Airport restaurant opens

Charlie T's Restaurant recently opened at the Casper/Natrona County International Airport terminal building, according to a press release.

It offers a variety of menu items and is open 5 a.m. to 2 p.m., Monday through Saturday.

CAEDA elects board members

The Casper Area Economic Development Alliance recently elected three board members at its annual meeting.

Two members, Jim Porter of Porter, Muirhead, Cornia & Howard, and Tim Monroe, a local business consultant, were re-elected.

Bruce Brown, representing the Wyoming Contractors Association McMurry Training Center, was newly elected.

They will begin serving two-year terms on the board Jan. 1.

USDA official leaves

Bruce Petersen, assistant state conservationist for operations in the Casper state office of USDA�s Natural Resources Conservation Service, has been selected as the state conservationist for NRCS in Nevada.

Petersen is a 22-year veteran of NRCS, working for 11 years in Wyoming, according to a press release.

Older worker recognized

Barbara Hughes of Cheyenne recently was recognized by Experience Works as Wyoming's 2008 Outstanding Older Worker, a press release indicates.

Hughes, 75, works two jobs. At TJ Maxx, she heads the markdown team, ensuring prices are accurate for customers. At Big Lots, she's a customer service supervisor, where she applies her nearly 40 years of experience in the retail industry.

Experience Works is a national, nonprofit organization that provides training and employment services for mature workers.

Casper foreclosures rise

The rate of foreclosures on outstanding mortgage loans in Casper stood 1.50 percent in October, an increase of 0.80 percentage points from a year earlier.

The number of outstanding foreclosures in Casper, including new and existing filings, was 259, according to First American CoreLogic.

The national foreclosure rate for the same period was 1.7 percent.

Prison ahead of schedule

TORRINGTON -- Construction of the state's medium security prison in Torrington is ahead of schedule thanks to warm weather last month.

Buildings are up, the roofs are on, doors and windows are in and the heat is going at the site of the new correctional facility east of Torrington.

Construction superintendent Doug Brown says there are still 250 to 300 workers at the site.

Brown says the warm weather last month allowed workers to complete a good deal of outside work.

The construction is scheduled for completion in November 2009, and the facility is scheduled to open in January 2010.