Commission’s offices in Cheyenne, Wyoming, during regular business hours, or online at: http://psc.state.wy.us/.

Anyone desiring to file a statement, public comment, protest, intervention petition, or request for a public hearing in this matter must file in writing with the Commission on or before November 25, 2020. Any intervention request filed with the Commission shall set forth the grounds of the proposed intervention or request for hearing as well as the position and the interest of the petitioner in this proceeding. Please mention Docket No. 10014-216-CT-20 (Record No. 15633) in your communications.

If you wish to intervene in this matter or request a public hearing that you will attend, or if you wish to file a statement, public comment, or protest, and you require reasonable accommodation for a disability, please contact the Commission at (307) 777-7427, or write to the Commission at 2515 Warren Avenue, Suite 300, Cheyenne, Wyoming 82002. Communications-impaired persons may contact the Commission through Wyoming Relay at 711.

Dated: October 28, 2020 October 31, November 7, 2020

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Improvement and Service District in an amount not to exceed $1,650 from the Optional One Percent Sales Tax fund for the application of 300 tons of crushed asphalt to their district roads, Gravel Road Priority 6, as recommended by the Campbell County Department of Public Works. Commissioner Maul seconded the motion. All Voted-Aye. Carried.

Commissioner Shelstad moved to table the lease agreement between Gillette College and Campbell County for non-exclusive use of a tract of land north of the North Landfill site for grazing purposes in the administration of its college rodeo program and subject to the installation and maintenance of fencing, as presented. Commissioner Maul seconded the motion.

Commissioner Bell-Nay, Commissioner Maul-Aye, Commissioner Shelstad-Aye, Commissioner Faber-Aye. Chairman Reardon -Nay. Carried.

Commissioner Bell moved to approve the Statement of Recommendations as required by the Wyoming Community College Commission in the application process for the creation of a new community college district, as presented. Commissioner Maul seconded the motion. All Voted-Aye. Carried.

The Public Hearing scheduled for 10:15 AM. was heard at 10:50 AM. The purpose of the hearing was to hear a re-zoning request for a proposed re-subdivision of Lot 1&2, RTFO Subdivision.;; Commissioner Faber moved to approve the rezoning request for RTFO Properties, LLC, Case Number 20.03 COZ to zone Lots 1A, 1B, 1C to C-3 (Business Service District) and Lot 2A R-R (Rural Residential District), pending the filing of the final plat, as presented and recommended by the Campbell County Planning Commission and Department of Public Works. Commissioner Maul seconded the motion. All Voted-Aye. Carried.

Commission Bell moved to approve the amended lease agreement between Visionary Communications, Inc. and Campbell County to expand the leased premises and installation of the fiber improvements, as presented. Commissioner Maul seconded the motion. All Voted-Aye. Carried.

Commissioner Shelstad moved to approve the transfer of the title of the shuttle van to Campbell County Senior Center with the consideration being the County’s continued use as needed. Commissioner Maul seconded the motion. All Voted-Aye. Carried.;; Commissioner Faber moved to approve the financial assistance award from the U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration for the Carbon Valley Global Marketing and Branding Campaign in the amount of $240,000 with a cash match of $160,000 for the period of September 28, 2020 to September 27, 2022, as presented, with $80,000 coming from the City of Gillette and $80,000 coming from Campbell County.

Commissioner Shelstad seconded the motion. All Voted-Aye. Carried.

Commissioner Shelstad moved to approve the letter of support for the Commitment to Veteran Support and Outreach Act, as presented. Commissioner Bell seconded the motion. All Voted-Aye. Carried.

Commissioner Bell moved to deny the Position Vacancy Justifications for the Sheriff’s Office – Administrative Assistant and Sheriff’s Office – Deputy Sheriff or Detention Officer. Commissioner Maul seconded the motion. Commissioner Bell-Aye, Commissioner Maul-Aye, Commissioner Shelstad-Nay, Commissioner Faber-Aye, Chairman Reardon -Aye. Carried.

