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NWC to Seek State Loan for Cody Hall Repairs THURSDAY, JULY 12, 2018 108TH YEAR/ISSUE 56 SEN. BARRASSO EFFORTS TO Ex-teacher may AMEND ENDANGERED SPECIES have probation MORE STATE CONTROL ACT CHEERED, FEARED BY MARK DAVIS revoked on sex Tribune Staff Writer ‘This draft legislation offense charge Wyoming sen- will increase state ator’s proposal and local input and BY CJ BAKER Ato amend the improve transparency Tribune Editor Endangered Species Act is both being her- in the listing process.’ former Douglas elemen- alded as an overdue tary school teacher who attempt to modern- Sen. John Barrasso Acommitted a sex crime ize the 45-year-old by sleeping with a 17-year-old legislation and as a partisan attempt to take control boy has repeatedly violated the of conservation efforts from scientists and citizens in terms of her probation over the favor of industry. past year and a half, authorities Republican Sen. John Barrasso, chairman of the Sen- allege. ate Committee on Environment and Public Works, says Katie Marcus, who now lives he introduced a discussion draft of legislation called in Cody, is currently serving the Endan- supervised probation for third- gered Species degree sexual molestation of a GOV. MEAD EXPECTED Act (ESA) minor. Because of a deferred Amendments prosecution agreement offered TO TESTIFY AT of 2018 to be- by the Converse County At- TUESDAY HEARING gin debate in torney’s Office and accepted the Senate on by a judge, the case will be ON CAPITOL HILL how the fed- dismissed if she successfully eral govern- completes four to five years of ment works probation. with states to save threatened and endangered wildlife Last month, however, Con- species. verse County prosecutors “This draft legislation will increase state and local asked a judge to revoke Mar- input and improve transparency in the listing process. cus’ probation. It will promote the recovery of species and allow local According to Marcus’ proba- economies to flourish,” Barrasso said in announcing tion agent, the 37-year-old left the draft last week. the state without permission at least twice, drank alcohol “on See Endangered, Page 2 a daily basis” for nine months despite being ordered not to, failed to keep her required schedule and added six minor Third release of black-footed males as Facebook friends and started an Instagram account in ferrets planned for this fall violation of restrictions placed on her use of social media. BY MARK DAVIS That’s in addition to shoplifting Tribune Staff Writer ‘Meeteetse is an more than $150 worth of items extremely important from the Cody Walmart last ore black-foot- summer. ed ferrets are site for us.’ If presiding District Court Mcoming to Park Judge John Brooks finds that County. Kimberly Fraser Marcus violated her proba- The release will be Outreach specialist tion, he could choose to place the third in as many the felony sex crime on her years near Meeteetse, where a small population of the permanent record and could once thought extinct species was discovered clinging potentially order her to serve to survival in 1981. Federal and state wildlife manag- prison time. ers reintroduced the species to the Meeteetse area in At a meeting in May, proba- 2016 and released more of the animals there last year. A grizzly bear browses for a morning snack on the North Fork earlier this year. Litigation experienced during the tion and parole agents with the delisting of the species is one of the reasons why Gov. Matt Mead, U.S. Sen. John Barrasso and others are looking for See Ferrets, Page 2 ways to amend the Endangered Species Act. Tribune photo by Don Cogger See Marcus, Page 3 NWC to seek state loan Weed found in city pots BY CJ BAKER AND DON COGGER out,” he said. Tribune Staff City Parks and Recreation for Cody Hall repairs Superintendent Del Barton said ity of Powell workers the plants were difficult for his seasonal workers to distinguish BY MIKE BUHLER funds, but this is at a lower recently discovered a different kind of “weed” at first. Tribune Community Editor interest rate, which is part of C “To be honest with you, and why the legislation was ap- sprouting up in a couple of city planters: marijuana plants. to be fair, without having a he Northwest College proved.” Powell Police Chief Roy Eck- marijuana field testing kit, I Board of Trustees for- Another key event at Mon- erdt suspects someone slipped can’t tell the difference be- mally voted to pursue day’s meeting was the formal T marijuana seeds into the city tween hemp and marijuana,” a $3 million loan from the approval of the college’s fiscal planters some time ago. Barton said with a chuckle. Wyoming State Loan and year 