Serving all of Eastern Laramie County since 1908
Serving all of Eastern Laramie County since 1908
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Preston Harer reviewed the original plan to improve the existing trail to his property with the council Monday evening at the Pine Bluffs council meeting. Town administrator Caryn Miller said after council members physically looked at the property and reviewed the plats, Harer did encroach back on public property. Harer apologized for any miscommunication, but said he followed the specifications the town had for the trail. Councilman Mike Ragsdale said he wished the council had more... Full story
A new week was welcomed about the same as our last week. Falling temperatures and snow depths looming towards 10 inches again made traveling difficult. This unidentified vehicle rolled off County Road 215 early Monday morning....
Some 63 percent of the 579,000 residents in Wyoming own guns. This is the highest percentage of any state in the USA. Perhaps it makes some sense to describe what living in the heart of America’s “gun culture” can be like during this time of national debate about guns and whether or not there is a need for national registry of gun owners. Having spent time in places like Great Britain where even the occasional hunting shotgun is a rarity, our gun culture can begin to seem a little odd, I suppo... Full story
The pin speck on the globe that is Boston came under attack this week and people across the handprint that comprises the United States on that globe were instantly banded by both the horror of the event and the need to help. Why? Because that is how we are made. People from all over the globe were in Boston for the annual Patriot’s Day running of the Boston Marathon. Eagerly cheering on the runners crossing the finish line, the fans, athletes, volunteers and emergency services workers were s...
The Wyoming Writers, Inc., Annual Conference will be held from June 7 through June 9 at the Hilton Garden Inn & UW Conference Center in Laramie. The conference features workshops in fiction, poetry, short stories, children’s fiction, and nonfiction. Participants include award-winning novelist Margaret Coel, award-winning children’s author Eugene Gagliano, poet and essayist Rick Kempa, short-story writer Michael Shay, and editor-historian-nonfiction author Tom Rea. Agent Katharine Sands, wit...
Buster and Sylvia (Danielson) Childers were married on April 19, 1963, in Cheyenne. They will celebrate with a gathering of friends and family on Saturday. The couple met at the Grover Rodeo, in Grover, Colo. where Buster was bull riding. The McCoy family ranch south of Cheyenne has been their home since their marriage. They continue to work the ranch today with their cow/calf operation. Buster worked for HF Johnson Masonry for 30-plus years before retiring to full time ranch with Sylvia....
Stacey Lynn Gray and Brooks Allan Hoffman, along with their parents have announced their engagement. She is the daughter of Van and Jan Gray of Burns. He is the son of Gary and Jeanne Hoffman of Chadron, Neb. A June wedding is planned. The bride-to-be earned a Bachelor of Arts in elementary education from the University of Wyoming and a Master of Education in curriculum and instruction in reading from Grand Canyon University. She teaches kindergarten at Freedom Elementary School for Laramie...
Items for possible inclusion in the weekly community calendar should be typewritten or legibly printed. All submissions should include the name and daytime telephone number of the person submitting the information in case questions arise. Items which may be included in the calendar are church events, club meetings, and school events. If your club will not be meeting or has a change, please contact us so we can update the calendar with the correct information as soon as possible. Items should be received on Monday at 5 p.m., one week prior to...
Talk of opening a daycare in the Burns-Plex took a good portion of the Burns Town Council meeting Monday, April 8. Jessica Loyd was unable to attend the meeting, but sent a list of needed items to start a daycare center. Loyd is currently providing daycare in her home and has a waiting list for more children in need of local daycare. Through her investigation of needs to start a business in the Burns-Plex, Loyd discovered she would need a stove, triple-sink, a stove hood, and a sanitation...
Lyndee Johnston continued to impress this track season with a first place finish for the Pawnee Coyote squad at the Weld Central Rebel Round-up. The meet, with a field of 24 teams, was held Friday in Keenesburg, Colo. “We had another cold and windy meet, but the kids came through with great effort,” said coach Kathy Adams. In addition to her first place jump of 15’, 2.75”, Lyndee also took third in the triple jump with a distance of 30’, 7.25”, and fifth in the 800 meter run with a time of 2:5...
Meets canceled for Burns, Pine Bluffs Friday’s Storm Invite in Chappell and Saturday’s Tiger Invite at Lusk were cancelled due to weather causing the Pine Bluffs and Burns track teams to take some unscheduled down time. Though both meets will be rescheduled, neither the Hornets nor Broncs will be able to participate. Looking forward, both teams are set to participate in the Pine Bluffs Invite on Saturday, weather permitting. Should the meet be postponed due to weather, the make up date is Tue...
