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It was business as usual for the start of the Pine Bluffs town council meeting on November 13th. After agenda approval and consent agenda approval, the town council moved into new business. Items on the agenda for new business were: Building permit for 512 Walnut; Resolution 2024-04 Budget Adjustment; Charter Ordinance. Discussion was heavy and thoughts on the first item, building permit went back and forth amongst the town council members. It was moved and passed to postpone this permit indefinitely. With regards to the Resolution 2024-04...
The discussion of upcoming events and the Deep Well project was what the town of Burns council was going over on November 13th at 6:00 p.m. Jeff Barnes came to talk about land taxes. There was a petition for people to sign. Judy Newton from the Shepherd's Closet reported that the Holiday Dinner is set up for December 2nd. She did ask for the council to help with the food cost. Councilmember Judy Johnstone made a motion to have the cost up to $3,500 for the dinner. The council approved. Newton...
Every year food baskets for Thanksgiving are given out to community members in need. Thanksgiving is a time for people to get together and celebrate what a person is thankful during the year. Sometimes families are just happy to have food on the table. Time is not getting any easier with prices being raised all the time. A lot of folks can remember when a stay at home mom was normal and dad brought home the bacon. It was a 50/50 endeavor. Nowadays both parents work in most cases just to keep...
The turkeys were plucked and thawing to be ready for Thanksgiving. The Pine Bluffs Senior Center had their annual Thanksgiving dinner. It is a time of year where everyone is looking forward to getting their fill of turkey. This year the dinner was sponsored by Farmer's State Bank. When a person, person's or business sponsors a dinner they pay for the it. Some seniors do not have the money to have meals all the time. This program helps the center to get healthy food to the seniors that cannot...
Veterans are important in the town of Pine Bluffs. The Pine Bluffs Branch Library loves to honor the local residents that are veterans. The library always tries to support each event. They had books for all ages on the front tables for people to read that were in the military. For the afternoon the library honored the veterans in the area. They gave out gift bags to the veterans along with refreshments. There were donuts with tea and coffee. In the gift bags were gift cards to Sadie's and...
CHEYENNE. Wyo. — Christmas tree permits are available at BLM Wyoming field offices and online. Permits may be purchased between 7:45 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday-Friday from all BLM Wyoming offices except the Wyoming State Office and Newcastle Field Office. The cost for a permit is $7.50 to $10 per tree, depending on location. Up to a maximum of five Christmas trees can be purchased by an individual for personal use. The permits are also available online at https://forestproducts.blm.gov. A BLM permit is valid for trees located on B...
We have a very young team this year with freshmen accounting for over half of it. We had a rocky start at the Western Wyoming Community College event in Rock Springs, but we made great strides and finished in the middle of the pack at the recent LCCC meet in Cheyenne. As far as small schools go, we are definitely hanging in there with the best of them. I'm also very optimistic about the future of the team. They are young, but I can tell they will be real contenders here in a couple of years....
At the Board Meeting on Monday November 13, 2023, the Board of Trustees recognized the Pine Bluffs FFA Members Brynlee Loyd, Ethan Bomberger and Natalee Smalley, who placed at the Wyoming State Fair. They also recognized Shawn Shmidl for receiving a WHSAA Good Sportsmanship Award....
Laramie, Wyo.—Nov. 14, 2023—The University of Wyoming’s Rangeland Ecology and Watershed Management (REWM) program is one of 14 accredited rangeland ecology and management undergraduate degree programs in western North America. The REWM program, housed in the UW Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, offers unique opportunities for hands-on learning and applied research in rangeland systems. The program is accredited by the Society for Range Management, a professional society and conse...
CHEYENNE (November 17, 2023) - American foulbrood (AFB) is a devastating honey bee brood disease and was recently confirmed in a hive in Lincoln County, Wyoming. American foulbrood (AFB) is an infectious, notifiable, bacterial brood disease that weakens and kills honey bee colonies. Early detection of the disease is important because routine apiary management and interchange of hive components can easily spread the disease to healthy bee colonies. “AFB has only been confirmed in one hive in the State of Wyoming but we’d like all of our bee...
Diabetes is a slow growing disease in people's lives. A person may say that is harsh. But this disease affects everyone in one form or another. More than 1.3 million people in the next 30 years will have diabetes according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. November is National Diabetes month. The most common symptoms of undiagnosed diabetes are increased thirst, going to the bathroom excessively, and feeling tired along with losing weight. People may not realize how simple the symptoms are for diabetes. But getting ahead of...
CHEYENNE, WY – Nov. 15, 2023 – Temperatures outside are rapidly dropping, time to be mindful of the energy we use and how it impacts our lives. On a quarterly basis, Black Hills Energy’s natural gas utility (Black Hills Wyoming Gas) updates its Gas Cost Rate to reflect the cost of gas purchased from natural gas suppliers on behalf of customers. Going into the 2023/2024 heating season, the winter Gas Cost Rate for Wyoming customers taking service under the GCA option will be $0.3776, which is approximately 48% lower compared to last winte...
