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The Pine Bluffs Lady Hornets headed west to compete in the Burns Winter Classic last weekend. On Friday, the posted victories over Cheyenne Central (38-28)and Moorcroft (45-20). On Saturday, they fell to Shoshoni 26-39. “Overall, 4-2 is a great start,” Lady Hornets head coach Lindsey Forbes said of the season so far. “The girls are working hard and we will continue to improve.” “Against Central we got a great start,” Forbes said. “I think we handled their pressure pretty well and did some good...
ree teams on the court at Burns High School last weekend. Their performance earned the Hornets a 2-1 record for the weekend and moved them to 4-1 on the season. Up first Friday was the Central High School sophomore team. The Hornets took control of the game in the first three quarters posting scores of 15-7, 13-6 and 11-9, before allowing Central to make a 17-12 surge in the fourth period. The final score was 51-39 giving Pine Bluffs its first win of the weekend. Lane Nusbaum completed the game...
It was a slow start to the season for the Pawnee Coyotes. Facing three opponents last week, the locals lost to Highland on Tuesday 67-57, then fought through two overtimes only to come away on the losing end of a 53-47 score against Frontier Academy on Thursday. On Saturday, the Coyotes posted a 63-59 victory over Lyons. “We really got out of the gates slow in our first game of the year,” said Pawnee head coach Tim Brunelle. “We were not moving our feet defensively, rebounding well, or playi...
Yay! My favorite time of the year is here! I can finally play Christmas music without guilt or funny looks from others. I am a huge fan of Christmas music. I have a station dedicated to it on Pandora’s Internet music site, and I organized my CDs so all my Christmas music was in one spot and easy to find. I have tried to analyze why it is that I love this season, and I’m not sure I’ve really gotten to the heart of it all. But I have a fairly decent grip on it. I love winter. Summer is too hot.... Full story
Burns Broncs The Burns Broncs came out of the inaugural weekend of the basketball season with a 2-1 record. They lost to Big Horn in the opening game of the Tiger Jamboree in Lusk on Friday, and followed that up with wins over Sundance and Glenrock. “Overall we were satisfied with the way the weekend turned out,” said coach Sean Patterson. “We all understand there is plenty of room for improvement and some things we need to shore up. We feel like we played our best basketball in the Glenrock game Saturday night, this was very encouraging as it...
In what coach Dan Clayson called “a great weekend for the Burns/Pine Bluffs wrestling team”, team members snagged first and second place wins, as well as two third and two fourth place finishes. Their first taste of competition came during the Southeast Invite at Yoder. Tyler Pohlman took first in the 106-lb. category, while Cecil Brockman took second at 195 lbs. Third place finishers were Chris Kimzey at 120 lbs. and Brandon Banville at 152 lbs. River Schroeder (220 lbs.) and Nolan Schindler (285 lbs.) took fourth in each of their mat...
I have had a Christmas tree of my very own for a few years. It was a long time coming. In the past someone else has been kind of in charge of the trees in my home. From kindergarten to middle school, my family lived in a home with a family room (translate TV room, pool room, Atari room, etc.) and a living room where mom and dad could visit with their adult friends while my brother and I played or watched TV in the family room. Having those two rooms meant we could have two Christmas trees. The... Full story
The Pine Bluffs Lady Hornets take the court this season with a new coach at the helm. Six-year assistant Lindsey Forbes moved up the ladder to lead the team this year. Assisting will be Dale Gilbert. The team heads to the court short some experience as the team lost essential components of last year’s squad Conner Graves, Kodi Ragsdale, Laura Gross and Cassidy Smith. They and three other players were among the 2012 graduates. Junior Andrea Baker comes to the team as the lone returning s...
Their record last year was a fulfilling 24-5. This season the Burns Broncs start the season at 2-1 after a loss to Big Horn and following that up with victories over Sundance and Glenrock. And they’re just warming up, basketball fans. Coach Sean Patterson is in his fifth year coaching at Burns, his second in the lead role. He is assisted by Marv Mirich and David Lerwick. “We are very excited to get the season started,” Patterson said. The 2012 edition of the BHS Broncs includes only one retur...
