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Serving all of Eastern Laramie County since 1908
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Last week, the Wyoming Recreation and Parks Association held its annual workshop right here in Pine Bluffs. In the past the event has been held in Casper, but that changed last Thursday. The workshop was one of two annual events the association holds each year, the other being the annual conference. At the annual workshop, parks and recreation professionals networked and attended different seminars including event planning and marketing. Pine Bluffs Recreation Director Sonja Fornstrom, who is also a WRPA board member, said the event was an...
Cheyenne, WY—Cheyenne Regional Medical Center is hosting a free men’s health event on April 28, 7 a.m.-10 a.m., in the hospital’s main auditoriums, 214 East 23rd St. The first 200 men to participate will be offered a free blood draw to test for lipids, testosterone, glucose and the prostate-specific antigen (PSA). Men who plan to do the tests should not eat or drink anything except water for at least eight hours before the blood draw. Medications should still be taken as prescribed. Information on lung, testicular, prostate and color...
LARAMIE COUNTY SHERIFFS: The Laramie County Sheriffs Department will be at two locations on Saturday, April zs", 2018 from 1 0:00AM through 2:00PM to take back any unwanted, unused, prescription, or over the counter drugs. The Sheriffs Department will join other local law enforcement agencies in continuing this successful program for county residents. The two locations are the Safeway Grocery Store and Pharmacy at 700 South Greeley Highway, and Laramie County Fire District #2 at 5800 North College. The Laramie County Sheriffs Department has...
The Gardening for Success 2018 regional conference closed Sunday after finishing an information packed weekend with a lot of fun mixed in. The conference kicked off Saturday morning with Scott Skogerboe's presentation on edible landscapes. His presentation was the beginning of a morning of seminars on trees, plant diseases, soil composition, herbs and flowering plants. Whew! With so much to take in, how do you do it all? Well, the answer is that you don't. Attendees had to pick and choose what...
Once every year, thousands of students and teachers gather together in the Casper Event center to view the best artwork from high school students throughout the state. For the first time in many years, the Pine Bluffs High School attended the Wyoming High School Art Symposium. There were over five thousand pieces of artwork on display. This year, Pine Bluffs had fourteen students participate, and Burns had three. Pine Bluffs students brought home four blue ribbons and Burns brought home one as...
Denton "Den" R. Dudrey, is a Wyoming native, born and raised, with a strong family history in the military. He was born in Sheridan, and lived all of his childhood years there until graduating from Sheridan High School in 1965. From Sheridan, Dudrey went to Junior College working towards an electrical engineering degree. After a year, he transferred to the University of Wyoming in Laramie. While at Laramie, he worked towards his degree, circumstances would change and he would find himself lookin...
Small businesses are not just your mom and pop stores, cafes, service stations of the past. There are the meat and potatoes of every small town across American. In our town and surrounding communities, we have many business, old and new that are still going strong. Since 1963, the President of the United States has issued a proclamation announcing National Small Business Week, which recognizes the critical contributions of America’s entrepreneurs and small business owners. More than half of Americans either own or work for a small business, a...
According to Pine Bluffs Post Archives, the building that now houses Farmers State Bank was constructed in 1925 as Carlstrum's Dry Good store. However, in 1957 the owners liquidated the business's stock and Farmers State Bank, which was established in 1915, began moving in - but not without extensive renovations first. A tour of the bank reveals that the drop down ceiling now in place, hides what was a mezzanine encircling ground floor of the interior. In the times that the building operated as...
This past Friday, I had the pleasure of attending Casper's Annual High School Art Symposium. The kids that went spent approximately six hours on a bus, three one way and three back. In my opinion, it was worth every second. There was just about everything there, from taxidermy, to 3D sculptures, to paintings, fused glass, ceramics, and everything in between. It was incredibly eye opening to be around that much quality artwork, and honestly pretty overwhelming. The beauty of art, in my opinion,...
Several strong performances in Pine Bluffs landed Burns a third-place finish at the Pine Bluffs invitational track meet Thursday, April 19. Keenan Manlove was the only Bronc to outright win an event. His 10-07.00 effort in the pole vault carried him to first place in that event, ahead of Boe Clayson who finished with a 10-01.00 vault. However, because a number of Broncs chipped in to place and thereby earn points in other events, they were still able to walk away with third-place honors. The...
Entering the heart of the 2018 track and field season, the Pine Bluffs Lady Hornets don’t seem to be losing any steam as they just edged out Burns last weekend here at home. The Lady Hornets bested the Lady Broncs with 107.5 points. The Lady Broncs earned 102 points, but that wasn’t enough as the Lady Hornets earned 102. Maddie Fornstrom put together several strong showings during Thursday’s meet, including a win in the 300-meter hurdles. The 4X800-meter relay team consisting of Hallie Christofferson, Kaetlin Paice, Shelby Thurin and Maega...
The Pine Bluffs Hornets continued a successful season last week when they hosted a home meet Thursday. Placing for the Hornets, by event were: 100-METER DASH Seth Tangeman, first, 12.22;Marvin Reza, sixth, 13.04 200-METER DASH Seth Tangeman, first, 24.68 ;Bradley Shmidl, sixth, 26.91 (PR) 3200-METER RUN Michael Shain, fifth, 12:09.37 (PR); Donte Jacobsen, sixth, 12:15.55 110-METER HURDLES Kyle Thurin, sixth, 19.65 300-METER HURLDES Kyle Thurin, fifth, 46.30 4X100-METER RELAY Ishmael DePaullite,...
Runners and field athletes from throughout western Nebraska and eastern Wyoming were in Pine Bluffs last Thursday for the Pine Bluffs track and field invitational. The Pine Bluffs Hornets and Lady Hornets both won the meet in their respective divisions. The Burns Lady Broncs earned second-place honors while the boys were third. Thursday’s meet marked a turning point in the season as the meets will begin to get “more serious” as the stakes are raised. This week, students from Pine Bluffs and B...