Serving all of Eastern Laramie County since 1908
Serving all of Eastern Laramie County since 1908
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A new look with a new year and a new year to raise money for the Laramie County Community Christmas Program. Pine Bluffs Distilling decided to give a new look to their tasting room. The question was why? Chad Brown said, "It makes the consumer and the customers experience feel more like our brand. It's more friendly on the staff and it's way more friendly on the customers." They redesigned the entire tasting room. When you drive up a new sign of Pine Bluffs Distilling is on the building with a...
The Pine Bluffs Recreation Area and south trail will be closed Wednesday, March 30, 2022 from sun up to sun down. The area is being used by 90 Security Forces for their annual training exercise. Due to the vehicle traffic and for safety, this area will be closed. If you have any concerns or questions, please contact Chief Chance Walkama....
Members of the community came together with the town council in person and on You-Tube to hear the meeting of March 14, 2022. The council went into action after the welcoming statement by Mayor Justin Fornstrom and all saying the pledge of allegiance. A motion was made right off to amend the agenda by council-member Allie Leitza by moving two of the building permit items to new business. It was seconded and passed. Items moved were for 401 Maple and 604 Beech. With this done the agenda was approved. Minutes from the February 14 meeting were...
Bushnell soup The heat that was coming from the Bushnell Fire Department fire station wasn't due to a fire, but caused by the tasty soups permeating the air on March 12, 2022 from 4 p.m. through 7 p.m. The Bushnell fire department has been serving soup since the 1950's. It's a nice way to get folks out of the house for a good meal and some great camaraderie. This year the firefighters served four different kinds of soups. The choices were oyster soup, ham and bean, and two different kinds of...
Margie Bruns, 96, died March 8, 2022 at Davis Hospice Center in Cheyenne, WY. Margie was born October 15, 1925 to Frank & Mary (Vosika) Kokes on their homestead farm near Crook, Colorado. She graduated from Beauty School and was licensed in both NE and CO. During World War II she worked as a forklift operator loading bombs and ammunition in the Sioux Ordinance Depot near Sidney, NE. She married Chester Bruns on December 10, 1944 and lived on the Bruns Family Homestead near Lodgepole, NE until...
Cheyenne, Wyo. - The Wyoming Business Council (WBC) is pleased to announce the addition of a new board member to our Board of Directors. Governor Mark Gordon nominated and the Senate confirmed Derek Smith of Gillette to our board with a term expiration of March 1, 2025. Derek is a Landman with Devon Energy and volunteers his time as the president of the Gillette Main Street board and as a public relations volunteer for Cheyenne Frontier Days. He was also appointed to a partial term on the Wyoming Main Street Advisory Board and will serve in...
The Albin Town Council is looking for bids for equipment. On March 10, 2022 the Albin Town Council met at 7 p.m. The first piece of equipment the council is looking at is a backhoe 420 XE. The council looked at a bid from CAT with their trade-in $82866.25. The council tabled the bid for the next meeting. The next bid is for the trash truck from Peterbilt. There was a motion from council member Jeremiah Johnson to reject the bid. Council member Bob Anderson seconded, all approved. The lunch program is looking good this month. Mayor Kelly Krakow...
We've all seen the fertilizer ads with the rich beautiful lawns and tall, lush flowers. As we get closer to spring the ads will increase in volume and make us all wish that our lawns were that lovely and lush and our flowers were bursting with all the wonderful green foliage and colorful blooms. All of the fertilizer companies swear that their product is the best in the market and if you just buy theirs, not the competitors, then you can have the same look that they show on TV and on their...
The 2022 legislative session started out boring and promised to continue that way to the end. As expected in a budget session most bills not budget related either weren’t introduced or they failed without fanfare. There were a few, though, that I thought had a good chance this year that died. Some failed to pass and some weren’t brought forward by either Speaker of the House Barlow or Senate President Dockstader. After the special session last fall I didn’t expect the legislature to show any courage to protect Wyoming citizens from overb...
