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The Laramie County Retired Education Personnel organization recognized Laine Vasko, center, with the Eastern Laramie County Citizenship Award at a luncheon at the Raddison Inn in Cheyenne, Wyoming on Monday. Laine is a senior at Pine Bluffs High School. She was selected by high school staff to receive this award based on her school and community service which includes membership in the National Honor Society where she serves as a mentor for an elementary child, along with membership in FFA. In...
Top News Stories of 2016 *Editor's Note – This is a review of stories that hit the pages of the Pine Bluffs Post during 2016* September Dennis Noack, 74, of Pine Bluffs, was killed when the 2004 Toyota Solara he was driving rear-ended a 2016 Jeep Cherokee on eastbound Interstate 80. The collision caused both vehicles to roll off the highway into the south ditch. Noack was not wearing his seat belt and was ejected, sustaining fatal injuries at the scene. In partnership with the Arbor Day F...
Monday, January 9, was the the first meeting for the new Laramie County Fire District #5 officers in their new positions. In November, members voted on new officers and the board approved those votes at their meeting in December. New officers for the department are: Chief - Derek Walls Asst Chief - Jerry Lamb Captain/Training Officer - Jon Christie Captain/Operations Officer - Nate Dunnam Lieutenant/Fleet Officer - Jerry Barker Lieutenant/Equipment Officer - Karl Zerck Secretary Treasurer - Mellissa Walls...
Activities from the Pine Bluffs Police Department were as follows: 2 calls were handled with regards to Disturbances; 3 traffic stops/violations 2 traffic accidents were handled by the Pine Bluffs Police Department....
The Laramie County Spelling Bee will be held Jan. 25 in the Centennial Room at Laramie County Community College starting at 9 a.m. The top five spellers will advance to the State Spelling Bee in Rock Springs on March 11. The following LCSD2 students will be competing: Albin Elementary Stuart Lerwick- 6th grade Savannah Kirkbride - 5th grade Alternate: Saria Eklund - 5th grade Coach: Christine Nusbaum Burns Elementary Crysti Barth - 6th grade Daljit Kaur - 6th grade Alternate: Aron Brown - 6th grade Coach: Rhonda Morrison Carpenter Elementary...
One of the most conservative members of the Wyoming State Senate is Cale Case (R-Lander). He favors approval of a medical marijuana bill and says there is a surprising amount of support for such an effort among older, conservative Wyomingites. I happened to be with Case during his recent talk to the Lander Rotary Club. He asked the crowd of 50, how many would favor such a measure? Some 35 hands were raised – 70 percent! Earlier, Cale had joined our Fox News All-Stars coffee group (average age 69...
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Under Secretary Lisa Mensah recently announced that USDA is accepting applications for the Community Connect Grant Program for FY 2017. The grants may be used to provide broadband service in unserved, lower-income and extremely rural areas. USDA will give priority to rural areas that demonstrate the greatest need for broadband services, based on requirements that can be found at 7 CFR part 1739. Applicants are encouraged to review the FY 2017 application guide and sample material that is...
U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., nominated 20 Wyoming students for the United States service academies for 2017. Today, he announced his choices for the U.S. Air Force Academy, the Merchant Marine Academy, the Military Academy and the Naval Academy. “Every year, Wyoming students demonstrate their patriotism and willingness to serve their country by applying to our service academies,” said Enzi. “Apart from a quality education, the service academies open doors and provide a unique set of experiences that graduates will carry with them throu...
Julie Sandberg Read of Pearland, Texas, received her doctorate in aerospace engineering from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, on December 16th. Her research interests were in the area of spacecraft trajectory design and numerical integration. Julie was hooded by her mentor and dissertation chair, Dr. John Junkins. Julie will be employed as a senior satellite systems engineer at Leidos, while working on flight dynamics operations for NASA's Orion spacecraft at Johnson Space Center...
1 YEARS AGO Jan. 11, 1917 The Pine Bluffs Town Council refused the Beatty addition and the map returned to the county engineer as there were no provisions made for streets running east and west into the original town site. Postmaster T.W. Keenan and Frank Land were trying to get signers for a petition to have the star route south of Pine Bluffs, changed into a regular-rural free delivery route. L.J. Bayne, an old resident of the Colorado state line area south of Pine Bluffs, was constructing a new home on his farm. Mrs. A.B. Mitchell was...
