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Future business leaders throughout Laramie County were in Cheyenne Tuesday, April 26 to hone their skills before going to Atlanta. Students from Futures Business Leaders of America who qualified for the national competition in Atlanta this summer participated in Winners' Camp at the Laramie County Public Library in Cheyenne. Winners' Camp is designed to give them the skills needed to succeed at the national level. When students travel to the national competition, they will take a written test...
After a Hillsdale man's home was severely damaged in a fire, area residents are banding together to lend a helping hand. Hillsdale resident Walt Schaefer suffered severe damage to his kitchen and smoke damage to most of his home at 4226 Main Street, said Ross Heinen, who is helping coordinate fundraising efforts. “He lost some of his best friends, his pets,” Heinen said. Among Schaefer's lost pets was a service dog. Heinen said a bank account has been set up at Wyoming Bank and Trust in Burns for those wishing to donate. In addition to raising...
(Note: Last week, we wrote how Lander lost 550 high paying iron ore mining jobs and Fremont County lost 2,000 high-paying uranium-mining jobs in the 1980s. This is how local leaders turned the town around.) Impartial observers like the late Gov. Ed Herschler would point at Lander as the “worst hit” town in Wyoming during the 1980s depression. To those of us who lived through it, we certainly agreed with him, although that distinction brought us no solace. There was work to do. Our pro...
New equipment and help from American Medical Response is breathing new life into the Pine Bluffs Ambulance Service. Pine Bluffs Ambulance Director Derek Walls said the service recently received a special device that performs chest compressions, and performs more efficiently than a human performing CPR. "It doesn't get tired. It's the same compression each time," Walls said. Walls added that the device stays on the service's ambulance. The device, manufactured by Physio-Control Inc. is designed...
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Pine Bluffs senior Azhane Bufford, center, signed recently to play basketball at Gillette College. Pictured with Azhane are her new head coach, Will Rider (left) and her father, Rdale Bufford....
As the 2016 track season winds down, Pine Bluffs girls and boys had an impressive home meet Friday of last week. Pine Bluffs High School track coach Dustin Lee said there were many personal bests posted during the home stand. "Some of the top standouts were Hallie Christofferson, who took second in the 1600-meter run and also took sixth in the 800-meter run. Azhanne Bufford had personal bests in the discus and shot put, placing third in both," Lee said. Lee added that Montanna Chrystal also had...
Revenue and spending look to be up for the town of Burns. Burns town councilors passed the 2016-2017 budget during their monthly meeting April 11. The town anticipates receiving about $344,000 in revenue for the fiscal year, up from $333,000 from last year. Supplemental revenue, funds from the sixth penny sales tax and state supplemental funding, is anticipated to increase from $40,000 to $44,850. Spending will subsequently increase in line with the increased revenue. The town anticipates a considerable increase in administrative spending with...
Last Friday was a good day for the girls and boys of the Burns track and field team. Although the boys finished sixth out of a field of 15, Several athletes set personal bests and pre-qualified for state competition. "The Burns girls competed well, enjoying a great day for Track and Field," said Burns girls head coach Brooks Hoffman. "The team had 17 personal best marks, four individual pre-qualification marks and one relay that hit a state pre-qualification mark." Individual results in finals:...
All A’s 12th Grade Dylan Kelly Hana Lerwick Jessica Malm Garrett McWilliams Kayla Nesvick 11th Grade Morgan Griess Reata Beck Mallory Ickes Meghan Murphy Katie Norris Lauren Streeter 10th Grade Reese Burnett Emily Keiter 9th Grade Lash Branigan Mackenzie Faircloth Alyssa Saukerson Nicole Talkington Cassidy Weibel 8th Grade Boe Clayson Zachary Cudney Wyatt Ebben David Gordon Erin Griess Harkiran Kaur Keenan Manlove Jakobi Mirich Brenden Schatz 7th Grade Layne Burnett Alexis Engel Hayden Fogg Samantha Goldfuss Brea Hildebrandt 3.60 and Above 1...
Hello Banner County, friends near and far. Here we are enjoying the last week of our April 2016 and it has been raining almost every day. That is fine with me and probably most of you farmers out there, unless it is getting too wet. I am still working on flowers and grass, but that is a work in progress that will most likely never be completed. We can’t have too many flowers, can we? Our sympathy goes out to the family of Martha Bonds who passed away early last week, especially to Marvin and B...
The birds seem to be singing to us again. The song might change again before summer, but it sure sounds like the song of spring. Birds are not the only ones providing beautiful music lately. The students at Albin Elementary have been rehearsing for their spring concert. They would be delighted to sing to you Thursday, May 5 at 5:30. There will also be a silent auction. Don’t miss the beautiful sounds of our youth. The birthday song will be sung locally to a few of our neighbors and friends. This...
This week at the Hereford Community Church, Carolyn Ragsdale read the story “Rose” for the special. Pastor Opdycke chose Priorities - Trust and Obey God’s Commands as her sermon topic. The scripture was from Deuteronomy 6. Next Sunday, May 1, the sermon topic will be Hope. On May 8, there will be a special guest speaker from the Gideons. The 55 And Up Club will hold their monthly potluck luncheon on Friday, May 13, at noon at the Friendship Alliance North Church in Grover. Everyone 55 and over...
The public is invited to a Spring Recital featuring selected students of Patricia Randolph on Sunday, May 1, 3:00 p.m. at Kimball Baptist Fellowship Church located at 6th and Oak Street. Nine students who have earned Superior Awards at the District Music Contest and Wyoming Music Festival, plus two have been chosen by UNL Music faculty to hold the title of “Nebraska Youth Artist of the Year” will perform. The towns of Kimball, Sidney, Potter and Pine Bluffs, Wyo. will be represented. Admission is free. Students performing are: Bailey Bag...
We found out this spring how important continually adding carbon into our soil is here in this region. With our somewhat low organic matter content soil we really need to continually grow high residue crops a high percentage of the time to keep the soil in good condition. We are transitioning our farm on our irrigated acres to a winter wheat (followed by forages for grazing), dry edible bean, corn, yellow field pea rotation from a winter wheat, corn, edible bean rotation. During this transition...
1 Years Ago April 27, 1916 For better rural schools The second annual Rural School Conference will be held at the University on July 10, 11, and 12. This conference will be open to all county superintendents; rural teachers and others interested in rural school betterment. The program will be under the leadership of Professor H. L. Eby, head of the new Department of Rural Education in the University, and Miss Edith K. O. Clark, State Superintendent of Public Instruction. The purpose of the conference is the consideration of such problems as...