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Serving all of Eastern Laramie County since 1908
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PINE BLUFFS, WYOMING – The High West Energy Board of Directors has unanimously selected Jared Routh to lead the co-op as Chief Executive Officer and General Manager. High West's previous CEO stepped down at the end of March to accept another position. Since then, the Board began conducting a three-month nationwide search for the organization's next leader. The Board announced their decision to High West employees in July, and Routh will begin his tenure later this month. "One of the things that...
The Laramie County Fair has commenced on August 4th with help from the Ambassadors of Laramie County. Emma Gonzalez is one of the Laramie County Fair Ambassadors of 2021. She is a senior at Burns High School this coming year. Gonzalez has been in track, indoor and outdoor, and cross country and she was awarded all state athlete. This year, Gonzalez is Vice-President of the Future Farmers of America. Gonzalez has been in Helpful Hands 4-H club for seven years. She started showing goats and then...
Glenda M. Elwood, 83 of Kimball, died at the Kimball County Manor on Saturday, July 31, 2021. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, August 7, 2021 at the Cantrell Funeral Home in Kimball with Pastor Roger Gillming officiating. Burial will be in the Kimball Cemetery. Friends may stop at the funeral home on Friday from 1:00 until 4:00 p.m. to sign the register book and leave condolences for the family. Friends may also visit www.cantrellfh.com to view Glenda's Tribute Wall and...
Shirley Ann (Ward) Daugherty, 92, passed away on July 9, 2021, in her home with family by her side. Shirley was born on May 21, 1929, in Oconto Nebraska to Martha and Roland Ward. She was raised in Oconto and Alliance, Nebraska. On February 15, 1947, she married William Daugherty. Shirley moved to Roseville California in 1965 and started working at McClellan Air Force Base in 1966, as an aircraft safety inspector. After serving for 27 years, Shirley retired in 1992. In 1996, Shirley moved with...
Stacy Schoneman is one of the artists for the Pine Bluffs Senior Center Art Walk for the month of July. Two artists are featured throughout the month. This is for other people in the community to get to know about the Pine Bluffs Senior Center. The Art Walk is local artists showing off their incredible talents. Schoneman makes center pieces and wall hangings with wood flowers. She started making them eight months ago when she watched it online and got interested. Once she made one wood flower,...
As I was considering topics for this week it occurred to me that it's been three years since I discussed lavender. If you haven't experienced the wonders, and joy, of lavender you'll be in for a treat when you do. Lavender essential oil has been called the "desert island oil" and for good reason. Lavender has many health benefits as well as being a refreshing aroma to simply breathe. Although the essential oil is the most commonly known product, there are others. Hydrosol, buds and flowers are...
Cheyenne, WY (8/3/21) – The City of Cheyenne has detected the first pools, or group, of mosquitoes to test positive for West Nile Virus (WNV) this year in Laramie County. The test was confirmed by the Wyoming State Veterinary Lab. The infected mosquitoes were collected from traps near the North Cheyenne Community Park during the week of July 26th as part of the City’s ongoing mosquito surveillance efforts. Precautions should be taken across town as infected birds can carry virus over long distances. No human cases have been reported this sea...
F.E. WARREN AIR FORCE BASE, Wyo. --The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds zoomed back into Cheyenne Frontier Days for the annual Wings over Warren air show, July 28, 2021. The Thunderbirds are an aerial demonstration squadron that perform precision aerial maneuvers while demonstrating the capabilities of the Air Force's high-performance aircraft to people throughout the world. The Thunderbirds are here to recruit new Airmen, provide a positive representation of the Air Force and increase retention of...
CASPER, Wyo. —Taps reverberates across the wild grass and sagebrush as family and friends honor the 1945 crew of a B-24J Liberator during a memorial ceremony held at the crash site south of Casper, Wyoming, July 24, 2021. The crash site has been lost since the initial cleanup 76 years ago. The Murchison crash is one of three lost historical crash sites in Wyoming that the Friends of the Wyoming Veterans Memorial Museum, a nonprofit organization that works with the Wyoming Veterans Memorial Museum, identified along with the Colorado Aviation H...
On August 7, 1782, General George Washington - then the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army - established the Purple Heart award, originally designated as the Badge of Military Merit. The Purple Heart exists in its current form since 1932, and is awarded to service members "wounded or killed in any action against an enemy of the United States or as a result of an act of any such enemy or opposing armed forces". During World War II, almost 500,000 Purple Heart medals were produced in...
Trail Days has started with Hornet Basketball Youth Camp on August 3rd at the Pine Bluffs High School gym. It will continue on to August 5th. This camp is for the youth from kindergarten to eighth grade. The clinic starts at 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Coach Will Gray said, "There were fifty participates this year. If we would have more youth, the staff would have to use the other gym in the elementary." Coach Gray stated," In the past there was more youth." There were three groups of youth; the...
Alas! Our Tuesday Trails are complete for the season. July 20th was the last Tuesday Trails for the summer. The Pine Bluffs Recreation has been taking groups of people on hikes on the different trails through the bluffs. On this Tuesday morning, fifteen youth and adults went to the bluffs for an exploratory expedition. While the youth and adults walk the trails, they stop to check out different plants and wild flowers. They even look for the different bugs and animals that reside in the bluffs....
The Olympics have come to Girlz Night at the Crossroads Community Church in Pine Bluffs on July 21st. The torch was lit by Pastor Dan Debruyn. Three teams of girls were in these Olympics. The White team, the Red team, and the Blue team with their coaches helping through all of the events. Of course, there was a referee and judges to be fair overall. The first event was the Marshmallow Launch. Each member of the team took turns spitting marshmallows across the line. Whoever spit the farthest won...
With the influx of art parties, Pine Bluffs Distilling hosted a new artist to the area. - Stacy L Bolin. She is a veteran, a cancer survivor and a color blind artist from Potter Nebraska. On Thursday, July 22nd at the Pine Bluffs Distilling, eighteen people attended Bolins first art party class. Her theme was 'Painting on the Prairie'. Bolin started with a statement, "You will be using all your senses. Smell the canvas and paint. Hear the brushes with strokes and voice the directions of the...
I am proud to be an American. Proud of our beginnings and our history. I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished and what we do for the rest of the world. America is a nation to be proud of. In fact, the more I think about it, the more pride I feel. Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian, delivered a radio broadcast that said it better than I ever could. If you’ve never heard it, Google it and listen. If your children haven’t heard, they need to. In fact, I sincerely hope the administrators and teachers in LCSD #2 read this and play it in their classro...