Good morning everyone and happy January to you. Baby it sure has been cold outside! I have not been outside unless I have no other choice. There have been many of those, but at least I am not walking in it all day long. Last week due to the nasty weather one basketball game and one wrestling meet were rescheduled. The basketball game was anyway. This Friday, tomorrow, January 13, the basketball boys will play in Crawford at 3 p.m. I was at the school last Friday and watched part of the girls...
Once upon a time there was a tree. He grew tall and strong in the dry, high and often frozen ground of southeast Wyoming. A feat in itself. The tree shaded a little house and watch a couple of generations of children grow and play beneath him. He swayed when the Wyoming winds blew. He endured “haircuts” when he grew too close to power lines. He dried a little when the summers brought little rain. The tree proudly protected the house and family when the winter brought storm after storm. But the...
I hope you all have survived the cold and the snow. The days are getting longer. Spring is on the way! This week at the Hereford Community Church Tami Walden was celebrating her birthday. For the special Karel Smock read two stories from the book Church Chuckles. The sermon topic was Drink The Water - The living water that comes from Christ Jesus, the rock. One of the scriptures was Exodus 17:1-7. Next week, January 15, the sermon topic will be Listen To Me. Then on January 22 the sermon topic...
For the last 50 years, Dalton Fuller of Pine Bluffs followed his passion for music all over this country , performing for a variety of people in various gigs. This past Thanksgiving, Fuller was inducted into the Nebraska Music Hall of Fame in Columbus, Nebraska as he was a crucial piece in getting a recording studio setup in the town of David City, Nebraska for a friend by the name of Bud Comte. "This kind of thing doesn't mean anything to anybody, but me," Fuller said when asked of the...
The Pine Bluffs Hornets are showing everybody in Wyoming they are the real deal and the unanimous choice for the #1 spot in the 2A Southeast standings. Their 4-0 showing last weekend in Yoder was a prime example of a defending championship team determined to keep their crown. Last Friday, the boys started the day taking on Kaycee. The Buckaroos took an early 21-11 lead in the first quarter and led 30-26 at the break. The Hornets rebounded in the third, outscoring the Bucks 22-12 to take a 48-42...
The Burns Broncs have a 2-7 record after going 0-4 in Yoder last weekend. Last Friday, the Broncs took on the Big Horn Rams in the morning. The Rams led 11-10 in the first quarter and pulled away in the second to take a 29-14 advantage at halftime. It was all Rams in the second half, outscoring the Broncs 18-9 in the third and 14-1 in the fourth to come away with a 61-24 win. Sam Sharpe led Bronc scoring with 10 points, followed by Klayton Clark with 8 and Jack Ickes and Tyler Norris with 3 poin...
The Burns Lady Broncs stand at 2-8 on the season after a tough weekend that saw the squad go 1-3 in Yoder. After taking off for the Christmas break, the Lady Broncs opened the new year fighting and clawing for every win. Last Friday, the girls fell 48-23 to Big Horn and then lost 40-30 to Shoshoni later in the day. Saturday brought the girls a 63-36 loss at the hands of Tongue River, but the Lady Broncs able to defeat Kaycee 54-30 to come away with one win. Against Big Horn, Brittani Wilson had...
The Burns/Pine Bluffs wrestling team competed in the Shane Shatto Memorial tournament in Douglas on Friday and Saturday. “It was a great weekend for the boys,” said wrestling coach Dan Clayson. “We had four seniors, Isaac Ronning -120, Kestrel Medina-138, Ruger Lewis-160, and Roman Delgado-182, wrestling in the varsity tournament. All of the boys won matches and Isaac finished 4th at 120 lbs. We had ten wrestlers in the JV tournament, and they placed as follows: Zach Cudney-106 3rd Tate Kelly-132 4th Mitch Miller-145 3rd Jeff Langl...
With a revamped website since March, it seems that the online farmers market that serves southeastern Wyoming is a win-win situation for both the consumer and the producer. With videos of brightly colored fresh fruit, to the tractor combining, to bacon sizzling, the new WyoFresh website draws attention of potential buyers. The mission of the online farmers market allows for local producers to find more consumers than they might not have had otherwise and likewise brings consumers in contact with...