heir schedule against two 3A schools and a 2A school, so they will truly be tested early. But seven-year head coach Tim Brunelle, bringing a 84-45 record to the court this season, is looking for his team to rise to the challenge. Brunelle is assisted by Cody Brunelle. The team lost three players to graduation. Kevin Shoemaker, Jason Willoughby and Miika Jokinen took the court with returning starters Brye Brunelle and Scott Klinginsmith went 20-2 in the regular season last year. Brye earned...
ornets basketball team, Will Gray will be looking to a group of seniors to lead the charge and improve on last seasons’ 13-11 record. The team was fourth in the SEWAC last year. “This season we are looking for quality leadership on and off the court by our seniors,” Gray said. “These six athletes know the expectations of our program.” The athletes Gray speaks of are Taylor Fornstrom, JC Thurin, Brady Lamb, Lane Nusbaum, Jordan Ragsdale and Steven Coverdale. They will be joined by sophomore...
No public comment or agenda requests were made to start out the Burns Town Council meeting Monday night. The meeting started and ended with reports from Laramie County Sheriff’s Office representative Bill Thomas reporting on law enforcement activity in Burns. “Efforts have shifted to Albin lately, Burns has been quiet,” Thomas said at the outset of the meeting. Thomas had no further report until the end of the meeting when he asked for a moment to remind drivers about bus safety. “We’v... Full story
For some weird reason my thoughts have been on this children’s book “Push, Pull Empty, Full” the past couple days. I used to teach pre-school. That book by Tana Hoban was one I used to read to my “kids” to teach them opposites. I personally still have a problem with those concepts. I push on a door that clearly must be pulled open. I pull people who maybe need a little push in the right direction. I see my glass as half-empty, rather than half-full. Or I see my life as too full of stuff and...
The Mission Lifeline Wyoming program was introduced to members of the Burns Town Council at its regular meeting Monday, Nov. 13. Cindy Osborn, manager of operations for AMR, was joined by American Heart Association representative Ben Leonard to make the introduction. The program was designed to improve the care of people having cardiac events, and will help the state meet the needs of communities. Mission Lifeline seeks to identify the needs of communities. Osborn and Leonard told council they...
Laramie County made its choice for president Tuesday, but it did not match up at all with the rest of the nation. If the rest of the county went the way of Laramie County Mitt Romney would be sworn into office in January after winning over 60 percent of the vote. US Senator John Barrasso won his first, full six-year term and US Representative Cynthia Lummis beat her challenger for the states’ lone seat in the House. Locally, Wayne Johnson retained his seat in the Wyoming State Legislature for S...
Children gathered at the Pine Bluffs Community Center Wednesday night for the annual Halloween Carnival. Games and snacks were interrupted by a fire alarm set off by a fog machine, but the fun continued unhindered once everyone was allowed back in the gym. Recreation director Sonja Fornstrom got in on the fun with her costume, arriving on the scene as "Aunt" Fester....
Monday night students from Burns and Pine Bluffs junior/senior high school and the Eastern Laramie County Education Association hosted a candidate forum for those who are running for seats on the Laramie County School District No. 2 Board of Trustees. The resounding theme of all nine candidates was that the board must be unified in board decisions and that the board is not the go-to entity when someone has a problem within the district. Esther Davison is the only person running for the seat in a...
That phrase has been bandied about for most of this year as the voting public has been subjected to months of political ads on TV (thank goodness for DVR!) and in the mail (which goes in the circular file). The candidates are almost done trying to tickle our ear to earn our vote. Wouldn’t it be nice if true change were to occur and our ear wouldn’t get tickled, but instead we were told the truth? We all know the economy is not what we want and need it to be. We all know insurance is a mess, soc...
The Pawnee Coyotes notched a victory Friday night, but the effort was not without some pain on both sides of the field. Taking the field against the Arickaree Indians, the Coyotes outscored their opponent 65-32. Both both teams also lost. “It was another bittersweet win,” said Coyotes’ coach Doug Miller. “Zeb Durst ended up breaking his tibia.” That happened in the third quarter. “Actually, it was like nothing I’d seen in my coaching career,” Miller continued. “The quarter before that, an A...
I am writing this about mid-morning Tuesday. I started my public day with a trip to the Pine Bluffs Community Center with my daughter so we could vote. She was a bit apprehensive, not sure she had a good grasp of all the issues and candidates for office. It was a fairly lengthy ballot, so I could understand how she felt. Leading up to Tuesday we were subjected to hour after hour and pages and pages of political ads, and news articles telling us what rotten thing which candidate had done or...