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Serving all of Eastern Laramie County since 1908
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With words of praise, well wishes, and a promise that he will always be welcome back at Laramie County School District 2, the Board of Trustees bid Rob Bryant a fond farewell at the March school board meeting in Carpenter. Bryant, who has been the business manager for the school district for the past six years, will conclude his work officially for LCSD2 at the end of this month to accept an appointed position as Director of School Support for the Wyoming Department of Education. Bryant will...
Patrol Officer Char Madden, a three-year veteran of the Pine Bluffs Police Department, recently completed Basic Criminal Investigation and New Detective Training, and will now be a major figure in all felony investigations involving the local department. She attended the training in Seattle, Wa., during the earlier part of the month, and was one of only a half-dozen women, in a class of approximately 44, which was designed to train newly appointed detectives and patrol officers in conducting inv...
Railroads and coal. Together they made history in Wyoming. Some of it quite tragic. Wyomingites tend to celebrate our cowboy heritage and we use the bucking bronco on our license plates and as the state logo. But the reality is it might be more fitting to use a hard-charging steam locomotive, which caused Wyoming to come into being. This year during our 125th anniversary of statehood, it is perhaps fitting to try to decipher the origins of what really built Wyoming. The Union Pacific Railroad...
Have you ever felt it painful to title a new vehicle purchase and hate the time and expense to do so? Well this may change your mind about going through that process next time. Recently I decided to upgrade my car to a newer model. I wanted one with low mileage and without damages. I thought I found the perfect auto for me in Colorado. Even though I hate the stress of such a drive in a major city, I elected to go there. I and a friend did tons of research on the vehicle by using the Internet and asking questions as well as inspecting the car...
We are and always have been about doing business locally when it’s possible. Our community need the businesses that we have and they need all of us to support them whenever possible. We have tried numerous times to ‘support’ our local medical clinic, but get pretty discouraged when we call for an appointment only to be told over and over that they are booked. Funny thing is, though, you can drive by or look out the window, and the ‘booked’ clinic has not one car there. The whole point of having a local clinic is to save a drive to Cheyenne....
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...
Carol A. Moore, 73, of Albin, went home to be with the Lord March 20, 2015, at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center. She was born Dec. 27, 1941, in Cheyenne to Alvia and Beulah Cobble. She married her high school sweetheart, William C. Moore, on May 17, 1958, in Fort Collins, Co. Carol had a degree in computer science, was an antique appraiser, worked collectibles at Goodwill, was a homemaker and a member of Golden Prairie Baptist Church. Carol was a loving, strong wife, mother, grandmother (Mema)...
It may not appear that gas prices are rising given that one year ago the national average price for a gallon of gas was more than $3.40, and almost $4 gallon in some states. One month ago, a gallon of gas in Pine Bluffs was only $2.01. The month before that gas prices along the I-80 corridor, including Pine Bluffs, were hovering anywhere between $1.50 and $2 per gallon. That’s when politicians started complaining that the low gas prices were hurting the economy. The company’s running ope...
The Burns Lady Broncs ended last year placing 8th at the state meet, and fourth in both the 2A regional and SEWAC meets. Head Coach Brooks Hoffman, who has been coaching the girls at Burns for the past eight years, is looking for improvement this year with several state qualifiers returning to the track. Seniors Tamara McCart, Jasmine McCart and Ashley Turner will be competing in distance, sprints and the shot put this year. Jasmine McCart placed fourth in the 4x400 at last year's state meet....
The Pawnee Coyote track team placed in four events at their first meet at Weld Central on March 13. In the 3200m, Luke Duggan ran 11:03.17 for a second place medal. Josh Keiper and Luke Dugan had 5:49.14 and 4:49.78 respectively for third place in the 1600m, while Bryce Schnug and Drew Ellis all took third place in the long jump with 16-7.5 and 19-3 respectively. In the high jump, Joey Sanders walked away in fifth place with 5-4. Other results from the Weld Central meet, for the Pawnee Coyotes...
Waking up Monday morning to a chilly, grey world was a let down after a beautiful spring weekend. However I do hope that the weatherman has it right as he is predicting great weather once again for this weekend. After all, it is track season The Wildcats will be participating in Kimball Saturday, March 28. The meet will start at 9 a.m. This is the first one of the season for them and the second is scheduled for Thursday, April 2, in Bayard, which also begins at 9 a.m., a C-D meet. Coach Kari...
The 55 And Up Club monthly potluck luncheon will be held on Friday, April 10, at noon, at the Friendship Alliance North Church in Grover. Everyone 55 and over is welcome to attend. Come and join in the fun with your family and friends. We will be celebrating the Easter holiday. There will also be a door prize. This week at the Hereford Community Church the congregation sang Happy Anniversary to PeeWee and Cecelia Smock, and Ken and Carolyn Ragsdale. The special for the day was PeeWee and...