Serving in the military means often times one is away from home during Thanksgiving time. For many military members their Thanksgiving meal is one provided by the military at the chow hall. This meal, depending upon where the military member is, will depend on whether it is a full fledge traditional turkey dinner with all the normal trimmings and desserts or if their mess tent was able to do a make shift Thanksgiving meal. David J. Parshall, Navy Veteran - Cook saw many holidays aboard ship and away from famiIy. “When we cooked ‘holiday meals...
It is always great to see the students turn into young ladies and young gentlemen a few times a year. Instead of a homecoming dance the student council decided to have an informal dance at a later date. At this dance the girls were supposed to ask the boys to the dance. But sometimes being shy makes it hard to open up to a person. There was about 40 kids at the dance. Some kids had dates and others just showed up stag. There was not a right or wrong to it as long as everyone enjoyed themselves....
There were some different looking vehicles in the Pine Bluffs High School parking lot on November 16th. The Pine Bluffs Future Farmers of America decided to show off their equipment. There was a combine, swather, tractor with a blade, and several tractors of various kinds and sizes. President of the Pine Bluffs FFA, Spencer Rabou is always encouraging members to show how important agriculture is to our world. Having the equipment at the school showed the community that the Pine Bluffs FFA is...
Three undergraduate students at the University of Wyoming have been tasked with an exhibit on the famous comic book creator whose documents are stored at the American Heritage Center in Laramie In the southeast corner of Wyoming sits the state's only university, home of the University of Wyoming Cowboys and alma mater of current NFL players such as Josh Allen and Logan Wilson. Just a stone's throw away from War Memorial Stadium-which arguably becomes the most densely populated location during...
The Pine Bluffs Community Center was full of buyers ready to bid. On November 10th the Pine Bluffs Future Farmers of America (FFA) hosted their annual Live Labor Auction. They raise money for the members to go to different events for the FFA to further their knowledge in agriculture. Pine Bluffs FFA President Spencer Rabou stated, "The Pine Bluffs FFA Labor auction was a successful event for this year's chapter. The event was held at the Community Center, where the FFA auctioned off member's lab...
The Mobile Home / RV park rules and regulations were looked at during the Albin Town council meeting on November 9th. Councilmember Bob Anderson gave the maintenance report. He asked, “Will there be street lights on the street with the mobile home/RV park?” The council thought so, at the different intersections. They are estimating from six to eight lights. Councilmember Anderson reported that two lights in town need some work, one on Williams and the other is Cheyenne Avenue. The town of Albin shut water off at a residence since the ele...
The 4-H members with the Circuit Breakers were excited to be able to do an experiment with NASA. On Friday November 10th the group was able to launch a weather balloon. The Circuit Breakers is a 4-H group that works with robots as a club. There are different levels for all ages of kids. They teach the concepts of how to work with drones, and build robots that work with computers. The members do competitions with their robots. Cheyenne Volunteer Fire Department Station #71 was elated to host the...
The Town Council has been busy reviewing two ordinances that are of interest to residents. First, we have discussed, on two occasions, the camper parking ordinance that was approved a few years ago. The existing ordinance included many restrictions for campers that proved difficult to enforce. For example, the ordinance required residents interested in parking their camper by their house between trips to obtain and display a permit issued by the Town. Additionally, the ordinance only addressed campers, but not other trailers, or large...
Rawlins, Wyo. – Due to a technical issue with our ePlanning site, today the Bureau of Land Management restarted the 30-day public comment period for the proposed Tallgrass Southeast CO2 Sequestration Project. If approved, Tallgrass could store carbon dioxide (CO2) in approximately 480 acres of sub-surface federal pore space in Laramie County. The comment period will now close Dec. 15, 2023. This proposal to permanently store carbon in underground rock formations will reduce atmospheric carbon. The proposal follows the June 2022 BLM policy updat...
Nov. 14, 2023-Todd Fornstrom, of Laramie County, was elected to his eighth term as President of the Wyoming Farm Bureau Federation (WyFB) at the organization's 104th Annual Meeting held Nov. 9-11 in Cheyenne. "Year after year, people are willing to show up and have input in the grassroots process that is Farm Bureau," Fornstrom said. "Being elected to my eighth term is an incredible honor. After all these years of involvement, it is the people that continue to motivate me each and every year."...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 8, 2023 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced progress on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) comprehensive approach to address the many, complex competition issues in agricultural markets and create a fairer playing field for small- and mid-size farmers. In support of these efforts, USDA has finalized the first in a series of rules under the Packers and Stockyards Act, which is aimed at helping contract poultry growers compete more effectively and better understand the terms of their agreements with maj...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13, 2023 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced an investment of more than $52 million to improve dietary health and access to fresh fruits and vegetables for eligible families. The funds support efforts across three National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) competitive grant programs that make up the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program (GusNIP). The program is named in honor of the former USDA Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services (1997 to 2001). “USDA is del...
