Uranium company relocates

CHEYENNE -- A uranium mining company will relocate its United States headquarters from Lakewood, Colo., to Cheyenne around February 1.

Cameco Resources owns and operates the Smith Ranch-Highland in-situ uranium mine near Glenrock.

The purpose of the move is to be closer to the company's operating mines and stakeholders, company official Ken Vaughn said.

Smith Ranch-Highland is the largest operating uranium mine in the U.S. and the only uranium mine currently operating in Wyoming.

The move will not affect the company's existing operations in Wyoming and Nebraska.

The company employees 165 people in Wyoming, including 147 at Smith Ranch-Highland and 18 in the company's land and development offices in Casper.

Cameco also employs 69 people in its Nebraska operations.The company owns and operates the Crow Butte in-situ uranium mine near Crawford, Neb.

The move from Colorado to Cheyenne will add about a dozen new jobs to Wyoming's operation, Vaughn said.

One of the company's planned expansion projects would straddle the Natrona/Fremont county line in the Gas Hills. Another is adjacent to the existing Smith property and still another is in the North Butte area.

Preliminary hearing reset for Dec.

GILLETTE -- The preliminary court hearing for former Campbell County Cemetery Board member Christina Maycock has been rescheduled for 3 p.m. on Dec. 7.

Maycock served as district supervisor for the Campbell County Cemetery District for 25 years and recently as a board member. She faces a felony charge of obtaining property by false pretenses and misdemeanor charges of wrongful appropriation of public property, misuse of office and two counts of state open meetings act violations.

The hearing was originally scheduled for Oct. 7, but Maycock's attorney, Christina Williams, petitioned the court for a continuance.

If found guilty of the felony charge, Maycock could serve up to 10 years in prison and pay a $10,000 fine.Maycock has been released on a $5,000 bond.

Weather causes power outage

CHEYENNE -- An electricity outage apparently caused by weather conditions left Cheyenne without power for more than an hour.

Mark Stege is vice president of operations for Cheyenne Light, Fuel and Power. He said the city lost power about 12:50 p.m. Tuesday and that it was restored at 2:13 p.m.

Stege said the power loss was related to a problem at the Archer Substation east of the city.

Randy Wilkerson of the Western Area Power Administration in Lakewood, Colo., said it appears that ice or some similar weather-related condition caused unacceptably low voltage in Cheyenne. He said the system cut power to the Cheyenne area until crews could fix the problem.