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South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem was a guest of Governor Mark Gordon at Cheyenne Frontier Days on Thursday, July 29th. Governor Noem became South Dakota's 33rd governor on January 5, 2019. She is a wife, a mother, and a lifelong rancher, farmer and small business owner. Noem was elected as South Dakota's first female governor. Governor Noem is strongly determined to protect her state from the federal government. She refused to lockdown her state, along with a refusal to order masks for...
Villain, hero, sweet girl, wise aunt and uncle, relief, singing and laugh were some of the words used to describe the melodrama this year. The Merchant of Vengeance by Brooks Reeves and Rory Mack was directed by Sarah Coverdale along with being the stage manager also. This had some Shakespeare and western style to the drama of the night. Damien Thompson played Sylvester Shylock, the villain. He plots and schemes against Montague "Rodeo" Ryder, the hero, played by Jordon Crouse. They chased...
Don Hollingshead is one of the candidates that will being running for Laramie County Sheriff. Sheriff Danny Glick had announced his retirement in July. Don Hollingshead has been in the Laramie Country Sheriff's department for 26 years. He has started working in the Detention Department. Through the years he has worked on patrol and is now Captain of the Detention Department. Hollingshead is a board member of the Wyoming Association of Risk Management, a member of the Safe Harbor, Kiwanis, and...
The Longhorn Stampede was overcast, windy and smoky on Saturday August 7th. There were fifty-eight participants to run and walk the 5k or one mile at 7 a.m. in the morning. Everyone signed up in their division. Sonja Fornstrom explained the rules and what signs to follow on the roads. All the 5k contestants started first, then the one-mile group brought up the rear family style. The one-mile Dugan family ran it in 15:45 with Liam Dugan finishing first. Even baby Summer had a great run in the...
Almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades as the saying goes. At Reher Park in Pine Bluffs on Saturday, August 7th at 1:00p.m. the horseshoe tournament was in full swing. Eighteen participants competed this year. Young adults, and men did a blind drawing to see who they would be partnered up with. This makes the playing courts equal for new people that want to learn or are just beginning. There were some close points by a finger wide. Everyone was helping each other by encouraging the...
eams were lined up to bat the ball. The 5th annual Co-Ed Softball tournament started on Friday August 6th and ended on Saturday August 7th. This annual softball tournament is a fundraiser for the Pine Bluffs High School Athletics program. Nine teams played from Sidney, Nebraska, Cheyenne and the Pine Bluffs area. The money raised went to the Pine Bluffs High School Athletics program to obtain equipment, uniforms etc. The battle to win was strong, but with late nights being windy, and rainy, the...
Bump and splash is what you hear from the volleyball courts. The 29th Annual Trail Days Coed Mud Volleyball Tournament was played on Sunday August 8th out at the Pine Bluffs Distilling area. This year they added three courts. This allowed more teams and they were able to finish an hour early. There were fifty-five games played with twenty-eight teams. Each team had three women and three men on it. The history of the tournament started in 1991. In 2007 they had the biggest turnout of teams with...
The engines were revving up for 11th Annual Covered Wagon Car and Bike Show at the Knotty Pine Saloon after the parade on Saturday. There were twelve entries for cars, four entries for trucks and three entries for bikes. Some contestants even dressed the part of the era of the cars and others told the history of the car, truck or bike. People visited and enjoyed the amazing cars, trucks and bikes that were at the show. Trail Days Royalty, Maegan Madden and Abby Gray presented the awards to the...
The first annual Conner Graves-Tyler Morgan Memorial Corn Hole Tournament was out at the Pine Bluffs Distilling area on Sunday, August 8th. This was started by Ryan Graves and Kyle May. The idea was to promote Forbes business at first, but with Conner and Tyler so close to their hearts it was a better cause. The money will be put in a scholarship fund every year. From the tragedy of Graves and Morgans' lives, this is one way of giving back to the community. Forty-one teams participated this...
The Laramie County Fair has commenced on August 4th with help from the Ambassadors of Laramie County. Emma Gonzalez is one of the Laramie County Fair Ambassadors of 2021. She is a senior at Burns High School this coming year. Gonzalez has been in track, indoor and outdoor, and cross country and she was awarded all state athlete. This year, Gonzalez is Vice-President of the Future Farmers of America. Gonzalez has been in Helpful Hands 4-H club for seven years. She started showing goats and then...
Stacy Schoneman is one of the artists for the Pine Bluffs Senior Center Art Walk for the month of July. Two artists are featured throughout the month. This is for other people in the community to get to know about the Pine Bluffs Senior Center. The Art Walk is local artists showing off their incredible talents. Schoneman makes center pieces and wall hangings with wood flowers. She started making them eight months ago when she watched it online and got interested. Once she made one wood flower,...
As I was considering topics for this week it occurred to me that it's been three years since I discussed lavender. If you haven't experienced the wonders, and joy, of lavender you'll be in for a treat when you do. Lavender essential oil has been called the "desert island oil" and for good reason. Lavender has many health benefits as well as being a refreshing aroma to simply breathe. Although the essential oil is the most commonly known product, there are others. Hydrosol, buds and flowers are...
