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TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 2018 108TH YEAR/ISSUE 45 CANDIDATES POUR IN AT LAST MINUTE FOR LOCAL OFFICES BY CJ BAKER 16 partisan positions up for Tribune Editor election, and Democrats are running for just three of those he final days of the filing offices. period for August’s pri- Tmary election brought an PARK COUNTY influx of candidates — and at A total of 11 Republicans least one big twist. have lined up to run for Races for may- three seats up for or of Powell and grabs on the Park the Powell City County Commis- Council heated 2018 sion. Incumbent up, with sev- Commissioner eral contend- Joe Tilden is ers signing up ELECTION seeking a third on Wednesday, term on the Thursday and PRIMARY ELECTION board, while 10 Friday. It means others are look- that, in a change AUGUST 21 ing to join or re- from recent elec- place him. They’re tions, voters will have listed below by the dates multiple options when they they filed: choose three council members • Cathy Marine, a retired and a mayor this year. educator who lives in rural Meanwhile, state Rep. Scott Powell. Debris flows down the side of Hunter Peak in Crandall just above the Cooley family cabin on Squaw Creek Road on Thursday. The mudslide Court, R-Cody, shook up the lo- • Dossie Overfield, a long- totaled two cabins and threatens others in the area. Tribune photo by Mark Davis cal political scene on Friday by time Cody school board mem- announcing that he will not be ber and former manager of seeking reelection to the state the Northwest Rural Water CABINS SWEPT AWAY IN House and will instead run for District. the Park Coun- • Bob Ste- MUDSLIDE, RESIDENTIAL ty Commission. vens, an Court joins 89-year-old re- WATER PIPELINE LOST, Powell voters tired attorney nearly a dozen MORE CABINS IN JEOPARDY Republicans will have multiple from Wapiti who are seeking who ran for the ‘IT’S GONE’ three available options when commission in BY MARK DAVIS in Powell and hopes to someday Friday while waiting for news. swept away by mudslides. seats on the 2012. Tribune Staff Writer retire to the property. But this The large patch of land, situ- The Beartooth Range had re- county board; they choose • Lloyd year, they’ll miss the views and ated in the Shoshone National cord amounts of snow this past the contenders Thiel, a ranch- fter shopping for seven the fresh air for the most part. Forest above them on Hunter’s winter. The snow came early, range from an three council er, owner of years, Powell’s Christy A large chunk of shifting land Peak — their backyard — has insulating the ground before incumbent to members and a an excavation Aand Larry Larsen finally is hanging on by a thread above moved 4 feet in the last week. frost could develop. Now, as the an 89-year-old business and found their dream cabin in the the couple’s retirement plan. Families further north have snow melts, the water is soak- retired attorney mayor this year. longtime board shadow of Pilot Peak in the “It’s a little unnerving to stay already seen their memories, ing into the ground instead of to a Tea Party member of the Beartooth Range. there right now,” Larry said packed in vacation homes, rushing into the Clarks Fork of activist. Bennett Butte Christy, a third-grade teach- the Yellowstone River. When There’s no Cemetery Dis- er at Westside, likes to spend the water content becomes too shortage of candidates to re- trict in Clark. her summers at the cabin. ‘It’s a little unnerving to stay there right now.’ great, the heavy ground on the place Court in the state House, • Bob Berry, a Cody bed and Larry is the market president at either: By the time the fresh- breakfast owner who’s helped Big Horn Federal Savings Bank Larry Larsen, cabin owner See Mudslide, Page 8 man legislator declared his lead the local Tea Party. intent to make a bid for the • Pat Stuart, a former CIA commission, three Republi- officer who lives in the Heart cans and one Democrat had al- Mountain area. ready signed up to run against • Anton “Tony” Lehman, the him in House District 24. owner of an instrument repair Black bear captured, euthanized in Cody Despite the many late fil- shop in rural Powell. ings, more than half of the • Zach Bowman, a real estate BY MARK DAVIS available positions across local agent and former pilot who Tribune Staff Writer legislative races and within lives in rural Cody. the Powell, Cody, Meeteetse • Richard George, who re- black bear created a com- and Park County governments cently left farming in the Heart motion in Cody and sent drew one or zero candidates. Mountain area