On Oct. 13, 9th District Judge Marv Tyler ruled Culwell did not successfully complete the program as required and imposed five- to seven-year prison sentences for each of two felony cases.
The Aug. 22 application, submitted to Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) Air Quality Division (AQD), would increase “sand and gravel crushing, screening, exposed acreage, stockpiling, haul activity and a hot-mix asphalt plant.”
Jailed since his Aug. 31 arrest for attempted second-degree murder and assault charges, Nicholas A. Leyva, of Daniel, pleaded not guilty to seven counts at his Oct. 6 arraignment in 9th District Court.
Longtime Black Butte-area elk feeder John Fandek was found guilty Tuesday of violating two Wyoming Game and Fish regulations and fined $450 for each violation. Fandek represented himself in his bench trial before 1st Circuit Court Judge Thomas Lee, of Cheyenne, who presided via video into the Pinedale courtroom. In a bench trial, a defendant asks a judge instead of a jury to determine innocence or guilt.
Union’s request for a renewal was approved in September 2021, with the agreement terminating on Sept. 28, 2022, Pearce told the council. Town staff received Union’s request for a second renewal extending the COW’s timeline for a third year the week before the Oct. 10 council meeting, he said.
A discussion about hiring a new county administrator and the job description is listed at 11:30 a.m. on the Oct. 18 commissioners’ meeting agenda. The meeting, open to the public, begins at 9 a.m. at the Marbleton Town Hall.
Chett Logan Whitman is scheduled to be arraigned in 9th District Court Thursday, Oct. 27.
Prices quoted by each subcontractor initially placed the overall project cost at $71 million, a $15-million increase from the $54.6-million figure projected in the preliminary architectural report compiled by Davis Partnership Architects in 2020, he added.
“I’m not happy about it either,” said tower administrator Greg Greenough, calling it “an honest mistake” they wanted to correct.
County planning administrator Dennis Fornstrom and developer Jason Moyes presented a stolid and united front Tuesday to face down a previous unanimous vote against recommending Moyes’ proposed “Sanctuary Lodge” destination retreat as a “public facility” deserving of a conditional use permit.
The public can attend remotely via Zoom using the following credentials, meeting ID: 884 4082 3644 and passcode: 809987.
A Sublette County deputy went to the home of Sharon and Karl Mauch around 5:10 p.m. after she called and said her husband wouldn’t let her leave their house because she had been drinking, according to Deputy Todd Morgan’s affidavit. She told him her husband blocked her from leaving and she slapped his face with an open hand, it says. He left to return to his hunting camp.
The study will only require a handful of 1-inch-wide cores to be taken across your hay meadow a few times throughout a two-year period and will help the team understand nitrogen recycling in high-elevation flood-irrigated hay meadows.
The trap-release workshop takes place Sept. 30 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Lovatt Community Room at the Pinedale Library, 155 S. Tyler Ave. Registration is not required for the free event and participants of all ages are welcome to attend.
Converting streetlights to LED technology will result in considerable energy savings, estimated at 108,783 kilowatt-hours per year, Pearce explained, leading to lower electric bills for the town eight or nine years down the road.
The visitors center in Pinedale welcomed 4,600 tourists in June, up 24 percent from 2021, according to Sublette County Visitors Center’s director Peter Paulin.
Looking back and forth between 2019 regulations and the 2022 version, the commission and public both had a lot to say at its Sept. 15 meeting, when Jason Moyes requested a conditional use permit for a “public facility,” the Sanctuary Lodge trauma-therapy center on former ranch land they purchased by the Hoback Rim.
The commissioners granted a request by Public Health nurse manager Janna Lee to close the facility from Oct. 17-21. A week would give Public Health adequate time to move equipment and its entire operations before fully reopening on Monday, Oct. 24, said Lee.
The criminal case against Chett Logan Whitman, 25, was bound over to the 9th District Court last week after the Eden man waived his right to a probable cause hearing.
Triple Peak Landscaping, LLC, (which dissolved recently) and Shane and Ramsey Copeland are named in the civil cases, from small claims of of $3,449 to larger breach-of-contract cases seeking as much as $134,000, court records show.