Serving all of Eastern Laramie County since 1908
Serving all of Eastern Laramie County since 1908
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From left, Jack Bowman, Deane Skinner, Angie Robertson, Diane Lyons and Bob Lyons, pose with several baskets of food Dec. 19 at the Pine Bluffs Post to be given to families and individuals in need. Robertson, who has helped organize the Laramie County Community Christmas Food Basket for two years, said more than 90 baskets were delivered to various locations in eastern Laramie County. She said the deliveries were made in less than three hours. "That tells you how many volunteers we had...
Police officers and firefighters from Pine Bluffs chauffeured nine children to K-Mart in Cheyenne Saturday with a surprise - a Christmas shopping spree. "I'm just very happy that I get to be here," said Katlin Butler, while waiting at the Pine Bluffs police station for the vehicles to fire up. Butler, along with nine other children, was selected to participate in Pine Bluffs' "Shop with a Cop" program. Those who were selected received a $100 K-Mart gift card, a ride to Cheyenne in either a fire...
Texas Trail Market General Manager Bill Cushing said the cooperative grocery store is doing well, but not making enough to make a dividend. "We are still turning a profit, but it's still not big enough to make a dividend," he said. The store held its annual meeting Dec. 9 at the Pine Bluffs Community Center gym, serving dinner to 190 people. Cushing said the number of attendants was up from last year by about 40. Cushing presented the numbers and also gave a speech to all store stakeholders,...
Cold equals misery in my book. During the winter, I am forced to get up 20 minutes earlier than usual to be greeted by the cold and a car that doesn’t want to start. Once it does start, I continue my morning ritual by brushing and scraping the snow and ice from my windshield. If I am very lucky, the wind isn’t blowing during the whole process. Just writing about it makes me cringe. However, despite being frostbit every morning, I enjoy this time of year for reasons I don’t quite under... Full story
Residents should have their Christmas lights on and ready Dec. 16 as the ninth annual Christmas Light Decoration Contest in Pine Bluffs begins. “We encourage people to decorate every year,” said recreation director Sonja Formstrom, who started the contest in 2005. Everyone is encouraged to participate, and the winners chosen will receive a $10 cash prize. Ten winners are chosen. However, Formstrom said participants can only win every other year, to make the contest fair for all. Those who wis...
Mayor Bill Shain swore in three town officials in the Dec. 3 Pine Bluffs Town Council meeting. Caryn Miller, Carleen Graves and Don Taylor stood in front of the council members Dec. 3 as they simultaneously read the oath of office prescribed by the constitution of Wyoming. Miller was sworn in as the town's treasurer, Graves was sworn in as the town's clerk and Taylor was named chief of police. Taylor said his new title is official until the town finds another person to fill the position. In...
My Monday in early November, was beginning to look bleak, before I got the call. I was backtracking from Cheyenne to Fort Collins the weekend before, after I learned Interstate 80 was closed due to a crash. I could have stayed in Cheyenne, but doing so would have meant arriving late to work Monday, and I had too much work to do in Saratoga, and, for some reason, I decided it would be a good idea not to take my laptop on this particular trip. Backtracking to Fort Collins to take Highway 287 back... Full story
Obamacare failures "The president has said several times that this is settled law and that there can't be any changes. Yet, he changes two things a week that wind up to be deathly for Obamacare. He says Republicans don't have any ideas. We have been sharing ideas with him for four years, he just hasn't been listening. I have a 10 step plan that is on my website that would have done more than Obamacare and been paid for. It would be sustainable. It would have let you to keep your doctor, keep...
Earlier this month, Diana and I travelled over 2,000 miles across Wyoming. We held “Collecting Common Sense from Wyoming for Washington” listening sessions in seven communities in the state.We were pleased to hear from Pine Bluffs area residents. A New York Times reporter who attended a few of the meetings told me he was surprised with how informed people were. He shouldn’t have been surprised. I wasn’t. I appreciate the ability of Wyoming folks to know what is wrong and to come up with new ide...
RENO, Nev. — There’s no bigger stage in bowling than the National Bowling Stadium, but when Jared Zitek of Cheyenne, found himself on the verge of perfection at the United States Bowling Congress Open Championships on June 4, he wasn’t intimidated by his surroundings. Instead of focusing on the magnitude of the one-of-a-kind 78-lane facility and the hundreds of bowlers and guests around him, the 37-year-old right-hander pretended he was at home at the Pine Bowl — his family’s eight-lan...