The Commissioners recessed their meeting at 11:40 AM and reconvened at 1:00 PM into a workshop.

A presentation was given by Arete on the Wyoming Innovation Center (WyIC).

There being no further business to come before the Commissioners the meeting was adjourned at 1:45 PM. The next regular meeting of the Commissioners will be held Tuesday, October 20, 2020, at 9:00 AM in the Commissioners Chambers in the Courthouse.

Susan F. Saunders, County Clerk Board of County Commissioners DG Reardon, Chairman Board of County Commissioners In accordance with W.S. 18-3-516(f) the required County Notices of Publication are available on the County’s Website at: www.ccgov.net; October 31, 2020.

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Campbell County, Wyoming according to the official plat thereof filed for record February 17, 1982, in Book 3 of Plats, page 183 of the records LEGAL NOTICESof 071 Campbell County, Wyoming Continued from page F4 If no objection to the application has been filed within thirty (30) days of the first day of publication, to-wit, October 31, 2020, the Court shall enter such a decree.

DATED this 23rd day of October, 2020.

STEVENS, EDWARDS, HALLOCK, & CARPENTER, P.C. Francis E. Stevens #5-1540 Attorney for Estate Post Office Box 1148 Gillette, WY 82717 (307) 682-1444 October 31, November 7, 2020 NOTICE OF PETITION TO CHANGE NAME IN THE DISTRICT ) COURT ) SIXTH JUDICIAL ) DISTRICT ) ss. ) STATE OF ) WYOMING ) COUNTY OF ) CAMPBELL ) IN THE MATTER OF ) THE CHANGE OF: ) NAME OF: ) Ruby L. Jones ) A Minor ) Civil Action ) No. 39337 ) You are hereby notified that a petition to Change of Name has been filed on behalf of the above named minor in the District Court in and for Campbell County, Wyoming in File No. 39337, the object and prayer of which is to change the name of the above-named person from Ruby L. Jones to Ruby L. D’Angelo.

Any objections must be filed with the Clerk of District Court, 500 South Gillette Avenue, Gillette, Wyoming 82716, in writing, on or before thirty (30) days after last publication date, or the prayer of the Petition shall be granted.

Dated this 23rd day of October, 2020.

C. Leair, Deputy Clerk for District Court October 31, November 7, 14, 21, 2020

CAMPBELL ) IN THE MATTER OF ) THE CHANGE OF: ) NAME OF: ) Ruby L. Jones ) A Minor ) Civil Action LEGAL NOTICES) 071 No. 39337 ) You are hereby notified that a petition to Change of Name has been filed on behalf of the above named minor in the District Court in and for Campbell County, Wyoming in File No. 39337, the object and prayer of which is to change the name of the above-named person from Ruby L. Jones to Ruby L. D’Angelo.

Any objections must be filed with the Clerk of District Court, 500 South Gillette Avenue, Gillette, Wyoming 82716, in writing, on or before thirty (30) days after last publication date, or the prayer of the Petition shall be granted.

Dated this 23rd day of October, 2020.

C. Leair, Deputy Clerk for District Court October 31, November 7, 14, 21, 2020 NOTICE OF PUBLICATION IN THE DISTRICT ) COURT ) SIXTH JUDICIAL ) DISTRICT ) ss. ) STATE OF ) WYOMING ) COUNTY OF ) CAMPBELL ) IN THE MATTER OF ) THE NAME ) CHANGE OF: ) LEIGH WORSLEY ) Petitioner. ) Civil Action ) Case No. 39409 ) You are hereby notified that a Petition For Change of Name, Civil Action No.39409 has been filed on behalf of Leigh Worsley in the Wyoming District Court for the Sixth Judicial District, whose address is 500 S. Gillette Ave, Suite 200, Gillette, WY 82716 , the object and prayer of which is to change the name of the above-named person from Leigh Worsley to Leigh Johnson.

