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  • Guest Column; Moving Wyoming mail processing out of state is bad policy

    Matt Adelman, Douglas Budget|Jan 18, 2024

    Wyoming is one of the last rural states to be hit with the U.S. Postal Service’s inappropriately named “Delivering for America” plan to cut costs, regardless of the cost of doing some of the hair-brained schemes included in it. The current plan is to move the Cheyenne mail processing center duties to Denver this year, then in 2025 reduce the already understaffed and overworked Casper postal workforce by shifting that mail processing to Denver. Such money-saving moves elsewhere have not proven to save any money, and in fact the postal servi...

  • Dog bite ignites PD political firestorm

    Matt Adelman, Douglas Budget Via Wyoming News Exchange|Apr 13, 2023

    DOUGLAS — Penny arrived at Rena Gustafson’s home on Good Friday. The 14-pound Chihuahua was a great Easter present for the grandmother raising two of her grandkids, and she immediately fell in love with it. The dog, which came from the Casper Animal Shelter, spent the next three days cuddling up to her and the kids and adjusting to its new surroundings in Douglas. Rena recalls a sweet, gentle dog which loved to rest on laps, never barking or nipping at, much less biting, anyone. Then on Tuesday, Penny darted out an open screen door. Fra... Full story

  • Man found guilty of 13 felony charges in shooting of hunters

    Matt Adelman, Douglas Budget Via Wyoming News Exchange|Aug 25, 2022

    DOUGLAS — A Converse County jury took about three hours Thursday to convict Solomon Bolen on 13 of 15 felonies stemming from the attempted murder of three California hunters just short of a year ago. The 42-year-old Douglas-area resident was charged with a slew of crimes stemming from a spree along Irvine Road in October 2021, with burglaries involving weapons and pickup trucks and culminating with the shooting of the three out-of-state hunters – George Heger, John Cleary and Richard Cleary – as they sat in their truck. A few minutes earlier, t... Full story

  • Cheyenne, Douglas hospitals sued over vaccination policy

    Matt Adelman, Douglas Budget Via Wyoming News Exchange|Dec 30, 2021

    DOUGLAS — A group of hospital employees in Douglas and Cheyenne filed a lawsuit Dec. 22 against their respective employers in federal court seeking to halt policies related to Covid-19 vaccinations and testing. Two Cheyenne Regional Medical Center employees – recently fired nurse Christie Higgins and CNA Robert Shaffer – along with six Memorial Hospital of Converse County staffers – nurses Roni VanOsdol, Sharie Beller, Kaylonn Amundson and Tonya Middleton, CNA Anita Casperson and medical lab scientist Jennifer Sherfey – are seeking a prelimina... Full story