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• Time capsule offers glimpse of Jackson past

  JACKSON — Greg McCoy approached the podium with what looked like a pair of steel salt and pepper shakers. For nearly half a century the tiny canisters sat in wait within the Town Square veterans monument, placed there by the American Legion in 1976. When today’s Legion members began demolishing it to make way for an updated monument, McCoy, the commander for Post 43, fished out the time capsules. He knew they would be there but had no inkling of what to look for.

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• News Briefs for Friday, August 23, 2019

  Five news briefs for Friday, August 23, 2019

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• NEWS BRIEFS for Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019

  NEWS BRIEFS for Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019 From Wyoming News Exchange newspapers

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• Committee studies ways to solve public defender shortage

  Wyoming lawmakers are weighing legislative action to help resolve a shortage of public defenders that has forced judges to call on private attorneys. Meanwhile, lawyers have begun outlining arguments before the state’s highest court that could at least partially determine the issue.

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• One prison company out, another in on Evanston ICE jail

  The for-profit prison company that proposed building an immigration jail in Evanston has withdrawn its interest, but a Uinta county commissioner says a different prison company will keep the project alive.

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• Judge gives final OK to Cloud Peak Sale

  Saying Cloud Peak Energy Corp. conducted “a very robust auction process,” a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge needed less than 30 minutes Monday morning to approve a sale of the coal giant’s Powder River Basin assets to Navajo Transitional Energy Co.

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• News Briefs for Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019

  News Briefs for Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019 From Wyoming News Exchange newspapers

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• Bill to share mental health info with feds survives committee vote

  A bill to mandate Wyoming share disqualifying mental health information on potential firearms purchasers with the federal background check system is still alive for a potential 2020 vote.

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• News Briefs for Monday, Aug. 19, 2019

  News Briefs for Monday, Aug. 19, 2019 From Wyoming News Exchange newspapers

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• Conkle named manager of the Wyoming State Fair

  The Wyoming State Fair Board is pleased to announce that Courtny Conkle has been named Manager of the Wyoming State Fair.

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• Sage grouse leader: Drilling impact ‘pretty minimal’

  The leader of Wyoming’s Sage Grouse Implementation Team last week collected oil and gas drilling data to show that rig activity has not yet shifted to core habitat, despite a rapid expansion of leasing and approved applications to drill in those areas under President Trump’s new regulations.

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• News Briefs for Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019

  News Briefs for Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019 From Wyoming News Exchange newspapers

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• Top Department of Energy Official to visit Wyoming to learn about state's carbon capture technologies

  A top official with the U.S. Department of Energy will visit Wyoming next week for a firsthand look at the State's investments in fossil energy technology and the mining industry.

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• BLM Wyoming proposes to offer 169 parcels in December 2019 oil and gas lease sale

  The Bureau of Land Management Wyoming announced today that it plans to offer 169 oil and gas lease parcels totaling about 174,148 acres at its December 2019 quarterly lease sale.

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• Governor Gordon Welcomes Announced Improvements to Implementation of the Endangered Species Act

  Governor Mark Gordon today, Aug. 12 voiced his support for improvements to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) announced by the U.S Department of the Interior, noting that updates will bring needed consistency to the state’s efforts to manage species.

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• NEWS BRIEFS for Wednesday, July 31, 2019

  NEWS BRIEFS for Wednesday, July 31, 2019 From Wyoming News Exchange newspapers

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• State left Campbell County to fend for itself in bankruptcies

  If Contura Energy is successful in a bid to reacquire two Powder River Basin coal mines, it could become even more difficult for Campbell County to collect $37 million in unpaid taxes on the properties.

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• Wyoming communities divided over idea of armed school staff

  July 23 was the kind of muggy midsummer’s evening where school is the farthest thing from most people’s minds — a distant obligation that comes after the vacations, barbecues and long days off. But in Lander, as more than 100 people filed into the high school auditorium for a meeting of the Fremont County School District #1 Board of Trustees, it was clear that the school system weighed heavily on the thoughts of this community.

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• Watchdog group praises transparency website

  A newly created transparency website will give the public access to Wyoming state government expenditures and be a boon for fiscal watchdogs.

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• Lander school district approves firearms for staff

  Lander-based Fremont County School District No. 1 became just the fourth district in Wyoming to allow approved staff members to carry firearms in schools after a school board vote earlier this week, despite objections from some in the community who criticized the policy as hastily written and the board of ignoring “overwhelming” opposition.

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• Legislators consider licenses for fishing guides

  Early every summer, Jackson Hole fishing guides trailer their drift boats to the simmered Green and New Fork rivers to cast for trout while the hometown Snake River is still sediment-choked, running high and all but unfishable.

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• Wapiti man’s murder trial set for Aug. 5

  The jury trial of a Wapiti man accused of first-degree murder is now less than two weeks away.

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• Contura agrees to buy back Blackjewel's Wyoming mines

  Blackjewel LLC has reached a deal to sell the Belle Ayr and Eagle Butte surface coal mines in Campbell County along with a mine in West Virginia.

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• NEWS BRIEFS for Wednesday, July 24, 2019

  NEWS BRIEFS for Wednesday, July 24, 2019 From Wyoming News Exchange newspapers

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• University of Wyoming prepares phase two of 'World Needs More Cowboys' campaign

  Twelve months after it was first unveiled to criticism from some faculty and broad support from across the state, UW’s “The World Needs More Cowboys” campaign is set for a nearly $1 million phase two effort this year to build on its recent success.

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• What happened to Tyler Lane?

  In September, an inmate at the Newcastle prison died at 22 years old.

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• Blackjewel says miners not terminated

  Three weeks after closing its coal production operations and putting 1,700 people out of work, Blackjewel LLC continues to work to secure the financing it needs to reopen the mines and recall its workforce.

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• Convicted triple murderer asks to withdraw confession

  From within the walls of the Wyoming Medium Correctional Institution in Torrington, convicted triple-murderer Gerald Uden has sent a motion to withdraw his 2013 confession of having killed his ex-wife and two adopted sons.

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• Jackson-area parks avoid shutdown-related problems

  After the federal government partially shut down in December, Audra Warburton and other Double H Bar employees packed up brochures for the National Elk Refuge sleigh rides they offer, along with a couple of cash registers, and moved into a corner of the Home Ranch Welcome Center to register tours there.

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• UW official urges harsher penalties for booze sales to minors  

  Laramie should significantly increase the penalties leveled to businesses that sell alcohol to minors, University of Wyoming Vice President for Student Affairs Sean Blackburn suggested Monday.

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