Any objection must be filed with the District Court within 30 days following the last date of publication of this notice, or an Order Granting Name Change may be granted without further notice.

DATED this 25th day of September 2020

BY CLERK OF COURT: Cheryl Chitwood Clerk of District Court October 17, 24, 31, November 7, 2020

IN THE DISTRICT ) COURT ) SIXTH JUDICIAL ) DISTRICT ) ss. ) STATE OF ) WYOMING LEGAL NOTICES) 071 COUNTY OF ) CAMPBELL ) IN THE MATTER OF ) THE NAME ) CHANGE OF: ) LEIGH WORSLEY ) Petitioner. ) Civil Action ) Case No. 39409 ) You are hereby notified that a Petition For Change of Name, Civil Action No.39409 has been filed on behalf of Leigh Worsley in the Wyoming District Court for the Sixth Judicial District, whose address is 500 S. Gillette Ave, Suite 200, Gillette, WY 82716 , the object and prayer of which is to change the name of the above-named person from Leigh Worsley to Leigh Johnson.

Any objection must be filed with the District Court within 30 days following the last date of publication of this notice, or an Order Granting Name Change may be granted without further notice.

DATED this 25th day of September 2020

BY CLERK OF COURT: Cheryl Chitwood Clerk of District Court October 17, 24, 31, November 7, 2020

CIVIL ACTION ) with the District Court at COURT ) 39041 ) P.O. Box 817, Gillette, SIXTH JUDICIAL ) TO Yelizaveta McFar- Wyoming 82717, and DISTRICT ) lane, youSare hereby noti- Oct. upon31, Petitioner's counsel GILLETTE, WYOMING S GILLETTE NEWS )RECORD Saturday, 2020 PAGE F5 ss. fied that Carlos McFar- at the address below, to STATE OF ) lane, the Plaintiff herein, the Petition within 30 WYOMING ) has filed aLEGAL Verified Com- days lastNOTICES date of COUNTY OF ) LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES NOTICES LEGAL 071 071 071 071 071of the plaint for Divorce in the publication of this notice.

CAMPBELL ) District Court for the Failure to answer within CARLOS ) NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE OF FILING Sixth Judicial District in the said 30 days may resNOTICE IS HEREBY OF VERIFIED McFARLANE ) Gillette, Campbell County u l t i n d e f a u l t b e i n g COMPLAINT vs. ) GIVEN that the followWyoming. You are re- entered against you, and FOR DIVORCE YELIZAVETA ) ing property will be sold quired to file an Answer the Court granting the Pe) McFARLANE ) at public auction at 10:00 IN THE DISTRICT with the District Court at titioner's prayer for relief. ) CIVIL ACTION ) a.m. on the 4th day of COURT P.O. Box 817, Gillette, J. Craig Abraham ) 39041 ) November, 2020 at the SIXTH JUDICIAL Liberty Law Offices PC ) TO Yelizaveta McFar- Wyoming 82717, and lobby of the Campbell DISTRICT P.O. Box 1208 ss. ) County Courthouse, 500 lane, you are hereby noti- upon Petitioner's counsel Gillette, WY 82717 ) South Gillette Avenue, STATE OF fied that Carlos McFar- at the address below, to ) G i l l e t t e , W y o m i n g , WYOMING lane, the Plaintiff herein, the Petition within 30 October 10, 17, 24, 31 ) wherein the goods will be COUNTY OF has filed a Verified Com- days of the last date of 2020 sold to the highest bidder CAMPBELL plaint for Divorce in the publication of this notice. ) District Court for the Failure to answer within ) for cash, and the ex- CARLOS said 30 daysCOUNTY may res- PUBLIC LAND BOARD CAMPBELL COUNTY LANDDistrict BOARDin theCAMPBELL Sixth Judicial ) PUBLIC penses incurred by such McFARLANE l t b e i n g WYOMING GILLETTE, WYOMING Gillette, Campbell County u l t i n d e f a uGILLETTE, ) sale will be added to the vs. you, and ADVERTISEMENT FOR BID ADVERTISEMENT FOR BID Wyoming.

