Sheriff aims for re-election

Sweetwater County Sheriff Mike Lowell is seeking a second term.

The former Rock Springs police chief announced his candidacy in an email Friday afternoon.

Lowell, a Democrat, was elected in 2014 after defeating then-Sheriff Rich Haskell.

Lowell credited the sheriff’s office employees’ hard work and dedication as a team in helping him reorganize the office based on merit, as well as increasing patrols and services within the county. In 2017, the sheriff’s office logged more than 23,000 public service hours, a 20 percent increase from the previous year.

Among’s Lowell’s earliest goals was the cr...