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Articles from the August 21, 2013 edition


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  • Unpaid property taxes come under scrutiny

    Caitlin SIevers|Aug 21, 2013

    The sheriff's department and the county treasurer's office are working together to collect thousands of dollars in unpaid property taxes from 2012 and 2013. The county treasurer's office turned over around $25,600 in unpaid taxes last year to the Sheriff, in the form of 74 warrants. The Cheyenne County sheriff's office collected on 67 of the warrants. This left eight of the warrants uncollected as of August 1. The cost of these unpaid taxes including interest and fees was around $7,000. On the...

  • County at odds over community service and liability

    Caitlin Sievers|Aug 21, 2013

    Concerns about liability and supervision caused Cheyenne County commissioners to consider a new policy concerning court mandated community service on government land. Commissioners could not come to a decision, preferring to seek legal advice on the matter. The county previously had an issue with a juvenile sent to the court house to mow the lawn as part of his community service. No one was sure who would supervise him or what would happen if he was injured while working on county property. "That's the part that bothers me," said county clerk...

  • Slezak makes court appearance for deadly 2012 accident

    Floyd Brandt|Aug 21, 2013

    The man charged for his involvement and a 2012 multi-vehicle accident on Interstate 80 that killed two adults and two children appeared in Cheyenne County Court on Tuesday. Josef Slezak enter the courtroom escorted by Sheriff John Jenson for a pre-trail hearing with his lawyer, Kelly Breen. Slezak faces four counts of manslaughter and four counts vehicular homicide for the fatal crash on I-80 in September of that year. Through an interpreter on the telephone in Vancouver, Judge Derick Weimer...