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The 65th Annual Trail Days has now been here and is over, and by all accounts it was considered an unqualified success despite that there were other festivities going on in the surrounding area. The weather cooperated, providing lots of hot weather and sunshine during the day, and cooler breezy night for activities like the street dances and the alumni banquet, and friends and family members streamed into Pine Bluffs to reconnect, visit, and catch up on everything that had happened since the 201...
Friday night saw the end of the Double Bar G Summer Rodeo series, points tallied, and buckle winners named in all of the event categories as well as the All-Around Youth Competitor. Seth Glass, who took top honors in the Jr-Sr Team Roping and Novice Goat Tying, also took the All Around title, earning a combined total of 55 points over three events including Novice Goat Tying. Brenson Bartlett received a buckle by earning 18 points in Steer Riding. Abraham Sarabia, the only rider to score points...
It's difficult enough when you are competing for a crown once, but when a young woman is chosen two years in a row to represent her community as it's queen, in this case as Trail Days Queen, it's very special, despite the fact that there were not any other applicants for the honor for a second year in a row. Brooke Darden, who served as the 2014 Trail Days Queen, will once again represent Pine Bluffs this week during the festivities. Darden's mother and aunt, Derede Darden and Georgeanne Wearin...
It's true that Trail Days is this week, and doesn't end until all of the mud has been washed off on Sunday afternoon, after the co-ed mud volleyball tournament, but that's just beginning of more activities scheduled to take Pine Bluffs to the end of summer and into the new school year. However, before the mud volleyball tournament there is the 15th Annual Pine Bluffs Trail Days 2015 Longhorn Stampede on Saturday. It begins with registration at 6:30 a.m., at the Pine Bluffs Community Center, and...
Last Wednesday night saw a full house with a number of parents representing all parts of Laramie County School District2, speaking out against the proposed random drug testing policy, which was up for a second reading and approval by the Board of Trustees. The majority of parents presented statistics and opinions contained in surveys done by different federal and private organizations, stating that random drug testing does not inhibit the use of drugs or alcohol by those students who use them,...
Attendance was off a bit at last Friday night's Double Bar G rodeo, which was to be expected as Cheyenne Frontier Days and the National High School Rodeo Finals in Rock Springs, began this past week, attracting rodeo folk from all over the U.S. and some foreign countries. Jenna East, Heather Milligan, Corey James Bomhoff and Seth Glass continue to dominate in their respective categories, as well as in the points standings. Heather Milligan has a clear and increasing lead in the all around points...
The United States Department of Agriculture released the numbers for April thru June, for the mountain states of Arizona, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming, and the number are up across the board, except in New Mexico, which saw a decrease in production. Wyoming dairy herds produced 34.0 million pounds of milk during the quarter, which was up one million pounds in the same quarter in 2014. This translated to a three percent increase in production. Neighboring state Montana also saw...
This past Friday night marked the fourth rodeo of the Double Bar G Summer series, and there are only two dates left before buckles and all-around winners are named during Trail Days in Pine Bluffs on July 31. This week saw some new names rise to the top, while some of those at the top remained there, and others, well, we can't all have winning times. Bohdi Coombs had a qualifying ride in Steer Riding, with a score of 62. However, there were no qualifying rides in Novice Bull Riding. Each week...
An unknown white male driving a white minivan approached an ll-year-old juvenile female Monday, July 6, in the Beech Street and I-80 overpass construction area on the east side of Pine Bluffs, asking if she needed a ride, according to Pine Bluffs Police Department The girl refused the ride. Police consider the man a person of interest and want to talk with him. Pine Bluffs Police Chief Justin Trout said he has been interviewing possible witnesses and anyone else who might have seen the man. He...
The Veterans Memorial/Community Plaza project, which has been in the works for more than a year, and spearheaded by Larry Silvey, received the final approval it needed from the State Loan and Investment Board (SLIB) for a $124,000 grant that will be used, along with matching funds from the Town of Pine Bluffs in the amount of $30,000. The site of the project, which is located on Main Street, on the south side of Active Care Chiropractic, first needed the approval of the Economic Development...
This past weekend started out as fun family camping experience, but ended in tragedy for a Pine Bluffs family after their son, three-year-old Bentley Graves, playing near Oliver Reservoir, wandered into the water. The Kimball County Sheriff's Department received a call at 6:39 p.m. on Saturday evening, and Sgt. Brandon Loy, who was in the Oliver Reservoir area in response to another call, was able to respond within 60 seconds. He said, “By the time I arrived the family had already retrieved B...
It was a beautiful but dusty evening at the Double Bar G Rodeo Friday night. Someone forgot to spray water over the floor of the arena, and it didn't take much to create big clouds of dust. By the time it was over a lot of people wanted to do nothing more than stand under a shower and rinse the dirt off. This writer was feeling the grit between her teeth, and scrubbing dirt off her camera and bad, and from places she never expected to find the annoying stuff. This week wasn't a good one for...