Monday Women 1. Pine Bowl 289 2. Designs West 258 3. Subway 251 Highs Handicap game: Conner Graves 231 Handicap series: Kate Zitek 630 Scratch game: Amy Zitek 200 Scratch series: Carleen Graves 540 Wednesday Mixed 1. Bluffs Insurance 36 2. Drew’s Team 31 3. Bowen Arrow Ranch 23 Women’s Highs Handicap game: Dawn Crouse 248 Handicap series: Dawn Crouse 668 Scratch game: Dawn Crouse 179 Scratch series: Dawn Crouse 461 Men’s Highs Handicap game: Nate Helbaum 255 Handicap series: Nate Helbaum 618 Scratch game: Nate Helbaum 186 Scratch series: Nate...
The High Plains Chapter of Pheasants Forever hosted its annual banquet Saturday night at the Pine Bluffs Community Center with a sold out crowd enjoying the festivities. Silent and live auctions took place along with raffles and games for the young Texas Trail Ringnecks and adults in attendance....
The Albin Town Council immediately adjourned to executive session Thursday night at the Albin town meeting to discuss the selection of new staff. They returned and moved to hire Aaron Anderson as the full-time maintenance man and Jillian McLaughlin as the part-time community center director. McLaughlin and Anderson have been working as interim staff in those positions for some time. Mayor Kelly Krakow said the town received three applicants for the maintenance position and two for the community...
The foot or so of wet snow we had last week was welcome; even it meant closing the town for three days. If the forecast they have out now comes through more is on its’ way. There were several postponements last week and one of them was the FFA Banquet. It has been rescheduled for tonight, April 18 at 6:30 p.m. School did resume last week for Kindergarten Round-Up and 10 youngsters were in attendance with their parents in tow. Nine boys and one girl. This is likely to change by next August, a...
The Hereford Community Church held its quarterly business meeting before the worship service on Sunday. General items of business were discussed. An upcoming date to put on your calendar is Saturday, June 8, which is the scheduled date for the annual yard sale, bake sale, and car wash to be held at the church. For the special this week at the Hereford Community Church Carolyn Ragsdale read “Cattleman’s Prayer” by Baxter Black. The theme for the day was Communion. Pastor Opdycke told about commu...
The village meeting was postponed because of the snowstorm, so I’ll report on it next week. Family Night is Saturday, April 20. Join your neighbors at 6 p.m. in the community center for a potluck supper. Saturday, April 20, at 6 p.m. the Sisters Grimm will be holding a reception for the folks who signed up to be World Book Night givers. Anyone who is interested in applying next year or just wants to know more about the program is also welcome to join us. Sunday, April 21, from 2 to 4 p.m. the b...
1 years ago A quintet of infants was born recently to Mrs. Charles Smith of Danby, a few miles south of Ithaca, N.Y. The gross earnings of the Midwest Oil Company of Casper approximate $180,000 for the month of March. (sic) Work is progressing rapidly on the new duplicate refinery and by October 1 the Midwest Company will be outputting at the rate of 11,000 barrels a day. 75 year ago Tomorrow is the day for the showing of the big industrial picture to be shown here by John C. Fleming of the Mountain States Telephone company of Denver under...
Our little community welcomed precipitation this week. This round of white stuff was more of a spring version, but still dampened the flowers spirits considerably. Remember to mark on your calendar April 28, for the community dinner. The community center lunch program will host a lunch from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. and raffle off the lovely quilt that day as well. Stop by the center for more information and a few raffle tickets. Little league soccer season is rolling and kicking through the snow....
My family, like most others who have or will walk this planet, have experienced a life full of trouble. I can’t really say I know anyone who has lived a “charmed” life. Blessed yes, charmed no. We Christ followers have a bad tendency to think that we should be blessed beyond anyone else. That people should actually see how much God loves us by how successful. We believe that we should have not just all we need, but all we want and ask for; and by the way, no troubles please. Smooth saili...
Ho, Ho, Ho! Yeah, no, I haven’t lost my calendar in the spring snow. I was trying for the “Green Giant.” Earth Day is Monday, April 22. A day for dusting off the carbon footprint on our boots and take a breath of fresh clean air Mother Nature provides for us. Recycling, using our bodies energy to get us where we are going instead of fuels, turning off the lights and turning on the solar panels are great ways to help momma earth stay clean. Another way to help the earth is to eat non-p...
Jessica Johnson, UNL agricultural educator at the Panhandle Research and Extension Center located in Scottsbluff has compiled budgets for the majority of the irrigated crops commonly grown here in our region. I’d like to take a look at these budgets that compare strip till, conventional tillage, and no-till crop production systems. Jessica’s budgets assume equal use of irrigation in producing these crops. When you compare these budgets you also need to factor in that the no-till crop pro...
