Sweetwater County

We didn't want people to believe we were off our rockers, Barrett told Cowboy State Daily in May.

In Sweetwater County, Sheriff John Grosnickle took U.S. Rep. Harriet Hagman out to watch drone-like objects hovering regularly over the Red Desert and Jim Bridger Power Plant.

The sheriff's office said the objects, often flying in coordinated formations, have been there for 13 months.

Yeah, hanging around these big power plants is concerning in my opinion.

It's like the new normal, the sheriff's spokesman Jason Maurer previously told Cowboy State Daily.

In Sweetwater County, the sheriff's office has stopped expecting answers.

And Cody, the lights over the mountains are the latest chapter in a mystery Wyoming has yet to solve.

Yeah, I guess that is wild, isn't it? So I want to go ahead and take a look at a couple more of these sightings over at Wyoming from New Fork.

There is no backfill for this.

Um, you know, how are some of these smaller communities in Wyoming gonna be able to continue to, you know, do roads, hospitals, schools? I know in my community, I'm in Sweetwater County, I mean we've had a ton of school programs that have been cut.

Um, Rock Springs, a civic center has closed.

So, um, if we continue to do a mass 50% across the board, how much more is that gonna affect communities?

There is no backfill for this.

Um, you know, how are some of these smaller communities in Wyoming gonna be able to continue to, you know, do roads, hospitals, schools? I know in my community, I'm in Sweetwater County, I mean, we've had a ton of school programs that have been cut.

Um, Rock Springs, a civic center has closed.

So, um, if we continue to do a mass 50% across the board, how much more is that gonna affect communities?

Terry was known to go off into the wilderness alone to hike and hunt, but when he failed to return home or make contact by October 25th, 2018, his family reported him missing.

Shortly after he was reported missing, his 2013 Chevrolet pickup truck was found abandoned on an access road two and three-quarter miles from the summit of Pine Mountain in Sweetwater County, Wyoming.

According to the Cowboy State Daily, it was found high-centered in a large rut with Terry's rifle, binoculars, hunting license and a small cooler containing a couple of bottles of water and a can of soda, along with some other snacks still inside.

The driver's window was found rolled down to allow Terry to presumably climb out of the vehicle given the steep angle of the truck.

It appears that DNA testing was performed on the cigarette, however the results came back inconclusive.

A wide-scale search showed no clues and on November 14th, 2018, the search was officially called off.

The Sweetwater County Search and Rescue, Tip Top Search and Rescue, the University of Utah Air Med, dog units, volunteers and the Sweetwater County Sheriff's Office all turned out to help in the search for Terry but no sign of him has ever been found.

His family do not believe that he left of his own volition and ensured investigators that he was stable at the time of his disappearance.

The, the one place that she was referred to, she said it was just astronomical, the cost, and so she ended up, uh, just kind of hunkering down in Gwen Rock and hiring a doula who, you know, helped her through the basics, um, of her second pregnancy.

The story that just keeps on giving, Kate Meadows been following the saga that is Sweetwater County School District.

What's the latest, Kate?

Well, we know, uh, last week, uh, four members of the accounting department, uh, walked out in some form or fashion.

Fisher's sentencing will happen at a date not yet set.

The teen, who was 16 at the time and charged as an adult last year, pleaded no contest in Sweetwater County District Court.

A bull moose called The Beast is huge enough to have a shot at dethroning Grand Teton celebrity bulls such as Hoback and Shoshone.

But outdoors reporter Mark Hines reports that few see him because he lives on private property in southwest Wyoming, far away from wildlife paparazzi and hunters.

They're, I, we...

I was visiting with the sheriff in Sweetwater County in Wyoming not that long ago, and one of his deputies showed me a picture of a driver's license that it was from California, and the guy's name was Robbie No Name Given.

[laughs] That is nuts.

In other words, they're taking photographs into these mills.

So there's that at the base.

But I think what we're seeing is, you know, we went from one public comment policy in Sweetwater County to... them trying to amend it to basically say look you can you can say all the good things you want about people about anyone in the district but if you say one bad thing stop right because that violates that's personnel that's you know that gets into employment issues so you can't say anything negative well then that got challenged and now they were looking at maybe we only allow public comment for items listed on the agenda.

If you have something to say about an item that isn't on the agenda, then you need to email us or talk to us privately.

Well, people, the parents and community members are saying, how do we ever get anything done then if we're just playing to your narrative, right? Because they've, you know, multiple parents have told me they have tried to reach out.

So it seems like, you know, walls are getting put up every which way.

So it'll be interesting to see, you know, kind of where this, where this goes from here.

So if parents, students of Sweetwater County School District have an issue, it's not been addressed, they got to show up at a meeting and say, what about, and fill in the blank.

I didn't know public comment is not a, it's a privilege, not a right, I guess, at the school, unlike maybe a, you know, town council meeting or something.

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Yeah, Sweetwater County School District, you've been following this story.

Obviously, the school district is in the headlines way too often for their liking, uh, if you're, uh, got a student in the school system.

Um, finally, uh, ousted the superintendent and had to pull in a, a blast from the past, uh, interim-wise.

That's right, and you have the other question of what happened to the assistant superintendent position, and, uh, Nicole Bolton is supposedly staying on somewhere in the district, but, um, they, it has not been announced where yet, if she's going to be reassigned, if she's gonna be a teacher, or kind of what her duties are, and why that assistant superintendent position was eliminated in the first place.

Interesting.

Um, yeah, no, no end of news coming out of, uh, Sweetwater County School District number one, at least for now.

Um, Kate, let's-

Let winter rip.

Sweetwater County school district had to go back and back in time to pull, uh, somebody into the job that he used to have interim superintendent for the school district.

After they told Joseph Libby, he could go ahead and take a break.

paul grew is now sitting in the seat that he once occupied paul said i'll be honest with you i never thought i'd be here again i'll add again he's back for now until they can find somebody to write the ship in sweetwater county school district campers trashing this uh campsite in Bridger T-Town.

I know exactly where this is.

It's a popular spot for high schoolers to go and have those keg parties.