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The city of Newcastle is planning to replace
the restroom facility at Dow Park at 204 Hill
Way Ave with a precast concrete structure.
Funding is to be with city funds set aside for this
purpose and matching grant money from the
Wyoming Land and Water Construction Fund
(LWCF). The project is in the planning phase
and comments and suggestions from the public
are welcomed. Comments can be directed to
Mike Moore, City Engineer at 10 W. Warwick,
Newcastle, WY 82701, (307) 746-3535, engi-
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Group protests masks
TORRINGTON (WNE) — A group of area
residents held a peaceful demonstration in
and around the Goshen County Courthouse on
Dec. 15 to protest mask mandates.
Citizen Danielle Murphy created an event
through Facebook’s social media platform
entitled “Restore our rights protest.” The
events description announced a calling
for a “peaceful gathering to show support
and assert our rights under the Wyoming
Constitution.”
The event description also said, “Many
other county sheriffs and attorneys haye come
forward, stating they will not enforce these
unconstitutional mandates. We ask oilrs to
stand with us and do the same.” ‘
“I want my choice to not (wear a mask) to
be respected as well,” Murphy said. “We have
the right to decide our own medical care. I
have the right to choose for myself and my
children. I believe a mask is being used as a
medical device and I think it opens up a can
of worms when you are talking about vaccina-
tions, later.”
“If we allow this now, what’s next?”
Murphy asked. “Are my kids- going to be
force-vaccinated?”
Murphy said she is not as concerned about
‘ the masks as she is about the U.S. govern-
ment’s ability to force compliance for “a
bigger agenda.” “It’s kind of scary,” Murphy
said. Goshen County resident and advocate
for rescinding the mask mandate, Stan
Todorovich, wished to know why the Goshen
County Attorney and Goshen County Sheriff
would not renounce the mandates when other
attorneys and sheriffs in the state of Wyoming
have already done so.
Virtual Special Olympics
SHERIDAN (WNE) —
Special Olympics Wyoming
State Winter Games have
been shifted to a virtual format
for Special Olympics athletes
around the state. The in—person
state event was scheduled to be
hosted in Jackson in February
.
Special Olympics Wyoming
looks forward to working
with long-time event partners
Teton County School District
it has been determined that
hosting a large, in-person,
overnight event is not in the
best health interest of the
athletes. Special Olympics
Wyoming athletes have
various intellectual disabilities,
which often equate to health
risks above and beyond those
of the general population,
according to a release.
Due to guidance issued
through Special Olympics
organizers are unable host the
event safely at this time.
While this is an unfortunate
situation for the athletes,
organization and communities,
Special Olympics Wyoming
will still offer in-person
competitions in the form of
smaller, area games where
current health orders can be
observed, organizers said.
Events will be,offered around
the state in January and
and Jackson Hole Mountain
Resort for future State Winter
Withlthe recent surge of
COVID-19 cases in Wyoming,
North America regarding over- 1
night stays for multi-day com-
petitions,salcng with limited, ‘_
facilities under current state of
Wyoming public health orders,
February. The results from
area games will be compiled
to determine medaling place-
capa'éitiesiin a variety of ,. a intentsfor the Virtual
State Winter Games competi-
tion to be held in late February.
Occupational fatalities up
CASPER (WNE) — Wyoming has one of
the worst rates of workplace-related deaths
in the country, with the number of fatalities
over three times the national average. New
data published on occupational fatalities by
the state’s Department of Workforce Services
shows the troubling trend has continued to
persist.
The number of fatalities inched up last year.
In workers died while on the job,
an increase of one death compared to
The majority of deaths, 65%, were a result of
transportation incidents, including “highway
crashes, pedestrian vehicular incidents, aircraft
of all deaths at work across all industries in
Wyoming.
“An observation that I saw in this federal
report today was that I think this is the third
year in a row that the percentage attributed
to transportation incidents has risen from the
prior year,” Meredith Towle, the state occupa-
tional epidemiologist said.
About one-quarter of the workplace deaths
in happened in the natural resources and
mining sector.
Between 1992 and the state had an
average of 33 workplace deaths.
The Research and Flaming Division of the
incidents and water vehicle incidents.” The
most deaths happened in the trade, transporta-
tion and utilities sector.
In the period between and trans-
portation incidents accounted for well over half
Wyoming Department of Workforce Services
analyzed the federal data through its Census
of Fatal Occupational Injuries Program. The
effort is undertaken by both the state agency .
and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Rise in scam reports in WY
CHEYENNE (WNE) —
CyberWyoming received more
scam reports last week than
any week in executive
director Laura Baker said.
The prevalence in scams
rises around the holidays,
Baker said.
“Scammers are getting
really, really inventive in
terms of the ways they go
about trying to separate us
from our money,” said AARP
Wyoming’s Tom Lacock.
There are some recent
scams that pop up again and
again, including one imper-
sonating the Social Security
Administration. In this scam,
the caller tells the person on
the other end of the phone
line that their social security
number has been suspended
or is being used in a different
state.
Lacock suggested that if
you get a suspicious phone
call, hang up and find a phone
number for the organization
and call them back to make
sure the person contacting you
checks out.
Baker also advised people
to look closely at the email
addresses of messages, as
scammers may use slight
variations of legitimate email
addresses.
“If that email or phone call
or text is evoking a sense of
fear or urgency, it is probably a
scam, because that’s what they
play on,” he said.
Along with the Social
Security Administration, the
companies that are‘most com-
monly imitated are Amazon
and PayPal. Churches, charities
and chambers of commerce are
also commonly impersonated,
Baker said, suggesting people
call an organization and speak
to a real person before giving
any money.
Cyber scams should
be reported to phishing@
cyberwyoming.org. People
can also call CyberWyoming
at The AARP
Fraud Watch Network’s trained
volunteers also take calls from
people of any age at 877-908-
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