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GERING, Neb. - Cousins Jesse and Doug Fornstrom are toiling away, making final repairs to their race cars for an evening of competition at HiWay92 Raceway Park in western Nebraska. The 17-year-old Pine Bluffs High School students are well-aware that the majority of the people they'll be up against have been doing this longer than they've been alive. But they don't seem to mind. "Our cars are good enough and the people who help us know we can compete with the guys who have been doing it for 30...
Pine Bluffs town offices will soon be moving to a consolidated location. Specifically, the town’s municipal building will be moving across the street from its current location at 220 Main Street. Pine Bluffs Treasurer Kim Patterson said the move will give residents a chance to do their business with the town from a “one-stop shopping” approach. Currently, Pine Bluffs’ department heads are scattered at various offices throughout town. For example, recreation director Sonja Fornstrom currently operates from the Pine Bluffs Recreation Center....
BURNS — Laramie County School District 2 board members on Monday voted to purchase a small piece of land from the Town of Pine Bluffs for $7,500 at the Pine Bluffs RV Park and Campground. The school district currently owns the rest of the park with the exception of about 7,500 square feet. Pine Bluffs Town Treasurer Kim Patterson said on Tuesday that purchase between the two entities is intended to help the school district proceed with a planned land sale. Patterson described the impacted land as being between the two entry ways to the c...
As of Friday, Aug. 10, about 10 percent of Laramie County voters have cast their ballots for the primary election according to the Laramie County Clerk’s office. “A total of 3078 voters cast ballots in the Atrium of the Laramie County Governmental Complex. The highest daily number of voters to date was today, Friday, with 270 electors voting,” Laramie County Clerk Debra Lee said in a press release. An additional 1,261 voters have cast absentee ballots making the total 4339. Eastern Laramie County primary election candidates include: Voting for...
A Laramie County District Court judge determined last week that Republican gubernatorial candidate Taylor Haynes can continue his campaign amid questions of the candidate’s residency. Hayne’s resides on a ranch that straddles the Wyoming-Colorado border in Albany and Larimer (Colorado) Counties. The allegations contended that while Haynes used the Wyoming portion of the ranch as his physical address, his actual residence lies in Colorado. The Wyoming Secretary of State’s Office received a complaint regarding Haynes elligbility based on his r...
Monday voted to absorb a retirement system contribution rate increase for public employees. Contributions will increase of increments of .5 percent over the next four years, leading to a total increase of 2 percent, Pine Bluffs Treasurer Kim Patterson said during Monday’s town council meeting. The increases will not directly impact public employees as the town will absorb the rate hike. This year’s increase, effective Sept. 1, will cost the town $2,300. In future years, town officials will absorb the costs in their annual budgets passed each su...
It was a beautiful day for young cowgirls and cowboys over the weekend. It was perfect for a youth rodeo. On Saturday afternoon, youths from Pine Bluffs and surrounding areas turned out for the Pine Bluffs Trail Days Youth Rodeo. Raegen DeLancey took first-place in the senior girls all-around division. Bryton Scheller was first for the senior boys. Taking the junior girls all-around title was Brenna Herring and Royce Breeden won the junior boys division. Vanessa Delacruz earned the Kaylie Haun...
Former Pine Bluffs High School distance-running standout Alejandro Garcia put on a familiar show Saturday, Aug. 4 as he won the 17th annual Longhorn Stampede 5K. It wasn’t close as he finished with a time of 15:20. That’s less than a 5-minute mile. Fifty-one competitors turned out to compete in the early-morning run which took place in Pine Bluffs. Participants were from Pine Bluffs, Burns, Cheyenne and Hillsdale. The youngest compitor was 6-years-old and the oldest was 66. Age division winners follow: 14 & Under Lacyanna Goodman, Che...
Over a 10-day period, the National Weather Service in Cheyenne issued 95 total warnings. As a breakdown, that's 74 severe thunderstorm warnings, 14 tornado warnings and seven flash flood warnings. Compare that to a low of eight warnings issued in 2009, all severe. In 2016, the NWS Cheyenne office issued 71 warnings, all of which were severe over the same 10-day period of July 20 - 30. Of those, 59 were severe, 10 were tornado warnings and two were flash floods. The NWS Cheyenne office covers...
The Wyoming Secretary of State’s Office has asked a state judge to decide whether Republican gubernatorial candidate Taylor Haynes is eligible to seek office amid allegations that he resides out-of-state. On June 25, the Wyoming Secretary of State’s Office received a complaint alleging that Haynes does not meet the requirements to run for governor, namely that within the past five years he has resided outside of the state. The allegations initially surfaced as the result of a report in the non-profit news website WyoFile. According to Alb...
CHEYENNE - Airmen with the Wyoming Air National Guard's 153rd Airlift Wing were hard at work preparing for a deployment last week. They weren't going to a combat zone, nor were they training for it. The 153rd was preparing to help battle wildfires in Colorado. Since the 1970s, the U.S. Forest Service has partnered with the Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard to help fight fires. Wyoming's Air Guard unit flies C-130 cargo aircraft. A typical combat mission can involve troop transport or...
