Posted: Sunday, January 27, 2008 12:00 am
Off-duty officer credited with waking man, son in burning home
SHERIDAN - An off-duty police officer is credited with waking up a man and his 14-year-old son who were asleep in a burning home south of Sheridan.
Sheridan Police officer Dennis Flynn says he was driving down U.S. Highway 87 when he saw smoke billowing out of the house Friday morning.
Flynn stopped and banged on the door of the home. That woke up homeowner Doug Furley and his son, Maison Furley, and both escaped.
The fire destroyed the garage and a bedroom. Investigators say a coal stove in the garage was the likely cause.
Leonard McEwan, former supreme court justice, dies at 82
SHERIDAN - Former Wyoming Supreme Court Justice Leonard McEwan, of Sheridan, died Thursday of complications from diabetes. He was 82.
McEwan became an attorney in 1957 and was a Sheridan municipal judge and a Sheridan College trustee before being named to the high court.
Later he served nine years as a district judge and retired in 1984.
McEwan was a native of Great Falls, Mont., who moved to Sheridan with his family in 1937 and graduated from Sheridan High School. He served in the Army Air Corps during World War II before earning bachelor's and law degrees from the University of Wyoming.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Sheridan.
WYDOT: Steer clear of snowplows
SHERIDAN - Stay away from those snowplows.
That's what the Wyoming Department of Transportation is saying after six state snowplows were involved in accidents over just the past week or so.
WYDOT says three collisions occurred in Sheridan County. One each happened in Johnson, Campbell and Crook counties. Drivers either hit the back of the plows or tried to pass and hit the front of the plows.
Two crashes caused minor injuries.
Standards board to meet this week
On Jan. 29-30, the Professional Teaching Standards Board will hold their meeting at the Herschler Building, Room 1114 at 122 West 25th St. in Cheyenne, beginning at 1 p.m. on Jan. 29 and continuing the next day. Agenda items include regular business, speakers from the Wyoming Department of Education, Regis University, Attorney General's Office and Torrington Middle School.
The PTSB was created by the Wyoming Legislature in 1993. It was created to support educators monitoring their own profession, according to the board's information online. The board is separate from the Wyoming Department of Education and is overseen by the Governor's Office and the Wyoming state legislature. It is one of 22 states with an autonomous teacher licensing board, accroding to the board's information online. The organization processes teaching applications for certificated teachers and substitute teachers and oversees fingerprinting of teachers for security purposes.
The public is welcome. Info: (307) 777-7291.