Serving all of Eastern Laramie County since 1908
Serving all of Eastern Laramie County since 1908
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Congratulations to all the winners of this year's 2019 Christmas Lighting Contest. The 10 winners are: 609 Main – Mary Chowns 716 Market – Dan Heintz 406 3rd St. – Albert Kranz 307 4th Street – Gene Lanning 910 Stoetzel – Jason Madden 713 Market – Joseph Morrison 311 Walnut – Jared Zitek 718 Blair – Paul & Sally Reher 621 Black – Roy Werner 909 Stoetzel – Wayne Werner The winners are asked to stop by Pine Bluffs Town Hall to collect your $20 gift card to Texas Trail Market. A big thank you goe...
Scammers will take advantage of anyone that they can, and oftentimes that means the elderly. On Friday, December 13th, the Pine Bluffs Senior Center hosted Edward Jones' Natalie Collins and Sarah O'Donnell in an attempt to educate locals on some of the scams that are out there. Getting taken advantage of is awful at any time of year, but sometimes the holidays can make it even worse. Edward Jones estimates that as many as 145 million people have their identities stolen each year. For the...
Ilene M. Reher, 92, of Cheyenne, WY died December 14 surrounded by her family at Davis Hospice Center. Ilene was born in Kimball NE on February 26, 1927, the daughter of Frank and Mae Arnold. She attended school in Albin, WY and graduated in 1945. She was married to Leonard Reher on September 19, 1946. They made their home on the farm north of Pine Bluffs, in the Lindburg area. She retired from farming in 1986 and moved to Pine Bluffs. Survivors include children, Sandy (Don) Wisroth and Mike...
The Pine Bluffs Police Department has initiated a new program, the Senior Citizen Emergency Database Program, to assist seniors in our community. This program allows the police department to document in a computer database the names of senior citizens, where they reside, and important contact information. In addition, information concerning current medications and potential special needs during unusual inclement weather or natural disaster. Many times, the police and other first responders are called to check on a senior citizens’ welfare a...
Have you every hung dung on a stick over your door frames? Have you heard of anybody that has? Well…I suspect you have. Especially if you celebrate some of the older Christmas traditions. The word derives from two Anglo-Saxon words. “Mistel” is the word for dung. “Tan” is the word meaning stick or twig. Hmm. That sounds like dung on a stick to me. Now that I’ve ruined the romanticism of mistletoe for you, let’s start. As Christmas approaches, I can’t help but think back to my childhood and the Christmas traditions my family shared so many...
The Wyoming Academic Challenge (WAC) has been a mainstay extracurricular activity for the higher level learners here at Pine Bluffs High School. The PBHS coach, Mr. Eric Kestner is also the State Director for the Wyoming Academic Challenge. In WAC, teams of the most intellectual students from given schools are asked higher-level general knowledge questions. The team with the most points after set rounds wins the event, and usually a scholarship from the college that held the event. Our WAC roste...
Despite the blowing wind and the bitter cold, several people showed up this last Saturday to honor some of Wyoming's fallen veterans in the Wreaths Across America ceremony. While some worked diligently to brush the snow and ice away from the headstones, others placed flags throughout the cemetery marking the graves of the fallen. One by one approximately 1500 wreaths were laid in the Cheyenne Memorial Gardens to remember those that gave the ultimate sacrifice for this country. The Worcester...
Ladies night at the Burns Library last week focused on Christmas ornament crafts. A cinnamon stick tree, a tree branch snowflake, and a nail polish glass ornament were on tap to be made by the ladies that braved the weather to come. The ladies at the Burns branch library would like to remind everyone that Ladies Night Out is a monthly event for adults only that features a craft and a snack. The Pine Bluffs Post would like to correct an error in the last issue where we mistakenly identified the...
The Pine Bluffs boys basketball team started out the season with an even win and loss count winning their games against the Wyoming Indians and Moorcroft and losing to Wheatland and Saratoga. All in all the boys had an okay weekend, but for a successful season the boys will “Have to get better at free throws and rebounding.” says coach Tyler Kimzey. The Pine Bluffs girls basketball scored four wins this weekend in the Burns Winter Classic beating out the Wyoming Indians, Moorcroft, Sar...
Fun for Kids at the library this week featured arts and imagination. Molly Williams wowed the local kids with stories, crafts, and felt board activities. On the list was "Maybe Something Beautiful How Art Transformed A Neighborhood" by F. Isabel Campoy and Theresa Howell. This smart and colorful story describes how a little girl transforms her entire city with a paintbrush and the help of all her neighbors. When story time was over Williams helped the kids to make a stocking craft with the...
This last Saturday the Laramie Count Fire District #5 and the Local Pine Bluffs Police Department sponsored "Shop with a Hero" at the Livingston Street Walmart in Cheyenne. Local heroes from both services each took a child on a Christmas shopping spree throughout the store to buy gifts for family members. For the seventh year in a row the local police and fire departments, with the help of donations from local citizens and businesses, were able to take resident children to Walmart for a...