Year-in-Review: Final Quarter of 2024

We’ll conclude our year-in-review series today with a look at some of the top news stories from the fourth quarter of 2024. Sheridan Media’s Ron Richter has the details.

The Sheridan Memorial Hospital Foundation announced in early November that this year’s Link-Partners in Pink run/walk raised over $56,000. The event was held Saturday, October 19 and there were over 600 participants, volunteers and cancer survivors in attendance at Whitney Commons for the 16th annual event to raise awareness and funding for cancer care and healing in the community. The proceeds will support the Comfort Care Program at Sheridan Memorial Hospital’s Welch Cancer Center. 

There were no real surprises in this year’s General Election locally or nationally as Donald Trump won the race for president and garnered over 72 percent of the vote in Wyoming. Ballot Proposition #1, continuation of the Sheridan County One Percent Specific Purpose Capital Facilities Tax, or “Cap Tax” was approved by Sheridan County voters. Sheridan County voters approved the Cap Tax in 1989, 1998, 2003, 2009, 2013 and 2020. Revenue collected from the tax funds infrastructure projects in Sheridan, Sheridan County, Clearmont, Dayton and Ranchester. The total amount that will be collected is $40 million.

Earlier this month, a two-day jury trial was held in Fourth Judicial District Court in Sheridan for a former Sheridan High School Assistant Principal who was charged with sexual assault in the second degree for having sexual relations with an 18-year-old student. After less than an hour of deliberations, the jury came back with a verdict of guilty. A presentence investigation was ordered and Meyer’s bond was revoked and he was remanded to the custody of the Sheridan County Detention Center pending sentencing. Meyer faces a minimum of two years and not more than 20 years in prison for the crime.

And that’s a wrap on our look back at just a few of the top news stories of 2024.