2018-19 budget. Amid the other plants and “But it sure looked like mari- Investment Board (SLIB) for Among the highlights of the flowers growing in the pots, city juana to me.” repairs to Cody Hall at its new budget are pay increases workers unknowingly watered Barton’s workers pulled the monthly meeting on Monday. for the college’s employees, and cared for the cannabis plants and took them to police. The loan, if approved by with most receiving a 4 per- plants for a period of weeks A couple days later, another SLIB, would cover the bulk cent raise and adjunct profes- before discovering a couple on plant was found, bringing the of the costs for the project, sors receiving a raise of $50 One of the plants recently spotted in this City of Powell pot does not the afternoon of June 29, Eck- total to three plants in three dif- which will include repairs per credit-hour taught, from belong with the others. City officials have found (and destroyed) erdt said. ferent pots. needed to reopen the 450-stu- $650 to $700. The total cost three apparent marijuana plants in three different planters. “They recognized what it was dent occupan- of the wage in- Photo courtesy Theresa Cheney, City of Powell once everything started to leaf See Pot, Page 8 cy residence creases will be hall, fixing res- ‘As we look at our slightly more idence rooms than $1 mil- and hallways numbers, we’re lion. and also re- concerned that our Overall, modeling the the new bud- Work begins on mudslide-damaged Crandall area road common areas. enrollment is going get reflects a SLIB will down overall.’ $650,000 re- property inside the Shoshone “Anyone who wants to make a making a rough route about two- meet in Octo- duction in rev- RELIEF FUND SET UP National Forest — or did before donation can stop by or send a thirds of the way across the slide ber, and NWC Stefani Hicswa enue from the Squaw Creek neighbors are the slides — and it has appeared check to Bank of Powell for the area, said Park County Engineer will know after NWC president recently-com- gathering donations to help unlikely that their insurance Smith and Cooley Cabin Fund- Brian Edwards. that if the loan pleted fiscal offset losses by owners of two will coverage the damage. raiser account.” On Tuesday, crews worked to has been approved, said NWC year. That’s in part because cabins severely damaged by “Whatever they do, it’s going In the meantime, county install some culverts and gravel President Stefani Hicswa. of an expected slight decrease mudslides in the Crandall area to cost them some money,” Ro- crews began the work of clear- to help dry up some remaining “Part of the process to ap- in state appropriations, stem- in late May. driguez said of the two families. ing Road XUX on Monday, soft spots, Edwards said. ply for that loan is to have ming from a reduction in the The Smith and Cooley Cabin a resolution from the board Wyoming Community College Fundraiser account has been that’s very specific ...,” Hic- Commission’s budget. created at Bank of Powell in swa said. “The board already While tuition is holding an effort to solicit funds for the approved doing this in Janu- steady in 2018-19, the new families whose cabins took the ary, so this tonight is a formal- budget includes a 50 cent in- brunt of the loss from mountain ity to go with the application.” crease to all credit-hours for mudslides along the Squaw While the college has other facility improvements, which Creek Road (Park County Road options for funding the Cody is expected to bring $53,000 of XUX) in the Crandall area. Hall repairs, it would prefer additional funds for FY2018- “We just thought we could the SLIB loan. Cody Hall has 19. help them out this way,” said been closed since mid-2017 With the budget taking up Paul Rodriguez, who, with fel- due to water damage. NWC a large chunk of the previous low Squaw Creek cabin owner officials have targeted a re- two board meetings, Mon- Blayne Snyder, got the cabin opening date of the beginning day’s approval vote was anti- relief fund started. of the Fall 2019 semester. climactic. One cabin owned by Charlie “We have to figure out a “The July meeting is al- and Jamie Cooley of Cowley was funding mechanism one way ways so important with the torn in two and swept down the or another,” Hicswa said. budget hearing,” Hicswa said. mountain by the slides; another, “This low-interest option is “It’s part of the legal pro- owned by the Ardell Smith fam- very attractive. Another op- cess, but it is a culmination ily of Powell, slid upwards of 90 tion for us would be a USDA of months and months worth feet before coming to rest in the loan or something like that.
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