You are re- entered against YELIZAVETA ) claim: Courtbids granting thereceived PeSealed bids will be received until to Thursday, Novem- theSealed will be until Thursday, Novemquired file an Answer ) • Burgundy 2002 Dodge McFARLANE prayer ber 12,ACTION ber 12, 2020, 2020, at the Executive Director’s Office, CAMat for the relief.

Executive Director’s Office, CAMwith the District Court at titioner's ) R a m – V I N CIVIL J. Craig Abraham PLEX, 1635 Reata Drive, Gillette, 82718 PLEX, 1635 Reata Drive, Gillette, Wyoming 82718 P.O. BoxWyoming 817, Gillette, ) 3B7MF33C72M257129; 39041 Liberty Law Offices PC TO Yelizaveta McFar- Wyoming 82717, and for: WY license: 17-T-1260 for: P.O. Battery Box 1208 Dual Mode Extractor Purchase Powered Rider Sweeper upon Carpet Petitioner's counsel you are hereby noti- Riding • Green 2002 Dodge lane,Purchase Gillette, WY 82717 Specifications be obtained the CAM-PLEX Specifications may be obtained at the CAM-PLEX at the at address below, to that Carlos may McFarDakota – V I N fied 10, 17, 24, 31 Administration Administration the Plaintiff herein, the Petition within 30 October 1B7GG42N62S586429 lane, Office, Reata Drive, WYthe 82718.

Office, 1635 Reata Drive, Gillette, WY 82718. days of last date of 2020 filed1635 a Verified Com- Gillette, • White 1998 Volvo has Project information be obtained from Will Project information can be obtained from Will of this notice. for Divorce in thecanpublication Tractor Truck – VIN plaint HastreiterCourt Director of the Operations, or to Jeff Esposito, Ex- Hastreiter Director of Operations, or Jeff Esposito, ExFailure answer within for 4VG7DARH1WN753041 District ecutive Director, at 307-682-0552.

Judicial District in the said 30 days may res- ecutive Director, at 307-682-0552. ; WY license: 17-C-2174 Sixth Bids will be opened Wednesday, Bids will be opened Wednesday, November 12, 2020 u l t i nNovember d e f a u l t 12, b e2020 ing Campbell County to satisfy a debt. Towing Gillette, at 2:00 p.m. You in theare CAM-PLEX Board Room.you, and at 2:15 p.m. in the CAM-PLEX Board Room. re- entered against fees incurred to date Wyoming.

The Campbell Public reserves the The Campbell County Public Land Board reserves the quired to file anCounty Answer theLand CourtBoard granting the Pe$600.00. rightthe to accept or Court reject at any or all items specified in the right to accept or reject any or all items specified in the District titioner's prayer for relief.

Dated this 21st day of with bid request.

P.O. Box 817, Gillette, J. Craig Abraham bid request.

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82717, Liberty Law Offices PC HORNING, HORNING Wyoming Campbell County Public Campbell County Public Land Board P.O.Land Box Board 1208 & McGRATH, LLC upon Petitioner's counsel Executive Jeff Esposito, Executive Director WYDirector 82717 to Esposito,Gillette, /s/ Ryan W. McGrath at the address below,Jeff October 31, November 3, 7, 2020 October 10, 17, 24, 31 October 31, November 3, 7, 2020 Petition within 30 WSB # 6-4487 the 400 South Douglas Hwy days of the last date of 2020 Gillette, WY 82716 publication of this notice.

(307) 686-3736 Failure to answer within the said 30 days may resOctober 24, 31, 2020 ult in default being entered against you, and the Court granting the Petitioner's prayer for relief.