During the Wyoming Livestock Board meeting held 03/16 in Lyman, WY, the Board rescinded Board Order No. 2017-01 that defined the Trichomoniasis Special Focus Area #1 in southwest Wyoming and required annual Trichomoniasis tests of all bulls in that area that were not still nursing their dams. Trichomoniasis has not been detected in Wyoming since the fall of 2016 while the number of bulls tested has remained roughly constant since 2011. Ranchers operating in the Special Focus Area believe that Board Order No. 2017-01 enabled them to...
LARAMIE – The Wyoming Community Foundation (WYCF) has recently awarded $1,012,784.71 in grants to causes across Wyoming. These grants were made as part of WYCF’s competitive grant cycle, which allows nonprofit organizations from around the state to request funding for important projects and general operating. The WYCF Statewide Board made over $200,000 in grants to support a variety of charitable purposes across Wyoming. Statewide grantees include Wyoming Equality, which requested funds to train their growing staff as the organization dev...
Cheyenne, WY – At the beginning of this lawsuit, I explained that as a member of the executive branch, it is my job to administer the laws as written by the Wyoming Legislature. When there is a disagreement about the meaning of a particular statutory provision, the appropriate place to seek clarification is with the judicial branch. I am grateful that is what occurred in this case. My office and I will review today’s decision with our legal counsel to determine how best to proceed in light of the ruling. I would similarly encourage the mem...
Mady Graves is a senior at Pine Bluffs High School. Her family has been raising cattle for a few generations. Graves started showing cattle at a young age, once she was old enough to join the Future Farmers of America. In January, Graves went to the National Western Stock Show at Denver, Colorado. At that show her light weight market heifer placed third in her class. This was the beginning of the shows Graves would be showing at. In February, she went to Holyoke, Colorado. Graves received...
The Burns High School Future Business Leaders of America attended the State conference in Laramie, Wyoming on March 16th through 18th. They had 31 members attend in their competitive events. They were able to go to leadership workshops, activities with other members, campus tours, and other events. These are the members that won their events. Adverising, Tava Holmes won fourth place. Banking & Financial Systems had two teams of two. Isaac Bloom and Spencer Smith received first place. Emma Bach...
The Future Business Leaders of America from Pine Bluffs went to the State Conference in Laramie, Wyoming March 16 through 18, 2022. The members went to competitive events, leadership workshops, campus tours, and other activities. The Pine Bluffs FBLA had eight members that made it to the final round of competition. Jace Slade received second in Economics. He was tested on the concepts and the principles of economics along with monetary and fiscal policy, productivity, macroeconomics, market,...
SIDNEY SMACKDOWN TOURNAMENT PreK-K 25-35 - Eaden Miller's place is 4th and has scored 16.0 team points. Quarterfinal - Kason Florom (Paxton Youth Wrestling Club) won by fall over Eaden Miller (Tri-State Grapplers) (Fall 0:40) Cons. Round 1 - Eaden Miller (Tri-State Grapplers) received a bye () (Bye) Cons. Semi - Eaden Miller (Tri-State Grapplers) won by forfeit over Leighton Cravey (Chase County Wrestling Club) (FF) 3rd Place Match - Levi Mills (Bridgeport Wrestling Club) won by fall over Eaden...
It seems that there is no end to the talents of Stu Lerwick. Not only has he set the single game scoring record with 50 points, awarded the player of the week by the Wyoming News service and several other scholastic awards from the Hornets coach but he has also been named as the Wyoming 2A Eastern Region Player of the Year. With the season Lerwick has had it is only fit that he is so named. During the year Lerwick has been the leading scorer in many of the games. If he wasn't the leading scorer...
O beautiful for spacious skies; For amber waves of grain; For purple mountain majesties; Above the fruited plain! The 1895 lyrics for "America the Beautiful" start out by celebrating the abundance of food for our nation. With less than two percent of our population producing food, most Americans don't think about where their next meal will come from. We've been extremely lucky here in the U.S. when you consider how some nations have struggled to provide food for their population. Today a U.S....
