Serving all of Eastern Laramie County since 1908
Serving all of Eastern Laramie County since 1908
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If you are a classic car enthusiast and appreciate history, you won’t want to miss the classic caravan that will be arriving in Pine Bluffs on July 2 around 2 p.m. Drivers who have refurbished antique and vintage cars plan to stop at the Historic High school for a short period of time to rest and have refreshments while making their way from San Francisco to New York. This is a good opportunity to meet the drivers and learn about their cars and adventures along the Lincoln Highway, also referred to as Highway 30. While most people now use I...
Construction on the Pine Bluffs I-80 Marginal Bridge Reconstruction project continues. Detours and road closures for demolition of the existing structures will significantly impact travel in the project area over the next week. Beech Street will be closed overnight June 26 and June 29, from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m., and Parsons Street will be closed overnight on July 1 and July 2, also from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. The Wyoming Department of Transportation thanks you for your patience and courtesy to the workers and fellow drivers....
Wyoming residents who have completed hunter education instructor certification in the last three years are invited to sign up for the Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s annual Hunter Education Instructor Academy. It will be held August 21-23 at the Whiskey Mountain Conservation Camp near Dubois. Wyoming Game and Fish Commission regulations require hunter education instructors to attend a new instructor workshop within two years of becoming certified as an instructor. There is no fee for the orientation training. Meals and lodging at the camp a...
While splashing in the waters of Wyoming’s pools and lakes is a favorite summer pastime for many families, swimmers should be careful to avoid catching or spreading recreational water illnesses. “It is important to prevent germs from getting into pools and lakes. When germs get into the waters where we are having fun, they can steal that fun by causing diseases such as cryptosporidiosis, giardiasis and shigellosis,” said Katie Bryan, epidemiologist with the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH). “Unfortunately, it doesn’t take much contamination t...
The University of Wyoming lists students from eastern Laramie County on the 2015 spring semester President’s Honor Roll. The President's Honor Roll consists of regularly enrolled undergraduates who earned a 4.0 grade point average for the semester. To be eligible, students must have been enrolled for a minimum of 12 credit hours taken for letter grades. Students are: Carpenter - Wyatt K. Emery; Hillsdale - Rhett T. Epler; and Pine Bluffs - Nolan Everett Jeffres and Rachel Ann Purdy....
Washington State University’s President’s Honor Roll for the 2015 Spring semester has been released, and Pine Bluffs is represented on it by Chelsea Marie Wangler. The President’s Honor Roll recognizes students who stand above the rest with excellent academic performance. To be eligible for the honor roll, undergraduate students must be enrolled in a minimum of nine graded hours in a single term at WSU and earn a grade point average of 3.75 or earn a 3.50 cumulative GPA based on 15 cumulative hours of graded work....
Southeast Wyoming residents are invited to the American Veterans Traveling Tribute, coming to Lions Park in Cheyenne June 25-28. This Cost of Freedom tribute’ is a mobile group of memorials and exhibits anchored by an 80 percent replica of the Vietnam Memorial Wall and a gold dog tag display listing all casualties in the global war on terror. These solemn memorials honor those who served in all our wars and conflicts, along with first responders and law enforcement, while paying specific tribute to those who gave their lives in service to our c...
The 25th Biannual School reunion in Grover will be held Sunday, June 28. Doors open at 10 a.m. for visiting, coffee and donuts. Lunch begins at 12:30 p.m. There will be a meeting at 2 p.m. Bring your family, a covered dish and table service. Beverages will be provided. Honored classes: are 1939, 1940, 1954, 1955, 1964, 1965, 1989 and 1990. Anyone who has attended school in Grover or the surrounding area is welcome to attend....