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Crossword

BY THOMAS JOSEPH ACROSS 1 Hawk 5 Cartoon pig 10 River catch 12 Game setting 13 Fab Four drummer 14 Singer Neville 15 Star pitcher 16 Spell caster 18 Prison head 20 Luau strings 21 Liberal study 23 Course need 24 Matching 26 Listen to 28 Frodo’s friend 29 Woodland grazer 31 Cyclops feature 32 Pop’s Andy 36 Small songbird 39 King Kong, e.g.

40 Writer Brontë 41 Musical set in Argentina 43 Happen again 44 Out of style 45 Catch 46 Toppers

DOWN 1 Scarecrow fill 2 Writer Jong 3 Antisocial one 4 Galoot 5 Talk show legend Jack 6 Test type 7 Send another way 8 Rapped 9 Big Apple player 11 Stood tall 17 Worker in a colony 19 River stopper 22 Clipped 24 Exhortation from the pulpit 25 “West Side Story” song 27 Mess up 28 Homes to urban gators 30 Ram’s mate 33 Port-au-Prince’s nation 34 Made a choice 35 Main roles 37 Photo problem 38 Orpheus played one 42 Kilmer of “Batman Forever”

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Cryptoquote A X Y D L B A A X R is L O N G F E L L O W One letter stands for another. In this sample, A is used for the three L’s, X for the two O’s, etc. Single letters, apostrophes, the length and formation of the words are all hints. Each day the code letters are different.

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10-29

WEDNESDAY’S ANSWER

Wednesday's Cryptoquote:

Friday’s Puzzles

Crossword

BY THOMAS JOSEPH ACROSS 1 Watch part 5 Indian prince 9 Make a speech 11 Modify 13 Showed over 14 Home design 15 Some crime evidence 16 Intermittent sparkle 18 Feudal warrior 20 Bullring cry 21 Rental choice 22 Proceed slowly 23 Chop off 24 Kraken’s home 25 Checkout act 27 Fixes, as holey socks 29 Pet perch 30 Meeting record 32 Put to use 34 CPR pro 35 Moved a raft 36 Like Poe tales 38 Place 39 Inferno describer 40 Spot 41 Not new

DOWN 1 River crossings 2 Sports spots 3 Halloween treats 4 Letter after zeta 5 Arm bones 6 Yemen port 7 Halloween props 8 God of sunlight 10 Snare 12 Cornered 17 Pale 19 Japanese noodles 22 Lima’s land 24 Smoothed, in a way 25 Strikes 26 “In Cold Blood” author 27 Conk out 28 Near East native 30 Annapolis student 31 Spirited horse 33 Bound 37 Water, in the Seine

Cryptoquote A X Y D L B A A X R is L O N G F E L L O W One letter stands for another. In this sample, A is used for the three L’s, X for the two O’s, etc. Single letters, apostrophes, the length and formation of the words are all hints. Each day the code letters are different.

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10-30

THURSDAY’S ANSWER

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BY THOMAS JOSEPH ACROSS 1 “Little Caesar” role 5 Track count 9 Summary 10 Heartburn 12 On the ball 13 Bullfight bulls 14 Halloween scarer 16 Crumb carrier 17 H look-alike 18 Halloween scarer 20 Canine-related 22 Flying: Prefix 23 Poe’s middle name 25 Mix up 28 Fancy shirt pin 32 Halloween scarer 34 Big bird 35 Neighbor of Uru. 36 Halloween scarer 38 Bellini opera 40 Fixes socks 41 Cuss 42 Stage comment 43 Brooklyn team 44 Hardy heroine

DOWN 1 Tell tales 2 Old deliverer 3 Complain 4 Best 5 Grow toward evening 6 In the past 7 Halloween costume choice 8 High fellow 9 Gushed 11 Texas player 15 Desk type 19 Rational 21 Mountain lake 24 Tried to hit 25 Bridges 26 Flung 27 “My thoughts exactly” 29 Block-dropping game 30 Changes, in a way 31 Hex 33 Russian rulers 37 Job for a lawyer 39 Yoga need

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FRIDAY’S ANSWER

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