There is no doubt that museums in small rural communities, such as the Texas Trail Museum Pine Bluffs, play an important role in capturing the history of the area and preserving it for the generations to come, especially when they are located inside of a building that has been preserved from a towns' past. And there is also no doubt, that an organization like the Pine Bluffs Lions Club, which conducts a historic walk each year in some part of Pine Bluffs and eastern Laramie County, is doing...
This past Father's Day weekend saw a lot of activity in Grover as the annual parade and Biggest Little Rodeo in the West took place there, as well as a barbecue and a cowboy church service. Four grand marshals were in attendance at the parade this year, a little deviation from previous years. Two of the parade grand marshals were youth, chosen from the Grover area. The third and fourth judges were adults chosen from the rodeo crew and community. In the future nominations for these three...
It was not the most talked about item on Monday night's agenda, and received no public comments, but the budget for FY 2015-2016 passed it's third and final reading with very little discussion despite the fact several changes had been made since the last reading. Equipment replacement in the amount of $23,000 was removed from the budget. The line item was created for the purpose of acquiring equipment during the 2014-2015 budget year, which has been done. Several items, however, were added to ne...
It doesn't matter how hard a rider tries to stay on a bull or a steer, if he doesn't want you on his back you're going to go, and with the bulls and steers at the Double Bar G Rodeo Friday night in Pine Bluffs, they knew exactly how to get what they want. The animals at Friday night's event put on quite a show, once rid of their riders, running back and forth, howling their displeasure, and even charging those standing outside the fence on occasion. About the only thing they didn't do was dance...
After voting to approve the first reading of the proposed drug testing policy at the regular May meeting of the board, the subject was moved from an action item to an information and discussion item at the first of three scheduled board meetings for the month of June Monday night. A survey was sent to 608 parents of students in Laramie County School District 2 asking if they believe abuse of drugs and alcohol by students is a problem; would the parents be in favor of a random testing program...
The Pine Bluffs Booster Club held their annual athletic banquet last week, with a number of students from Pine Bluffs High School recognized for their accomplishments and contributions. In the tradition of the banquet, freshman fathers placed food on the plates of those who attended, and each ticket purchased covered the cost of the banquet meal for the person paying for the ticket and one athlete. The Outstanding Girl and Boy Athlete awards, which are based not only on athletic performance,...
The Pine Bluffs Town Council approved a request from Circle S Aviation for a congested area flight plan. It's that time of the year when mosquitos are going to become more evident, with the heavy rains the area has received. In the past Circle S has provided the Town of Pine Bluffs with aerial coverage to help eradicate the disease-carrying pests. This year, in anticipation of deluge of applications to the FAA office by other companies providing the same type of service in other areas, Circle S...
The Friday Night =G Rodeo series resumed in Pine Bluffs last week, with cowboys and cowgirls from all over the states of Wyoming, Colorado and Nebraska. One cowgirl was from Colorado by way of Florida. Despite the cold, damp windy weather the rain stayed at bay, and all of the events were completed, although the Steer Riding and Open Bull Riding events did not pay out as the steers and bulls were in rare form, and not one of the riders was able to stay on for the required six or eight seconds....
The ladies of the Louis E. Canady American Legion Post 60 Auxiliary were busy this weekend helping Post members place flags on graves of veterans at the Pine Bluffs Cemetery, serving up hamburgers and hotdogs grilled by Post members, to the public, on Memorial Day, and received donations for the traditional red poppy sales. Over a two-day period the Auxiliary collected approximately $300 in donations for the poppies, almost twice what they have collected in years past. Diane Wise, president of...
Pine Bluffs High School boys' team made sure that they placed in the top three at this year's state track and field meet this past weekend, scoring a total of 57 points. The underclassmen, especially, showed their spirit with junior Jorge Garcia placing fourth in both the 800m and 1600m Run, and second in the 3200m Run, which entitled him to a place on the All-State team. Garcia was also a member of the fifth place team of Preston Thurin, Kyle Stieger and Taylor Haug in the 4 x 800 Relay. In...
The Wyoming Coaches Association named more than 50 athletes from the 2A Division to the 2015 WCA All-State in Outdoor Track. Among those named were six from Burns High School and three from Pine Bluffs High School. In order to qualify for the All-State honor, athletes must finish in the top two places of the events they are competing in, with the exception of the relay teams, where only first place finishers are considered. In the case of the Burns track and field team, the four male athletes...
The Burns High School boys' track and field team made school history this past weekend, bringing home the schools' first state championship. Burns placed first in the team standings with 87 points, 20 points more than the second place team, Thermopolis, which had a cumulative total of 67 followed by Pine Bluffs with 57 points. The group of Rowan Fichtner, Tyler Morgan, Noah Taylor and Paden Wilson scored a total of 85 points, of the team's total. Paden Wilson and Noah Taylor began by placing in...
Well, the ceremonies are over and done for another year – graduation ceremonies this is – and it's time to break out the 'pic-a-nic' baskets (I always loved when Yogi Bear talked about 'pic-a-nic' baskets), the sun screen, lawn chairs and all the other accoutrements that go along with summer. But I digress. Superintendent Jack Cozort, who will shortly be entering his last month, officially, with our school district gave away his age when he announced this past weekend, in Pine Bluffs and Bur...