Serving all of Eastern Laramie County since 1908
Serving all of Eastern Laramie County since 1908
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As the day comes to a close, the ballot boxes are shut and no more votes were allowed after 7:00 p.m. The polling place in Pine Bluffs was at the community center and there were six sign in kiosks to assist voters to obtain their ballots. Once a voter had their ballot in hand they would go to one of the eight voting machines to vote. Once one voted, it would have the voter review their choices before printing. After printing a voter would go and deposit their ballot in an electronic ballot box....
Pine Bluffs Lions Club Hits 100 years. 100 years ago 28 men decided to form a club. They started with an informal dinner at the Standard Cafe with their first guest speaker G. M. Cunningham from Houston, Texas who at that time was the International organizer for the district. In January the following year the Pine Bluffs Lions Club hosted their first project. A Mid Winter Fair. It supported a poultry show, corn show, potato show, best loaf of bread and can of jelly. After 100 years the Pine...
The Laramie County Republican Party held its annual Veterans' Appreciation Breakfast on Saturday, November 5th. Each year they select at least one veteran to honor for their service. One of the selectees this year was Merlin Otto Marquart from Pine Bluffs. Otto was born in Strues Farm, Nebraska on December 9, 1939 and enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1958. He was discharged in 1961 to attend college at Midwestern University where he completed a degree in education. He taught school in Colorado...
A year of preparation for memorizing and reciting The Future Farmers of America Creed has payed off for Hayden Hubbard. He received a bronze at The National Future Farmers of America Convention and Expo. In FFA first year, a members does the creed contest. It is encouragement for everyone. Then the best ones in the chapter move on to district FFA contests to compete against the local area FFA chapters. They then move to regionals, state, and then nationals. Hubbard worked hard to know...
The students, families and Lions Club members were at the Pine Bluffs Historic High School on November 1st, 2022 attending the monthly meeting of the Pine Bluffs Lions Club. Every quarter at the Pine Bluffs and Burns High Schools a student is featured. The Pine Bluffs and Burns Lions Clubs reward the work a student accomplishes from each school with a scholarship. The meeting started with an introduction of the guests. Then dinner was served. After dinner, the meeting continued with some games...
For the last few years nurseries ran out of seeds, shrubs, trees and nearly everything else we need to plant our gardens in the spring. Even more surprising, they ran out early in the season. It wasn't only the local nurseries either. Everyone, nationwide, ran out. Even the big national suppliers. Some stocks weren't replenished for the current year. I don't know what the real cause is. It seems like people are still blaming COVID but I don't believe that. At least not anymore. Maybe nurseries...
The dough was being made and the baskets were being weaved at Carpenter Elementary. The students had spent the afternoon time to learn about Native Americans. The different classes spent time in different areas learning about different ways on how the Native American lived. On the playground the students learned about the four seasons. Each season had an activity. For spring, in relay form the students planted an item then raced back to the line to tag the next person to plant something. Next wa...
Veterans Day, formerly Armistice Day, is an annual United States holiday honoring military veterans. It is a federal holiday that is observed on November 11. It coincides with other holidays such as Armistice Day or Remembrance Day, which are celebrated in other parts of the world and also mark the anniversary of the signing of the Armistice that ended World War I. (Major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 with the German...
The Lady Broncs volleyball team have achieved the top spot in the state. They are the Wyoming 2A State Champions. This is the first state championship in 30 years for the Burns Lady Broncs. Over the season they have battled top teams from all over the state and came out on top. The Lady Broncs started their journey on August 26th where they faced the Wheatland Bulldogs. The Broncs lost that game. Yes they had a rough start but as the season progressed they kept getting better and better. By...
The Burns/Pine Bluffs wrestling season is underway. According to Coach Dan Clayson the high school season will not start till around the 21st or the 22nd . The junior high season has been under way for about two weeks. There were about 30 athletes for the Burns/Pine Bluffs team at the meet that was held last Monday at Burns High School. This will be the first year, in the history of the State for wrestling, that there will be a sanctioned girls wrestling team for high school. According to Coach...
The Lady Broncs have the state championship in their sights. Standing in their way were the Tongue River Lady Eagles. The Eagles are seated number 4 in the Northeast Conference with a 9-17 record and were standing in the way of the Lady Broncs. When you get a bronc moving forward it is hazardous to get in its way. The Eagles found this out the hard way even though they put up a good fight. It took the Lady Broncs five games to win the match against the Lady Eagles. This was something that the...
With the Lady Broncs varsity volleyball teams second place finish in the Regional Tournament the Broncs were headed to the State Championship playoffs and hopefully the championship game. The Lady Broncs would start their championship journey in Casper, Wyoming with the Greybull Lady Buffaloes. The 9-15-4 Buffaloes would give the Lady Broncs all they could handle for the first couple of games. As the Broncs were aware that every team that goes to the playoffs saves their best game and both the Buffaloes and Broncs were no different The first...
A Burns student is state ranked and an expert shot when it comes to Skeet and Trap shooting. Bryce Humphrey is a senior at Burns High School and a member of the Cheyenne East High Clay Target shooting team. He has been a member for three years and is one of the leading team members. Humphrey's who has been shooting for only three years has excelled in the sport. Bryce was one of the founding members of the team when it first started and acted as the liaison between the students and shooting...
Here is a sport that this paper has not covered in quite a few years, Swimming. Not a huge following unless you are a participant or the family members of a participant but a high school sport that attracts some collegiate interest. This week we have a swimmer that broke the Cheyenne South High School 100m fly race record. Elsie Gilliland one of the swimmers for the South swim team broke the schools record in the 100m fly last week. She is also a member of the 400m free relay team and the 200m...
In what was inarguably the toughest game for the Hornets this year they squared off against the Rocky Mountain Grizzles in a game that would decide who would go to the championship game. It was a battle for the Hornets as the Grizzlies defense was tough and their offense found the cracks in the Hornets defense and was able to run the ball. The Hornets defense came up big several times in the game and turned the Grizzlies offense back. The Hornets were determined and did not break. They were...