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Pine Bluffs Town Council members on Tuesday approved applying for roughly $1 million in grants for recreation improvement projects. Specifically and in order of priority, the town will ask for $250,000 to pay to resurface the community swimming pool and install a splash pad, an additional $250,000 to resurface the parking lot, $250,000 to install a playground at the adjacent park and soccer field and lastly, another $250,000 to improve the Leaning Rock Golf Course. “We will be thrilled if they approve half of these,” Pine Bluffs Treasurer Kim...
nts were recognized last weekend for their work planning space exploration. And they did it in the most unlikely of ways - LEGO Robots. FIRST LEGO League challenges students in the fourth through eighth grades to research real-world problems and develop a solution. As a part of that process, they must design, build and program a robot using Lego software and then compete on a table-top playing field, according to the organization's website. This year's topic was "Into Orbit." The Burns students...
Mary Mildred (Huestis) Hutchinson, of Hingham, MT, passed away on November 30th, 2018, at the age of 63. Mary will forever be remembered by her husband of 42 years, Darrold, and her children, Matthew, Tyler, and Michael. The fifth of seven children born to Roy and Betty Huestis of Hingham Montana, Mary will be lovingly remembered by her sisters, Bonnie Huestis, Peggy Huestis, and Cindy Keaster. Mary was blessed with seven grandchildren, Charles, Nora, William, Olivia, Bailey, Ben, and Luke; her...
Susanne M. Higday passed away Sunday, December 2, 2018 at the Wyoming Medical Center in Casper, WY. Susanne was born July 14, 1934, in Long Island, NY to Mary and John Montello. When she was 12 years old her mother loaded her and her siblings into a car and moved to California. There she picked potatoes and threw them into bushel baskets that were then dumped into large bags. Once the potatoes were in the shed, they were dumped onto shakers. The little potatoes would fall through the holes and she was allowed to take the culls home for their...
WOW! The year just seems to be zipping by. It's hard to imagine that it's already December and Christmas is just around the corner. Even though I started writing about the plants of Christmas last week, the time of year just sunk in. I don't know if I've been that busy or if maybe it's just old age. Could be a combination of both, I guess. Regardless, I still find myself stopping to reflect on Christmas when I was growing up. This week I was thinking about poinsettias. Mind you, the poinsettias...
The Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund board awarded $256,760 to 21 projects around the state at their recent grant review meeting held in Laramie. Awards were given to a wide variety of projects, from theatre equipment, building improvements, endowment challenge, summer music concerts, historic preservation and archaeological research, museum traveling exhibit, to saddle making podcasts and a documentary production. Below is a complete listing of awards by county. Laramie County City of Cheyenne Historic Preservation Board, Historic Airport...
The 2018 Wyoming Association of Student Council, WASC, hosted their 63rd annual State Convention at Natrona County High School and Pine Bluffs was able attended. During their time at WASC convention they had the opportunity to participate in amazing volunteer work to help Wyoming Make-A-Wish Foundation. Wyoming Make-A-Wish foundation asked WASC to host a day of volunteer and nearly 53 schools participated in raising over $17,000 to help those children make their wish all in a 3 hour window, thus being able to grant two wishes in Wyoming. Other...
It was December 7, 1941, and many members of the military were still sleeping in their bunks this Sunday morning, along with residents of the Pearl Harbor, Oahu area. At 07:55 the first attack hit. From that moment on, there were bombs, machine gun fire, explosions and more. A quote from the Honolulu Star Bulletin states, "A Day that will live in Infamy." From this first initial attack, the waves of war hit home, and the United States was now at war with her attacker of the Pacific... Japan....
Cougar tracks have been appearing closer to town in the recent weeks. Buzz Canady of Pine Bluffs, found tracks in and around his yard, which is up against the bluffs south of the interstate. Canady, who has small dogs, was overly concerned as they are being found close to his house and now monitors his pets closely when they are outside. "This is a momma cougar and two young babies, and she is going to protect them babies, as well as provide food for them," he said. "Living where we do, we...
CHEYENNE, Wyo. - The public is invited to a ceremony for Wyoming's state remembrance wreath on Dec. 10 at 10 a.m., at the Joint Forces Readiness Center, 5800 Central Ave., in Cheyenne. The ceremony is part of the Wreaths Across America program that honors all veterans and active military members during the holidays. The tradition of wreaths from the state of Maine being donated to decorate the graves at Arlington National Cemetery began in 1992. It is the eleventh year of a national campaign dubbed Wreaths Across America that will bring the...
Prep sports are finally coming back to the area. Starting Thursday, schools from around the state will descend on Burns for the Winter Classic basketball tournament. Local play starts at 6 p.m. when the Burns boys take on Moorcroft. Next up will be the Pine Bluffs girls, who will play Wyoming Indian at 7 p.m. The Burns girls will take on Moorcroft at 7:30 p.m. Thursday night's action will wrap up when the Pine Bluffs boys compete against Wyoming Indian at 8:30 p.m. The tournament will go...
FORT COLLINS – A bell ringing, stock market graphs fluctuating on multiple screens, and volunteer stock brokers running around the floor. This was the scene of the Junior Achievement Stock Market Challenge, a hands-on virtual simulation of the stock market experienced by more than 600 students at the Drake Centre in Fort Collins on November 16. With a mock portfolio, students put their financial skills and acumen to the test, with each minute in real life representing a full day of trading in t...