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Oober , 2015
Newcastle, Wyomlng
Year Week 42
Finishing off
the beetles
Alexis Shultz
NLJ Reporter
Wyoming State Forestry
drew a crowd when the
agency held a meeting
to provide an update and
reinforce important infor-
mation about the Mountain
Pine Beetle epidemic that
has been plaguing the area
for some time now. The
meeting featured a number
of important topics,
including how to identify
an infested tree, sure signs
of infestation, a series of
mountain pine beetle facts,
and options for treatment.
In the 2014-15 season,
roughly 45,000 trees cov-
ering 70,000 acres were
spotted according to
Jeremy Dedic, Assistant
Forester with Wyoming
State Forestry Division.
That is a significant
number, but Dedic reported
that we are on a down-
ward trend, noting that
red patches, referring to
patches of dead trees with
faded needles, have been
decreasing generally on
the Wyoming side of the,
Black Hills.
“Our spread is normally
one tree to two or more
trees...last year it was one
tree to one third of a tree,”
See Beetles, Page 7
City feels the
clock is
Alexis Shultz
NLJ Reporter
ticking
The issue of what residents of Weston County will
do with their solid waste has been staring county and
municipal governments in the face for some time, and a
pair of state officials met with officials from the City of
Newcastle last week to discuss the alternatives available
See City, Page 3
Loretta Murphy arrives in costume as head nurse, Major Margaret Houlihan at
the Weston County Health Services Foundation’s
MASH 4077 BASH held Friday evening at the Senior Center. The Foundation
raised over $18,000. (Pam Penfield/NLJ)
Bettorf is community’s first Recreation Director
Todd Bennington
NLJ Reporter
Jessica Bettorf, a long-time
employee of First State Bank, began
last Friday in the newly created position
of Community Rec Director, a job for
which she was by all accounts selected
from a strong pool of applicants.
Bettorf, a Newcastle native who
spent her high school years and a
year of college in Wisconsin before
returning to the area, said she hesitated
at firstin applying for her dream job.
“I saw it in the newspaper and read
it and thought, ‘That sounds fim,’ and
then I kind of set it aside, didn’t think
much of it. Then it was in the news-
paper for a second week and I thought,
‘You know, that’s something I really
Poker Party
Lloyd Robinson deals a card to Savanah Holloway at the Weston County Humane
Society Poker Tournament held at the Newcastle Country Club on October 3.
The
group raised almost $900 at their event. (Todd Bennington/NLJ)
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want to do with my life,’ so I applied.”
In speaking with the NLJ, Bettorf,
who spent 12 and a half years with
“[I] just picked a program one day,
started it, didn’t really love it [but]
found another program that I abso-
First State, moving from a teller, to a in love with. Just from
secretarial position and finally to that
of licensed insurance agent, admitted
she wasn’t a high school athlete, first
becoming physically active in 2005.
“I was about 30 pounds heavier
than what I wanted to be,” she said.
there I fell in love with working out
every day, eating right, taking care of
myself.”
An independent Beachbody
Coach, meaning she sells and distrib-
utes Beachbody products such as the
popular P-90X and related exercis
programs, Bettorf also runs a fre
women’s fit club.
“Three nights a week I just invit
women of the community to com
work out with me. I just put in in
own personal disk, and we just watc
it on a TV. We all work out and swez
See Bettorf, Page.
Todd Bennington
NLJ Reporter
Members of the Weston
County Planning and Zoning
Board appeared before the
Weston County Commissioners
at the latter’s Tuesday, Oct. 6,
meeting, where they discussed
issues pertaining to the subdi—
vision of property Within the
county.
A decision was made to
pursue drafting a letter out-
lining the steps applicants need
to take in order to legally subdi-
vide their property, though no
vote was taken.
“There’s been a number of
issues that have come up lately,”
Planning and Zoning Board
Chair Rick Dunford explained
to the commissioners. “We’ve
heard back through the grape
vine, essentially, that there’s
been some trouble with some
applicants not getting done
quickly enough.”
Dunford went on to say that
one of the primary problems
is that after paying an initial
$25 application fee to Deputy
Clerk Shawnda Morrison, some
applicants neglect to follow up,
as they’re instructed to do, with
GIS (Geographic Information
System) Coordinator Fran
Lehman.
The county’s document
outlining rules and regulations
for the various kinds of subdi-
visions stands at a substantial
Critics of subdivision process
111 pages, and so in order t
streamline the process, Lehma
has assembled slimmed-dew
packets to assist applicant
based on what type of subdiv:
sion they’re seeking.
Lehman, who was preser
during the discussion, clarifie
for those present that while sh
can point applicants toward th
type of subdivision that ma
suit their needs, it’s up to th
Planning and Zoning Board t
decide definitively what kind c
subdivision is appropriate.
Dunford further explaine
that the length of time the sub
division process takes is most]
dependent on the applicant
— See Critics, Page '_
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Todd Bennington
NLJ Reporter
At the request of Sheriff Bryan Colvard,
the Weston County Commissioners last Tuesday
voted unanimously to authorize a resolution that
seeks to allow $90,000 of 2012-13 Countywide
Consensus grant funds to be put toward improve-
ments to the interior of a building used by the
sheriff’s office to store evidence.
The use of the money for the impound building,
which is located near Weston County Road and
Bridge’s shop, is contingent upon approval from
Upton and Newcastle.
The money is to be taken out of $161,000 in
consensus funds that had been set aside for the
creation of an Emergency Operation Center. Not
touched for the purpose of the impound building
is $201,000 in Mineral Royalty Grant money from
2008, which had been tapped for the EOC as well,
but cannot be as easily re-appropriated.
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The decision came in the context of a discus
sion initiated by Administrative Assistant Dal
Blakeman about what to do with EOC—relatec
funds that have remained unused as that projec
has stalled.
Blakeman told the commissioners he wa
looking for direction from them as to what coursl
of action he should pursue in regard to the mone)
“We need to decide what we’re going to d«
with the EOC money that we have hanging on
here,” Blakeman said. ”The County Consensu
portion of it is easy. It’s a letter to the other entitie
saying we’re going to move this to the courthousl
or whatever you decide to do with it. The [Stat
Loan and Investment Board MRG] grant that w«
got in 2008 is a different story. I have never don«
it, but I think we need to think about how we wan
to move it and then pursue that with the staff ove
at SLIB. Hopefully we can just move it if that’
— See Evidence, Page t
INSIDE
Commodity Loans, Page 6
- Brewing Coffee, Page 8
- Upton Students, Page 8
0 Regional Bound, Page9
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