PUBLIC NOTICEGOSHEN COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1

Destruction of Special Education Recordsfor Special Ed. Students born in 1997

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ready been going on, and it seemed that there was a lot of interest in having the farmer’s market move down-town and be a part of that event.”

But the move downtown wasn’t without detractors. Three local businesses declined to give their blessing for the weekly market, and two downtown business owners spoke to the TCC Tuesday night.

Cheri Steinmetz, owner of Home on the Range, said it wasn’t an easy decision to speak to the council against the farmer’s market, but she lost business because of the July 2 market and is worried that trend could continue.

“They’re closing the streets around 2 p.m.,” Stein-metz said. “Last week, when that was announced, I had a customer in my store from Scottsbluff, Neb. and she said ‘they’re announcing that I have to move my car.’ I said ‘yeah, they’re having a farmer’s market’ and she said ‘why would you do that on your Main Street?’ She left and she didn’t come back and she wasn’t very happy about that.”

Steinmetz argued the time lost due to the farmer’s market will add up to substantial revenue losses.

“If they start announcing that you need to move your car at 2 p.m., that is the result of 30 hours and a restriction of 34 parking spaces on Main Street, which is the equivalent of 3.75 business days,” she said.

“That is substantial when you do every Thursday. If they were to do it during just the Third Thursdays, great.”

Steinmetz said she also offered the farmer’s market merchants a space under the awning in front of her business, and suggested other places in town the mar-ket could take place.

“I was hoping we could find some kind of win-win situation where we could find a compromise,” she

said. “I’m just not in a situation where I cannot say anything.”

But despite the opposition, Adams said he had heard a lot of support for the market.

“I would like to add that today I had conversations with four individuals, three on the phone and one in person, all in support of the Farmer’s Market” Adams said. I know of others who are supporting it also. I ap-preciate all of you who were willing to come up and speak at the podium.”

The council also unanimously approved a special event permit for the GCEDC’s Third Thursday events, which will be held July 16, Aug. 21 and Sept. 17. The events are to promote local businesses and drive more traffic downtown, according the GCEDC Community Development Director Sandy Hoehn.

“This is the Third Year of Third Thursdays on Main Street,” she said. We believe Goshen County’s main streets are the heart of eastern Wyoming. We host family-friendly events, shopping, great restaurants, and have a rich pioneer history.

“We have good participation and community involve-ment, and there are a lot of people who make this a success.”

But another business owner, Judy Edwards – owner of The Covered Wagon quilting shop, said street clo-sures associated with Third Thursdays and other events have harmed her business more than helped it.

“I would think that closing Main Street would be the last thing the council would do,” she said. “I have been in the building for four years, I have gone through this Third Thursday, and I have to close my shop,” Ed-wards said. “I turn into a public restroom and I hate to say ‘no, you can’t use the restroom.’ I have children come in and ask for bags for all of the free stuff they were collecting. I haven’t had a single customer. Most of my customers are older. It’s terribly affecting my business.

“This last Thursday I had a lady who carried a sew-ing machine four blocks to bring it to my shop for maintenance. Those things are heavy. It’s just disrup-tive. I don’t see where closing Main Street helps the town. This is my life.”

Council member Bill Law said he understood Stein-metz’s and Edwards’ concerns, but maintained that events like the farmer’s market and Third Thursday are important to the town.

“There are things that establish the community as a destination, like the activities that go on,” Law said. “One of these is the farmer’s market, and the Third Thursday events – I think they’re all trying to work for the good of Torrington. They make it appetizing for people to come to town.”

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Cheri Steinmetz, owner of Home on the Range, speaks against the permit for the Torrington Farmer's Market, cit-ing revenues losses for her own business.

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ture from seeping into the pavement. “So, this project, what we plan on doing with it, is we

have a couple of roads that are in pretty bad shape,” Taylor said. “Road 43 just west of town here, it is really cracking and we’re trying to save that road. Just north of the US 26 intersection by Cool Customs, and then go clear up to Meadowlark Road in sections. We’ll also work on Sheep Creek Road. Part of that is in really bad shape.”

Taylor said the county will only repair a portion of Sheep Creek Road, however, because Taylor is seeking grant funds to reconstruct larger sections of the road.

“We’re going to go as far as $800,000 can take us,” he said.

“That’s the most money I’ve spent in a long time,” Commission Chairman John Ellis said.

Taylor said the Goshen County Road and Bridge’s road rehabilitation project should begin within 10 days. County Road 43, CR 74T, Prairie Drive and the entrance to Dillman Estates are all a part of the first phase of the project.

“We are adding to that project a little bit,” Taylor said. “Road 43, just past the Rock Shop, there is a mix-ture of different kinds of asphalt that has been hauled in there over the years. It’s falling apart.”

Taylor said phase two will be going to bid this week, and seven contractors have acquired the project’s plans to prepare bids.

“That second project is Hope Road by the radio sta-tion. It is falling apart. We’ll redo that, about 1500 feet,” he said. “Then in LaGrange, east of LaGrange, south of 55, the paved road – the south two miles of that is in really bad shape. We attempted some experi-mental patch for that 10 years ago. Our plans failed because we ran out of money and we couldn’t do phase 2 or 3.”

Road 27/64 near Veteran, Road 108 will also see im-provement, as will Arrowhead Road – the residents of which approached the commission in 2019 to ask for help.

“That has been a problem for us for some time. It gets a lot of traffic,” Taylor said.

Taylor said some of the county’s paved roads will also be striped next spring. That project is funded by the Rural Road Safety Program, which granted the county $100,000 for road striping. The project will take place next spring at the conclusion of the chip seal project.

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Goshen County Engineer Bob Taylor presents the Goshen County Commissions with a plan for improving the county's paved roads.

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Precipitation was hit-or-miss this week for many lo-cations east of the Great Plains, with conditions rang-ing from normal to moderate drought throughout much of the WyoBraska region for the period ending Tuesday, July 7, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor website.

The Western Region is mainly status quo, except for the northern Rockies and Pacific Northwest, where an active storm track. Idaho benefitted the most, with several locations seeing 1-category improvements, par-ticularly western Idaho, which received 0.5-1.5 inches of rainfall. Light showers in eastern Washington and northeastern Oregon led to slight reduction of D0 and D1 coverages. Soil moisture is below the 10th percentile in many areas across the Great Basin and northern California.

USGS 7-day average stream flows also continue to be below to much below normal this week for much of the Four Corners Region, the Great Basin, and northern California.

Much of the Midwest, South and Southeast saw com-binations of abnormally dry additions and removals

based on seven-day rainfall accumulations. Most areas upgraded from abnormally dry conditions received at least 2-3 inches of rainfall.

Some short-term dryness crept into southern Geor-gia (isolated 2-4 inch 30-day deficits) and the Florida Gulf Coast (widespread 2-4-inch deficits over the last 14 days). The Mid-Atlantic coast saw some expansion of dry conditions near the Delmarva Peninsula. Por-tions of New England saw more than 3 inches of rain-fall, drastically reducing 30- and 60-day deficits and warranting some D1 removal.

However, USGS 7-day average stream flows remain below normal for much of the Northeast. The High Plains and northern Rockies also received some ben-eficial rainfall. Many locations in Idaho saw single-category improvements, ranging from D1 to D0 to D0 removal), but much of the northern High Plains Region did not receive enough rainfall for much improvement.

Some degradation from D3 to D4 occurred in south-

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Haying progresses on adjacent eastern Wyoming fields. Dry condi-tions are prevelant across much of the WyoBraska region as the summer growing season progresses, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor website, droughtmonitor.unl.edu.

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