Gillette News Record

10/22/2025

Things are expected to be back to normal today at the Wyoming State Capitol after the building was evacuated and closed most of Tuesday for the investigation of a suspected improvised explosive device.

Authorities evacuated the building around 9:45 a.m. Tuesday following reports of a suspected IED inside the Capitol. In a news release sent out around 6 p.m., Wyoming Highway Patrol public information officer Aaron Brown said the object was found by a pedestrian on the surface of the large state seal embedded in the concrete in front of the building, facing 24th Street.

CHEYENNE — Things are expected to be back to normal today at the Wyoming State Capitol after the building was evacuated and closed most of Tuesday for the investigation of

10/22/2025

Tuesday night, the Gillette City Council directed the city attorney and administration to draft a repeal the city’s malicious harms ordinance, a portion of the city code which stirred up quite a debate in the community two years ago.

At the end of the meeting, the motion, which directed city staff to write up a repeal of the hate crime ordinance, was approved on a 4-3 vote, with Lundvall and Councilmen Chris Smith, Jack Clary and Tim Carsrud voting for the motion.

The repeal will go before the city council at a future meeting and will need to pass three readings.

A controversial ordinance that was passed by the Gillette City Council in 2023 is getting another look.

10/22/2025

10/22/2025

FRAUD

10/22/2025

Both the Camels and Bolts swimming and diving teams were in Laramie last weekend for the state preview meet.

10/22/2025

Wednesday, October 22
Today: Sunny, with a high near 61. Southwest wind around 6 mph becoming north in the afternoon.

Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 34. Northeast wind 6 to 11 mph becoming south after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 22 mph.

10/21/2025

Brandon Bartz, 28, pleaded guilty Sept. 8 to strangulation of a household member, domestic battery and endangering children. In exchange for his plea, prosecutors recommend four to six years in prison.

A Gillette man accused of choking his wife in front of her children has entered a guilty plea.

10/21/2025

The festival featured games, music, face painting and a pumpkin patch as well as a number of local vendors, and plenty of people stopped by to celebrate the fall season.
The petting zoo proved to be a crowd pleaser, on top of being a good way to get young kids interested in FFA. “The goal of the event is to really educate the community on agriculture, so that’s why we have a petting zoo, and then the students who are working there are giving younger kids the opportunity to not only handle animals, but learn why we raise those animals in the first place,” said Thunder Basin agriculture teacher Alta Starkey.

On Saturday, Thunder Basin’s FFA chapter, Coal Country FFA, hosted its second annual Fall Festival in the parking lot of Thunder Basin High School, bringing together residents from across Gillette

10/21/2025

The man is accused of being involved in a scheme where he and other suspects paid people $500 to deposit and cash fraudulent checks that were created using local business’s checks as templates. The scheme resulted in more than $34,000 being taken from banks in Gillette, Buffalo and Newcastle.

A Georgia man is accused of being involved in a scheme where he and other suspects paid people $500 to deposit and cash fraudulent checks that were created using local

10/21/2025

Photo from the Oct. 13, 1985 News Record:

10/21/2025

Undersheriff Quentin Reynolds said that at about 11 a.m. Sunday, a septic tank on Inexco Drive was being emptied.
A 41-year-old man came out of a neighboring home wearing boxer shorts and carrying a large knife in his right hand. He was angry at being woken up and was argumentative before going back inside.

A 41-year-old man was arrested after his landlords told deputies Monday morning the man had left them threatening voicemails after they’d woken him up while draining the septic tank on

10/21/2025

Tuesday, October 21
Today: Sunny, with a high near 58. West wind 9 to 11 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 24 mph.

Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 31. Northwest wind 5 to 7 mph becoming light and variable in the evening.