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Activities for the 4th of July - Independence Day Celebration was found happening in Pine Bluffs, Cheyenne and Kimball. An array of fireworks could be seen in the distant skies. At the Pine Bluffs City Park there was a Fourth of July Pine Bluffs Park Market. Crafters and vendors from all over the area displayed their goods. The smell of barbecues and "fireworks" filled the air and families celebrated our Independence Day....
LARAMIE, WY, June 27 – Volunteers for the cross-partisan group, Wyoming Promise were recognized nationally over the weekend for their citizen leadership and for their efforts to get a citizen initiative on the ballot in Wyoming. Wyoming Promise received the Citizen Leadership Award from American Promise, a national organization leading the charge for a 28th Amendment to help set reasonable spending limits in our political elections. Representatives of Wyoming Promise met with Wyoming's c...
Wyoming Public Radio has won two national first-place awards from Public Radio News Directors Incorporated (PRNDI). Reporter Melodie Edwards won first place for Best Use of Sound in Division B which recognizes stations with news staff sizes between 4 and 7 people. HumaNature also won first place in Division B for Best Station Podcast. Edwards won the award for her piece Archeologists Race To Find Artifacts Melting Out Of Mountain Ice Fields. "This was excellent storytelling by Melodie," said...
CHEYENNE, Wyo. - A representative from MOA Architecture, in coordination with the director of the Wyoming Veterans Commission and members from the Wyoming Department of Health and State Construction Department will hold public meetings in the following locations to discuss the next phase of a state veterans' skilled nursing facility. •July 16, Cheyenne, 6 p.m., Laramie County Library Sage Room, 220 Pioneer Ave. •July 17, Riverton, 1 p.m., City Council Chambers, 816 N. Federal •July 17, Lander, 6 p.m., Wyoming Life Resource Center Chapel, 8204...
Farmers can’t change the weather, but two management practices can help buffer the effects of heavy rains, drought and other weather extremes, according to new guides from a team of extension educators at University of Wyoming, University of Nebraska and Montana State University. “Minimizing Extreme Weather Impacts: Cover Crops 101” and “Using No-Till to Minimize Extreme Weather Impacts” are available free from UW Extension at bit.ly/UWEpubs. Planting cover crops in rotation with primary agricultural crops can support soil quality and ferti...
Washington, D.C. – The Senate passed the Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018 today, most commonly known as the farm bill, which U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., said would help Wyoming’s farmers, ranchers and rural communities. According to Enzi, the bill would preserve and improve crop insurance, reauthorize and improve farm and conservation programs, bolster trade programs, and contains a common-sense provision to address underserved rural communities that lack residential broadband service. “For every farmer and rancher, there are a host of...
(Washington, D.C., June 28, 2018) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today highlighted a new report showing the positive impacts of President Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) on American farms. Six months after the President signed the tax cuts and reforms into law, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economic Research Service (ERS) has released a report, titled “Estimated Effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Farms and Farm Households.” The report examines in detail how the historic tax cuts and reforms will alleviate the...
Born into a military family, Nina Radcliffe was bound to be in the military. She was born in 1980 at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, Cheyenne, Wyoming. Although she was born to Chuck Radcliffe, retired Air Force, it would be a different branch of the military, Radcliffe would chose. Radcliffe dropped out of East High School in Cheyenne in 1998. Like many teenagers she was frustrated with where she was and had visions of something different. While her grades were great, her mind and heart were...
JUNIOR-SENIOR TEAM ROPING Rodee Brow/Clay Brow, 8.57 Jaxton Starr/Dean Tidyman, 18.26 Colby Smith/Bryton Scheller, 25.73 MIXED TEAM ROPING Kim Supan/Bryton Scheller, 7.86 Justin Lee Smith/Earl Merrill, 8.66 Danielle Brow/Rodee Brow, 9.76 Brittany Weekly/Clay Stecklein, 10.31 Sondra Williams/Mike Fuller, 14.83 Sondra Williams/Sean Wright, 15.98 Kim Supan/Boyd Supan, 16.68 Sharon Baker/Bruce Nelson, 25.3 CENTURY TEAM ROPING Mike Fuller/Sean Wright, 8.34 Dean Tidyman/DJ Tidyman, 9.43 Kaycee...
Whether hiking in Wyoming's beautiful mountains or swimming in a favorite pool or lake, making smart choices can help residents avoid catching or spreading illnesses associated with water, according to the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH). "When germs get into waters where we are tempted to take a drink or where we swim, they can steal our fun by causing diseases such as cryptosporidiosis, giardiasis and shigellosis," said Katie Bryan, epidemiologist with WDH. Disease symptoms can occur days...