Articles from the September 2, 2021 edition
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Parents and LCSD No. 2 Board talk Covid mandates
pecial meeting on August 30th at Burns High School. The rules stated how the meeting was going to go for the night. They moved the public comment of the meeting to the middle of the agenda. The...
Miss Rodeo Wyoming
Rachel Derner from Burns, Wyoming is the 2021 Miss Rodeo Wyoming. She is the 63rd Miss Rodeo for Wyoming. Derner grew up in a rodeo family. She is a 2015 graduate of Burns High School. Derner never th...
Absentee and early voting for November's tax election starts Sept. 17
Cheyenne: Absentee and early voting for Laramie County’s Nov. 2 election on the 1% specific purpose sales and use tax (6th penny) begins Sept. 17. Voters will consider 14 ballot propositions, grouped into the categories of public safety, roads,...
Barrasso mourns death of U. S. Marine from Wyoming
CASPER, WY – U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) released the following statement regarding the news that Rylee McCollum of Bondurant was one of the U.S. Marines killed in Thursday’s terrorist bombings at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan....
Virginia M. Fuller
Virginia M. Fuller, 76, of Bushnell, died in Denver on Saturday, August 20, 2021. Cremation has been held and memorial services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, September 9, 2021 at the...
Roberta "Jean" Petersen
Roberta "Jean" Petersen, 90, of Pine Bluffs, Wyoming passed away Wednesday afternoon, August 25, 2021 at the Davis Hospice Center. Jean was born April 11, 1931 in Bushnell, Nebraska, a daughter of...
Delores Maxine "Nick" Hockersmith
Delores Maxine "Nick" Hockersmith, passed away August 23, 2021 near her home in Pine Bluffs, Wyo. She was born at the farm near Grover, CO on February 17, 1930. She was baptized and confirmed at Zion...
Bobby L. Wagner
Bobby L. Wagner, 87, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, formerly of Albin, Wyoming, passed away peacefully at his home on August 27, 2021 surrounded by his loving family. Bobby was born July 12, 1934 in Augusta,...
Elouise Schacher
Elouise graduated President and Salutatorian of her class of 1943 at Bushnell High School. She married Marvin Schacher July 28, 1949. After graduation, Elouise worked at Kimball County Bank as a...
Frank M. Fritz
Frank M. Fritz, 80, of Cheyenne, died on August 28, 2021 in Cheyenne. He was born on September 18, 1940 in Colorado. Services will be Thursday, 1:30 p.m., at Wiederspahn-Radomsky Chapel with burial to follow in the Pine Bluffs Cemetery. To view the...
The Majestic Sunflower
They grow all by themselves. All along the roads, in pastures, in fields, in barrow pits, and in gardens. The can even show up in your flower beds and vegetable gardens. Sunflowers are everywhere this year. If you're a fan of sunflowers this is an...
Girls Nation Wyoming Representative Grace Steenbergen
Grace Steenbergen represented the American Legion Auxiliary at Girls Nation in Washington D.C. on July 24th through 31st. Steenbergen started this endeavor by receiving an application from her school...
Barth announces run for Laramie County Sheriff
James Barth is running for Laramie County Sheriff in November. He is a Disabled Veteran from the Army. Barth has been a certified post Law Enforcement Chaplain and Chaplain of Georgia Homeland...
Students benefit from Kicks 4 Kids
Kicks 4 Kids is a fund raiser for Laramie County School District 1 and 2. This program got its start in 2018, with help from the law firm of Hirst Applegate LLP wanting to help the schools. It was...
Lady Broncs off to a good start
The Lady Broncs Volleyball team started their 2021 season off with a bang. Competing in the Douglas tournament against such teams as Big Horn, Douglas, Newcastle and Moorcroft. They went 4-2 to sit a...
XC competes at Beartrap Meadow
The Burns/Pine Bluffs Cross Country team starts their season this weekend. The team has nine returning boys with 4 of them being state runners from last year. The girls will have 10 returning runners...
Pine Bluffs host Roping competition
Buzz Bradley Memorial Laramie County roping was held at the Pine Bluffs area in Pine Bluffs on Saturday August 28th. This roping is for the residents of Laramie County only. It does not matter as...
9/11 remembered in Burns
The Burns library is gearing up to commemorate 9/11. The library is putting up posters of 9/11 throughout the library that will recount the events of September 11, 2001. Personal stories are on the...
The Left owns the Narrative
You’re a bigot! You’re racist! Homophobe! Xenophobe! You just want to throw Grandma over a cliff! Sound familiar? Those are only a small sample of terms Democrats, Socialists, throw around to make Conservatives back down from the battle....
Community is what you make it
Recently the Wyoming Supreme Court issued a public censure of a Cheyenne attorney who was the lead prosecutor in a case against an Albin farm owner, her son and two contractors who were present when DCI agents stormed a farm northeast of Albin. This...