Donald Anderson has called the Albin area home since 1929. Saturday, along with his wife, Vernida, he will take part in the annual Albin Day parade as grand marshal. “He has deep roots here,” Vernida said. “I guess that’s why they asked us to be grand marshals.” Donald and Vernida married in 1988 after their previous spouses passed away. They met through mutual friends, said Vernida. Donald has been a farmer in the area all of his life. Vernida taught school in Colorado before moving to LaGrange and teaching there for several decades....
Republican candidates for federal, statewide and local offices had a chance to meet Laramie County residents and give their reasons to be elected to office last week during the Lawrence Anderson Memorial Politics and Pie Social held in Pine Bluffs Sunday. Event organizers touted that each candidate gets an even footing to speak directly to Laramie County voters be it well-known incumbents such as U.S. Senator John Barrasso or relatively unknown candidates. Each had four minutes to speak....
With summer vacation in full-swing, area children are getting their first taste of America's pastime. On Monday, children from Burns were in Grover for a friendly T-ball game....
Pine Bluffs High School chemistry teacher Kendra Roeder doesn't usually let students take phone calls in her class, but she made an exception for Wyatt Fornstrom last March. That's what you do when West Point comes calling. Fornstrom was sitting in Roeder's college-level chemistry class when he learned he'd been accepted into the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. "She's one of the strictest teachers we have in our school," Fornstrom said. "I just showed her my phone, that it...
A Pine Bluffs man is asking the community for help after losing a piece of equipment that helps him get around. Gary Shandera was herding cattle on a dirt bike in 2011 when he hit a badger hole. He fell off the bike and in the process injured his spinal cord. “The cows had gotten out,” Shandera said. “I was out on my motorcycle chasing them back in when I hit a badger hole. “I somersaulted off the bike and injured my spinal cord.” He was life flighted from the site of the wreck to Regional West Medical Center in Scottsbluff, Neb. After that, he...
A man died Tuesday morning while working at a dairy farm near Carpenter. According to a statement on the Laramie County Sheriff's Department's Facebook page, the unidentified man was killed while working at Burnett Enterprises. According to the sheriff's office, the man, along with one of the business owners and two electrical contractors, entered a well house to make repairs. At some point, the man fell down the well shaft into several feet of water. Quickly overcome by methane fumes, the man...
Pine Bluffs residents will be able to set off certain fireworks during three-day period in July. On July 3, 4 and 5 residents can enjoy ground-based fireworks and sparklers. On July 3 and 5 fireworks will be permitted within town limits until 10 p.m. July 4, they will be permitted until midnight. “This allows everybody an opportunity to take their kids and shoot off some fireworks if they so please,” Pine Bluffs Police Chief Justin Trout said. Pine Bluffs Town Council voted 4-0 Monday night to allow the practice. Each year, the council wil...
About 100 spectators packed the Pine Bluffs Veterans Memorial Plaza Tuesday to dedicate a tribute to veterans that has been in the works for years now. U.S. Senator John Barrasso, Wyoming Governor Matt Mead and other dignitaries were on hand for Tuesday's ceremony. Earlier this month, a mural stretching across the north wall at the veterans plaza was installed by a crew from Salt Lake City. It includes American landmarks from USS Arizona Memorial in Hawaii to the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C....
Each year, residents from Pine Bluffs and surrounding areas congregate to put on a community-wide garage sale. This year’s is set to kick off Saturday. Pine Bluffs recreation director Sonja Fornstrom said the event gives people from out of town a reason to come to Pine Bluffs for a morning of garage sales. When people in larger communities like Cheyenne, for example, go on a weekend garage sale trip, they often look for places in the same neighborhood. Pine Bluffs is like a big neighborhood in that regard, Fornstrom said. Twenty-eight v...
Each year, American Legion members nationwide place American flags at the grave sites of deceased U.S. veterans. Last Friday was no different for Pine Bluffs American Legion Post 160. Members turned out to the Pine Bluffs Cemetery to place flags at the grave sites of United States military veterans....
The Pine Bluffs swimming pool officially opened Tuesday for a free swim day. Despite the rain and clouds, area children were out in full force to enjoy the first week of summer vacation...
Twenty-nine students took the first steps of the rest of their lives Sunday at Burns High School before a gym filled with friends and family. "This packed gym is only one of many examples I can remember of growing up in a very supportive community," Valedictorian Reese Burnett said. For Burnett, high school has been a journey of trials and tribulations. When he started junior high basketball, Burnett traveled to Kimball with the rest of his teammates. When the B-team took the court, Burnett...
Pine Bluffs Town Council members on Monday passed a resolution paving the way to relocate the Main Street railroad crossing. The council briefly discussed the resolution at their meeting earlier this month, but did not take any formal action. Monday’s resolution begins the process of relocating the crossing from North Main Street to Butler Street in Pine Bluffs. Mayor Alan Curtis said the resolution has been a pet project of his over the past few years. The Wyoming Department of Transportation will work with Union Pacific Railroad and the t...
Governor Matt Mead and other dignitaries will be in Pine Bluffs next week to dedicate the recently installed “America the Beautiful Mural.” The mural was installed last week after years of work from Pine Bluffs resident Larry Silvey. Located at 211 Main Street in Pine Bluffs, the mural was just the latest piece of artwork honoring veterans to be added to the Pine Bluffs Veterans Memorial Plaza. In 2016, statues representing members of the United States Army, Marine Corps, Air Force and Navy were added. Governor Mead was on hand for that pre...
