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Some of you will remember that last year Alisha Michaud and Michaud farms planted over 200 new grapes for their winery. What does a grape farmer do during a time of social distancing? They plant more grapes! Michaud and her family will not see wine for at least a few more years but as of now they have a full acre of grapes ready to grow. On Saturday April 25th, the Michaud's planted 600 grape plants. Last year they planted 100 Marquette red grapes and 100 Itasca white grapes and this year they...
Governor Mark Gordon has begun introducing ways to open the state back up. While many Americans are still battling high numbers and active cases of COVID-19 Wyoming is in the unique position to be able to open possibly a little earlier. While Wyoming’s active cases are in the hundreds, there have only been 2 deaths due to COVID-19. While the desire is to have no death from this horrible sickness, we are doing much better than several other states. There is no decision at this time as to whether Cheyenne Frontier Days will continue; however, Wyo...
Monday’s virtual meeting of the town council started with a larger number of building permits than we have seen thus far. The new normal of social distancing has seen an increase in home projects being done. Spending more time at home is giving residents a chance to spruce up those outside projects that seem to get put off due to lack of time. The bid for the new airport hanger project was accepted. Anderson Shaw from Scottsbluff, Nebraska was able to come in with the low bid. Originally the town was responsible for paying for 100 percent of t...
Hallie Christofferson, a 2019 Pine Bluffs High School graduate, recently joined the United States Air Force. She is currently in basic training in San Antonio, Texas and will be there for the next 8.5 weeks. With the Coronavirus outbreak, the basic training graduation will not be open to the public and Christofferson will go to tech school right afterwards. She will be staying in San Antonio for her tech school. Christofferson is the daughter of Marcus and Becky Christofferson of Pine Bluffs....
CHEYENNE – In response to COVID-19 impacts, the Wyoming Stock Growers Association (WSGA) has rescheduled the 2020 Wyoming Cattle Industry Convention and Trade Show for August 26-28 at the Holiday Inn in Rock Springs, Wyoming. The convention was originally scheduled for June 10-12. The WSGA has served the livestock business & families of Wyoming by protecting their economic, legislative, regulatory, judicial, environmental, custom, and cultural interests. This convention focuses on education and networking for industry members across the s...
The Laramie County Master Gardeners are pleased to announce their new seminar series, "Gardening for Success", starting Wednesday, May 6th. Yes, I know it's already started, but read on anyway. The seminars will be presented using Zoom so that everybody can attend from the comfort of your computer. Although the live Zoom class will only happen once, we will archive each class so that you can go back and watch it again or, if you missed the live feed, watch it for the first time. The only...
The back of a vegetable seed packet will have information to help you know days for germination and days to harvest fruit from that plant. Here are what all the numbers mean. Days to Germination; under the proper growing conditions (warm soil and proper moisture) the seed will germinate in a given time. Some seeds can take a couple days others a couple weeks. Days to Maturity or Harvest is, once planted and allowing for transplant shock, then under proper growing conditions when you get to harvest that first fruit or vegetable. For example:...
The staff of the Pine Bluffs Post took time out of their day on Friday to deliver bouquets of May Day Flowers to local businesses that have stayed open during the COVID-19 crisis. Jo Radcliffe, Penny Merryfield, and Victoria Smithey went to several local businesses to deliver the flowers and to say thank you for supporting our town during this time. The ladies stopped at the gas stations, the car care center, the market, the post office, And several other places. Although we did not reach every...
The chilly air in the rain did not keep some residents from attending the tailgate party at the Pine Bluffs Community Center this weekend. Sonja Fornstrom and the Recreation Department opened the Community Center parking lot to allow folks to barbecue and enjoy social distancing company. Katt Fornstrom was on hand to roll out the music including requests for loved ones and special friends. Several families gathered outside to help take part in the festivities, and a good time was had by all....
CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Nine members of the Wyoming Air National Guard's 187th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron deployed on April 23 to Travis Air Force Base, California, as part of COVID Task Force West. The airmen have been tasked to set up a new Aeromedical Evacuation Operations Team for the Air Force's COVID patient transport operations. Working in a makeshift office space at Travis Air Base, the Wyoming airmen are acting as the operations directors for advanced trained aeromedical evacuation crews....