F.E. WARREN AIR FORCE BASE, Wyo. --The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds zoomed back into Cheyenne Frontier Days for the annual Wings over Warren air show, July 28, 2021. The Thunderbirds are an aerial demonstration squadron that perform precision aerial maneuvers while demonstrating the capabilities of the Air Force's high-performance aircraft to people throughout the world. The Thunderbirds are here to recruit new Airmen, provide a positive representation of the Air Force and increase retention of...
CASPER, Wyo. —Taps reverberates across the wild grass and sagebrush as family and friends honor the 1945 crew of a B-24J Liberator during a memorial ceremony held at the crash site south of Casper, Wyoming, July 24, 2021. The crash site has been lost since the initial cleanup 76 years ago. The Murchison crash is one of three lost historical crash sites in Wyoming that the Friends of the Wyoming Veterans Memorial Museum, a nonprofit organization that works with the Wyoming Veterans Memorial Museum, identified along with the Colorado Aviation H...
Alas! Our Tuesday Trails are complete for the season. July 20th was the last Tuesday Trails for the summer. The Pine Bluffs Recreation has been taking groups of people on hikes on the different trails through the bluffs. On this Tuesday morning, fifteen youth and adults went to the bluffs for an exploratory expedition. While the youth and adults walk the trails, they stop to check out different plants and wild flowers. They even look for the different bugs and animals that reside in the bluffs....
The Olympics have come to Girlz Night at the Crossroads Community Church in Pine Bluffs on July 21st. The torch was lit by Pastor Dan Debruyn. Three teams of girls were in these Olympics. The White team, the Red team, and the Blue team with their coaches helping through all of the events. Of course, there was a referee and judges to be fair overall. The first event was the Marshmallow Launch. Each member of the team took turns spitting marshmallows across the line. Whoever spit the farthest won...
With the influx of art parties, Pine Bluffs Distilling hosted a new artist to the area. - Stacy L Bolin. She is a veteran, a cancer survivor and a color blind artist from Potter Nebraska. On Thursday, July 22nd at the Pine Bluffs Distilling, eighteen people attended Bolins first art party class. Her theme was 'Painting on the Prairie'. Bolin started with a statement, "You will be using all your senses. Smell the canvas and paint. Hear the brushes with strokes and voice the directions of the...
Five year old band Galactic Lemonz is a young local three-piece that plays classic rock and metal. The members consist of Jason Weller, guitar/lead vocals, Jessica Weller, bass guitar/vocals, and Carson Rabou, drums. They all have deep family roots in music, including their fathers who played in different bands. Jason is 21 years old, and received his Associate of Fine Arts Degree in Music Education and will continue on to obtain his BA at Black Hills State University in South Dakota. Jessica,...
June 17th is a day that I won't forget. That day was my first response to a CAD call which was to assist EMS to help rescue a longtime friend. I arrived at the station and nobody was there but two cars parked which means that EMS had already left to respond to this call. So, I reviewed the location of the incident report on my cell phone CAD map and decided to head that way in my own truck. Sure enough, it was the street my friend lived on and I could see the ambulance parked in his driveway....
Pine Bluffs Chief of Police Chance Walkama promoted two officers on July 22 at the Pine Bluffs Police Department. Officers Darrin Cregger and Rodney Kemp are now wearing the rank of sergeant. Officer Darrin Cregger's new rank will give him new responsibility: he will be in charge of the firearms, FBI scheduling and NCIC which is the National Crime Information Center. Officer Rodney Kemp will be keeping up the equipment, patrol training and inventory. "This will help streamline leaders. This...
In the spring of 2020 the Pine Bluffs FFA set out to Sheridan March 8th on the last school trip to be taken that year! What a difference one year makes. March 7th we set out on our first overnight trip in a year for vet science, environmental science and resources competitions and feeling of relief and belief that we could go and do things again. For the first time in a year we were on the road again and it was great. The state competitions were spread out this spring and we had our first round of state competitions in Torrington. March 8th...
"No, that's not what I said. Not garlic, garlic scapes. Two different things." That's the gist of a brief conversation I had with a friend when I offered her some garlic scapes. It didn't dawn on me that she didn't know what garlic scapes are. She only heard the word "garlic". Although both are from the same plant, they are two different things. Scapes are the flower stalk and flowering part of members of the allium family of plants. Alliums include onions, garlic, chives and several ornamental...
Cheyenne - Fire danger remains high throughout Wyoming due to hot, dry temperatures. To help protect wildlife habitat and other public lands, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department has implemented fire restrictions on many department-managed properties where people camp and recreate. In an effort to keep the public informed, Game and Fish recently launched two new interactive ways to check for fire restrictions on the department website. Anyone planning a trip to a wildlife habitat management area (WHMA) or public access area (PAA) can check a...
This weekend was a time to remember Bill Cushing. He was a man that helped the community with his family. On Friday July 23 the Pine Bluffs and Burns libraries gave Mary Cushing a plague honoring Bill Cushing, who was allways helping with the reading programs. When there was a special event, he would volunteer to help set up and be there to enjoy learning about different books. The Cushing Family has donated some of the memorial money to the summer reading programs of the two libraries. This...