The seasons sometime seem to hang around like smoke from a backyard fire of limbs and leaves. Once you think it is gone and over, you catch a whiff of it in the wind. Just like the smoke that leaves quickly when doused with some water, weather changes when the wind blows in a cold front. There was plenty of cleaning, raking and burning going on Saturday and Sunday. Lon Johnson even ventured up to his roof as Janet watched and supported from a lawn chair below. However, it seemed the spring fire...
Pine Bluffs and Burns Fun For Kids! Join in the fun with stories, songs, finger plays, and more. Themed story times promote and model early literacy skills. For children of Pre-K ages, Thursdays, from 10 a.m to 10:45 a.m. Pine Bluffs branch only. April 2: Ice Cream Fun April 9: Good Things to Eat April 16: Feathered and Furry Friends April 23: Camping and Picnic Stories April 30: Happy Birthday, Mother Goose After School Movie: The Boxtrolls It's the start of Spring Break, so begin your vacation by enjoying the family adventure movie about an...
Contracts totaling $12.8 million for six highway projects around the state, including two to be funded with revenue from the fuel tax increase, were awarded by the Wyoming Transportation Commission during its March meeting in Cheyenne. Cheyenne’s Simon Contractors and Subsidiaries won the largest of the contracts with a bid of $3.2 million for improvements to nearly 4 miles of US 26 (Valley Road) in Torrington. Simon also was the low bidder at $2.88 million for a contract for patching on nearly 10 miles of highway sections in Albany and L...
Laramie County Fire District 5 of Pine Bluffs, and Laramie County Fire District 4 of Carpenter, worked together to co-host a Grain Entrapment Extrication Class this past weekend. Departments from Wyoming, Nebraska, and Colorado took part with about 40 firefighters attending. Departments represented were Laramie County Fire Districts 1,3,4,5 and 6; Bushnell, and Pawnee from Grover. The course was instructed by Tim Zehnder from Mid Plains Community College in McCook, Ne. Course content included...
Numbers found in eggs during the Lions Club Easter egg hunt on April 2 can be taken to area merchants and businesses to claim prizes and goodies. Match your numbers with the merchant. Allwayz Manufacturing 1-10 Bluffs Veterinary Clinic 11-20 Bluffs Car Care Center 21-30 Amerigas 31-40 Cafe 307 41-50 Exxon Gas Station 51-60 Beauty Box 61-65 Dr. Landsden, DDS 66-77 A&W Restaurant 78-87 Bluffs Insurance 88-92 Elite Towing 93-98 Points West Bank 103-112 Town of Pine Bluffs 113-122 W.S. Engstrom, CPA 123-127 Texas Trail Market 128-137 Senior...
The Burns Boys' track team took second at 2A Regionals and third at State last year, and are coming back with a vengeance this year, hoping to rise to the top, and bring home the big trophy. In his 18th year at Burns High School, Coach Cole Manlove says he has a strong team, with four returning seniors who placed at the state track meet last year. "It's a great senior group, and we would like to place in the top five at state." Returning this year is senior Rowan Fichtner, in the pole vault and...
1 Years Ago March 25, 1915 Chicken Dinner Saturday, March 27, from 5 to 7 o’clock P.M. The ladies of the ‘Blue’ side of the Ladies Aid will serve a good old-fashioned chicken dinner to the public at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Peterson next Saturday evening from five o’clock to seven o’clock. The price of this excellent dinner will be twenty-five cents to all over ten years of age and fifteen cents to all under ten years of age. The following menu will be served: Chicken and Gravy, Bread and Butter, Mashed Potatoes, Cabbage Salad, Co...
Back in October when we were getting started combining our dry land corn crop I visited with a neighbor about the value of wheat residues and residue height in dry land corn production. My neighbor thought he should purchase a stripper head for combining his winter wheat crop to leave more standing residue. The year before he had combined his dry land wheat with a conventional head and had baled the straw for his cattle. He then planted his dry land corn into the wheat residue left in the...
The South Platte Natural Resources District board of directors approved a number of changes to its rules and regulations at its March board meeting, including changes to fee schedules. The proposed amendments to the Districtwide Groundwater Management Area Rules and Regulations (DGMARR) were reviewed following an information session outlining the changes, followed by a public hearing. Primarily, the changes were related to chemigation, those made to follow LB272 established by the Nebraska Legislature last year. The District’s Chemigation P...
I was working as a substitute teacher at Burns Elementary when I was asked to substitute for a second grade teacher who happened to be my cousin. One of my assignments that day was to have the children write in their journals about any school field trip they might have enjoyed. They were all trying to think of which field trip they wanted to write about. Several mentioned a trip to the Denver Zoo they had taken the previous year. I told them that I thought this would be a good topic, and they should mention something at the zoo that they really...
The birds of Kimball County will be highlighted during a six-week series of Watchable Wildlife Tours sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory and the Kimball Area Tourism Department, funded in part by the Nebraska Wildlife Conservation Fund. The series, titled For the Birds, will run from April 1 to May 15. All tours will depart from the High Point Welcome Center of Western Nebraska located at I-80, Exit 20. The tours are free, but reservations are required. Tourism Director, Jo Caskey, explained why reservations are required. “Our g...