and is in the AWyoming Game and Fish August’s primary election process of moving to Meetee- Department biologists scram- ballot will be particularly tse; he ran for the commission bling over the weekend. sparse for local Democrats. The large boar was reported Within the county, there are See Election, Page 2 Sunday morning at a residence on Sheridan Avenue after it killed three chickens. The bear then moved southwest through town until officials caught up FISHING DAY with it at the First Presbyterian Church at 2025 23rd St. The bear was chemically im- mobilized and examined, said Tara Hodges, public information and education specialist for the Game and Fish’s Cody Region. “It was a 9-year-old male in poor physical condition,” Hodg- es said, adding that the bear did not have teeth. Game and Fish biologists ulti- mately decided to euthanize the animal. “We make these decisions on A black bear runs west on the BNSF railroad tracks alongside U.S. Highway 14-A early Friday afternoon. a case-by-case basis,” Hodges The bear eventually disappeared into brush near the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center. said. “There are a variety of rea- Tribune photo by Ashley Stratton Lauritzen sons we take into consideration; one of those is physical condi- Santa Fe) tracks adjacent to U.S. move out of the way. The Game It’s possible the bear reported tion.” Highway 14-A, traveling in front and Fish was notified, but the on Friday was the same one On Friday afternoon, a black of a train. The bear was mov- bear left the tracks near the for- captured on Sunday in Cody, but bear was seen running west on ing slowly and engineers on the mer Heart Mountain Relocation Hodges said the department has the BNSF (Burlington Northern train slowed to allow it time to Center, which ended the search. no way to confirm that. For embezzlement from group, Krone disbarred BY CJ BAKER $9,600 from the Park County for lawyers: committing a crime cooperative and remorseful dur- Tribune Editor Bar Association between 2010 that “reflects adversely on ing the process. and 2013. An apologetic Krone [his] honesty” and “engaging in Once an attorney is dis- mbezzling thousands of said in court last year that, while conduct involving dishonesty, barred, they generally must dollars from a group of serving as the group’s treasurer, fraud, deceit or misrepresenta- wait five years before asking Elocal lawyers has brought he’d sloppily mixed tion.” Krone also to be reinstated. The Board jail time, probation and now the association’s admitted causing “in- of Professional Responsibil- disbarment for Cody attorney funds with his own. jury to the legal pro- ity recommended — and the Su- Sam Krone. Krone agreed to fession” through his preme Court agreed — that the In a Thursday order, the Wyo- accept disbarment as actions five-year period be considered ming Supreme Court prohibited part of a deal with the The state bar’s to have started when Krone’s Krone from practicing law for Wyoming State Bar’s Board of Profes- license was first suspended in at least the next few years. He disciplinary com- sional Responsibility August 2016. That means he can can ask to have his law license mittee. He specifi- — which makes rec- petition the bar for reinstate- Katelynn Miller waits for her father, Tim Miller, to help her bring reinstated in 2021. cally acknowledged ommendation to the ment in late August 2021. in a trout during the Powell Recreation District’s free fishing day The punishment stems from violating two of the Supreme Court about Had Krone contested his event on Saturday. Miller caught the trout on a Jake’s Spin-A-Lure the former prosecutor and state Wyoming Rules of attorney discipline — and caught her limit in an hour. Tribune photo by Mark Davis lawmaker’s theft of more than Professional Conduct SAM KRONE said Krone had been See Krone, Page 2 LAST WEEK’S LOTTA NUMBER IS OUT OF LOTTA NUMBER - 5384 12/18/2018 STATE SO WE ARE ALLOWING EXTRA TIME. PAGE 2 • POWELL TRIBUNE TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 2018 Krone: Currently serving probation WAITING FOR A BITE Continued from Page 1 was being prosecuted for a DUI by another attorney in his office. violations of the rules of con- “When do you go to jail duct at a hearing before the again?” Krone wrote to the board and lost, it’s possible the woman in December 2015, five-year clock would not have later adding, “Try not to get ar- started until the date of the ac- rested until your sentencing” tual disbarment, said Wyoming and “Have you been tested for Bar Counsel Mark Gifford, the STDS? Or were you in jail?” bar’s prosecutor.