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🌱 Why Rawlins’ Carbon County Museum made a national spooky-museum list

Rawlins, Wyoming Patch AM: a 4 min read

Hello Rawlins! Stay connected with the latest updates from around town. Let's dive in! ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • Why Rawlins’ Carbon County Museum made a national spooky-museum list
  • How a Rawlins ringleader landed 18 years in federal prison

Also on today's calendar: Doll and Toy Show.

Today's riddle: What has a cap but no head? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

  • Saturday: Mostly sunny, nice and warm, with a high of 74 and low of 36 degrees.
  • Sunday: Plenty of sunshine, temps: high: 78, low: 46.
  • Monday: Partly sunny, with a high of 79 and low of 48 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• The 10 Spookiest Museums to Visit for Halloween in the U.S.—With Haunted Dolls, Ouija Boards, and Vampire Lore (travelandleisure.com) — Rawlins’ own Carbon County Museum earns national attention as one of the country’s spookiest museums, thanks in part to its grisly Big Nose George artifacts. Just a few blocks away, the historic Wyoming Frontier Prison adds to the Halloween-season chills with haunting relics and seasonal tours, giving locals and visitors eerie ways to explore Rawlins history.
   

• Rawlins Man, Six Others, Get Prison After Bust Of Major Wyoming Drug Ring (cowboystatedaily.com) — A Rawlins man identified as the leader of a multi-county meth and fentanyl ring has been sentenced to 18 years in federal prison, with another Rawlins resident also receiving more than 12 years. Federal and state investigators say the group trafficked drugs across five Wyoming counties, and all seven federal defendants pleaded guilty, underscoring an aggressive push against large-scale trafficking operations in the region.
   

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🗞 Nearby News

Casper Mountain

  • Wyo Sports Ranch and YMCA partner to present Battle for the Boot: 307 Corporate Games (oilcity.news)
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Casper

  • Things To Do First Weekend Of October In Wyoming 2026 (k2radio.com)
  • Game and Fish monitoring seasonal EHD outbreak in Casper Region white-tailed deer, pronghorn (wyo.gov)
  • Because No One Stops At Stop Sign, Casper Family Enlists 12-Foot Skeleton To Help (cowboystatedaily.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What has a cap but no head?" — A bottle (Thank you Glo M. for sending it in!)
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Stay in the loop with what's happening in Rawlins

Never miss out on local news and events that matter to you.

Stay in the loop with what's happening in Rawlins

Never miss out on local news and events that matter to you.