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Serving all of Eastern Laramie County since 1908
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Congratulations to Kim Cox for winning the 2014 Laramie County Steer Stopping Championship, held at the Pine Bluffs Rodeo Arena, Aug. 23. (left to right) Brenda Elliott, placing 3rd; Rick Griego winning the Fast Time and 2nd place, along with Kim Cox receiving the Championship buckle donated by Brad Nelson of Fuel Management Solutions of Cheyenne....
Burns daycare will no longer be held in the Burns Plex due to bad sewer smell. Mayor Judy Johnstone said the sewer smell came with the building when the town bought it in the 1980s. “We’ve tried all different things and nothing has addressed the problem to anyone’s satisfaction,” Johnstone said. For Daycare owner, Jessica Loyd, the unpleasant smell is the beginning of her problems. The State license reported the sewer smell to Environmental Health on Wednesday, Sept. 17. Environmental Health inspected the daycare area on Friday Sept. 19. On...
Wyoming has rarely gotten the reputation as a wet place. Perhaps except only when ski areas get buried or back when Cheyenne was inundated by a horrific super cell thunderstorm, our state is generally known as semi-arid. A tour of the state this spring, summer and early fall shows that Wyoming, incredibly, is still green in a great many places. Although snowpack levels in the mountains this past winter were not that high, a constant stream of rainstorms ever since has kept the landscape verdant...
Dear: Sir/Madam: My name is Richard E Brown Sr. or as I was known in Pine Bluffs Dick Brown. I am writing to express my love for the town of Pine Bluffs, and its residents. My stay in Pine Bluffs was made great by so many people and businesses that I want to thank them all. I would especially like to thank Mr. Dale Bowman and Pam Daughrty at Bowmans Irrigation and Dean at Allways the folks at the Sinclair, Texas Trail Mart, the bowling alley, and the hardware store. I would like to give extra special thanks to Jim and Angie Tucker for always...
An unsung hero for Laramie County is on the ballot this November 4th. It helps bring in millions of dollars each year, provides thousands of jobs, and contributes substantial taxes. The hero is the Laramie County lodging tax. This tax is paid by visitors who stay overnight in our hotels, bed & breakfasts, and campgrounds. Very few local residents pay this tax; only those who stay overnight in one of our lodging establishments do so. Is this a new tax? No. The lodging tax has been in existence in the county since 1987, and voters have renewed...
John Roger Anderson, age 75, died September 23, 2014, in Cheyenne. Roger was born October 8, 1938, in Burns, to Ed C. and Grace Anderson. Roger was raised in Albin. Roger graduated from Albin High School in 1956 and owned Roger's Shop. He also farmed east of Albin until the 1960s when he moved to Colorado. Roger moved back to Albin in 1983, and joined his brother operating Albin Repair Shop. He served as an EMT on the Albin Ambulance Service and a volunteer fireman and chairman of the Board of D...
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 th...
3 of the nation's best beef industry youth spokespersons competed. Rachel Purdy (Wyoming), Will Pohlman (Arkansas), Alicia Smith (Texas), Kalyn McKibben (Oklahoma), Demi Snider (Ohio) were chosen as the 2015 National Beef Ambassador Team at the annual National Beef Ambassador competition, which is funded in part by the Beef Checkoff and managed by the American National CattleWomen, Inc, contractor to the beef checkoff. 20 senior contestants ages 17 to 21, were judged in the areas of consumer...
Saturday evening saw the showdown between the undefeated Burns Lady Broncs and the undefeated Pine Bluffs Lady Hornets in the championship game at the Potter-Dix Volleyball Invite. Both teams played valiantly but it was the Lady Broncs who walked away with the win, 25-23 and 25-16. "We won the Potter-Dix Tournament for the first time in a very long time. It was fun to have two Wyoming schools in the Championship game. The girls played great all day! It was fun to watch them complete." stated...
Burns Lady Broncs beat Lusk Lady Tigers in three games Friday evening. During the first game, the Lady Broncs won 25-6. The Lady Tigers tried to steal the win but were defeated 25-16. The Lady Broncs made a final win in the third game 25-13. More kills were made in this game by katie Norris, 9 kills and Alex McCart, 8 kills. Jessica Malm and Mckenzie Ward both made 6 kills and 9 digs. Tamara McCart made four kills. McKayla Ward made 8 aces and 28 assists. Rachel Derner made 14 digs. The Lady...
