Capital murder suspect Rusty Draper confessed to the shooting death of Austin Moody to another inmate being held at the Sheridan Detention Center, according to documents filed in the case.

When Grant County voters go to the polls this fall for the General Election, there is a chance that they will be voting on one of the new voting machines the county is getting.

National Law Day was observed on Tuesday, May 1 and fifth-grade students from East End Elementary, Sheridan Intermediate and Poyen Elementary Schools got a lesson in the law first-hand by getting to act as the jury in a mock trial at the Grant County Courthouse.

The Sheridan City Council passed an ordinance relating to water pretreatment requirements with Kohler at last week’s Sheridan City Council meeting.

The ordinance states that it sets forth uniform standards and requirements for users of the Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTW) for the City of Sheridan. 

A Louisiana man took a negotiated plea last week for a manslaughter charge stemming from the death of a local woman who died as a result of an automobile accident in August 2017.

On Thursday Aug. 10, 2017, Grant County resident Shelby Rhodes fell victim to a fatal vehicle collision just south of Sheridan on U.S. Hwy. 167.

At the end of this semester, Poyen High School Principal Dennis Emerson will leave PHS for a job at the Sheridan School District. Emerson’s successor will be Laura Daniel.

Less than five minutes into last week’s Poyen School Board Meeting, the board went into an executive session to discuss personnel. When the executive session ended, Superintendent Jerry Newton announced that he had accepted Emerson’s letter of resignation the previous week, and he recommended that the board select Daniel as the new principal.