Serving all of Eastern Laramie County since 1908
Serving all of Eastern Laramie County since 1908
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The Pine Bluffs Booster Club held their annual athletic banquet last week, with a number of students from Pine Bluffs High School recognized for their accomplishments and contributions. In the tradition of the banquet, freshman fathers placed food on the plates of those who attended, and each ticket purchased covered the cost of the banquet meal for the person paying for the ticket and one athlete. The Outstanding Girl and Boy Athlete awards, which are based not only on athletic performance,...
The Pine Bluffs Town Council approved a request from Circle S Aviation for a congested area flight plan. It's that time of the year when mosquitos are going to become more evident, with the heavy rains the area has received. In the past Circle S has provided the Town of Pine Bluffs with aerial coverage to help eradicate the disease-carrying pests. This year, in anticipation of deluge of applications to the FAA office by other companies providing the same type of service in other areas, Circle S...
It is highly possible that there is a small spot in Wyoming which once was bordered by four different territories, parts of which together became the future home of our great state. This spot is somewhere in a corner of Sweetwater, Fremont, Natrona or Carbon County, according to a map created by Velma Linford in her amazing history of Wyoming in 1947 called Wyoming Frontier State. This one amazing spot touched what were once Texas in 1845, Mexico in 1848, the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, and...
The Cheyenne/Laramie County Emergency Management Agency will be testing the Outdoor Warning Siren system promptly at 10 a.m. on Friday, June 5, for Pine Bluffs. The warning system will sound a steady signal for a period of one to three minutes. During an actual emergency, when residents hear the sirens they should take cover immediately and tune into a local radio or television station to receive additional emergency information. Residents should not call 911 or local emergency officials for information as this tie's up telephone lines needed...
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...
The Friday Night =G Rodeo series resumed in Pine Bluffs last week, with cowboys and cowgirls from all over the states of Wyoming, Colorado and Nebraska. One cowgirl was from Colorado by way of Florida. Despite the cold, damp windy weather the rain stayed at bay, and all of the events were completed, although the Steer Riding and Open Bull Riding events did not pay out as the steers and bulls were in rare form, and not one of the riders was able to stay on for the required six or eight seconds....
Steer Riding No qualified rides Pee Wee Barrels Contestant Time Payout Jenna East 17.962 $23.00 Kaydance Bartlett 19.031 $21.00 Jaden Shelit 19.675 $19.00 Brody Lambert 22.657 $17.00 Natalee Smalley 22.905 $14.00 Molly Allen 24.687 $11.00 Novice Bull Riding Abraham Sarabia 62 $40.00 Open Bull Riding No qualified rides Jr-Sr Team Roping Vanessa DeLaCruz 15.8 $71.00 Chon DeLaCruz Novice Goat Tying Raegen Delancy 9.4 $42.00 Tanna Hansen 13.4 $28.00 Open Goat Tying Kaylee Clark 33.2 $24.00 Novice Breakaway Cory James Bomhoff 3.6 $40.00 Breakaway...
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced it is extending the public comment period on its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) to seek public comment on potential updates to BLM rules governing oil and gas royalty rates, rental payments, lease sale minimum bids, civil penalty caps and financial assurances. Modernizing the BLM’s royalty rate structures can provide greater flexibility, especially given the dramatic growth of oil development on public and tribal lands, where production has increased in each of the past six years, a...
Teenage Cupcake Wars If you have enjoyed watching Cupcake Wars on television, you will enjoy watching Teen Cupcake Wars at the Pine Bluffs Branch of the Laramie County Library Tuesday, June 30, from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Kids in grades six thru nine will take two cupcakes and four ingredients and come up with a design based on their favorite teen novel. Creations will be judged on appearance, inspiration and taste. Do you have the willpower to dominate and take home the prize? Movies at the Library Families can sit back and watch family-friendly mov...
The 55 And Up Club will hold their monthly pot luck luncheon on Friday, June 12, at noon, at the Friendship Alliance North Church in Grover. Everyone 55 and over is welcome to attend. Come and join in the fun with your family and friends. We will be celebrating Father's Day. There will also be a door prize. This week at the Hereford Community Church there was a patriotic service to honor Memorial Day. Steve Hauer sang Fallen Not Forgotten for the special. Larry and Vera Williams celebrated their...
Have you ever heard of that saying, "Dancing in between the rain drops"? Well, most of us have been mowing between the rain drops. Not that you will hear many complaining. At least we won't complain too loud. The farmers who are stuck in the mud and the lawn enthusiasts might be a little louder with their wishes for dryer days. But dryer weather will come soon enough and we will groan about dancing around the sprinklers when we move them. The Albin Baptist Church will be dancing around a bunch...
Good morning Banner County. What a beautiful morning it is with blue skies and no rain in the forecast for several days. My backyard looks like a jungle so maybe that can be taken care of as I have a young man in mind for that particular job. I apologize for not having any news in last week as I was under -the- weather so to speak. One of the two events that I would have mentioned would have been the passing away of Norma Soule, longtime Banner County resident. Norma will be sadly missed by...
Contracts totaling $11.9 million for 11 highway projects around the state, including one made possible by increased fuel tax revenue, were awarded by the Wyoming Transportation Commission. Riverside Contracting of Missoula, Mt., won the largest of the contracts with the low bid of $3.4 million for surface and bridge rehabilitation work on 4.5 miles of US 14-16-20 about 14 miles west of Cody. The work will include rehabilitation of the Shoshone River and Trout Creek bridges at each end of the project, and a new layer of asphalt between the...
1 Years Ago June 3, 1915 May a Wet Month During the month of May nearly five inches of rain fell in this vicinity, to be exact it amounted to 4.85 inches. The ground is well soaked and this with the warm sunshine is giving crops a great boost all over the district. The farmers all have a very optimistic outlook for big crops this fall and very often we hear the expression “This reminds me of the spring of 1912”. On Saturday afternoon we had a very heavy rain and then it continued raining gently all that night and most of Sunday and Sun...
We had a flock of pelicans fly over the farm a few days ago. Not surprising considering western Nebraska has turned into the land of a thousand lakes. There is more rain in the short and long range forecasts. We received almost 3.5 inches of rain over Memorial weekend. This brings our total precipitation for the month of May up to 9.5 inches. Included in that total are two separate snow storms totaling 14 inches of snow along with freezing temperatures. We’ve recorded a little over 12 inches of...
With the end of the current session, this is a good time to give you updates on some of the bills we have been watching during the first session of the 104th Nebraska Legislature. Most bills passed and approved by the governor become law three calendar months after the Legislature adjourns. However, bills may take effect before that date if they contain an emergency clause or a specified operative date. None of the bills reviewed here contain an emergency clause. LB 206 – The Legislature gave final approval to LB 206 on May 20th by a 47-0-2 vot...
Invitations have been readied and sent to graduates of East Laramie County High Schools – Egbert, Hillsdale, Burns and Carpenter (EHBC) for the 65th annual alumni banquet. Around 200 invitations were sent to alumni, most living outside of Laramie County and out-of-state. Email was also used to send invitations. Reservations are being accepted for the banquet, set to be held June 13, with doors opening at 4 p.m. for graduates and their guests. Suzanne Nussbaum Deselms, 2015 EHBA chair, says the banquet will be held at Burns Elementary School. F...
The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch in effect until 10 p.m. for Western Nebraska including Banner, Kimball, Scottsbluff and Sioux counties. In Wyoming the watch includes Goshen, Laramie and Platte counties....