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The first Monday in December is the celebration of Christmas at Home for the town of Pine Bluffs beginning with Open Houses for businesses. This started as a way for the town to promote businesses and get everyone in the town in the mood for the season. Throughout the day businesses served out drinks and treats and promoted sales for the customers for starting their Christmas shopping. This year there were five businesses that had an open house for the day. Laramie County Weed and Pest held two...
The town Pine Bluffs was excited to get the Christmas Season on its way. The first Monday in December has been their annual celebration for years. It used to be downtown on Main Street. Santa Claus was delivered by horse and wagon. This year the theme of the event was The Polar Express. It started with the parade downtown that lead to the Pine Bluffs community center. Santa Claus rode on the Lions Club train with members of the 4-H group in the train with him. Conductor Charlie Hastings...
C. Janeane, 91, of Pine Bluffs, died at Kimball Health services on Sunday, November 26, 2023. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 29, 2023 at the United Methodist Church in Pine Bluffs with Pastor JR Atkins officiating. Burial will be in the Pine Bluffs Cemetery. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service at the church in Pine Bluffs. Friends may visit www.cantrellfh.com to view her Tribute Wall and leave condolences and stories for friends and family....
The Albin Community Christmas Choir will be performing a Christmas celebration concert, a Cantata, twice to celebrate the Christmas season. The first performance will occur this coming Sunday evening, December 10th, at the Albin Baptist Church at 6 p.m. In addition to the choirs’ performance there will be a number of Christmas carols sung by the congregation. The public is invited to both performances. The second performance will occur at Pine Bluffs Crossroads Community Church on Sunday evening, December 17th at 6 p.m. The title for both p...
The MRE's were lined up on the desk for the students to be ready to prepare. The Wyoming National Guard has challenged the Pine Bluffs Foods Class to be able to change an MRE (Meals Ready to Eat). An MRE is a ration established by the first American Military during the Revolutionary War. It contents consist of enough food to feed a man for the day. At that time it contained beef, peas, and rice. During the Civil War the meals moved to canned products. They had canned meat, bread, and coffee,...
CHEYENNE, Wy. –December 1, 2023 –Multiple Wyoming energy companies have joined together to kick off the thirty-third annual Energy Share of Wyoming season. The program which begins accepting applications on December 1, 2023 was started to assist individuals with energy-related emergencies when unusual circumstances create financial needs not met through existing energy assistance programs. Voluntary contributions from sponsors and individuals support the program that runs through the spring of 2024. “During the 2022-23 heating season, Energ...
Laramie, Wyo.-Dec. 4, 2023-A new publication by the University of Wyoming Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics reports that economic activity related to agricultural production contributed $2.526 billion to Wyoming's economy in 2021. This total includes direct farm-gate sales from 11 agricultural industries as well as related business-to-business purchases and spending by agricultural households. "Everyone recognizes that agriculture is big in Wyoming. Now we have a single...
Laramie, Wyo.-Nov. 28, 2023-The University of Wyoming Board of Trustees approved a new Bachelor of Science degree program in ranch management and agricultural leadership (RMAL) Thursday, Nov. 16. The interdisciplinary program is designed to equip students with both practical experience and effective leadership skills, integrating coursework in resource management, business operations and real-world problem solving. "UW Ag leadership has put together a thoughtful program with inputs from across...
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. Within a few short days, many lives were changed dra...
Recently District # 4 had a pinning ceremony for our new Chief Cy Thorup, Assistant Chief Glynn Moore, Captain Derek Walls, & Lieutenant Elizabeth Hoyt. According to Chief Thorup, "The ceremony was awesome and we had a great membership turn out as well as support from our fellow Laramie county fire Agencies. A Big thank you to Laramie County Fire District No. 1, Laramie County Fire Authority , Laramie County Fire District No. 5, Pine Bluffs, Wyoming, Laramie County Fire District No. 6 Laramie...
The Pine Bluffs Senior Center was packed with people on December 3rd. The Donald Eisenhauer American Legion Post 60 and Auxiliary Unit 60 held their annual Christmas Social. Several years ago the social was held at the American Legion Post home. However, they had outgrown the building to where it was standing room only and no room to move about freely. Unfortunately, people were walking away as there was no room at the post. A suggestion was made to possibly hold the Christmas Social at the...
The South East Wyoming Athletic Conference (SEWAC) held their annual wrestling championship tournament last weekend in Burns, Wyoming. There were five teams from the local area that competed in the tournament. Teams from Glenrock, Burns/Pine Bluffs, Lingle/Ft Laramie, Niobrara County and Southeast all sent their best junior high wrestlers to bid for the championship. Burns/Pine Bluffs did very well winning eight championships, 10 runner-ups and nine third-place finishes. There were 116...
This was the 2nd Annual Tri-State Border War youth wrestling tournament in Pine Bluffs at the High School gym on Sunday December 3rd. Wrestlers came from all over the area and there were over 270 kids in the open division and 48 in the Girls division that traveled from as far as Casper, Rawlins, Colorado Springs, and Sutherland, NE. This was up from last years numbers of 208 in the open division and 15 in the girls division. Each of the wrestlers wrestled three-five matches. Awards were...
"Today, Dec. 1st the Pine Bluffs High School Student Council (most of them) trekked to Cheyenne for our annual shopping trip for our Buddy Bucks program. This is one of my favorite days of the year and I know the kids always have a great time too." said Ashley Rousseau. This program has been going on for at least 22 years. They will be helping 23 families with fifty-six kids total. Pine Bluffs covers three of the Laramie County School District #2 schools which are Pine Bluffs High School, Pine B...