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Here are news items from around the Cowboy State for the week of May 12th, 2024:
Have you ever driven north on Highway 390, aka the Moose-Wilson Road in Jackson, and wondered what those white domes are on the left as you approach Teton Village? Well, this news story from Cowboy State Daily published Sunday, May 12th will answer that question. These now camouflaged “pimples” on the landscape are a glamping resort made possible by 2020 legislation enabling commercialization of state trust lands. This resort does not have to abide by Teton County’s usual land use regulations as state trust lands are administered by Wyoming’s Office of State Lands and Investments (OSLIB). The latter should give everyone who lives close to state trust land pause as currently the process allows for zero public input on what the Board of Land Commissioners can approve for commercialization and management by OSLIB. Read more about our state trust lands and OSLIB here.
On Tuesday, May 14th United States (U.S.) Postmaster General Louis DeJoy released a statement saying he would delay the plan to shutter Wyoming’s two remaining mail processing facilities in Casper and Cheyenne until January 1st, 2025. We can thank the efforts of our Wyoming Congressional Delegation for this small victory. As part of the U.S. Postal Service’s Delivering for America restructuring plan, the bulk of mail processing in Cheyenne Wyoming would have moved to Denver, while Casper Wyoming mail processing would go to Billings. You can read more about this development in the Star Valley Independent news story (via the Wyoming News Exchange) here.
Thursday, May 16th, marked 38 years since the Cokeville Elementary School hostage crisis which resulted in the deaths of perpetrators David and Doris Young. Thankfully all 154 hostages survived although some were seriously injured. You can read more about this tragic event in Wyoming history at WyoHistory.org.
Lastly—to end on a positive note, the Powder River Basin Sheepherder's Festival was held at the Rockpile Museum last weekend in Campbell County. Imagine the surprise of Gillette residents waking up to a no-kidding herd of 150 sheep making their way down Echeta Road. Read all about it here in the of Gillette News Record.
That’s all for today folks! Thanks for reading and have a great week!
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