Serving all of Eastern Laramie County since 1908
Serving all of Eastern Laramie County since 1908
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The Town of Pine Bluffs are holding their annual spring cleanup week - town wide. All items were asked to be placed on the curb or in alleys by request before or on Monday April 26, 2021. Items eligible for pickup included household items, furniture, appliances and much more. There was obvious restrictions on hazardous materials, construction scraps, dirt, and gravel. Everything is picked up and discarded free of charge. Pick up is handled by the Town of Pine Bluffs maintenance department....
Allie Leitza, another life long Pine Bluffs resident, has entered herself into the council member election. Leitza is a third generation resident and graduated from Pine Bluffs high school. She was very active in a lot of extracurricular school activities such as FFA and student council. One of her passions that is carried on to her adult age is the parliamentary procedure contests. She often volunteers and judges for local FFA chapters in Kimball and Pine Bluffs. After high school Allie...
An original Wyomingite born and raised in Wheatland, Joshua McGurn has lived in Laramie County and Platte County for many generations. He served in the U. S. Army for almost seven years as a diesel mechanic, and was deployed to Iraq in 2005. McGurn currently works for Spradley Barr Motors Quick Lane as the service manager. Since his time in the Army, he has earned a Master of Business Administration from Columbia Southern University. After living in Cheyenne for many years, McGurn craved the...
CHEYENNE: The Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) is announcing a mistaken exposure of laboratory test result data involving the health information of thousands of Wyoming residents and others, as well as describing its plan to respond. The department became aware of a breach involving protected health information on March 10, 2021. It was discovered a workforce member inappropriately handled the health information of approximately 164,021 Wyoming residents and others as early as November 5, 2020. The incident involves an unintentional exposure...
Another question that came up often at the Cheyenne Home and Garden Show concerned raised beds and container gardening. The funny thing is that I was going to write on that topic anyway. Both of these gardening methods are invaluable in a garden. Raised beds take on many forms and can be decorative or strictly functional. They can be virtually any height and size. Those tending toward the functional side of the garden are most often customized to the gardener. For example, as we get older it...
“If you don’t like the weather wait 24 hours and it will change”. Over the last couple of days that saying should be “wait 10 hours and it will change. Started off Thursday morning with a pretty good looking sky. The sun was out and partly cloudy giving a sense of good things to come. How ever by early afternoon there were snow showers and a little wind letting us know that winter was not over. Friday morning showed more of the same and overcast skies showed the promise of showers. However by early afternoon the skies had cleared and sun pee...
Justin Fornstrom, Allie Leitza, and Ken Haas set up a meet the candidates on April 22 at 4:00 - 7:00p.m. This was a Open House at Pine Bluffs Distilling. There were at least 40 to 50 people in attendance. The candidates visited and discussed issues with each person that showed up. One of the topics was town council vs city council. Some signs and flyers have city council. It was upsetting to some people. They believe this is a town. They are concerned with bringing city ideas to a small town....
Experiencing the military through a child's eyes, as a veteran in my own right, and as a spouse of a veteran, the awe in all three positions is still there. "Being a military brat was awesome. It is a lifestyle, and kids adapt well." said Rene M.Military men and women have it hard. Leaving families, missing the birth of a child or missing the funeral of a loved one because they are deployed. But the wives still run the household, get the kids to school and work doing this on their own now...
Pine Bluffs Elementary Kindergarten recently participated and celebrated National Kindergarten Day! The theme for the day was to dress up with crazy hair. They also participated in an activity called "Yes Day". "This is the day where everyone has to say yes to everything, of course within reason." stated Jessica Gray, Kindergarten Teacher Pine Bluffs Elementary School. They were allowed to bring in ice cream for the students, it was a special treat for a special day, celebrating all of the...
Hope is the theme for Crossroads Girlz Nite on Wednesday April 21,2021. Girls giggling and talking is what you hear as you go in the basement of the church. About twenty-two girls filled three tables along with two adults set up for a craft project. They were listening to Colleen Wilkins, who was instructing the girls on their first steps of the project tiles. Each tile had a heart and broken pieces. The broken pieces represent the difficult times in a person's life. The heart is placed in...
The Pine Bluffs Hornets Track and Field team tried to host a track meet last Friday. The teams were hot and ready but Mother Nature had other plans and the teams ended up cancelling most of the meet. There was lightning and rain in the area and the athletes were in danger of getting hurt. Coach Lee had these comments: "It was a great day for a meet, until it wasn't! Due to the long lightning delay in the afternoon and potential no end in sight for rain, the coaches from all the schools voted to...
The Burns Broncs Track and Field team had a good meet at the George Calvert Meet on April 24th. Teams that competed with the Broncs were Mitchell, Morrill, Kimball, Guernsey-Sunrise, Minatare and Bridgeport. The weather was fair and looked like all had a good time. In the 100m dash final Burns Matt Ashworth placed fifth in the race with a time of 11.92 sec for the boys and Savannah Kirkbride placed sixth with a time of 14.70 seconds for the girls. In the 200m run Burns Joel Morales came in...
A fun but yet learning clinic for Disc Golf was held at the community center on Saturday the 24th of April. The clinic's instructor was Troy Groendal. The clinic drew in ten kids and nine adults. Groendal showed the different grips for each disc. There are three discs for basics, putter disc, short distance to get it in the hole. The hole is a chain basket stand. Mid-range disc, is in the middle distance. Driver disc, has sharp edges and thin to go the length of the fairway. Pro's have more...
The Arrow of Light scouts from Pack 109 did some community service up at the rest stop today (April 25). They, along with their den chief and others, picked up seven full bags and one box of trash around the rest area and nature trails. Xander and Asher are both on track to finish their Arrow of Light ranks in May and plan to bridge up to Troop 101, based in Cheyenne, this summer. This community service and hiking project was a key piece to their rank advancement....
Wyoming High School Activites Association has invited Pine Bluffs High School sophomore, Stuart Lerwick to serve as a member of the 2021-21 Advisory Council. Sixteen students are selected from around the state through a nomination process to form the WHSAA Student Advisory Council. These students spend time evaluating our current sportsmanship initiatives and what other states around the country are doing to address sportsmanship issues. Elliot Hopkins, Director of Educational Services, from...
“If his forces are united, separate them.” From the Art of War written by Sun Tzu, a Chinese military strategist of about the 5th century B.C. The term we use today is “divide and conquer”. This is one of the first and foremost strategies used to take over a nation. For 243 years the United States has stood as a bastion of freedom and hope for the entire world. We took on what was at the time the most powerful nation and military in the world and defeated them to win our freedom from oppression. Then we fought another war with each other t...
