Gillette News Record

08/17/2025

📅 City Wide Day of Prayer – August 18th, 2025
As a lot of our kids are headed back to school for the 2025–2026 school year, join us in a City Wide Day of Prayer! 🙏💛
Let’s pray for:
Whether your child is in preschool, high school, college, or a trade school, this prayer is for all of them. Let’s lift them up together as a community. 🙌✨
That they’ll be watched over
That they’ll feel all of our love and support
Whether your child is in preschool, high school, college, or a trade school—this prayer is for all of them. Let’s lift them up together as a community. 🙌✨

08/17/2025

Sunday, August 17
Today: Mostly sunny, with a high near 89. South wind 5 to 10 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 15 mph.

Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 57. North wind 5 to 10 mph becoming south after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 15 mph.

08/16/2025

This year’s Feet Don’t Fail Me Now road race series, hosted by Campbell County Parks and Recreation, saw hundreds of runners and walkers participate, and more than 50 of them completed all five races.

This year’s Feet Don’t Fail Me Now road race series, hosted by Campbell County Parks and Recreation, saw hundreds of runners and walkers participate, and more than 50 of them

08/16/2025

A group of 19 people born around the world spent some of their first minutes as United States citizens on Friday morning engaged in a uniquely American affair.

Audience members sang the famous lyrics praising spacious skies and purple mountain majesties as the window shades pulled up in Grand Teton National Park’s Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center. Sunlight poured into the room as the new Americans and their families were treated to a picturesque view of Jackson Hole’s beloved mountain range.

JACKSON — A group of 19 people born around the world spent some of their first minutes as United States citizens on Friday morning engaged in a uniquely American affair.

08/16/2025

A former podiatrist who was sentenced to prison earlier this year for sexual abuse of a minor pleaded guilty last month to one more count of sexual abuse.

In January, Craig Capron was sentenced to six to 12 years in prison after pleading guilty to four of 10 counts of second-degree sexual abuse of a minor in Campbell County. While his case in Campbell County was moving through the courts system, he was charged in Converse County with eight more counts of sexual abuse of a minor — two counts were first-degree sexual abuse, five were second-degree sexual abuse and one count was third-degree sexual abuse.

He had been set to go to trial this week, and the victim and her mother had been subpoenaed so they would have to testify. But Capron pleaded guilty in mid-July to one count of second-degree sexual abuse of a minor. In exchange, the state dismissed the seven other charges.

A sentencing date and a plea agreement were not available on the courts’ electronic docket system as of Thursday afternoon.

A former podiatrist who was sentenced to prison earlier this year for sexual abuse of a minor pleaded guilty last month to one more count of sexual abuse.

08/16/2025

With 42 kids signed up for Wednesday’s Science in the Summer event, the Campbell County Public Library partnered with The Science Zone in Casper to get the kids excited about the medical field with a combination of short talks and hands on activities, from attempting to build makeshift casts, finding ways to clear “blood clots” stuck in liquid hoses or mixing juice with iodine to form some basic chemical reactions.

In the final week before school starts, dozens of kids in Campbell County had a chance to learn a bit about potential careers in medicine.

08/16/2025

JOIN THE BACK TO SCHOOL BASH THIS MONDAY
Monday, August 18 • 2:30-6:00 p.m.
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08/16/2025

With the kids heading back to school on Monday, the Gillette City Pool closed its gates on Friday, finishing off its first season since 2021.

Michaela Cina, aquatics coordinator for Campbell County Parks and Recreation, which provides lifeguards for the pool, said Wednesday afternoon that 24,573 people visited the pool this summer.

With the kids heading back to school on Monday, the Gillette City Pool closed its gates on Friday, finishing off its first season since 2021.

08/16/2025

Saturday, August 16
Today: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Partly sunny, with a high near 88. South wind around 10 mph becoming east in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.

Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 60. South wind around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

08/16/2025

Two interim committees of the Wyoming Legislature are debating whether landowners should be able to sell the hunting licenses they are allocated for providing habitat for the state’s wildlife.

BUFFALO — Two interim committees of the Wyoming Legislature are debating the same topic: whether landowners should be able to sell the hunting licenses they are allocated for providing habitat