From the Sept. 16, 1985 News Record:

Campbell County will secede from Wyoming and become the nation’s 51st state. That was the purpose of a resolution scheduled to be signed Thursday by five state legislators, the county commissioners and elected officials of Gillette and Wright. And while the document is written tongue-in-cheek, the anger is real, spawned by the Wyoming Community College Commission’s rejections last month of the county’s application for a community college. Officials admitted the secession resolution is not to be taken seriously, but is a method to gather statewide attention for the Wyoming Community College Commission’s decision to turn down the county’s request for a community college. The college commission said it rejected the request because the county’s educational

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