The Panhandle Senior Women's Golf Association held their latest outing at Scenic Knolls Golf Course in Mitchell. The team of Jane Holechek, Karen Koch, Ellen Ramig and Chris Lapaseotes took first place and secured five birdies. Second place went to Marlys Delle, Phyllis Greenwood, Sandy Huckfeldt and Margaret Lienemann who captured four birdies. Norma Perkins, Bonnie Childs, Mary Nielsen and Sharon Havely shot one birdie and ended up in third place, while fourth place with three birdies went to the team of Deanna Funk, Jill Wozniak, Gina...
A section of I-80 just east of the Burns-Carpenter Interchange was closed for about an hour Wednesday while bomb squad personnel investigated a suspected pipe bomb found beside the highway. A WYDOT maintenance worker found a section of galvanized pipe about 14 inches long with end caps sitting just off the pavement beside the westbound lanes of I-80 about one-half mile east of the interchange. He reported it to the Wyoming Highway Patrol at 11:44 a.m. Trooper Jeremy Beck responded, confirmed the device looked like a potential pipe bomb and requ...
Even though streams in Wyoming are running very high from the spring snowmelt, it will not be long before the runoff subsides and good fishing conditions return. Currently most of the stream fishing taking place is on tailwater fisheries where flows are controlled from an upstream dam. Whether, the stream is free flowing or a tailwater fishery, public access to these waters is generally quite good due to numerous access easements available to anglers and boaters. But, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department cautions there are some rivers that...
Now in its fourth year Wyoming’s X-Stream Angler program is drawing interest from anglers who like stream fishing and are looking to try their skill on some of the dozens of instream flow river and stream segments found throughout Wyoming. Regardless of what part of the state anglers are fishing, chances are that a stream with an instream flow water right will be relatively close. An instream flow water right is like a regular water right except it specifies that a defined amount of water is protected in the stream and does not need to be r...
The Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory will be hosting a Bioblitz at Oliver Reservoir Recreation Area, between Bushnell and Kimball on US Highway 30, beginning at 1 p.m. on Friday June 19, and ending at 3 p.m. on June 20. Join us for a 24-hour celebration of western Nebraska wildlife. Learn from area naturalists and scientists as they share their knowledge of local wildlife and the processes used to study nature. Come learn first-hand about birds, insects, fish, plants, reptiles, bats and astronomy. Camping is welcome for all, or stay for the...
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced it is extending the public comment period on its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) to seek public comment on potential updates to BLM rules governing oil and gas royalty rates, rental payments, lease sale minimum bids, civil penalty caps and financial assurances. Modernizing the BLM’s royalty rate structures can provide greater flexibility, especially given the dramatic growth of oil development on public and tribal lands, where production has increased in each of the past six years, a...
Contracts totaling $11.9 million for 11 highway projects around the state, including one made possible by increased fuel tax revenue, were awarded by the Wyoming Transportation Commission. Riverside Contracting of Missoula, Mt., won the largest of the contracts with the low bid of $3.4 million for surface and bridge rehabilitation work on 4.5 miles of US 14-16-20 about 14 miles west of Cody. The work will include rehabilitation of the Shoshone River and Trout Creek bridges at each end of the project, and a new layer of asphalt between the...
Invitations have been readied and sent to graduates of East Laramie County High Schools – Egbert, Hillsdale, Burns and Carpenter (EHBC) for the 65th annual alumni banquet. Around 200 invitations were sent to alumni, most living outside of Laramie County and out-of-state. Email was also used to send invitations. Reservations are being accepted for the banquet, set to be held June 13, with doors opening at 4 p.m. for graduates and their guests. Suzanne Nussbaum Deselms, 2015 EHBA chair, says the banquet will be held at Burns Elementary School. F...
An informational meeting regarding the Pine Bluffs Youth Tackle Football League will be held Thursday, June 11, at 6 p.m. at the old high school one the south side in the Pheasants Forever classroom. This league is open to all students, grade four thru six, for the 2015-2016 school year. Parents will receive information about registration forms, sports physical requirements, fees, practice schedule, game schedule, and also meet the coaches. For more information contact Gary Eastman at 307-701-8021....
