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As the saying goes....it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas and all around town brightly colored Christmas lights and fun decorations, nativity scenes and more are popping up. This is a time of year, that brings holiday cheer and locals do the "holiday drivebys" to see all the lights. Speaking with Sonja Fornstrom, Pine Bluffs Recreation Department Director, this is a tradition that has been going on for over 17 years. The Pine Bluffs Recreation Department is the sponsor for the 17th...
Purchasing new equipment and looking at bids for cleaning for the town of Burns was discussed at length at the Burns Town council meeting on November 28th at 5:30 p.m. For new business, the bids for cleaning of the town buildings. Nicole Riley has been cleaning for the last month. Mayor Jim Clark reported that Riley has done an excellent job cleaning. He suggested that the town pay Riley the previous cleaning rate. She would receive $1100.00 for her services. The council approved. The council has received two bids for the cleaning contract. The...
Rows of barrels were stacked almost to the ceiling at Pine Bluffs Distilling. It has been five years since opening up the tasting room. This room is exactly how it sounds, a place to show off new products and have the customers taste the hard work that goes on at Pine Bluffs Distilling. It has not been easy for them to get to this point. Pine Bluffs Distilling had problems with roof leaks, and the dreaded Covid pandemic was a major problem. Of Course there are always the small issues like...
Doris Mable Butler Mikesell Murdock, 100, passed away November 24, 2022 in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Doris was born in Callaway, Nebraska on June 27, 1922, the fourth child of Gail and Lela Butler. She attended high school in Pine Bluffs, Wyoming and graduated with a teaching certificate from the University of Wyoming. She had fond memories of teaching in a one room school house in Elk, Wyoming. Her family found notes about her students which she kept all these years. It was in Jackson, Wyoming where...
Chadron State College hosted their annual Chadron Scholastic Day on November 9, 2022. Twenty-four schools from Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming all descended on the Chadron campus to compete in 30 different academic topics in literature, science, math, fine arts, business, agriculture, history, government and health and nutrition. Students could pick up to four topics to challenge their knowledge. Pine Bluffs High School took six students to test their knowledge in a variety of categories....
We're entering a special time of year as Christmas approaches. Snow on the ground and a crispness in the air that seems to buzz with excitement and anticipation. The hustle and bustle of shoppers; many with a joyous "Merry Christmas" to the clerks in the stores and a smile for others. We hear the tinkle of coins as people drop their spare change into the Salvation Army kettles. I do miss the ringing bells and the shouts of "Merry Christmas that used to surround the bell ringers. Everyone seemed...
OKINAWA, JAPAN – On Thanksgiving Day, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) shared dinner with Wyoming Marines and Airmen serving in Okinawa, Japan. They're attached to the 3rd (III) Marine Expeditionary Force and Air Force's 18th Wing. Barrasso visited with service members at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan. "Our state is so grateful for the brave men and women from Wyoming who serve our country. Right now, we have service members from across Wyoming serving 16 time zones away in Okinawa, J...
The Yearbook and Photography students of Pine Bluffs High School recently received the opportunity to attend the State Journalism Convention held on November 7 at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. Students from across the state gathered together to learn and share their accomplishments in Journalism, Photography, Yearbook Publishing, and Public Relations. The convention kicked off with the keynote speaker, Aaron Ontiveroz, a professional photographer based in Denver, Colorado. Mr. Ontiveroz...
The school board of trustees was excited to see how their school did this year across the state of Wyoming. Laramie County School District #2 board members attended the annual Wyoming School Board Conference on November 18th through November 19th. Six of the board of trustees and Superintendent Justin Pierantoni attended the conference. They attended workshops and communicated with other educators to see how the schools are doing. This year Laramie County school District #2 received several...
Music notes were in the air at Southeast Music District festival. Pine Bluffs High School students attended the festival at East High School on November 21 through November 22. There were 11 band and choir students that was there from Pine Bluffs High School. Pine Bluffs music director Logan Vanderlaan said, "The students played in ensembles composed of students from all over Southeast Wyoming that were led by a number of guest directors and clinicians." Vanderlaan went on to say, "This event...
Cold is not everyone's favorite temperature. It is always best to be prepared for your home and your car. A home is a place to make sure that you and your family are safe and warm. The Red Cross posted that last year 80 homes in Wyoming caught on fire. 23% of home fires is during the colder months than the warmer time of year. People try to stay warm with heaters that could catch on fire. It is better to prepare the house to prevent fires or the cold from coming in the home in the future. Alan Stoinski, Program Manager of Energy Efficiency at...
The Pine Bluffs High School had its Fall Awards Banquet on Monday, November 28th in the common room at the school. Barbequed hamburgers and brats were served with salad and potato chips . There were drinks and enough food for all. All three fall sports were represented. Cross-country track, Volleyball and Football. Ashley Rousseau, coach of the cross-country track team started off the presentation. Although the team did well personally, they did not do well enough to make state. Jordan Griess...
The Pine Bluffs School held a rally for the Wyoming State Football Champions Hornets on Monday, November 28th at the school gym. It was a festive time and a time to settle some bets. No, these bets were not for money but for motivation for the football team to play a bit harder. After last years loss in the semi-finals game Coach Yelton made a bet with the team. If they could go undefeated the entire season and win the state championship then he would cut his hair. This would be no easy task as...
On November 11, the PBHS Chapter of Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) took 14 members to the National Fall Leadership Conference at the Denver Convention Center in Denver, Colorado. This annual student leadership conference is held each fall in various locations around the United States and it has been more than five years since it was held in Denver. The other national location this year was in Orlando, Florida. Junior high and high school students from Pine Bluffs High School joined 15...
Most of the All-Conference Awardees from the Hornets State Champions football team sat down and discussed their championship and All-Conference Awards. They were still riding the high from the state championship and were surprised on the awards. They were humble and praised their coaches and team on the win. To recap just a little the Pine Bluffs Hornets football program had 11 of its players recognized as All-Conference Award winners. This award is for the entire Eastern Conference. Eleven is five more than the closest teams in the Conference....
“The GOP no more. Only varying degrees of Democrats.” Chris Salcedo, Newsmax, Nov 14, 2022 The elections are over and the highly anticipated “Red Tsunami” didn’t happen. Bill Sniffen was right when he called it a “Red Trickle”. Everyone expected the Red Tsunami, including liberal talk show hosts and Democrat strategists. Even Biden was worried. Skyrocketing inflation, supply chain shortages, soaring energy costs, enough Fentanyl coming into the country to kill every man, woman and child because of Democrat border policies, rampant crime...