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Serving all of Eastern Laramie County since 1908
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The Burns Town Council meeting started off with the swearing in by town clerk Toni Shiery of the not so newly elected Mayor, James Clark, who is not a novice at this post as he was mayor last term. With that being completed Mayor Clark completed the swearing in of the new town council members, Dennis Bastian and Rick Lakin. With the formal oaths taken care of the council could get down to business.New assignments were set up for each council member. Rick Lakin will have street and alley, Craig...
Newly sworn in Mayor, Justin Fornstrom held his first public town council meeting on Monday, June 14. Present also were the newly elected council member Allie Leitza. After the Mayoral Scholarships were presented, Mayor Fornstrom went right to business with items on the agenda. In the Public Hearing part of the meeting, they adopted the 2022 Fiscal Year budget. There were numerous building permits requested and all were approved except 608 Market Street for an addition. Katherine "Katt"...
"Work your fingers to the bone, what do you get? "Boney fingers, boney fingers", according to the late great Hoyt Axton! What happens after that is normally retirement. In the case of Lloyd Sisson that's exactly what happened.On June 8, 2021 High West Energy hosted retirement party for Sisson. Sisson has been the community for years. His mother and father had a business of selling, and repairing shoes. Through his high school years, Sisson was on the football team that had a winning year. He was...
Two Pine Bluffs High School graduates from 2021 were the recipients of the 2021 Mayoral Scholarships at Monday nights town council. Newly sworn in Mayor, Justin Fornstrom had the honors of presenting the scholarships with a giant check (actual one was presented in an envelope) to Gregory Fornstrom and Diana Paola Monserrath Sanchez-Jacinto. The criteria for these scholarships are not straight A's or scholastic ability. They are about community service, an essay about making a difference in Pine...
June 9, 2021 -- The University of Wyoming lists 220 students from Laramie County on the 2021 spring semester academic Dean’s and Dean’s Freshman Honor Rolls. The honor rolls consist of regularly enrolled undergraduates above freshman standing who earned a 3.4 or better grade-point average, and freshmen who have earned a 3.25 or better grade-point average. To be eligible, students must have been enrolled for a minimum of 12 credit hours taken for letter grades. For more information about the University of Wyoming, view the webpage at www...
CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Members of the Wyoming Army National Guard Joint Force Headquarters were recently recognized. Kristina Kranz, of Carpenter, was promoted to sergeant and is a public affairs non-commissioned officer. She has served for three and a half years and works full time as a public affairs specialist. Amanda Fry, of Wheatland, was promoted to staff sergeant and is a public affairs non-commissioned officer. She has served for four years and works full time as a public affairs non-commissioned officer in charge. Bronc Barnum, of T...
I know. The first question you ask is, "Why use a cover crop? I only have a small garden." When we talk about cover crops we are talking specifically about vegetable gardens. Whether you have a small garden, for example a 10 x 10 (or 100 square foot) plot, or a large garden a cover crop will benefit the soil. I've talked before about crop rotation and a small plot is certainly doable but a larger plot or multiple plots make rotation easier. At some point you have an area that is completely out...
From the offices in Indianapolis to small peaceful Pine Bluffs, National 1st Vice Commander Paul Dillard during his visit to Wyoming, had his first Post visit in Pine Bluffs at the Donald Eisenhauer American Legion Post 60. Upon arrivial to Pine Bluffs, Dillard, with his escorts - Mike Cooke, Commander, Department of Wyoming; Jim Lish, Department of Wyoming Adjutant, Doug Uhrig, American Legion National Executive Committeeman; Travis Jones, of Veterans Affairs and William "Bill" Barnes,...
"Treasures" at The Crossroads Community Church in Pine Bluffs for four days of Vacation Bible School.From June 7th-10th the kids get two hours to explore the nights treasure. The first nights treasure was, "God Knows you." This is to know that you cannot hide yourself.They started by dividing the kids into age groups. Each group had several volunteers to help. Games and crafts are enjoyed throughout the time they have.They begin with knowledge about the treasure of the night. At the end they...
The North End Shooting sport is a group from Albin, Wyoming. This group of 4-Hersmeets every Thursday night from March to June. They started out with archery, now they have added four air rifle shooters. Right now they have 21 archers. North End is being led by Shawnae Branigan, Cody Branigan, and Kelly Krakow. There are more leaders but they were not there at practice. The leaders set up 3-d animals to shoot at, such as fox, bear, deer, elk, cougar, and buck. This is fun for the kids to...
The annual rodeo was put on Friday June 11, and Saturday June 12th. It was put on by Wyoming Rodeo Association. The flag was flying by in the start while the girl circled the arena for the beginning of the rodeo. They started out with steer wrestling . This event is when the rider jump on the steer and take it to the ground. Through the weekend, there was only five contestants for this weekend. The breakaway is the next event with seventeen for the weekend, the girls were pushing the time for th...
It has been a two years since the pool has been open in the town of Pine Bluffs. But on Friday June 11 from 11am to 1pm the Pine Bluffs recreation department put on a Grand Opening of the newly lined very inviting swimming pool. It has been a challenge for the town to get everything figured out, between budget issues, Covid-19, and redoing the pool itself. Everything should be cut and dry for the pool to be reopened. Like everything else in life it takes steps. Sometimes the steps are big and...
Sun, rains, wind and heat is what Mike Wilson is running through. Wilson decided to run across America just like Forrest Gump.In Wilson's town of Newburyport, Lucy's Lovebus is close to them. Lucy's Lovebus is a charity for cancer of children cure. The little girl Lucy has cancer in Boston Childrens Hospital. She used integrative therapies to help with pain. She started the foundation in 2006. They even have a Volkswagen bus that spreads the news about Lucy's Lovebus Foundation. Six months ago...
For seven weeks we’ve explored multiple actions that dictators historically use to take over a country. We started with a discussion of dividing the population and setting different factions against each other to create hatred and unrest. The second week was governing by mandate (executive orders), bypassing the established legislative process. Week three covered using fear to control the population with COVID as the example. Week four revealed the actions by government to make people rely on government as the answer to all their problems a...
The Annual polka dance was held June 13 at the Pine Bluffs old high school. There was about 75 people that attended for the afternoon. The River Boys were playing for the day. The food was brats and kuchen as the dessert. The dancers was excited with the different polkas and waltzes. Enjoying the traditional German dances they grew up with when they were young. It is a time to remember and be with older ones that can teach everyone. Sharing time, friendship and having a great work out, it was a...
Saturday morning starting at 10:00 a.m. everyone was weighed in and lined up to see what class they could get into. The tents were up so the people could watch. The weather was great. It's the Platte Valley Tractor Pull held in Carpenter, Wyoming the first weekend in June. had 114 pulls of the day. Burns Farmer market was set up to gave variety of the day. Food was cooked by Gary Reher. On Sunday, the American flying while National Anthem sang. There was big thanks to Ivan and Kim Kranz for...