Pine Bluffs High School will once again host the Hornet Basketball Youth Camp June 16 thru 18 in the Pine Bluffs High School gymnasium. The camp is for boys and girls, ages six thru 14. Ages six thru nine will meet from noon to 1:30 p.m., and older students from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Students who attend the camp will receive training in speed, agility and flexibility, and the fundamentals of basketball, and have a lot of fun. Students will need basketball or tennis shoes, shorts and a t-shirt, and a positive attitude. Coaches Will Gray and...
Both residents and nonresidents alike can fish for free with no license required all day in Wyoming on June 6. The free fishing day was authorized in 2003 by the Wyoming State Legislature. Free Fishing Day applies to all waters in Wyoming with the exception that fishing licenses are required in Yellowstone National Park and the Wind River Indian Reservation. All fishing regulations such as creel and size limits, gear restrictions, fishing hours and stream closures still apply. Free Fishing Day is held in conjunction with National Fishing and Bo...
At its monthly meeting the South Platte Natural Resources District board of directors received an analysis review of the Western Water Use Management Model (WWUMM), commissioned to aid in determining the effects of actions on aquifers within the District. The review was the second seen by the directors, who saw initial modeling results at a special meeting at the end of April. At that time, board members asked hydrogeologist Thad Kuntz, who developed the model, to run more specific information than that initially presented. At the May board...
Everyone is invited to the Paul Smith Children’s Village for Plant Pandemonium! Join us on Saturday, May 30, from 9 a.m. to noon to plant the Children’s Village for the 2015 summer season. There will be 150 flats of plants, and all of them planted by you. Please bring a trowel. This free event is the kick-off of our Cheyenne Light, Fuel and Power Summer of Power series of programs. The Summer of Power series offers free, educational workshops and events; this year will be a series of community educational programs and enhancements based aro...
Looking for a place to fish in Wyoming? Do you have questions about how to get to a particular stream or lake? Or maybe you want to know what species of fish are available in a certain water. All of this information and more is available in the Wyoming Fishing Guide, now available online at http://wgfd.wyo.gov. The Wyoming Fishing Guide takes you through Wyoming on a drainage-by-drainage basis. Collectively the guide has listings of 247 of the most popular streams, lakes, reservoirs and fishing locations found in Wyoming. The guide is...
The Delta Club met at the home of Becky Maness on Thursday, May 21. The table setting was really fun and spring-like. Becky served Amish casserole, quinoa with goat cheese and spinach, mini muffins and fruit and yogurt parfaits. She hand crafted the table favors for each guest. Members enjoyed meeting some who are new to Albin friends. We shared where we moved from and how we ended up in Albin, with some very good stories. Members present were Becky Maness, Vernita Anderson, Pat Palm, Elaine Whitley, Martha Cannon, Judy Anderson, Mary Jo...
In conjunction with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s Free Fishing Day on June 6, daily use fees are waived at all Wyoming State Parks/Recreation Areas that provide angling. State parks, historic sites and trails facilities offering free entrance are: Buffalo Bill, Boysen, Curt Gowdy, Edness K. Wilkins, Fort Phil Kearney, Glendo, Guernsey, Keyhole, Seminoe and Hawk Springs. Fishing opportunities also exist at the following sites, which offer free entrance year-round: Bear River, Sinks Canyon and Medicine Lodge. Overnight camping fees a...
Carly Eastman of Pine Bluffs, was one among 359 named to the Chadron State College Dean's list for the spring semester of 2015. The Dean's list, which requires a 3.5 cumulative grade-point average, on a 4.0 scale. Students must be enrolled in 12 credit hours of coursework during the semester to qualify. The President's list, which requires a 4.0 cumulative grade-point average, consists of students enrolled in 12 credit hours of coursework during the semester to qualify. Included in 277 students on the President's list are Cassady Malm and...
