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The monthly dance at the Pine Bluffs Senior Center Sunday was as sparsely attended as Dean Willoughby and Ruth Tipsword can remember. Present also were Richard Fornstrom, Gary Fisher and Greg Hoover, who came down from Cheyenne for the dance. Nick Hockersmith and Kathleen Lyon made it to the dance after attending the Ken and Angie Macy 50th Wedding Anniversary celebration in City Park. Becky Martinez was at her post as greeter for the dance. Dalton Fuller was asked if he had ever performed...
After six years, Gini Fuller, receptionist at the Fyzical Therapy and Balance Center on the corner of Main and Fourth Street in Pine Bluffs, is the longest tenured employee of the business. When Fuller first started with the company six years ago, the business was open three days a week. She has seen a bit of the turnover the company has experienced and seen the days of operation cut from three days a week to two. She stated that business has been a little slow over the summer but should pick...
Dale Earl Rohrer of Buda, TX, formerly of Kearney, NE. died August 28th, 2017. Dale was born in Morris, MN, to the late Millard and Margaret(Booker) Rohrer on November 3, 1945. He is survived by his loving wife, Gwen and children, Dirk Rohrer(Arlene), Darcie Thomas, Debbie Roe(Jeff), and Jennifer Masters. He is also survived by his grandchildren, Gina Rose and Nicholas Dale Rohrer, Ashley Lynn Roe and Katelyn Nicole Thomas, and by his sister, Lynda Kay Sanders(Norman) and brother, Roger Rohrer(D... Full story
Seventy-eight percent of Wyoming voters are willing to pay something more in taxes if that money is dedicated to K-12 education in the state, according to a July poll released by the Wyoming Education Association (WEA) on August 17. Laramie County School District No. 2 Superintendent, Jon Abrams was heartened by the results revealed in the survey. 32 percent, of the 78 percent, stated that they would be willing to have their taxes raised by $200 or more. 10 percent were open to paying $150, 15 percent said $100 and 21 percent said $50 or less....
It took not one but two overtimes for the Pine Bluffs Hornets to secure their victory, 20 to 14, over the Mitchell Tigers in Mitchell, Neb. on Friday on the first day of September. With 1:06 minutes remaining in regulation #12, Seth Tangeman intercepted a pass from Mitchell quarterback #12 Thyne on the 34 yard line in Tiger territory. The Hornets went for the end zone with their first play after the interception, but the pass fell incomplete. After another a running play which gained five...
The Pine Bluffs/Burns XC team had their first full team meet today in Gering, Nebraska--we are only missing one runner that hasn't met his 9 practices. With 6 races and over 30 runners we have a full day and lots of things to be happy about, but holy heck was it a scorcher today. This was the first time that our kids ran at the Five Rocks Amphitheater outside of Gering--it was a challenging course. Hills, trails, grass, switch backs, and even a beautiful jaunt around the cemetery. JH girls are...
The Burns Broncs took on the Lusk Tigers last Friday night in Burns, drawing first blood, twice, in the space of three minutes and 26 seconds in the first half. After scoring the first two touchdowns, however, the Broncs came up short, losing by a score of 26 to 12. #32 Tyler Norris, quarterback for the Broncs, hit #21 Alex Pyle for a 56-yard touchdown with 10:18 left in the first quarter. An attempted two-point conversion run by #34 Boe Clayson came up short. Minutes later, Norris hit Pyle...
The Pine Bluffs Lady Hornets volleyball team traveled to Yoder, Wyo. on Friday, September 1 to face the Southeast High School Lady Cyclones, recording their first loss in the Southeast Wyoming Athletic Conference (SWAC). The best three out of five match went the distance with the Lady Hornets taking two out of the five matches. The hometown girls took the first set in an easy 25-14 win. They came up just short in the second set with the Lady Cyclones edging the Lady Hornets by a score of 25-21....
The following story is taken, with permission, from the book, "My footprints on the Sands of Time," which is the memoirs of C. George Karlstrum. Karlstrum, along with his wife, Ruth, operated the Carlstrum's Dry Goods store on the northeast corner of Second and main Streets in Pine Bluffs until 1957. Karlstrum's memoir was edited by his grandson, Doug Gibson, who has graciously allowed to run the following story from them. Part one. (I'll start with my memories of) residents of Pine Bluffs in...