Pawnee Volleyball team hosted Peetz Thursday September 25 and traveled to Weldon Valley Friday September 25. Coach Kaeley Malcom said, “It was a tough week with Pawnee playing two league teams, Peetz and Weldon Valley. Junior, Amy Probst was injured at the end of the first game against Peetz on Thursday. Therefore, the rest of the match was played with 5 and 5 on Friday against Weldon Valley. The weekend ended with 2 losses, but I’m proud of the girls for playing with 5 against some tough teams.” There were four freshman and one sopho...
Burns Broncs lost on the road to Thermopolis Bobcats 38-0 on Friday The bobcats made one touchdown in the first quarter when Bobcat Dominic Jensen ran for 77-yards to the goal. Bobcat Cornwell got the team a few more points with the two point conversion run. The score at the end of the first quarter was 8-0. In the second quarter, Cornwell scored the second touchdown when he ran 20-yards to the goal. However, his two point conversion was no good. Choe Maddock made a touchdown when he ran 7-yards to the goal. This time, Cornwell’s two point c...
The Laramie County Board of Commissioners are planning an unveiling of the new sign dedicating the Laramie County Planning and Development Building at Archer in memory of former Laramie County Planner, Gary Kranse, whose hard work, dedication and ability to bring people of different thoughts to agreement, brought the Archer Complex to fruition, offering Laramie County a glimpse of what the future could hold. The short ceremony will be held at the site of the new sign at the Archer Complex in front of the Planning and Development Building at...
Today, the Department of Defense released proposed rules to further protect service members and their families from predatory lending practices. If fully implemented, these rules will strengthen protections under the Military Lending Act and close loopholes unscrupulous lenders use to target military families with unconscionable high-cost loans. The Department of Defense proposed to amend its regulation that implements the Military Lending Act. The Department is proposing to amend its existing regulation primarily for the purpose of extending...
There was a story I heard once that Henry Ford would take potential new employees to dinner before he hired them. If they salted their food before they tasted it, he would not hire them. Mr. Ford felt that no one should think they can make a chef’s creations better. After you taste it, you may want to add or enhance with salt or pepper, but try it first was his philosophy. Trust the professionals. I dabble a little in cooking for others and it is surprising to me how many diners request c...
Good morning Banner County, neighbors near and far. We had the first day of fall recently and it sure is starting to look and feel like the season. Leaves are changing color and days and nights are cooler. The Wildcats played their last home game of the season last Friday. It was also Parent's Night for the seniors. The weather was perfect! On agenda this week for sports we have Tonight, Thursday, October 2 high school volleyball at home. The game begins at 5 p.m. and opponents are South...
After the warm calm blue sky weather we had last week, the weekend ended with a few rain storms and cooler weather. However, I don’t think there was a consensus of our neighbors whether fall was here to stay or summer was hanging on for a little while longer. Some were mowing and watering the lawns. Others were burning leaves and cleaning up the summer leftovers from the lawns. Nothing like the smell of dry leaves and grass being covered with water or burned that reminds us fall and winter is o...
The next potluck luncheon for the 55 And Up Club will be held on Friday, October 10, at noon at the Friendship Alliance North Church in Grover. Everyone 55 and over is welcome to attend. Come join in the fun with your family and friends. For the special this week at the Hereford Community Church Carolyn Ragsdale read “Consider The Lilies,” The sermon topic was “The Nations.” The scripture was Matthew 25:31-46 which tells about the final judgement. There are several scriptures that say that natio...
1 years ago October 2, 1914 Sunday afternoon a motorcycle race between “Casey Jones” of Albin, Fred Miller and Dick Rutledge of Pine Bluffs took place. The starting and ending place was at the Pine Bluffs Garage, the race being from there to a point ten miles south and return. Jones time was 26 minutes, and miller’s 27 minutes, which was very good considering the course included some of the steepest hills in this section of the country, especially on mounting the bluffs, requiring an average speed of about 70 miles per hour on the level. Rutl...
I’ve been thinking about the value of water and what this resource means to our communities. I suspect if we didn’t have this valuable resource our landscape would look quite a bit different than what we are now accustom to seeing. Since we have tapped into this resource we have experienced significant economic growth in our agricultural community, primarily with center pivot irrigation. So what is the economic value of the water? If we look at the economic benefit to producers we could fig...
